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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue (i.vgy.me)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)

Absolutely ridiculous. Many Unity devs are saying they're switching engines on social media.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

From what I've heard, from January 2024, any for-profit game made in Unity that meet a certain profit and download threshold will have to pay a fee to Unity per install of said game, including those released before these changes are being introduced.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unity also said it will track installs with its own proprietary data. Speaking to Axios, Unity also confirmed that if a player deletes a game and re-installs it, that counts as two installs, and two separate fees.

From the article linked in comments here. That's unbelievable. I'm at a lose for words.

I guess they don't want anyone to use Unity at all

[–] ThePantser 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's fucked because I delete and download games from my steam library all the time. If I need just a little more space I'll delete a few games but then probably pick them back up a little later.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Exactly. I do it all the time too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

In this age of gaming, it's a necessity. I don't have endless storage space for 120+GB game files that I'm not playing to sit indefinitely. What a completely fucked plan.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 27 points 9 months ago

I wonder how that works.

Like if I released a Unity game in 2016... if I tell Unity to fuck off, would they then try to get my game off of Steam?

[–] anewbeginning 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How are post facto agreement changes working retroactively legal?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

They're only legal until someone challenges it. Shouldn't take long before Microsoft has a nice little letter for them in the mail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Up until now companies have been getting away with this because of "user agreements." Nobody has had the money and interest to get them in court.

I don't see any possible way this survives a lawsuit, for exactly the reason you said. This is almost certainly not legal but nobody has had a reason to get precedent to say it until now.