{"id":173287,"date":"2023-10-02T08:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/unity-wants-to-rebuild-trust-but-one-runtime-fee-claim-doesnt-add-up"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:26:04","slug":"unity-wants-to-rebuild-trust-but-one-runtime-fee-claim-doesnt-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/unity-wants-to-rebuild-trust-but-one-runtime-fee-claim-doesnt-add-up","title":{"rendered":"Unity wants to rebuild trust, but one Runtime Fee claim doesn\u2019t add up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unity-wants-to-rebuild-trust-but-one-runtime-fee-claim-doesnt-add-up3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/unity-apologizes-to-devs-reveals-updated-runtime-fee-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Unity rolled out a new look version of its controversial Runtime Fee<\/a> in the wake of a seismic backlash from developers who felt the original policy represented an egregious act of betrayal for a myriad of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>While plenty of fury was aimed at how the fee might impact developers\u2019 finances, some of that anger stemmed from Unity\u2019s inability to effectively communicate its new policy and provide clear answers to pertinent questions.<\/p>\n<p>The dust is now supposedly settled, but here\u2019s one more thing: why doesn\u2019t Unity\u2019s explanation for its shifting answers about the Runtime Fee in relation to subscription services hold up to scrutiny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Unity rolled out a new look version of its controversial Runtime Fee in the wake of a seismic backlash from developers who felt the original policy represented an egregious act of betrayal for a myriad of reasons. While plenty of fury was aimed at how the fee might impact developers\u2019 finances, some of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}