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Re:Adobe's 9% Flash tax by rdw on Friday March 30, 2012 @04:36PM (#3777987)
Adobe has released a FAQ: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/premium-fea...

Unity's export to Flash does currently require both 3D and memory-optimization technologies. Any Unity-Flash game that has a chance of netting $50k falls under the requirement, from what I currently understand. This basically covers any non-hobbyists. Unity could solve this problem by making their Flash exporter not use "domain memory", but that might be technically infeasible.

One interesting question is, if my company makes 5 games, each of which makes $49k, is that legit? Could I get away with taking down any game right before it nets the magic number and putting up a "new" game which is only slightly different? I'm guessing the answer is "no", but edge cases sound like a nightmare.

Re:Adobe's 9% Flash tax by rprasad on Friday March 30, 2012 @04:47PM (#3778027)
Thanks. I was going off of what was known yesterday; didn't know about the FAQ or that Unity had confirmed its conversion process used both of the targeted techniques.