Unity Apologises, Partially Walks Back Contentious Monetization Scheme | Push Square

Unity's audacious plan to charge developers for the privilege of players installing their games has hit an unforeseen snag, with the announcement that CEO and architect of the scheme, John Riccitiello, will conveniently be retiring, effective immediately.

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Unity has announced that John Riccitiello is stepping down as president, CEO, chairman and board member effective immediately.

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Unity has officially walked back on controversial monetisation plans for its popular game engine.

After two weeks of chaos, Unity Create president Marc Whitten has a message: “I’m sorry.”

In an open letter to its community, Unity has revealed its reworked free structure and controversial runtime fee changes. Under the new structure, the Unity Personal edition will remain free and incur no runtime fee. The new cap before the fee starts has been increased from $100,000 to $200,000, and no game with under $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be subject to the fee. Interestingly, the new Runtime Fee will only apply to the next version of Unity that is shipping in 2024. Already shipped and current in-development projects will not be subject to the fee unless they upgrade to the 2024 version of Unity. In the post, Marc Whitten, leader of the Unity Create team apologized for what has transpired in recent weeks.