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[โ€“] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

MiHoYo's games are free-to-play on mobile platfroms, right? If they'll going to get charged 20c per install, they'll going to get royally fucked because most of free-to-play users aren't buying anything. IMO that's a huge incentive to switch ASAP, unless they have special deal with unity and not affected by this new pricing scheme.

I wouldn't say MiHoYo would be fucked because they are making bank. But they will definitely get a massive bill on top of however much they already paid Depending on whether Unity counts updates as additional downloads, that's even more money. It might be enough to make them fight it. This whole change in monetization is probably aimed at mobile games in general