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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue (i.vgy.me)
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This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)

Absolutely ridiculous. Many Unity devs are saying they're switching engines on social media.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's still pretty awful really. If I have a game that's halfway through development as a developer I am now disincentivized to finish it. They are changing the terms halfway through development.

January 1st isn't exactly a lot of warning.

This would be borderline acceptable if we'd been given 6 months warning not 1 and 1/2 months