Unity will start charging 0.20$ per install

I doubt EA would do that.
Remember that at one point RenderWare was the leading engine, used by hundreds of games, across many studios.
Then EA bought Criterion and with it, RenderWare. Soon enough the engine was dead. And UE became the standard.

 

Different times and different standards i'd wager, before about 2011 besides UE3 a lot of studios still used proprietary engines and it was way easier to create and maintain one since you wouldn't need an entire separate studio to just work on the engine.

Nowadays a required feature set to be competitive would require a decently sized team and years of work making ready made off the shelf solutions more viable.
I wouldn't rule it out, entirely but if it not EA then i guess someone else with an all-rounder engine would still try to take the spot. Perhaps Autodesk would try to revive Stingray.

 

If it was any other company, I probably say maybe. But not the likes of EA, Activision or 2K.
Maybe Ubisoft, as they are a bit desperate for cash. But they do have some cool tech.

 

I really wish game journalists didn't report on the stock market and brokers, cause they clearly don't understand or participate in it themselves.

He sold 2,000 of his 3,211,394 shares, so he sold 0.06% of his shares. This was an Automatic Sell event, meaning it was carried out by a broker on a predetermined date, in accordance with a predetermined plan established at minimum 90 days ahead, with no involvement of the shareholder at the time of transaction. The sale immediately followed an exercise of employee options to acquire those 2,000 shares so it's presumably just a part of the option program that they are liquidated immediately.

In other words: It was a meaningless amount (to him) and not even his decision to sell at this time. It's nothing. Don't take your financial news from gaming journalists.

 

The maker of Rust seems kinda pissed.



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Amazon charges 30% for each seller. Just saying...

 

Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs

 

This is a live reaction of PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo's lawyers.

 

Breaks open bigger box of popcorn

 

Expecting nintendo to pay anything they aren't 100% obliged and willing to pay is just like giving a loaded shotgun a french kiss on a scene.
Everyone is kinda wondering what's going through your head but knows whatever happens, in a short while it's going to be lead.

 

This is getting wackier by the minute!

 

I'm pretty sure that changing the terms of a contract, without the second party approval is illegal.
But forcing a third party to pay, because of a contract with some other party is just mind boggling.

 

It's wrong on several layers since until 2019 their TOS clearly stated that you were bound to the version of TOS upon which you released your game. Then they literally started hiding those old TOS versions to pretend they always could change the terms.

Majority of people knows they're pulling illegal stunts, few may want to fight them about it but in reality Unity already lost since they played the madman card. Even if they walked back on it or were forced to do so, they lost remainder of credibility and faith they had from their licensees.
This move alone, whether it passes or not, indicates that they don't offer any stability. Which in an industry where a single project can take anywhere between 2-6 years means that you may start the project on entirely different terms than ones you'll be forced into by the time you're finishing the project.

Nobody sane will participate in it. Anyone who's in early stages will port their project to other engine and if someone is too deep in to jump ship now, will just finish their current project ASAP and then switch over.

 

Is your company going to change engine in the future?

 

I am not a person in decisive position, the company is technically stock traded so even if a decision was made i'd be in no position to disclose such information until it was done officially through proper channels.

Though given circumstances i think that my personal speculations are likely because from where i stand there doesn't seem to be an optimal choice - only ones that will cost less in the long run.

 

This is the reason why Unity hasn't been making a profit, and why they are ramping up fees for third party companies.

 

There's a lot of hate but that's the reality - company has to make money. It's pretty standard to sell your software cheaper then as it grows in popularity and matures you put the costs up. Remember Unity are the little guys here - they are competing with EPIC who are a much larger company (>4 times the revenue), if they want to keep up they need to invest more money in the engine. Devs can complain but in the end most will suck it up and pay - the cost of switching engines is massive, and there is a reason they picked Unity not EPIC, for most the cost increase isn't enough to change that reason.

 

Stock and option awards don't really have any impact on expenses of company, it will dilute the value of other shareholders of company but no impact on profit making.

 

How its done is the issue, you might have noticed, it matters a lot!