Adobe taking percentage of "Console Quality" Games created using flash

Adobe is looking to charge developers who use Adobe’s Premium features for Gaming, which means using 3D support with Stage3D and domain memory a percentage fee of 9% on revenue over $50k.

Not sure how well that’s going to sit with developers who are already paying $2k per seat for Adobe products.

WebGL anyone?

Read the ZDNet article for more details.

Note: this post originally incorrectly stated that just using Stage 3D could trigger the “premium features” tier, however it’s actually only usage of both. So, to be clear, you can us a single “premium feature” for gaming without paying a royalty, but if you want to use “premium features” (plural) you’ll need to pay up.


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