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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.

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[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 49 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I don't get it...Unity just forced the entire development community to use Unreal. The pricing structure isn't even close between the two.

At 200k downloads at 1$ a pop, unreal is still free...Unity is $40k.

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[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 20 points 3 years ago*

Or CryEngine

Or Godot

Or O3DE (a CryEngine fork ... that's from what I understand heavily diverged)