For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold.

After a controversial week for Unity, the game engine developer is walking back (at least partially) its much-derided runtime installation policy. Last Tuesday, the company announced its plan to ...

For those on Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, the runtime fee will only kick in with the next long-term support (LTS) version of Unity, which is currently scheduled for 2024. "We should have spoken ...

Game developers aren't happy with a new policy from Unity that will cost developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine. It's called the Unity Runtime Fee, and ...

Last week, just about everyone in the games business was mad at Unity over a new, retroactive per-install fee for games made with the engine. Unity developers raised troubling question after troubling ...

Yesterday, Unity woke up and chose idiocy – at least that’s how developers and the rest of the industry took its announcement of a new install-based royalty fee, where developers would be charged for ...

Unity Technologies will make changes to its wildly unpopular install-based fee policy, the company said Sunday in a post on the platform formerly known as Twitter. The update comes days after Unity ...

Unity has made major changes to the per-install Runtime Fee program it announced last week and made apologies for a policy that united large swathes of the game development community in anger. In a ...

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Game developers are still furious about Unity's planned install fees, but the platform holder is holding fast to its new policy, arguing that "90 percent of [Unity] customers will not be affected by ...

Unity Technologies, the company behind the cross-platform game engine Unity, announced a new pricing model on Tuesday — and it’s been almost universally condemned by the video game developer community ...

Unity, the company behind the popular game development platform of the same name, announced it would change its controversial runtime fee policy after a wave of backlash from indie game developers who ...