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A comment on Adobe's 9% Flash tax. Parent comment

Re:Adobe's 9% Flash tax by benologist on Friday March 30, 2012 @03:43PM (#3777742)
You can of course make a Unity game and publish for the Unity web player. There's plenty of precedent for it these days.

You might want to export to Flash if you're going the licensing/sponsorship route ala Armor Games, Kongregate etc but there's not a ton of demand for the 3d stuff anyway.

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Re:Adobe's 9% Flash tax by azakai on Friday March 30, 2012 @04:19PM (#3777915)
The Unity plugin is installed in far, far fewer places than Flash. That's why so many Unity devs have been asking for Flash export from Unity.

This 9% cost will affect all those developers. They are not a small group - Unity would not have put the effort it did into supporting a new (and very different) platform, Flash, if it wasn't for a large group.

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