Ever been in a game forum where the players pretty much worship the developers as if they were gods? It's way too common. Those people can get crazy protective when they make it part of their identity.

Depending how it’s implemented, gamers are absolutely impacted by it.

Some of the chatter is that even already-released games would be subject to this change, meaning a lot of devs might pull their backlog to avoid going broke on a game they put out years ago and is now free (or heavily reduced). Or games that have always been free, now the dev has to choose if they want to charge for a historically free game or pull it completely.

This is dev hostile, but it’s also consumer hostile.

There already Indie devs that are talking about delisting their games in order to avoid paying Unity fees they can't afford.

This contract changes criminal, especially since it punishes the developer for no fault of its own. Sometimes I have to reinstall a game multiple times in order to figure out why it suddenly doesn't work. I'm not the only one, that's going to rack up fast.

And if you think review bombing is bad now? I imagine people buying the game not to leave a negative review, but you run a script that continuously reinstalls and uninstall the game.

They could bankrupt any developer they wanted to. Hell, it might not even be the gamers, if a company with a game on Unity doesn't want to make it epic exclusive, Tim Sweeney has the choice to just continuously reinstall that game in order to sink any company that doesn't play ball

The same way people who aren't directly affected by people being queer threaten to bomb places that host drag events.

Some people are just assholes.