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Why Unity felt the need to “rush out” its controversial install-fee program (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] sculd@beehaw.org 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In the article quoted by Ars (https://mobilegamer.biz/fuck-you-were-not-paying-inside-unitys-runtime-fee-fiasco/)

“I truly don’t think it was done maliciously,” our Unity insider said. “Ultimately Unity has lost a lot of money over the last 18 years – billions of dollars – and they need to do something to make more money. Sadly, it wasn’t delivered well, but the need to make more money is still there.”

Using anti-competitive tatic to try to eliminate a competitor is literally malicious.

[–] cwagner@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

Using anti-competitive tatic to try to eliminate a competitor is literally malicious.

To be fair, it sounds less like eliminating, and more like "carving out a niche", with the competitor being the dominant one. Doesn’t make it great, but at least a bit better ;)