Nic Vasconcellos

ALT We’re okay with paying a little more for a good game engine. We’re not okay with a game engine changing their terms to invent new fees for previously released games whenever they feel like it. It’s especially not okay after we paid Unity a lot of money in upfront subscription fees when making those games, and those subscriptions were sold to us with the promise of their engine being “royalty free.” If Unity thinks they can retroactively increase the cost of their engine for any game ever made with it, regardless of what the agreement was when that game was made, then the risk of doing business with them is far more expensive than any fee, and the only way to protect ourselves is to stop making games with Unity.  It will be challenging and costly for us to leave behind nearly a decade of experience, technology, and tools we have built with the Unity engine, but we’re now preparing to do so by the end of 2023.