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Megan Fox | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 Oh gooood, this whole #Unity3D blowout?

It literally happened because of that shitty Iron Source buy-out that everyone was pissed about. The call to add this fee literally came from the Iron Source side of the business, and it only exists to "kill AppLovin" (a rival ad provider that is better). https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiver-if-you-switch-to-levelplay-as-it-tries-to-kill-applovin/
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bbf3a621 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @d12926de Finally, a reason to complain about capitalism.
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e8eba76f | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @d12926de man they really want to roll as many “illegal corporate fuckeries” as they can into a giant ball… Katamari Fuckery
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Adam Dalliance | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 For anyone confused,  a "mediation platform" here means a way of putting adverts in your games.

In July the game-making software project unity3d was bought by the advertising company "Iron Source". 

Now the combined company will charge the game-studios that use Unity money, for every time their users install a game, even a free one - unless they also agree to use the Unity/IronSource advertising platform.

I was just worried they might put adverts in my freeware, but I suppose charging me for not having them is similar.

@d12926de