LogFAQs > #976083464

While I wait for a version of the livestream with English subtitles because my German isn't strong enough to translate, something else has been called to my attention -- every one of Hoyo's games runs on Unity.

If you haven't heard, Unity is changing their monetization model in an EXTREMELY predatory fashion. It will likely develop all new studios from using Unity, but that doesn't help companies that are already entrenched within it or have products that are on sale creating Unity -- which will be charging them extensively retroactively.

The TLDR is that companies are being charged per install of the game. Not purchase. Not new install. EVERY install. If you play Genshin on PC and mobile, that counts as two. If you get a new computer, that's three. If you remove it from your phone and then decide to bring it back, that's four.

And Genshin is, ostensibly, a free game. This could cost them money, which will potentially be passed on to the consumer in the form of more aggressive monetization. Hoyo hasn't been awful about this the way I would expect from a company using a gacha system, but they might either try to squeeze the playerbase more or they might scaling back on some of the aspects of the game they've been very generous with.

The other problem is remember the 1st anniversary debacle when everyone was rating-bombing anything and everything they could? People couple spam install and uninstall the game and cost Hoyo money in the process. For a game the size of Genshin, it probably doesn't make any sense to do this, but they could and you know there are going to be some idiots somewhere with a server farm that will. Maybe not even because they have a grievance but just because they can.

Maybe this is overblown and won't affect the end product at all, but there's a possibility it could.