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An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/Ys676

Our Unity Personal plan will remain free and there will be no Runtime Fee for games built on Unity Personal. We will be increasing the cap from $100,000 to $200,000 and we will remove the requirement to use the Made with Unity splash screen.

No game with less than $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be subject to the fee.

The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond. Your games that are currently shipped and the projects you are currently working on will not be included – unless you choose to upgrade them to this new version of Unity.

For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available.

  • Crotaro@beehaw.org
    33·
    1 year ago

    I really hope people don’t get over this just because Unity went “we’re sorry we got called out for trying to screw you”. Unfortunately, like with how little effect the Reddit blackout had, I fear most will just accept it because Unity is what they’re already used to.

    • UrLogicFails@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      36·
      1 year ago

      The Reddit blackout had more of an effect than it appears. I saw an article a couple of weeks ago that showed commenting and posting was down ~50% since the blackouts; and I can safely say I haven’t gone back to Reddit since, and I’m sure others have made similar choices as well.

      People can have trouble “voting with their wallets,” but I genuinely believe it is possible and does have an effect. Hopefully people do not forget the choices Unity has made here; but even if they do, Godot has already gotten a significant boost from this catastrophe.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        I’d be interested in reading that. I know personally on bad days I’d sometimes have over 100 comments. (Bad meaning too active). Since the first day here on lemmy I haven’t even logged into my reddit account. They burned me hard by killing Sync for Reddit.

        It follows the 90-9-1 rule though, so while they have users who use it, I think they burned a lot of the people who posted and commented.

        • UrLogicFails@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
          16·
          1 year ago

          I was able to track down the article (Garbage Day URL, Archive.today URL).

          The portion I was referring to was:

          Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

          Personally I was not contributing much there; but I suspect the users they offended most were the power users, which is where most of the content comes from.

          • blindsight@beehaw.org
            9·
            1 year ago

            Reddit power users were the most likely ones to care enough about the platform’s direction to be willing to give it up, I would think.

            For most Reddit users, it’s just an endless stream of information, different in form but not different in function from any other social media platform.

            But for the people posting content (posts and comments), losing their tools was a huge barrier to continuing to engage, and the complete disrespect and libel to the Apollo dev made a lot of those most invested in Reddit very angry.

            I used to browse Reddit 99% of the time using BaconReader, and have for about a decade. I’m just not going to comment there any more, and I don’t enjoy engaging when I can’t respond. Since June, I’ve only gone to Reddit from Google search results, and then left immediately after.

            It’s expected that losing a small percentage of users has a massive impact on the quantity and quality of created content, when those leaving are disproportionately power users.

        • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
          16·
          1 year ago

          Which is fine, it’s their company/product to ruin if they want to. But now lemmy is taking off because they did that, and thats great.

    • Friendship@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      The difference is having skin in the game. The problems with reddit didn’t really effect a lot of the users directly and definitely didn’t threaten most of their livelihoods (aside from a small number of app developers). Unity on the other hand is a tool people use to make a living and when it threatens that I imagine it will result in much more hesitancy to continue using it.