Unity Pro - Commercial Steam Release (student question Steam)

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I’m looking to upgrade to Unity Pro, from what I have seen you can purchase a Unity Pro license and get Unity 4, and Unity 5 when it comes out for Pre-Ordering it.

I’m releasing a game with Steam, but I’m 17 / student in the UK, so what would be the best option here?

When reading other forums I have noticed that studica offer a student discount, http://www.studica.com/unity

But I’m not sure if I can buy a student version (commercial one) and sell it on steam? - Or should I pay the full price on the Unity Store just to be safe?

Any responses would be much appreciated,

Cheers!

-Dan

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Pretty sure the student version is only meant for noncommercial use, so if you intend to sell it use Pro.

Given a couple minutes, I imagine Eric will pop in and give the full answer.

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Looks like there’s only one version available now, which is not “non-commercial only” anymore and “non-watermarked”:
http://www.studica.com/eu/de/unity/unity-pro-5-game-development-software-student-commercial/u5-100135-1.html

Back in the days, there was afaik also a “non-commercial only” version, which was only valid for one year, but it seems like they removed it for whatever reasons?!

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Hey, basically yes, you can use that Studica version (http://www.studica.com/uk/en/unity/unity-pro-5-game-development-software-student-commercial/u5-100135-1.html) which is commercial, non-watermarked and release on steam.

This is the full normal Unity 5 just for students, the only issue is that you are only allowed 1 install not 2 like a normal Pro license. Hope that clears things up.

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How do you actually enforce this?

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Every license is attached to a machine which is why when you are reformatting or moving to a new computer you should “return your license” in the editor and re-activate on your new build/machine. Usually you can install Pro on 2 machines, with this license, only one is allowed and will show on our licensing system.

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I bought Unity 4 through studica (when I was a student), and yes, it allows for commercial releases too. Also, when you graduate, your licence does not expire and you’re allowed to release commercial titles as long as your copy is installed on a private PC.

Now, when Unity 5 is coming out this 50% discount is heck of a deal.

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Is their anything stoping me from just returning and re entering the license between multiple computers?

73% is even better :smile:

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There shouldn’t be any problem with that.
I’ve done that once, when i changed from my laptop to my current main PC.

You can also do that if you need to re-install Windows for some reason, and if something goes wrong; e.g. windows breaks or Unity breaks or PC brakes or something else that incapacitates you from returning the license; just e-mail support and they will return the license for you.

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Technically, return the license and re-enter as many times as you want. Do we monitor suspicious behaviour and the history of the license? Possibly.

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But for example, I have it on my windows PC and want to do a IOS build, so I return my license and put it on my Mac which handles those. Is that allowed?

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Yes, that’s absolutely fine.

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Awesome, will look into this then! - Quick question though, could I use this license with Unity 4 in the meantime and return the license and use for Unity 5? or is it strictly for Unity 5?

-Dan

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read what it says on the page…

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I can’t believe I missed that, crazy what you miss in red bold text at 3:00am in the Morning lol, will look into this then. Thanks for assistance.