For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold.
Unity Backtracks, Nixes Game Install Runtime Fees for Personal Plans For those on Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, the runtime fee will only kick in with the next long-term support (LTS) version of ...
Video game developers aren’t happy about Unity’s latest announcement—and that’s putting it lightly. The maker of one of the world’s most popular cross-platform game engines shared Tuesday that it ...
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Unity has announced a plan to charge game developers a fee every time someone installs their game after a certain threshold. The "Unity Runtime Fee," which will only apply to games which have achieved ...
WTF?! Unity is a cross-platform game engine launched in 2005 with the goal of "democratizing" game development, seeking to make it accessible to a broader range of developers. Nearly 20 years later, ...
After a controversial week for Unity, the game engine developer is walking back (at least partially) its much-derided runtime installation policy. Last Tuesday, the company announced its plan to ...
Unity has shot itself in the foot with its latest monetization scheme to charge devs based on how many times users install their game. Image: Iljanaresvara Studio (Shutterstock) Less than a week after ...
The popular game engine Unity announced an extremely controversial change earlier this week to its payment structure that universally has game developers fuming and horrified. “It’s just a betrayal,” ...
Unity has made major changes to the per-install Runtime Fee program it announced last week and made apologies for a policy that united large swathes of the game development community in anger. In a ...
There has been quite a bit of an uproar these past few days due to the Unity engine. This is a popular game engine that allows development studios to craft some thrilling gameplay experiences. While ...