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Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version

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Re: Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version

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I'm sure I'm nitpicking here but this is a huge deal for me: forcing a branded splash screen onto the final product. Ugh! Why?! I understand a ton of work has been put into this engine and Unity is graciously offering it for free, but indie software is an individual's art. When an artist paints a portrait, you don't see a "Powered by Winsor & Newton Acrylic Products" stamped onto the bottom of the canvas. I'm sure I'…

Artists pay for their supplies. And this seems to be a fair deal - if you're not paying them, you should at least give them some publicity.

Re: Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version

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I doubt they just said screw it lets release. This week is GDC so both companies were likely to make large announcements during GDC IT just so happens that epic didn't wait for their keynote, meaning it's more like unreal said "screw it lets just go for free"

They had to. Even their forums exploded with people asking about this. And honestly, I'm very glad they did it. Now I have two game engines to mess around with.

My point was that they had most likely planned on releasing during GDC anyway, (which is this week)
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