Unity's New Runtime Fee Policy: A Change for Indie Developers

In a recent announcement, Unity has introduced a new runtime fee policy that will affect game developers. The policy states that games created using current versions of Unity will not be charged the fee, but those developed with future versions of Unity will have to pay it unless they choose to be subject to a 2.5% gross revenue-based fee instead.

This change has been met with both excitement and criticism from the indie game development community. Some developers are happy about the new policy, which they see as a way for Unity to make money while also giving them more control over their projects. Others, however, have expressed concerns that the new policy will be too restrictive or punitive.

One notable critic of the policy is Ramy, who has given careful approval of the changes. In a blog post announcing the policy, Unity's executives apologized for any inconvenience the change may cause and acknowledged that they are doing right by the indie developer community. This level of transparency and accountability from a company executive is rare in the tech industry.

Despite the controversy surrounding the policy, it seems that Unity has made an effort to address some of the concerns raised by developers. The company has indicated that the fee will not be retroactive, meaning that games created using current versions of Unity will not be charged the fee unless they update to the new version. This is a welcome change for many developers who were worried about being hit with the fee suddenly.

In related news, Magic Spoon, a health-conscious cereal brand, has announced a partnership with YouTube creator Linus Sebastian. The cereal's familiar flavors and unique ingredients have made it a favorite among gamers and tech enthusiasts alike. As part of the partnership, viewers can use the code "Linus" to get $5 off their first order.

YouTube also recently announced several new AI-powered features at its Made on YouTube event. These include Dream Screen, an art-generating green screen effect that allows creators to compete with TikTok. The feature uses generative AI tools in YouTube Studio to help spark video ideas and draft outlines personalized for each channel. Additionally, the platform will now offer generated translated audio dubs of videos, as well as a new tool that can find backing songs based on a description of the video.

In other news, Microsoft may finally succeed in buying Activision Blizzard King after the UK blocked the deal from going through due to concerns over competition. The New Deal has addressed these concerns by agreeing to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft. The deal hopes to close by October and has been welcomed by Phil Spencer, who is said to be giving his mom a special Christmas gift - unlimited hearts in Candy Crush.

However, not all news about new technology is positive. Some users have complained that the newly launched iPhone 15 has poor build quality, with reports of uneven coloring and durability issues. Apple has acknowledged these concerns and offered some solutions, including fine woven cases to protect against scratches. In a lighter moment, a user jokingly asked if Tim Cook should give his mom a nail trimmer as a gift instead.

Finally, War Thunder Forum users have once again found themselves at the center of a controversy over leaked military documents. This time, the document in question is the flight manual for the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, including information on sensor locations and firing angles. As usual, the document was deleted by moderators, but not before it made its way to some very enthusiastic (and perhaps reckless) users. Thankfully, the documents are not technically classified and are only export restricted, so no one's been arrested over this latest incident.

In a breakthrough that could revolutionize 3D printing, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered a new method using coffee grounds to create biodegradable objects. The process involves mixing dry refined coffee grounds with xanthan gum and cellulose powders before using an open-source printer adapter to create all sorts of eco-friendly doodads - including coffee cups. This sustainable solution could potentially reduce plastic waste and transform our relationship with coffee.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enMicrosoft announced a generative AI feature called co-pilot for I think the fourth time at their September 21st event which they aptly named the September 21st event yet they neglected to invite earthwind and fire what I'm Riley Murdoch this is TechLink and you could actually use co-pilot for Windows 11 on September 26th the same day that cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty expansion comes out now do you play with that or your new Microsoft signed mandatory best friend they're not happy about it either after announcing GitHub co-pilot Microsoft 365 co-pilot and windows co-pilot back in May this new co-pilot for windows with a fancy new logo is as significant as the PC was to the 80s the web in the 9s Mobile in the 2000s and cloud in the 2010s said Microsoft CEO and totally unbiased person Satia nadela he has zero biases he's like the gray people from from Futurama and while we know that co-pilot is available now to Windows insiders we don't know when open ai's newly announced Dolly 3 which will be integrated into a number of Microsoft products will be available but it sounds exciting open a claims the updated image generator has gotten better at listening more carefully to every word in your prompt not just the least boring ones Illustrated in this example image of Little Red Riding Hood bartering with steampunk Wilford Brimley would you like to buy a diet tretis a diet tretis yeah it's a treat and Dolly 3 will be able to generate text as illustrated by this depressed avocado talking to its natural predator a spoon dolly3 will be coming to Bing so you can contextually update your prompts to create amazing completely novel images like brown-haired people putting on helmets how do you use your heart out Starfield I didn't even know that could be a thing Microsoft also announced updates to their line of surface products there's a sequel to the surface laptop Studio a revolutionary device that dared to ask the question what if a MacBook Pro was also an iPad for those looking for a more affordable device the surface laptop go 3 keeps cost down by stopping at what if a Macbook I'm kidding of course the laptop go3 has a touchcreen so for anyone doing business and no one else the surface go4 for business features a new processor inside the same body as the go3 and there's also a new Surface hub three that features new hardware upgrades and can be purchased as an entire unit or a modular little cute little pack that can be inserted into existing Hub 2s models and if you use either of those for pleasure we will hunt you down it's for business yes we pre-installed Candy Crush you're not supposed to open it and that's it which is apparently why former surface lead penos pan left Microsoft started cutting staff and pulling back on more experimental devices like the surfice headphones and the Surface Pro X which I'm sure some people wanted more of pan is now allegedly being hired by Amazon to replace their retiring Hardware Chief Dave limp if you're wondering why he's retiring his his original name was Dave normal walk before he was married he was Dave skips everywhere Unity Technologies has revealed the updating pricing scheme they were forced to create after their first updated pricing scheme got similar critical reception to Jared Leto's seminal artpiece morbius it's uniting time and just like that one this one got a re-release for those unfamiliar Unity announced they'd be introducing a runtime fee that would be charged to developers whenever their Unity based game was downloaded after a certain threshold for revenue and install count was reached under the updated scheme Unity personal subscribers will not be charged any fees and the revenue cap on games made with that plan will be increased from $ 100,000 to $200,000 which is the amount of money you you make when you make $100,000 twice little tip for you any unitym made game that makes less than $1 million in a year will also not be charged the fee developers also now have the choice of being subject to the fee or paying 2.5% of their gross revenue instead and unity found the sense to not make the fee retroactive it won't apply to games created using current versions of unity unless they update to the new version when it launches alongside the runtime fee policy in January Ramy is mail one of the policy's largest critics has given careful approval of the changes so it sounds like Unity is doing right by the Indie Dev Community fingers crossed I mean we'll see frankly it's honestly just refreshing for a company's executive to actually say in the blog post I am sorry like that just it doesn't happen so well done and now it's time for quick bits brought to you by Magic spoon put a spell on your taste buds with magic spoon's health conscious yet wickedly tasty cereals they have net zero g of sugar 13 to 14 g of protein and only four to 5 net grams of carbs per serving what is this sorcery and their familiar flavors like Fruity and frosted will leave you feeling Enchanted M follow the link below conjure up a magic spoon variety box and use code Linus for $5 off I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for these quick bits no nothing bad happened I I just want a break from talking very tiring YouTube announced a few AI powered features at its made on YouTube event including dream screen an art generating green screen effect to compete with Tik Tok which has had a similar feature for months because literally everyone somehow ships AI powered features faster than Google the AI company whatever I'm not bothered generative AI Tools in YouTube studio will soon help creators spark video ideas and draft CFT outlines personalized for their specific channels generate translated audio dubs of their videos and they can find backing songs simply using a description of the video which in our case would probably bring up a ton of songs about clicking affiliate links what what do you what do you want down there go to Amazon it's the place shop they didn't pay us for that Microsoft May finally succeed in buying Activision Blizzard King according to reports after the UK blocked the deal from going through the country's competition regulator now says the New Deal has addressed their previous concerns by agreeing to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft who will be free to Port Cloud versions of Activision Blizzard games to any platform they're just like roped in a random other developer and be like will you do the cloud okay fine I'll do the cloud games whatever the deal hopes to close by October so Phil Spencer should have time to give his mom The Ultimate Christmas gift unlimited hearts in Candy Crush cuz you know she's playing it criticisms have been levied against the build quality of the newly launched iPhone 15 and not even Tim Cook pretending to be a normal guy in an Apple Store stopped them thought for sure that would do it some I'm normal hi everyone it's me normal guy some users have claimed the 15s aren't as durable as the previous generation and others have said the phones have uneven coloring and when you're buying them to basically be jewelry that's an issue Apple has indicated that fingerprints might temporarily alter the color of the iPhone 15's titanium frame but they didn't mention a finger nail can permanently scratch Apple's new durable fine woven cases well there's a simple fix for that buy your mama a nail trimmer restricted military documents have wound up on the War Thunder Forum yet again they cannot stop this time the document in question is the flight manual for the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk including information like sensor locations firing angles and engine specifications moderators quickly deleted the thread but this is at least the 10th time that an overheated War Thunder player has tried to prove a point by leaking sensitive military information why does this keep happening H National Security winning this argument with butt muncher 69 stop it just stop luckily the document isn't technically classified merely export restricted so fingers crossed no one's getting Court marshaled over this one and a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder has broken new ground in using coffee grounds for 3D printing soon we may be able to reframe our crippling Bean addictions into a virtuous environmental push to reduce plastic waste by mixing the dry refined coffee grounds with xanthan gum and cellulose powders and then using the research team's open- Source printer adapter to create all kinds of biodegradable doodads even coffee cups that sounds dangerous soon all will be coffee and coffee will be all I don't want that all hail the bean who summons the bean Lord but all we can do is ask you to come back on Monday for another episode of TechLink made entirely from coffee grounds we're g to try it we're gonna see how it goesMicrosoft announced a generative AI feature called co-pilot for I think the fourth time at their September 21st event which they aptly named the September 21st event yet they neglected to invite earthwind and fire what I'm Riley Murdoch this is TechLink and you could actually use co-pilot for Windows 11 on September 26th the same day that cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty expansion comes out now do you play with that or your new Microsoft signed mandatory best friend they're not happy about it either after announcing GitHub co-pilot Microsoft 365 co-pilot and windows co-pilot back in May this new co-pilot for windows with a fancy new logo is as significant as the PC was to the 80s the web in the 9s Mobile in the 2000s and cloud in the 2010s said Microsoft CEO and totally unbiased person Satia nadela he has zero biases he's like the gray people from from Futurama and while we know that co-pilot is available now to Windows insiders we don't know when open ai's newly announced Dolly 3 which will be integrated into a number of Microsoft products will be available but it sounds exciting open a claims the updated image generator has gotten better at listening more carefully to every word in your prompt not just the least boring ones Illustrated in this example image of Little Red Riding Hood bartering with steampunk Wilford Brimley would you like to buy a diet tretis a diet tretis yeah it's a treat and Dolly 3 will be able to generate text as illustrated by this depressed avocado talking to its natural predator a spoon dolly3 will be coming to Bing so you can contextually update your prompts to create amazing completely novel images like brown-haired people putting on helmets how do you use your heart out Starfield I didn't even know that could be a thing Microsoft also announced updates to their line of surface products there's a sequel to the surface laptop Studio a revolutionary device that dared to ask the question what if a MacBook Pro was also an iPad for those looking for a more affordable device the surface laptop go 3 keeps cost down by stopping at what if a Macbook I'm kidding of course the laptop go3 has a touchcreen so for anyone doing business and no one else the surface go4 for business features a new processor inside the same body as the go3 and there's also a new Surface hub three that features new hardware upgrades and can be purchased as an entire unit or a modular little cute little pack that can be inserted into existing Hub 2s models and if you use either of those for pleasure we will hunt you down it's for business yes we pre-installed Candy Crush you're not supposed to open it and that's it which is apparently why former surface lead penos pan left Microsoft started cutting staff and pulling back on more experimental devices like the surfice headphones and the Surface Pro X which I'm sure some people wanted more of pan is now allegedly being hired by Amazon to replace their retiring Hardware Chief Dave limp if you're wondering why he's retiring his his original name was Dave normal walk before he was married he was Dave skips everywhere Unity Technologies has revealed the updating pricing scheme they were forced to create after their first updated pricing scheme got similar critical reception to Jared Leto's seminal artpiece morbius it's uniting time and just like that one this one got a re-release for those unfamiliar Unity announced they'd be introducing a runtime fee that would be charged to developers whenever their Unity based game was downloaded after a certain threshold for revenue and install count was reached under the updated scheme Unity personal subscribers will not be charged any fees and the revenue cap on games made with that plan will be increased from $ 100,000 to $200,000 which is the amount of money you you make when you make $100,000 twice little tip for you any unitym made game that makes less than $1 million in a year will also not be charged the fee developers also now have the choice of being subject to the fee or paying 2.5% of their gross revenue instead and unity found the sense to not make the fee retroactive it won't apply to games created using current versions of unity unless they update to the new version when it launches alongside the runtime fee policy in January Ramy is mail one of the policy's largest critics has given careful approval of the changes so it sounds like Unity is doing right by the Indie Dev Community fingers crossed I mean we'll see frankly it's honestly just refreshing for a company's executive to actually say in the blog post I am sorry like that just it doesn't happen so well done and now it's time for quick bits brought to you by Magic spoon put a spell on your taste buds with magic spoon's health conscious yet wickedly tasty cereals they have net zero g of sugar 13 to 14 g of protein and only four to 5 net grams of carbs per serving what is this sorcery and their familiar flavors like Fruity and frosted will leave you feeling Enchanted M follow the link below conjure up a magic spoon variety box and use code Linus for $5 off I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for these quick bits no nothing bad happened I I just want a break from talking very tiring YouTube announced a few AI powered features at its made on YouTube event including dream screen an art generating green screen effect to compete with Tik Tok which has had a similar feature for months because literally everyone somehow ships AI powered features faster than Google the AI company whatever I'm not bothered generative AI Tools in YouTube studio will soon help creators spark video ideas and draft CFT outlines personalized for their specific channels generate translated audio dubs of their videos and they can find backing songs simply using a description of the video which in our case would probably bring up a ton of songs about clicking affiliate links what what do you what do you want down there go to Amazon it's the place shop they didn't pay us for that Microsoft May finally succeed in buying Activision Blizzard King according to reports after the UK blocked the deal from going through the country's competition regulator now says the New Deal has addressed their previous concerns by agreeing to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft who will be free to Port Cloud versions of Activision Blizzard games to any platform they're just like roped in a random other developer and be like will you do the cloud okay fine I'll do the cloud games whatever the deal hopes to close by October so Phil Spencer should have time to give his mom The Ultimate Christmas gift unlimited hearts in Candy Crush cuz you know she's playing it criticisms have been levied against the build quality of the newly launched iPhone 15 and not even Tim Cook pretending to be a normal guy in an Apple Store stopped them thought for sure that would do it some I'm normal hi everyone it's me normal guy some users have claimed the 15s aren't as durable as the previous generation and others have said the phones have uneven coloring and when you're buying them to basically be jewelry that's an issue Apple has indicated that fingerprints might temporarily alter the color of the iPhone 15's titanium frame but they didn't mention a finger nail can permanently scratch Apple's new durable fine woven cases well there's a simple fix for that buy your mama a nail trimmer restricted military documents have wound up on the War Thunder Forum yet again they cannot stop this time the document in question is the flight manual for the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk including information like sensor locations firing angles and engine specifications moderators quickly deleted the thread but this is at least the 10th time that an overheated War Thunder player has tried to prove a point by leaking sensitive military information why does this keep happening H National Security winning this argument with butt muncher 69 stop it just stop luckily the document isn't technically classified merely export restricted so fingers crossed no one's getting Court marshaled over this one and a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder has broken new ground in using coffee grounds for 3D printing soon we may be able to reframe our crippling Bean addictions into a virtuous environmental push to reduce plastic waste by mixing the dry refined coffee grounds with xanthan gum and cellulose powders and then using the research team's open- Source printer adapter to create all kinds of biodegradable doodads even coffee cups that sounds dangerous soon all will be coffee and coffee will be all I don't want that all hail the bean who summons the bean Lord but all we can do is ask you to come back on Monday for another episode of TechLink made entirely from coffee grounds we're g to try it we're gonna see how it goes\n"