A little over a year ago, PIF and Silver Lake were announced as two parts of EA's new ownership trifecta, following a $55 billion buyout agreement, and it has now been revealed in a new Reuters report that PIF and Silver Lake have met with Unity Software to initiate talks to buy the game engine...
This could be a disaster for studios in mid development if they actually raise the cost or even remove free tier all together.
There is no helping any studio that started work on a game and choosing unity after the “per game install fee” saga in 2023.
Per install? Is that for each time you install it or each user? How do you even count an install? You can just run a game from a folder. Is copy/paste an install, what about moving a folder, or switch a drive to another PC?
Oh well, Rimworld is probably the game I play most using unity and they are moving away from it.
Yeah you’ve basically hit the nail on the head on why it was a disaster.
Unity wanted to charge devs for every install by every customer. Not copies sold. Not revenue.
Every “install”.
It made no sense, and was either impossible, or a privacy nightmare to implement.
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