In an industry where customers are slow to trust and quick to criticize, a new fee from Unity infuriated studios that use its platform.

Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

Unity, the cross-platform game engine that powers games like Rust, Hollow Knight, and Pokémon Go, has introduced a new, controversial fee for developers, set to take effect next year. Indie ...

390 Image: Unity Unity has announced plans to charge developers a fee each time a video game using the Unity engine is installed. Unity Plus is also being retired for new subscribers, starting today.

Unity: We can do what we want To be clear, Unity says its new fee structure won't apply to any game installs made before the newly announced structure goes into effect on January 1.

However, with the release of a new tech demo, titled Time Ghost, Unity is aiming to prove that its next-gen engine, Unity 6, is just as good as any of them.