Unity walking back parts of its controversial runtime fee
In an open letter to its community, Unity has revealed its reworked free structure and controversial runtime fee changes.
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In an open letter to its community, Unity has revealed its reworked free structure and controversial runtime fee changes.
Unity Rolls Back Runtime Fee Policy After Backlash Unity has recently faced criticism from developers following the announcement of a new Runtime Fee
Unity posted updated terms to its new developer fees as the company walks back the most panned elements of the policy.
Unity has done a 180 on a controversial new pricing scheme that users of its cross-platform game engine almost unanimously disparaged. A new pricing policy is still incoming, but it's far less fraught for independent developers, many of whom threatened to leave the engine and platform behind rather than pay. The changes were announced only last week, and immediately attracted the ire of nearly everyone in the gaming community, prompting a panicked "clarification" soft-pedaling of the "runtime fee" that would be owed with every install of a game past a certain level o...
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