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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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[–] HerrLewakaas@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Problem is back then no better alternative existed. Now it does

[–] foo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Godot is also open source.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Another problem is that Unity has a team of paid engineers and Godot doesn't. Or does it?