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The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago

No, there are no costs for Unity in this situation. The way they'll need to track installs is with the unity runtime, which gets packaged with games made using Unity.

This is what economists call "rent-seeking", where companies seek to extract more profit by charging subscriptions, rather than introducing desirable products. Adobe, AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and the Reddit API are all high profile examples of rent-seeking.