After a controversial week for Unity, the game engine developer is walking back (at least partially) its much-derided runtime installation policy. Last Tuesday, the company announced its plan to ...

UPDATE 9/22: After some serious backlash, the company says the Unity Personal plan will still be free and games built on it won't be subject to runtime fees. For those on Unity Pro and Unity ...

Unity has made major changes to the per-install Runtime Fee program it announced last week and made apologies for a policy that united large swathes of the game development community in anger. In a ...

Unity Backtracks, Nixes Game Install Runtime Fees for Personal Plans For those on Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, the runtime fee will only kick in with the next long-term support (LTS) version of ...

Game toolset creator Unity is introducing a new fee for game developers based on game installs. The new policy comes into effect on January 1, 2024. Here are the details of how this will work. Unity ...

UPDATE: Unity issued another apology today for its Runtime Fee debacle, and outlined the changes it will make to the policy. "We should have spoken with more of you and we should have incorporated ...

Video game developers aren’t happy about Unity’s latest announcement—and that’s putting it lightly. The maker of one of the world’s most popular cross-platform game engines shared Tuesday that it ...

Unity now says its per-install runtime fee will only apply to its Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise customers "beginning with the next LTS version of Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond." Last week, the ...

Their planned introduction of a new Unity Runtime Fee - effectively charging Unity users a new per-install $0.20 for each user - has taken it's tens of thousands of users by surprise and gone down ...