Difficult times are when heroes are made! Many gamers and developers were unhappy after Unity presented a new billing plan to hand them a small fee for every installation of a Unity based game. Terraria developers Re-Logic have now joined the fight against corporate greed among game engine developers.
Is this the step that may save the gaming industry from greedy business decisions? Re-Logic, most popular for developing the sandbox game Terraria, have announced that they will help out developers of alternative game engines with a lot of money. This comes as a reaction to Unity's recent announcement regarding fee policy changes.
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Earlier this month, Unity announced that they will start billing game developers for every time their Unity-based games are being installed on any device. This has caused a lot of anger and frustration among gamers and game developers alike.
Terraria Developers Re-Logic To Support Game Engine Developers With More Than $200,000
We want to acknowledge the confusion and frustration we heard after we announced our new runtime fee policy. We'd like to clarify some of your top questions and concerns:Who is impacted by this price increase: The price increase is very targeted. In fact, more than 90% of our...
— Unity (@unity) September 13, 2023
With Unity seemingly unwilling to back down from their new monetization plans, Re-Logic "condemn and reject the recent TOS/fee changes proposed by Unity and the underhanded way they were rolled out." The studio also does not consider a simple, public explanation to be doing the situation justice.
In order to reduce Unity's power over the market, Re-Logic will immediately donate $100,000 to each of the developers of open-source engines GODOT and FNA. They also pledged to continue supporting them with an additional $1,000 per month each. In return, they ask these developers to "remain good people and keep doing all that they can to make these engines powerful and approachable for developers everywhere."
Unity is still busy trying to extinguish the fire they caused on social media platforms. As of now, they have not reacted to Re-Logic's statement. The future of Unity-based games remains uncertain, although Unity keeps reaffirming that their policy changes would only affect the top 10% most played games that use their engine.
— Terraria (@Terraria_Logic) September 19, 2023