A year later, Unity cancels its controversial Runtime Fee "effective immediately"
Unity's new CEO says price changes "needn’t come in a novel and controve🏅rsial new form"

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In case you somehow missed it, Unity's original plan was to charge game developers using its engine a fee every time someone installs their game after a certain threshold, but it was met with swift and united backlash from the🤪 game development community, which led the company to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:issue a formal apology and eventually walk back some of the more contentious aspects🙈 of♕ the Runtime Fee. Now, it's canceling it ent♓irely and instead introducing price increases to its paid tiers.
. "Non-gaming Industry customers are not impacted by this modification."Unity appointed Bromberg its new president and CEO in May, months after 澳𒆙洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the previous leader John Riccitiello stepped down amidst the fallout caused by the aforementioned pricing changes. In January, the company laid off about 25% of its staff with 1,80♓0 cut jobs.
"Over the last 20 years, we🍒've partnered with brilliant designers and 𒁏developers, artists and engineers, publishers and platforms, to build a world where great games could be built by anyone, for everyone," Bromberg said. "We called it 'democratizing game development,' and it remains our core mission today.
"However, we can't pursue that mission in conflict with our customers; at its heart, it must be a partnership built on trust. I've been able to connect with many of𒀰 you over the last three months, and I've heard time and time again that🗹 you want a strong Unity, and understand that price increases are a necessary part of what enables us to invest in moving gaming forward. But those increases needn’t come in a novel and controversial new form."
Unity is now going back to its existing seat-based subscription model for all of its gaming customers, including those upgrading to Unity 6. It's also increasing the revenue and funding ceiling from $100,000 to $200,000 USD for the free Personal plan. Paid tiers Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, meanwhile, are getting annual price increases of 8% and 25%, respectively. Those changes go into effect on January 1, 2025൲.
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"From this point forward, it’s our intention to revert to a more traditional cycle of considering any p꧙otential price increases only on an annual bas𒐪is," Bromberg said. "Our commitment remains that if we change the Editor software terms in ways that impact you, you may continue using your current version of the software under the previously agreed terms as long as you keep using that version."
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