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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue (i.vgy.me)
submitted 1 year ago by popcar2@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev
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This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)

Absolutely ridiculous. Many Unity devs are saying they're switching engines on social media.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

What about charging per download/install after the threshold? It sure sounds like it won't matter if you're subscribed or not, as their announcement mentioned Personal licenses would be charged USD 0,20 per download after the 200k lifetime