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Upcoming game Hometopia to switch from planned free-to-play model to an upfront cost following Unity fees announcement (us14.campaign-archive.com)

submitted 1 year ago by infinipurple@lemm.ee to c/gaming

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Originally planned to be free-to-play, the upcoming co-op house-builder and designer sim Hometopia will now cost $19.99 during the Early Access period beginning Sept 27th.

In apology, a 15% launch discount was announced alongside the above.

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they'd cut MTX, it would be a welcome change.

That said, Unity's new model encourages MTX in some ways, as new buys incur new Runtime costs, while MTX purchases from existing customers don't. If anything, this encourages a model where there needs to be an upfront cost to cover the Unity tax, and further in-game purchases to make actual money.

[–] infinipurple@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I agree, Unity's aggressive monetisation encourages devs/publishers to do the same. Tbf, the guy behind it all has been quoted saying that anyone who doesn't aggressively monetise their game is an idiot...