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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue (i.vgy.me)
submitted 1 year ago by popcar2@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev
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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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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year 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.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I do it all the time too.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year 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.