New Unity Pricing

[darthviper107]

@FrankieV;540919

Well if you actually sit down and do the math their subscription fees are not that bad and in some ways better than Epics commercial use licensing.

At full pop of 125 bucks a month a prepaid version of Unity Pro per seat is 1,500 which is now royalty free so for ten seats that 15k. That’s to say you have unlimited revenue capacity with out having to pay a per unit royalty.

Lets say you make a game in less than a year, say Angry Birds, and with in a month makes 5 million dollars your up front cost and after unit expenses is still 15k but with UE4 you own Epic $250,000 bucks.

To top it off you can write Unity off as a business expense, along with the companies car lease, where you probably will have to pay taxes on the $250,000 bucks as earned income before giving Epic their cut.

Over all both companies offer excellent licensing with Unreal 4 being a good choice for start up indie developers with zero market experience and a company like Big Fish games who seem to pump out a new game every day.

Doing the math though if your 100% sure that your game will sell Unity is the better option. This from someone who love his Unreal 4 but the maths don’t lie

If you’re going to be making millions of dollars at that point you would negotiate a custom licensing option with Epic, they’re not expecting people to pay huge amounts in royalties. Though honestly I think it would be easier for UE4 to have a licensing fee rather than royalty because of how confusing it is for people to understand how much they pay on royalty and how they report/pay it to Epic.