1y ago

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

twistedvoxel.com Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs - TwistedVoxel

Unity Technologies has stated that PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo will pay the company's new runtime fee on behalf of game developers. A new FAQ has been shared by Unity Technologies, which answers questions regarding the company's recent change in pricing plan for its game development engine. ...

Unity Technologies has stated that PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo will pay the company's new runtime fee on behalf of game developers.

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1y ago

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

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Jesus. This is just a circus of incompetence. Doesn't matter who is footing the bill. If you push the bill on the distributor/install service it means those streams will be less likely to embrace indie devs and especially new indie devs without a hit under their belt. So same chilling result.
- Did they not learn from watching Sony delist Cyberpunk after CD Projekt Red told consumers that Sony would give them a refund?
  
  The answer seems to be no. I'm anticipating Sony, MS, and Nintendo's response on this. Did they even know about it? I'm very curious to see how this pans out because at this viewpoint it seems like an entire shit show.

PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo's lawyers:

Does Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony know?

I really hope they try this.
Because it would be hilarious to see all the platforms say fuck it and ban Unity games over this ridiculous cash grab they're very obviously not entitled to.
- Unity is so ubiquitous that it would have unimaginable consequences.
  For example, 90% of vr games are made in Unity. So that's one segment of gaming completely wiped off the map.
  Things are not much better in desktop and mobile gaming either, as Unity has close to 50% market share.
  It would be a literal Thanos snap.

yeah the console manufacturers are just gonna say "no, we don't owe you anything, we have never dealt with you before. Sue us"

How it will go down:

Does this include Valve? I imagine that Valve is a huge part of Unity's sales...

Man, I hope the lawyers at the Big Three are getting ready to send Christmas cards to Riccitielo cause, uh, he's pretty much going to be signing their paychecks if he keeps going

Makes sense hosting could be standard 25% revenue share 45% if your game is based on unity
- I've tried parsing this sentence 3 times and failed. Could someone help out and add/fix whatever words and punctuation are broken here?
  
  Makes sense; hosting someone else's game could be a standard 25% revenue share, but then 45% if your game is based on Unity.
  
  se hosting could be standard 25% revenue sha
  so sorry man, dyslexic with no knowledge of commas
  
  Devs pay Sony Microsoft etc 25% of the price paid for the game. Unless it's unity, then it's 45%.

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