UPDATE 9/22: After some serious backlash, the company says the Unity Personal plan will still be free and games built on it won't be subject to runtime fees. For those on Unity Pro and Unity ...

Unity Backtracks, Nixes Game Install Runtime Fees for Personal Plans For those on Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, the runtime fee will only kick in with the next long-term support (LTS) version of ...

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 ...

Less than a week after the cross-platform game engine maker Unity announced its big plan to charge developers based on the number of installations and revenue, the company said it’s rolling back its ...

Unity announced a new fee structure today, and developers are none too happy. "We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that is based upon each time a qualifying game is downloaded by an end user," the ...

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 ...

Last week, Unity dropped a bomb on developers with a new runtime fee on its game engine that would be charged each time a title is installed — summed up by one developer as an "abysmally catastrophic ...

A controversial new pricing plan for games developed with the Unity engine is likely to significantly impact subscription services like PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass. For the uninitiated, Unity has ...

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 ...

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Video game developers aren’t happy about Unity’s latest announcement—and that’s putting it lightly. The maker of one of the world’s most popular cross-platform game engines shared Tuesday that it ...

After nearly a week of protracted developer anger over a newly announced runtime fee of up to $0.20 per game install, Unity says it will be “making changes” to that policy and will share a further ...