Game engine Unity has announced it will begin charging developers a fee every time a user installs their game. That's even if someone's just installing games they already own on a new computer.

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It's pretty simple on paper. From January 1 2024 any game that is using the Unity Engine will be paying a fee to Unity for every install on a new device. There’s a complex system of tiers and ways to ...

Unity Backtracks, Nixes Game Install Runtime Fees for Personal Plans For those on Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, the runtime fee will only kick in with the next long-term support (LTS) version of ...

“We chose this because each time a game is downloaded, the Unity Runtime is also installed.” The new per-install fees are set to kick in on January 1, 2024. The company says developers will be charged ...