Yes sorry, think I got confused about the store rev share, which I think is 12% now anyhow. :)

a big jump but not unheard of. remember that the biggest store platforms take 30% already; Apple, Google, Sony, Valve, Microft, and Nintendo. In a vacuum it's not unthinkable to suggest that the engine you make your game on and leverage many features for (networking, porting, collaboration, etc) is at least half as valuable as the store you're hosting the game on.

Personally I think it's the store takeaways that are way too high. And in some cases overstep their boundaries in what they allow an app to do or how to sell it. But that's a big tangent.

Yes.

And we are switching to Unreal. The price is not why we were using Unity in the first place. I don't like Blueprints and I don't like C++. Verse looks like it's going to be super weird.

Unity is more versatile, smaller, easier to use. Faster to iterate.

I've worked with both engines for many years, on the Bioshock games in Unreal and Void Bastards in Unity.

But Unity has shown time and time again that they have no respect for us, so we really can't continue to do business with them.

Kingdom Hearts 3, Hellblade, Gears, FF7R, Borderlands, Sea of Thieves, Fallen Order, and countless others all use Unreal, in all likelihood made over a million dollars, and many made sequels using Unreal as well. Its also absolutely necessary to clarify that Unreal's revenue share is 5% over $1M, not 15% (and, weirdly; its 5% over $5M for games distributed on the Oculus Store, believe it or not).