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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] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Ah. Yet another reason for game studios to turn away from commercial dev tools and turn to FOSS software like Blender and Godot.

And since game devs are, you know, developers, they can even contribute to these tools with heir dev time, improving them and accelerating the industry shift away from this commercial bullshit even more.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wasn’t there a massive amount of drama in the Godot community recently that nearly destroyed it?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The only "drama" I recall is that one guy, who ran an unofficial forum, went on a weird rant about how Godot is a scam because he thought development was too slow or something. He then shut down his unofficial forum. That's a long shot from "being destroyed".

But maybe I missed something?

(Edit: I had misspelled "forum" as "form". Sorry if that confused anybody)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, that’s the one I was thinking about. Thanks for the clarification, I only vaguely remembered it

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