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Moore's Law is relentless (you get double transistors for the same price every 18 months).Pretty crazy that phones are on par with consoles for gaming now.
Death Stranding, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Assassin's Creed Mirage Coming to iPhone 15 Pro
Apple is bringing true console gaming to the iPhone.
The CEO was apparently also the CEO of EA during their scummiest period, which explains a lot of things.New Unreal Engine advertisement is weird
Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.blog.unity.com
Unity basically adding a fee for every installation of a game that uses the engine, to be paid by the devs, retroactively(only once certain tresholds are met still, so only tax successful users). Some devs already talking about switching engines. Announcement went as well as you'd expect, they've already had to adress some concerns in a follow up announcement. Reddit thread has an interesting bit about the CEO having constantly been selling shares for the past year, probably just a coincidence though.
New Unreal Engine advertisement is weird
Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
Unity basically adding a fee for every installation of a game that uses the engine, to be paid by the devs, retroactively(only once certain tresholds are met still, so only tax successful users). Some devs already talking about switching engines. Announcement went as well as you'd expect, they've already had to adress some concerns in a follow up announcement. Reddit thread has an interesting bit about the CEO having constantly been selling shares for the past year, probably just a coincidence though.
It looks like they want to force all F2P games into a B2P model, in order to get those fees.
Yep.
Reading that thread is interesting, and I am only on page 2 atm...
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posted a good deal of info about this Unity thing in Game Dev thread in grown up forum too.
I have sympathy for them because the mobile games that are least predatory are most impacted. This encourages mobile game devs to increase their $/install even if it decreases the number of installs (aka users). So they are motivating more ads and ingame purchases even if it drops the total users.
No retroactive charges, but attempting to retroactively enforce changes the TOS on a piece of software that you've already downloaded and developed a product in isn't really any better (especially when some of those versions specifically included provisions that excluded that possibility... can't imagine this actually goes into effect, but this is so fucked up already, why the hell not).Reading that thread is interesting, and I am only on page 2 atm...
It looks like there wont be any retroactive charges, so they will avoid some lawsuits there. They are just going to count all revenue acquired before 1JAN2024 when looking at what threshold you meet going forward.
So, on the Unity Personal/Plus plan, with the lowest up front cost (there are 3 plans, with varying levels of complexity), if your company has made $200,000 on a Unity based game by December 2023, come January, you will start to owe $0.15 PER install, that are installed after Jan 1, 2024. Did you make $200k or more on your Unity based game five...six...ten years ago? Well now Unity is going to start billing you every time your users reinstall the game in 2024 and beyond.
Also this: Mobile games are fine, until they hit $200k, then they go out of business... but I am having a difficult time having much sympathy for them, since they have a rep of being highly predatory themselves.
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And god forbid you have a free game that mostly runs on donations or pay-what-you-want
Did you see if they are changing the upfront costs of the various plans? I saw one person saying he was paying $400 for Unity Plus, just to remove Unity's splash screen and add his companies logo, but under this new plan he will have to pay $2040 for that same functionality, in addition to the per/install costs. Is that just because they are getting rid of Unity Plus, and moving to 3 plans?
