Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

Post by worklogin » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:44 PM UTC

walru wrote: post #31

scott_karana wrote: post #3

It appears they've backed off on the royalties, too: originally, it was 5% of gross[1], and now it's 5% of gross after $3000 sales per quarter.[2] 1 https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4 2 https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free

I've always wanted to know how the 5% royalty is enforced. Other, much lesser known, engines have attempted to do something of this sort by acting as an intermediary eg. publisher, planning to pay developers after they were paid by Apple. For obvious reasons that was immediately dismembered by the community. The only way I can figure is they'll ask for an iTunes connect login so they can check on the numbers for them…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:48 PM UTC

cdnsteve wrote: post #98

Update: think you need to register first: https://accounts.unrealengine.com/register/index Is it just me or is the source not public yet? https://github.com/EpicGames - No public repos https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github

Post by rl3 » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:49 PM UTC

curiously wrote: post #94

So my question is this. Can you use UE4 to build large online worlds like those in Rust and The Forest? Or is there a limitation like some people have suggested? What is the specific limitation exactly it hasn't been clear. Can you use UE4 to build cross platform games, on mobile and browser? Does UE4 have something like Crytek's terrain editor? That's my one favorite thing about Cryengine is their environment editor…

Post by cwyers » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:50 PM UTC

worklogin wrote: post #101

walru wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always wanted to know how the 5% royalty is enforced. Other, much lesser known, engines have attempted to do something of this sort by acting as an intermediary eg. publisher, planning to pay developers after they were paid by Apple. For obvious reasons that was immediately dismembered by the community. The only way I can figure is they'll ask for an iTunes connect login so they can check on the numbers for them…

So a state-of-the-art graphics library, a critical component to your new, moderately successful video game, doesn't deserve 5% of the revenue?

Post by SSLy » Mon, Mar 02, 2015, 7:53 PM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #82

johntaitorg wrote: post #2

It's available at no charge, but it's not free.

You make money with it, you give them a fair share. Entry cost is $0. They'll ignore the first $3000 gross because hassling lots of "little people" for under $150 isn't worth the hassle for anyone. Pretty amazing, really. I've been in graphics since just drawing a line on the screen of a $6000 (2015 dollars) computer was a big deal for a beginner; now you can get a seriously robust graphics engine for no cost , devel…