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AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR COMMUNITY
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Marc Whitten
September 22, 2023 in News | 3 min. read
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To our community:
I’m Marc Whitten, and I lead Unity Create which includes the Unity engine and
editor teams.
I want to start with this: I am sorry.
We should have spoken with more of you and we should have incorporated more of
your feedback before announcing our new Runtime Fee policy. Our goal with this
policy is to ensure we can continue to support you today and tomorrow, and keep
deeply investing in our game engine.
You are what makes Unity great, and we know we need to listen, and work hard to
earn your trust. We have heard your concerns, and we are making changes in the
policy we announced to address them.
Our Unity Personal plan will remain free and there will be no Runtime Fee for
games built on Unity Personal. We will be increasing the cap from $100,000 to
$200,000 and we will remove the requirement to use the Made with Unity splash
screen.
No game with less than $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be subject
to the fee.
For those creators on Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise, we are also making changes
based on your feedback.
The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of
Unity shipping in 2024 and beyond. Your games that are currently shipped and the
projects you are currently working on will not be included – unless you choose
to upgrade them to this new version of Unity.
We will make sure that you can stay on the terms applicable for the version of
Unity editor you are using – as long as you keep using that version.
For games that are subject to the runtime fee, we are giving you a choice of
either a 2.5% revenue share or the calculated amount based on the number of new
people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are
self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed
the lesser amount.
We want to continue to build the best engine for creators. We truly love this
industry and you are the reason why.
I’d like to invite you to join me for a live fireside chat hosted by Jason
Weimann today at 4:00 pm ET/1:00 pm PT, where I will do my best to answer your
questions. In the meantime, here are some more details.*
Thank you for caring as deeply as you do, and thank you for giving us hard
feedback.
Marc Whitten
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