Unity recently faced severe backlash from game developers and the gaming community over its new pricing structure for the Unity Engine. Essentially, Unity announced a plan to charge a “Unity Runtime Fee” for game developers based on a game exceeding its lifetime installations plus its exceeded revenue within the past 12 months.
Popular games such as Genshin Impact, Cult of The Lamb, and Metal: Hellsinger, use the Unity Engine and are bound to take a hit from the pricing. Many argue that Unity will negatively affect the indie gaming scene the hardest because of its corporate greed. Even the European Game Developers Federation (EDGF) had called on the EU to reevaluate its regulation framework and to monitor the “anti-competitive behavior” of Unity. The EDGF had gone as far as to say that Unity’s dominance in the gaming market and its new pricing scheme is a “looming game engine market failure.”
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