Adobe will not take royalties from games that brought less than $ 50K
Adobe has released Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2. For Flash Player for the first time, an automatic update appeared in the background à la Chrome (they will offer this option during installation). The new version implements many specific functions for game developers: hardware acceleration up to 60 FPS in 2D and 3D, relative coordinates of the cursor, events on the right and middle mouse buttons, mouse-lock, multi-stream video decoding, etc. Read more about these innovations - on video .
But there is bad news. The license for Flash has changed, so now game developers must pay 9% of revenue to Adobe if they use the
New conditions do not apply to applications developed on AIR. They become effective on August 1, 2012 and also do not apply to all applications written prior to this date. That is, Adobe acts quite humanely and does not want to interfere with those who have already begun development and made plans, based on the free Adobe Flash. Well, all the developers of new games will already be aware of the new licensing policy, and will lay it in their business plan.
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By the way, Flash Player 11.2 will be the latest version of the program for the Linux platform. As previously announced , development for Linux is minimized, as for Android.
Adobe justifies its actions to monetize Flash with very high development costs. This is really a very expensive project, which employs a lot of employees. The new version of Flash provides hardware acceleration for all drivers that have been released since 2008. How can a company invest serious resources in product development, provide it for free - and watch Zynga earn hundreds of millions of dollars from Flash games for Facebook. Of course, Adobe wants to get some profit.
But there is bad news. The license for Flash has changed, so now game developers must pay 9% of revenue to Adobe if they use the
ApplicationDomain.domainMemory and Stage3D.request3DContext for hardware acceleration. Deductions are made only if the particular game exceeded the amount of income of $ 50 thousand, and only from the amount by which the excess was.New conditions do not apply to applications developed on AIR. They become effective on August 1, 2012 and also do not apply to all applications written prior to this date. That is, Adobe acts quite humanely and does not want to interfere with those who have already begun development and made plans, based on the free Adobe Flash. Well, all the developers of new games will already be aware of the new licensing policy, and will lay it in their business plan.
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By the way, Flash Player 11.2 will be the latest version of the program for the Linux platform. As previously announced , development for Linux is minimized, as for Android.
Adobe justifies its actions to monetize Flash with very high development costs. This is really a very expensive project, which employs a lot of employees. The new version of Flash provides hardware acceleration for all drivers that have been released since 2008. How can a company invest serious resources in product development, provide it for free - and watch Zynga earn hundreds of millions of dollars from Flash games for Facebook. Of course, Adobe wants to get some profit.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/141158/
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