My Thoughts on Unity's Pricing Changes 

In the end this makes me happy since more people are going to move to other engines

There is no way to detect true install from malicious install, once your runtime is out, you are on the hook for limitless fees from unity.

True we should not bash developers of unity the ceo decide it not the employee

Everyone is actually affected by the change: Big studios now will pay more, Unity Plus users are force to display "Made with Unity" splash screen, small developers will now have incentive to sell less copies or increase price or rethink their business model all together, mobile development will struggle to survive because of their dependance on the install base and so on... I'm afraid this is a snow ball effect in progress. I do share your sentiment as a Unity developer myself with many years of using the engine and huge amount of money "invested" in asset store, but it will negatively impact my current business model, my clients and ongoing long term projects... Very sad times.

This what happened when you let an EA hand rubber as a CEO comes in

I can give this guarentee , that if one more recession came in future , unreal also going to charge from user more. 😢

Honestly I'll never use anything non open source again.

If they can track sales then they should charge per sale

Im trying to use godot but its too hard, ill just have to finish my game in unity

Yup my pc cant handle unreal too good and since this stupidity of unity im switching to godot. Godot 4 has nice graphics afterall

The thing is though, that even if you are not directly impacted by the change, you kind of are still impacted, because it represents a bad attitude towards users of Unity. It shows that the Unity Execs are unethical, and also as there will be a mass exodus from the engine the community will dry up, so there will be less help available from fewer community members. Also if you create assets for the engine there will be less buyers or users of those assets. Also we now cannot trust the Unity Execs to be ethical in future and NEW fees can be suddenly announced at any time. It also stifles any thinking that one day your game could get somewhere. It is bad news for everyone. The CEO needs to resign and half the board, for any faith in Unity to be restored...

As an engine, Unity is awesome. Great 3D capabilities and probably the best for 2D. I would still recommend it for those wanting to learn game dev, as well as UE5. Both are great, learning C# and C++ are wonderful tools. As far as earning money though, Unity are no longer trustworthy to be partners.

За забагованый движок ещё и платить😂.прощай юнити,я не сильно буду скучать по тебе.godot рулит!!!

bro who let unity cook?

Then here is the work around till they knock it off. Make the games browser based so end users are not required to download anything to play such games. The Executives need to be fired. Otherwise I suggest employees collab in creating a rival purely OpenSource community supported independent Engine making actual improvements where the Executives have been preventing or dropping the ball focusing too much on bells and whistles and lining their pockets at the sacrifice of the engine.

I couldn’t disagree more with you. This whole sh$&storm is enogastronomia reason to leave. With this type os leadership, tomorrow unity will change the pricing again, and again, update the value to 40 cents, remove more features under the “extra plus” subscription model, and you can go on and on. Unity isn’t the only one in the market and devs should abandon this engine if possible.

Gal godot