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… do you have a game doing 1M in revenue?

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.

But for most games Unreal still seems to be significantly more expensive after you actually start making significant money?

Predictability of costs is important.

If I use Unreal, if my game generates 2M$ revenue, I know exactly what I'll need to pay Epic. With Unity's model it's a coin toss. Are lots of people going to reinstall my games ? Am I going to get install bombed ? I have no idea.

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).

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