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Starting January 1, 2025, Unity Pro will see an 8% price increase, raising the annual subscription fee to $2,200 per seat. Unity Enterprise will experience a 25% increase, with new minimum subscription requirements for customers generating over $25 million in annual revenue. These changes will apply to all new and existing subscriptions from that date. (Because these licenses involve major companies, the prices can vary based on different packages.) Bromberg stressed in his blog post that Unity will continue to increase prices as it needs to, but will only do so annually via subscription fees going up. It won’t try to squeeze pennies out of every developer using the engine based on how many times people install your game.

“Canceling the Runtime Fee for games and instituting these pricing changes will allow us to continue investing to improve game development for everyone while also being better partners,” said Bromberg.

IGN @IGN In the wake of a massive controversy regarding previously announced (and then walked-back) install fees, Unity's CEO John Riccitiello is stepping down. bit.ly/48LeHyw Traduire le post Unity® 5:00 PM 9 oct. 2023 249,3 k vues .

Our Unity Personal plan will remain free and there will be no Runtime Fee for games built on Unity Personal. We will be increasing the cap from $100,000 to $200,000 and we will remove the requirement to use the Made with Unity splash screen. No game with less than $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be subject to the fee. For those creators on Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, we are also making changes based on your feedback. The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond. Your games that are currently shipped and the projects you are currently working on will not be included - unless you choose to upgrade them to this new version of Unity. We will make sure that you can stay on the terms applicable for the version of Unity editor you are using - as long as you keep using that version. For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self- reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount.

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Amusing myself by reading through the list of Unity games and trying to guess which companies' lawyers will be the first to go full scorched earth.

David Szymanski @DUSKdev : Amusing myself by reading through the list of Unity games and trying to guess which companies' lawyers will be the first to go full scorched earth. 8:29 PM - Sep 12, 2023 364 Views

You wouldn't install a unity game?

Starting Jan 1 2024, players of FAITH: The Unholy Trinity will be charged $1.00 USD whenever they see this screen:

The end of an era. But also…the start of another. 😉

Buy Cult of the Lamb now, cause we're deleting it on Jan 1st. 😘

An open letter to @unity about their recently announced changes. Do the right thing. - Fabraz

SUP' GANG! IF YOU FOLLOW ANY GAME DEVS ON HERE YOU'LL LIKELY SEE A BUNCH OF THESE COLORED TEXT SLIDES POP UP. THAT'S BECAUSE MANY OF US WHO ARE USING UNITY HAVE BEEN PUT INTO A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION. UNITY HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THEY'LL BE CHARGING A FEE FROM DEVS EVERY TIME THEIR GAME GETS INSTALLED AFTER A CERTAIN THRESHOLD. USUALLY YOU SIMPLY PAY A ROYALTY FEE BASED ON SALES. THESE NEW FEES WILL INCLUDE PLAYERS REINSTALLING, INSTALLING ON SEVERAL DEVICES, PIRATED VERSIONS GETTING INSTALLED... IT EVEN INCLUDES DEMO INSTALLATIONS AND EACH TIME THE GAME GETS STREAMED VIA CLOUD PLAY. THIS WILL BE FINANCIALLY DEVASTATING TO A LOT OF GAME DEVELOPERS AND STUDIOS. THIS WILL ALSO BE FELT BY THE PLAYERS BECAUSE WHAT GAMES WILL BE AVAILABLE IN SERVICES LIKE HUMBLE BUNDLE, GAME PASS AND MANY MORE WILL BE SEVERELY IMPACTED. SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS RELEASING A DEMO SUDDENLY BECOMES A FINANCIAL RISK. ABANDONING UNITY ISN'T AN EASY OPTION EITHER AFTER INVESTING YEARS WORTH OF TIME AND MONEY IN PROPRIETARY PIPELINE TOOLS. SWITCHING TO ANOTHER ENGINE MEANS LEARNING A LOT FROM THE BEGINNING AND GIVING UP ON YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. CHANGING ENGINE CAN BE, ONCE AGAIN, FINANCIALLY DEVASTATING FOR MANY. C'MON! EVERYONE AT FABRAZ, ALONGSIDE THE GAME DEV COMMUNITY, URGE THE RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE AT UNITY TO RECONSIDER THESE CHANGES. DO THE RIGHT THING. - FABRAZ

$HEY GAMERS! Today, Unity (the engine we use to make our games) announced that they'll soon be taking a fee from developers for every copy of the game installed over a certain threshold - regardless of how that copy was obtained. Guess who has a somewhat highly anticipated game coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2024? That's right, it's us and a lot of other developers. That means Another Crab's Treasure will be free to install for the 25 million Game Pass subscribers. If a fraction of those users download our game, Unity could take a fee that puts an enormous dent in our income and threatens the sustainability of our business. And that's before we even think about sales on other platforms, or pirated installs of our game, or even multiple installs by the same user!!! This decision puts us and countless other studios in a position where we might not be able to justify using Unity for our future titles. If these changes aren't rolled back, we'll be heavily considering abandoning our wealth of Unity expertise we've accumulated over the years and starting from scratch in a new engine. Which is really something we'd rather not do. On behalf of the dev community, we're calling on Unity to reverse the latest in a string of shortsighted decisions that seem to prioritize shareholders over their product's actual users. I f------ hate it here. -Aggro Crab$

Unity Installation Fee Rates

Unity Runtime Fee thresholds to be met Revenue Threshold (USD) Install Threshold Installs over the Install Threshold 1-100,000 100,001- 500,000 500,001- 1,000,000 1,000,001+ Installs over the Install Threshold Unity Personal and Unity Plus 1+ $200,000 (last 12mo) 200,000 (life to date) Standard monthly rate $0.20 per install Unity Pro $0.02 per install $1,000,000 (last 12mo) 1,000,000 (life to date) $0.15 per install $0.075 per install $0.03 per install $0.02 per install Emerging market monthly rate $0.01 per install Unity Enterprise $1,000,000 (last 12mo) 1,000,000 (life to date) $0.125 per install $0.06 per install $0.02 per install $0.01 per install $0.005 per install

Unity Installation Fee Announcement

Unity @unity Today we announced a change to our business model which includes new additions to our subscription plans, and the introduction of a Runtime fee. We wanted to provide clarifying answers to the top questions most of you are asking. Yes, this is a price increase and it will only affect a small subset of current Unity Editor users. Today, a large majority of Unity Editor users are currently not paying anything and will not be affected by this change. The Unity Runtime fee will not impact the majority of our developers. The developers who will be impacted are generally those who have successful games and are generating revenue way above the thresholds we outlined in our blog. This means that developers who are still building their business and growing the audience of their games will not pay a fee. The program was designed specifically this way to ensure developers could find success before the install fee takes effect. We want to be clear that the counter for Unity Runtime fee installs starts on January 1, 2024 - it is not retroactive or perpetual. We will charge once for a new install; not an ongoing perpetual license royalty, like revenue share. We looked for ways to lessen the impact on developers, and provide ways to bring the Runtime fee to zero. If you're using any of our ad products, Unity Gaming Services or cloud services, etc. please contact us to discuss discounts. We are actively listening to and following your questions closely. Please review our FAQ (on.unity.com/3PAiqHH) on today's announcement. We also invite you to continue to discuss these changes with us on our forums: on.unity.com/3RmyLRx. 1:32 PM . Sep 12, 2023 · 1.2M Views

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Starting Jan 1 2024, players of FAITH: The Unholy Trinity will be charged $1.00 USD whenever they see this screen:

The end of an era. But also…the start of another. 😉

Buy Cult of the Lamb now, cause we're deleting it on Jan 1st. 😘

An open letter to @unity about their recently announced changes. Do the right thing. - Fabraz

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