Unity Apologizes for "Confusion and Angst" Due to Runtime Fee Policy; Promises Changes

After shocking the industry by publishing a new pricing structure for developers using its engine, Unity took to X (formerly Twitter) to apologize and promise change.

[SinisterMister]

Let's see what those changes are lol

[Eonjay]

Also it isn't Angst... it's outrage.

[Godmars290]

Would rather not.

As if promises from them mean anything when one of the core issues trying to employ policies retroactively, outright ignoring prior contractual agreements.

[RiseNShine]

free Unity merchandise for all devs yayy!

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

Ok... just learned Twitter changed it's name to X, I had to google that one to believe it... WTAF?

[gamerz]

Elon also named his kid "X Æ A-12," but that one was actually his wife's idea.

[Eonjay]

Sometime dumb sh*t makes people with small egos feel bigger.

[gamerz]

The only ones confused around here are Unity management about their future jobs.

[Eonjay]

Fun fact all of this was put into place after the former EA head toom over Unity.

[siLENTEsKI]

lol “confusion and angst”. More like “backlash and anger”. Perhaps their moronic executives were feeling confused by the response to the new policy.

[cammers1995]

They can't walk back after this. People should ditch this engine and bankrupt them.

[Amplitude]

Unfortunately it's one of the main two engines that indie devs use, and is generally considered to be the easiest to use with the most online resources available.

There's some real good games that use Unity but even ignoring the bs they tried to pull this month, I actually really don't like the engine. It's almost always immediately noticeable when you're playing a Unity game and gives me the same feeling as playing a browser-based Shockwave game back in the early 2000s. Like, just kind of cheap feeling. It's probably not gonna go anywhere though

[cammers1995]

Switch to unreal or learn to add extra features to gameguru. People have made some impressive demos with gameguru but have never actually launched anything.

[Jin_Sakai]

Changes? Cancel the damn thing! And fire the awful “former” EA now Unity CEO then we’ll talk.