Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

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    1 year ago

    Unity saw how Reddit killed off free users by raising prices to absurd rates, and how Reddit was largely unaffected by it as a whole. Not going to be surprised to see other types of platforms also follow suit.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve read that this started with easy loan money drying up after the First Republic collapse.

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        1 year ago

        Easy money ending too quickly caused the First Republic collapse. Not the other way around. The Fed did a half a decade of rate hikes in a year.

        Feb '22 rates were 0.08% by Feb '23 they were 4.57%. A 5700% increase in 12 months. First Republic collapsed on May '23.

        An aggressive but responsible rate increase of 0.25% per quarter would have taken only 4 years to implement but would likely have led to zero bank failures.

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      The reddit issue screwed over end consumers and a couple of tiny app developers.

      There’s some big developers that use Unity. Pokemon Go is in Unity. Pokemon BDSP was in Unity: say what you want about the quality, but that’s as still over 14 million games sold and I would not be at all surprised if ILCA was halfway through another Unity re-make.

      These changes aren’t just screwing over random individuals who like to play games. Not just indie developers either. Unity is looking to battle with billion-dollar corporations over this. I can’t believe for once I’ll actually be rooting for Nintendo’s legal team.

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      1 year ago

      Reddit largely unaffected

      So they might say. However the post 3 up from this is an article about how their posts and comments have dropped 50 to 90% across major subreddits.

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        That’s what happens if you piss off the 10 percent of your users that provides 90% of the meaningful engagement.