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 ...

Game developers are still furious about Unity's planned install fees, but the platform holder is holding fast to its new policy, arguing that "90 percent of [Unity] customers will not be affected by ...

Unity angered lots of game developers earlier today when it unveiled its upcoming Unity Runtime Fee program, which takes a cut every time a Unity game is installed. It is particularly harsh for ...

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 ...

Last week, Unity dropped a bomb on developers with a new runtime fee on its game engine that would be charged each time a title is installed — summed up by one developer as an "abysmally catastrophic ...

It's pretty simple on paper. From January 1 2024 any game that is using the Unity Engine will be paying a fee to Unity for every install on a new device. There’s a complex system of tiers and ways to ...

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 ...

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Unity, the company behind the popular game development platform of the same name, announced it would change its controversial runtime fee policy after a wave of backlash from indie game developers who ...