Unity Engine runtime fee: Difference between revisions

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Unity Software Inc. (aka: Unity Technologies), a publicly traded software company known for their Unity game engine, implemented sweeping changes to its pricing model for Unity that would affect all users of the engine, forcing users to either adopt their per-download fee or de-list their games.

The yearly GMTK Game jam released a series of statistics on engine usage within the jam, both in 2023<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=2023-07-18 |title=game engines that people used to make 6835 game jam games |url=https://x.com/gamemakerstk/status/1681376508688883713 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250708194840/https://x.com/gamemakerstk/status/1681376508688883713 |archive-date=8 Jul 2025|access-date=2025-06-16 |website=Twitter}}</ref> before the runtime fee announcement and in 2024<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=2024-08-21 |title=game engines that people used to make 7,711 game jam games |url=https://x.com/gamemakerstk/status/1826184926393491689 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250708194840/https://x.com/gamemakerstk/status/1826184926393491689 |archive-date=8 Jul 2025|access-date=2025-06-16 |website=Twitter}}</ref> afterwards. The 2023 results showed 59% of jam entries were made in the unity engine, while the next largest engine, Godot, (a free & open source competitor to unity), took a 19% share. The 2024 results see unity's share drop by 16% to an overall 43%, and Godot's more than double to 37%, Illustrating a significant exodus of talent from the unity platform correlating with the release of the runtime fee.

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