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 ...

Exactly one year ago, Unity announced runtime fee pricing for its popular cross-platform game engine, which caused developers around the world to berate the company online. Unity made some changes in ...

Unity has unveiled its planned changes to the controversial Runtime Fee policy that would charge developers fees on a per-install basis. Unity Create president Marc Whitten detailed the changes in a ...

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 ...

Unity, maker of a popular cross-platform engine and toolkit, will not pursue a broadly unpopular Runtime Fee that would have charged developers based on game installs rather than per-seat licenses.

Revealed on September 12, the Runtime Fee will be effective from January 1, 2024. From that date, developers will be charged every time a qualifying game is downloaded by a player. Unity justified ...

Unity is walking back its new (and highly controversial) Runtime Fee policy. The company planned charge developers for each game download after meeting certain thresholds. This move was widely ...

Attempting to walk back controversial changes made to its fee structure, Unity clarified new runtime fees for titles using the popular game engine. The changes to the Unity Runtime Fee come on the ...

TL;DR: As predicted, Unity has changed course on its Unity Runtime Fee after severe backlash from the community and weeks of bad press. It reformulated the maligned monetization plan in a way that ...

Unity is adding a new charge for every time a game using the Unity Engine is installed, the company announced today. Starting January 1, a Unity Runtime Fee will be charged to any game that has passed ...