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Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue (i.vgy.me)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone I know has been reaching about Unreal for the past few years anyway. I'm surprised Unity is pulling this controversial move in this situation, driving more customers to the competition. It's like if it was 2013 and AMD suddenly started charging double for their graphics cards even though Nvidia was way better

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Oh damn the whole day I was thinking it was about Unreal Engine, not unity. Was pretty sad that some of the projects I follow could be abandoned. Now I'm so glad, holy shit. Reading the articles caffeine starved at 5 am in a tram probably was the culprit for misreading