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

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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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[-] 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...

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