• Unity will charge a one-time fee per player based on them installing (and initializing) the game
• Fee scaling is dependent on revenue thresholds. $200k/200k installs for Personal, $1M/1M for Pro
• For Pro/Enterprise, the cost scales downwards to $0.02/$0.01 per install, but for Personal it remains at $0.20
• Unity Plus is getting retired, the 100k rev limit on Unity Personal is being replaced with the payments above

On my way to bankrupt a small indie dev by installing, deleting, then reinstalling their game 20 cents at a time

They also doing this RETROACTIVELY. For all installs EVER of a game

This is unironically how it can work now

Who benefits from this?

No clue but the same CEO who ran EA from like 2009-2017 is the CEO of unity now so prob his bonus

“If you’re already broke, don’t worry we won’t try to bankrupt you. But if you have any success, you’re f***ed”

Dude is a sociopath lol.

“This only effects 10% of unity games”

Fam that’s a lot I thought all unity games were like shovelware horror games for made for free on itch io

Silksong is made in unity we never getting it

wait WHAT

So many games even high tier indie and some "AAA" games use Unity lol.

How does this affect console as well?

This s*** makes no sense.

Is the player and developer being charged the 20 cent?

Just the dev being charged 20 cents

But yes effects console games that use unity as well

Gamepass games they are expecting to charge Microsoft 20 cents per install

Gotta be one of the most toxic gaming news in recent times

Imagine if Epic Games gets some funny ideas out of this and also decides to start charging for Unreal Engine game installs

I'm sure he's joking to an extent, but

Thats dumb as f***

Even some Nintendo official games use Unity like gen 4 Pokemon remakes & some smaller Square Enix partnerships no way theyre going for that especially Nintendo

I understand licensing but per install based on player behavior that affects the developer makes no damn sense LMAO

Devs should just move their releases to cloud gaming exclusively, then everyone loses

RIP Silksong. It’s not ever coming out.

Pokémon go is unity man imagine the installs on that

Superhot, Cuphead, Escape from Tarkov, the Ori games, Hollow Knight, Cities Skyline, Fall Guys, Beat Saber, Pokemon Go, Pokemon Gen 4 Remakes, Pillars of Eternity, subnautica etc. etc. etc.

And all their other Pokemon Go spin off games Niantic has like the Witcher, Minecraft & Pikmin ones

They lost Geoff!!