Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs

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Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…

last night it had"regrouped" to further discuss some of the issues raised by game developers, and made some concessions.

Of course, the unanimous verdict among Unity developers has been that they do not feel these payments are fair at all - even once. On this, Unity has now said download fees would be charged by Unity to subscription service owners - so Microsoft, in the case of Xbox Game Pass. Eurogamer has contacted Microsoft for comment on its view of this.

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