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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Starting January 1, a Unity Runtime Fee will be charged to any game that has passed a revenue threshold in the past year and a lifetime install count.

Still shitty, but at least the fee only applies if you’ve already hit the revenue threshold. Maybe this is an ill-conceived effort to raise the floor on game prices (or price out low-cost ones)? A $60 game can afford a 20-cent extra fee a few dozen times. A 99-cent game is a non-starter though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

That’s exactly what this is. They want to price out the $3-$5 games that unity is primarily used for. They make no revenue from those since the revenue threshold never gets hit.

They’ll almost certainly lower the revenue threshold next too