Game engine Unity has announced it will begin charging developers a fee every time a user installs their game. That's even if someone's just installing games they already own on a new computer.

Unity's website states that developers using Unity won't be charged an install fee until their game makes at least $200,000 in revenue and surpasses 200,000 installations.

Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed. Review bombing, meet revenue ...

Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

Unity is a cross-platform game engine launched in 2005 with the goal of "democratizing" game development, seeking to make it accessible to a broader range of developers.

Yesterday, game engine company Unity announced a new pricing model whereby it would charge developers per game install. Developers and other video game companies and professionals have reacted to ...

For developers using Unity Pro or Unity Enterprise, games “that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months and have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs” will have to pay the fee.

Unity’s engine is one of a handful of software development tool sets in the video game industry. Developers can use the tools to create 3-D character models that can run, jump and shoot enemies ...

Last week, just about everyone in the games business was mad at Unity over a new, retroactive per-install fee for games made with the engine. Unity developers raised troubling question after ...

Referred to as a “Unity Runtime Fee,” the $0.20-per-install charge has some developers wondering whether they’d pay more to Unity than they’d earn from their games.

Unity proclaimed that on Jan. 1 it would be implementing a pay-per-download pricing model to charge developers a flat fee any time someone installs a video game utilizing Unity software.

It is particularly harsh for smaller developers using Unity Personal, as they will be $0.20 per install if their game makes over $200,000 within 12 months and gets over 200,000 lifetime game installs.