Because this is publicly available on Studica.com, I will share my concern on what to do.
I am 6 months away from graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science for Programming and Game Design. I only very recently started using Unity but plan on developing quite a bit on it over the next 6-12 months. There are some pricing concerns making it hard to pull the trigger on one package over the other, so I was curious what you all thought.
Unity Pro for $750 ($1500 retail of course)
Unity Pro with Android Pro, iOS Pro, Blackberry, and Team License for $1999. (Worth about $6500 retail).
The second option is from an insane Cyber discount that ends on Sunday the 8th. Because I’m new at this, do you all suggest I start just with Pro and pay for the add-ons later when I’m ready, or is this too good of a deal to pass up? I have some ideas for Android games/apps, and plan on developing on Windows and Xbox One. Thanks in advance for anyone’s advice.
Don’t you need to upgrade once you stop being a student? So unless you can make your game in 6 months you will still need to spend loads of money on licenses?
I’m glad you pointed that out. It does not mention it expiring anywhere. It’s a perpetual license so it’s good for a long time, but it simply states you need to be an active student or faculty member to purchase it. Here’s all the print:
The Unity 4 Pro Game Development Visualization - Student/Faculty Commercial Edition is the latest full commercial Pro version, upgradeable, perpetual, non-watermarked license with no restrictions on commercial usage. The Unity 4 Pro - Student/Faculty Commercial can only be purchased by current full-time middle school, high school, college and university students and faculty. The license cannot be resold and is restricted to one license of each module per student or faculty.
Unity 4 Pro is a 3D game development platform that let users focus on creating amazing 3D content and games. It includes the following features and has the following restrictions:
Latest version
Non-Watermarked
Can be used for education and commercial projects (App Monetization)
For purchase and use by any full-time student or full-time faculty on their personal machine
Not for use in a university or business owned computer
Cannot be used in an education lab or corporate environment
Perpetual license
Fully upgradeable
Cannot be resold or transferred
Good for one activation on one computer
The Team license is sold on a per user basis and enables the user to connect to other licensed users to collaborate
Not available for students in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Cambodia, Macau, Philippines, Indonesia, Laos and Vietnam
Wow, thats pretty crazy. I wonder if someone can do like a week long course then buy it during that so save money? If you have the $1999 and are sure you like Unity they for sure buy that its a steal at that price!
I know! It’s so hard because I have no idea how much I’ll be using it yet. The deal ends Sunday but I’m only in the very beginning stage on how to use Unity. I may still start with just the Pro for now. I even if I bought Android and iOS later, the standard 50% discount will end up costing me only $250 than the $2,000 bundle price. I am willing to forfeit the team-license for now. If I ever get the point where I’m doing simultaneous development with partners, I think swinging the extra $500 for the team license won’t be as tough of a pill to swallow.
Thanks for your input. If someone from Unity sees this and would like to confirm, that would be great. If not, I plan on buying one license either way by Sunday.
i know what you said that it could be used commercially, but i would make sure
so talk to unity sales… before getting in trouble…
cause i would think that if you have the unity pro version as a student it means you just have the pro version software to use as a student, but not the license to use the unity pro version commercially
so i would think that once you are no longer a student you can no longer use it and you either have to use unity indie (free) or license unity pro to do any commercial stuff.
and even as a student i would not think you could do commercial stuff with a student license and would need to get a separate license of unity indie or unity pro to do any commercial stuff…
also i started with unity indie. i use the money i save to buy assets. i just dont see any limits right now. if i make a game and if it sells i will be getting unity pro. but for now i have 0 games/sales and i can do all my development with indie and the stuff that the pro does that the indie does not ive found inexpensive / better assets in the asset store, or i am not using them, or i will do them later if i need to… so im happy camper with indie…
Studica do sell commercial licenses to students at a heavy discount. These can only be purchased by registered students (meaning, by students that exist in the database Studica has) but are perpetual. They may only be good for a single activation, since hard up students wouldn’t own two computers.
