New Unity Licensing Fee is Backfiring
Unity, the company who makes the Unity Game Engine is in some hot water from the game dev community after announcing they are increasing prices by introducing a new fee Effective January 1, 2024. "We will introduce a new Unity Runtime Fee that’s based on game installs. We will also add cloud-based asset storage, Unity DevOps tools, and AI at runtime at no extra cost to Unity subscription plans this November."
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Articles from my video:
Unity plan pricing and packaging updates (https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pric...)
FAQ: (https://unity.com/pricing-updates)
Gigaya: (https://blog.unity.com/games/introduc...)
Layoffs 1: (https://kotaku.com/sources-unity-layi...)
Price Increase: (https://blog.unity.com/news/pro-enter...)
Layoff 2: (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-l...)
00:00 Money Grab
00:42 Bad FAQ
01:48 Pirated Games
02:30 On the Decline?
03:18 Failed Example Project
04:52 Layoffs 1
05:30 Price Increases
06:10 Layoffs 2
06:30 Outrage from Community
07:11 I want Unity to Succeed
08:00 What's Next?