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Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Unity has announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model which will see its introduce a monthly fee per game install beginning on 1st January next year - a move that has already send shockwaves across the development community.

Unity - the engine behind countless acclaimed games including Tunic, Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Citizen Sleeper, RimWorld, Outer Wilds, Fall Guys, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Cities: Skylines - was previously licensed to developers using a royalty free model built around subscriptions tiers. Anyone whose revenue or funding was less than $100,000 over the course of the year (or who didn't want access to features such as the ability to remove the Unity splash screen) could stick to the free Unity Personal license, while a Unity Plus subscription was required up to $200,000 in revenue, and a Unity Pro or above subscription was needed for more.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm feeling better everyday about ditching unity and moving to godot.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah my device struggled to run any major engines so Godot kinda saved my ass when I first got into gamedev many years ago. I was going to start learning the major engines now that I have slightly better hardware, but I guess I'm skipping Unity now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the exact same boat. I switched to Godot as soon as version 4 came out and have been really happy with it. I still use Unity professionally (at least until Godot 4 fixes some big issues), but most of my projects are now on Godot. God bless open source devs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at least until Godot 4 fixes some big issues

With Godot being an open source project, you could scratch your own itch and help remedy the issues...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sadly I'm really not good enough at C++ to contribute.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is a lovely engine, and getting better every day. The more competition we get for Unity, the better.