Developers not working in video games will soon pay a per-seat licensing fee to use Unreal Engine.

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… The news came from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney himself in a presentation at Unreal Fest 2023. …

… He claimed that the pricing model will not be “unusually expensive or unusually inexpensive,” and that its pricing structure will be similar to subscription services like Maya or Photoshop. …

  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    841·
    1 year ago

    Unity gave them a fantastic opportunity here, they now have an excuse to raise their prices as well and still look like the good guy by doing it somewhat reasonably

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      The article states that Epic intends to keep the game dev pricing unchanged. Free up front, then 5% after the first million dollars in sales.

        • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
          20·
          1 year ago

          I’m pretty sure Unity showed, quite clearly, that a bait and switch is a bad idea. Plus, Unreal is going after big titles. You don’t fuck with companies that make big titles.

          • Zanshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            1 year ago

            Unity was too greedy at once. It tried to make devs pay retroactively. Unreal just needs to not do that and can still be greedy. Who’s to say they won’t do incremental pay increases over a few years to make devs more accustomed to price increases?

    • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      1 year ago

      Difference is that Unity was generally favorable, until the recent blunders, while Epic has generally been disliked for quite a long time now, because of Tim acting like a complete cunt to a lot of people on the industry, including the consumers for his own products