Unity boss shares updates to Runtime Fee amid controversy: \u201cI am sorry\u201d UnityUnity boss Marc Whitten has issued a statement regarding the recent Runtime Fee controversy, apologizing in the process. On September 12, 2023, Unity sparked backlash throughout the game development community by revealing an update that would see devs facing fees for every install of their game. Just days later, the company pledged to make changes to the plan, stating that they had been listening to the community. On September 22, Unity boss Marc Whitten issued a statement revealing the changes to the Runtime Fee policy. Unity makes massive changes to Runtime Fee policy In a blog post on the Unity website, Whitten apologized. \u201cWe should have spoken with more of you and we should have incorporated more of your feedback before announcing our new Runtime Fee policy,\u201d he said. \u201cOur goal with this policy is to ensure we can continue to support you today and tomorrow and keep deeply investing in our game engine. \u201cWe have heard your concerns, and we are making changes in the policy we announced to address them.\u201d Whitten went on to note that the Unity Personal plan will remain free, and there will be no Runtime Fee for games built using that plan. He also shared that they will be increasing the earnings cap from $100k to $200k and will remove the requirement to use the \u201cMade with Unity\u201d splash screen. Finally, there will be no fee for any game that makes less than $1M in 12-month revenue and it will not affect currently shipped games at all unless they update to the next version of Unity. With the announcement, plenty of devs took to social media to share their thoughts. \u201cNow this actually makes sense,\u201d one user replied. Another commented: \u201cThis all seems fair enough to be honest, and glad to see it, for the sake of the community.\u201d However, it appears the trust has been broken between Unity and some devs. \u201cYou gotta regain the trust of devs after this mess. Steps in the right direction but I don\u2019t see how you didn\u2019t see this backlash coming in the first place,\u201d another Twitter user replied. For more gaming news and other viral stories, head over to check out our coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unity boss shares updates to Runtime Fee amid controversy: \u201cI am sorry\u201d UnityUnity boss Marc Whitten has issued a statement regarding the recent Runtime Fee controversy, apologizing in the process. On September 12, 2023, Unity sparked backlash throughout the game development community by revealing an update that would see devs facing fees for every install […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}