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. …

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    cool, then it’s 20% of your “games” revenue if you want to do that.

    Epic generally let companies self report, when using the engine you have to agree to allowing them to audit if they think your self-reporting is incorrect but that’s not a very usual situation