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Unity is not offering a genuine service? People are so upset because it is valuable product. Otherwise they'd just switch to something else.

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Unity has been always offering a genuine service, and they just raised the price of the said service in an unprecedented manner.

What service are they providing me, that it makes sense to charge by the install? Pardon, I could have made this point more clearly.

They are providing a game engine to make the game. If that's not worth it, switch. They don't own your C# code or assets, so they can be moved. For a lot of devs, it provides a lot of value. I understand for F2P, low ARPU games this pricing scheme doesn't work and people should complain until Unity fixes it.

Unity has ~7,000 employees, and is losing money. They need to a way to monetize, and they are clumsily trying to target their most successful users to pay more. Price increase aren't rent seeking.

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