Comment on Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community | Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

• snek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree. This dipping of fingers into the pockets of devs errodes trust.

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• panachemidi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Plus on top of all the other subscription fees

  False. This 200k number assumes you would stay on Unity Personal, which breaks EULA anyway since you’re required to buy Unity Pro once you make more than 100k funding annually, and paying the runtime fee means you’re making more than 200k.

  The real cost for 1M installs, under Unity Pro, would be 62k$, to which you’re adding 2k annually for every seat of Pro you need, that’s it. Again, this assumes you’re making upwards of 2M$ annually. As soon as your game falls back under that, there’s no runtime fees anymore.

  Compare with Unreal, where as soon as your game made 1M$ revenue over its lifetime, you’re on the hook for the 5% revshare perpetually. Over time, there’s loads of situations where that will stay more expensive.

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  • Exec@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Compare with Unreal, where as soon as your game made 1M$ revenue over its lifetime, you’re on the hook for the 5% revshare perpetually. Over time, there’s loads of situations where that will stay more expensive.

    The difference between that and Unity that with Unreal it’s predictable.

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