Well, 's an opportunity to help us out.
First I should say that there’s currently no place in the Marketplace for anything like , because it is middleware, it is a plugin, and the Marketplace doesn’t accept plugins yet. I don’t know when they will start to do .
A large organization like Epic can charge royalties because they have the resources to audit their customers, it doesn’t make sense for a small company like Simul.
So we’re left with a few options:
1 (the current one) Subscription, monthly or yearly at a discount; no charge to publish. Cheap at the outset, and you could in theory be getting in a commercial game for as little as £15, but it seems unpopular, perhaps for those who don’t plan to commercialize.
2 Per-product, per-platform licensing, with no charge to use prior to publishing. is what we do with AAA’s, but like with royalties it’s hard to do when the number of customers starts getting large. Bear in mind the price will be at least as much per-product as a yearly subscription.
3 One-off price to buy the plugin. Simple, but to make it work commercially it would be more expensive than 1 or 2.
So please tell me your thoughts.