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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't get it...Unity just forced the entire development community to use Unreal. The pricing structure isn't even close between the two.

At 200k downloads at 1$ a pop, unreal is still free...Unity is $40k.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or CryEngine

Or Godot

Or O3DE (a CryEngine fork ... that's from what I understand heavily diverged)

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

That's a 20% cut....on top of Apple/Google's 30% cut. You only get 50% of the sticker price. That's fucking criminal.