The Future Of The Unity 6 Game Engine

With the introduction of the Unity Run-Time Fee, the upcoming Unity release, now named Unity 6, is perhaps the most important release in the history of the Unity game engine.
In this video we look at several important aspects of the future of Unity.

What is Unity 6?
When will it be released?
What is new?
How can I avoid the Run-time fee?

We answer all of these questions and more in this video.

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[isweartofuckinggod]

The biggest selling point of Unity has always been a solid base with a robust extension system, and the community driven asset store able to add any feature you need. As soon as they started to add features chasing industry trends, they lost track of that core, and the engine suffered. I welcome a boring update, I want to see Unity return to focusing on building a solid base for their users to build on.

[jeanmakesgames]

I think the most interesting thing coming from unity in 2024 gonna be the number of install of Unity 6, that'll be a good indicator of the direction the gaming industry gonna takes, and a very good final indicator of how much they shoot themselves in the foot with their runtime fee.

[CitizenCoder]

The way I understand it, the runtime fee is pretty useless because you can just choose to pay the 2.5% of revenue after the one million mark instead of the runtime fee. I dont see the runtime fee even being a problem anymore. Unless im missing something?

[harrygameprod]

Glad to see Unity has the opportunity to come back from the disaster they had. The company is more than a couple of executives and board members. Hundreds of incredible developers put their hearts and souls into making Unity a great engine, and it has done so much for the industry and gamedev community. Unity was the big responsible for the indie boom we had in the 2000's, and the world has never been the same since.

I'm a game dev and content creator, and in these crazy internet times, it's good to see that companies still can get another opportunity to listen to the community and do things right.

[tmilker]

I'm pretty sure they have to charge for AI tools immediately because everyone's "custom" AI is just a wrapper on top of OpenAI or another service, so Unity is paying for a lot of usage right out of the gate. They simply can't afford to not charge a fee for access to beta tools.

[kurovah]

If Unity recovers, then good for them, hopefully they take the steps to make sure they don’t make decisions like the runtime fee again, so people will have more options for engines in the future. I hear they have a habit of sorta abandoning some of own features, so maybe they can get in top that as well.

[astrahcat]

That was a great idea buying up and making Parsec subscription based without rebranding it. Way to go Unity keep up the solid record.

[modernator]

Unity 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 201x and then suddenly 6? wtf unity

[PolygonVariable]

i was wondering, since Steam dont allow AI generated content, will it affect developer that will use Unity Muse ?

[DanielKierkegaardAndersen]

Good video! And fun meeting you at Unite

[btarg]

They still haven't completely moved to .NET 8 replacing mono, they don't have hot-reloading or incremental compilation, and they STILL have the runtime fee for new versions.
Even with a big new number, they haven't changed enough to make me happy. I only use unity because it's what I know how to use.

[my_yt_]

Thanks for motivating me to switch from Unity to the Godot Engine. My friends and I like that the Godot Engine is free forever.

[mjsa]

Thank you for your efforts! Would you mind revisiting the O3DE engine after the latest update?

[cjeff]

Muse behavior is available actually (version 0.5.7). You can install the package by name in the package manager

[nathanmiguel]

One of the things that Unity could document better is how to use SRP in C#. I hardly see anyone teaching or talking about it.

[DarkerCry]

I really wanted to see updates to their retargeting system for rigging :(

[NoSoyMako]

I feel like unity just can't decide on anything

[PortfolioPL]

How many of these features will be delayed forever and/or released half made and then forgotten?

[eye]

For what its worth the latest Unity installers that shipped with the older, friendlier ToS were Unity 2022.2.13 and Unity 2021.3.22.
IANAL, but it seems like many people agree those two versions should stand up in court with minimal headaches if it comes to legal action.

[thomasparker]

I still would like to know how they will track the run time fee. Do I have to worry about unity putting spyware on my computer to tell them about the run time ?