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An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023.

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.

  • vertexarray [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    good news for every company that’s going to finish their in-progress thing, release it under their current LTS version, and then switch to another engine. Still sucks to get hit with a rug pull like this. Tom Francis & co. really got the shit end of the stick by moving from gamemaker studio to unity just as they decide to flip the fucking table.

  • NoisyOwl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I’ve seen a bunch of Unity devs treat this an excuse to go back to not worrying about it, and I’m real worried for them. And also internally screaming at them.

    • Serdan@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      It’s no longer an immediate issue, so everyone with ongoing projects is going to shelve the discussion for now. The interesting question is what people choose for new projects.

  • SummerIsTooWarm [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I really hope that despite this concession people will switch away from future unity versions. They have shown that they are willing to try things like these and seemingly only paddled back after massive backlash. We don’t even know if the general community achieved this victory or if their big money customers are responsible.