Unity adding a fee for each time a game is installed
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Unity is adding a new charge for every time a game using the Unity Engine is installed, the company announced today. St…
  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For Unity Personal and Unity Plus users, the thresholds are $200,000 in revenue a year and 200,000 lifetime installs.

    The fees also vary, with Unity Personal developers having to pay the most for every install above the threshold ($0.20)

    So, if you get 200k lifetime installs but don’t get the 200k revenue a year, you don’t have to pay it?

    Existing games built on Unity will also be hit with Runtime Fees if they meet the thresholds starting January 1.

    OOOHOOOOO BOY, now, that’s going to hurt a fair amount of people!

    Also, what about web play? I guess that’ll only count towards revenue, but not towards downloads?

    • wax@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If their licencing agreement permits retroactive changes like this, that is reason enough to gtfo

      • Syndic@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure that even if the license agreement does have such language that it won’t uphold in court. And there are enough big companies using Unity for this to go to court if they try to come to collect.

        I mean seriously, if that would be legally possible, nothing would prevent them from uping the charge to $10, $20 or even $100 per installation, applied retroactively.