Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
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Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
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Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#2It's available at no charge, but it's not free.
Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#3It 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
Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#4Smart. Their previous revenue model was contradictory. Now it makes sense, they want to remove all barriers for building your game on UE4, and focus on making money if you are successful.
Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#5It's available at no charge, but it's not free.
It is free as in beer, which is the natural definition of "free" for most people.
Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#6It's available at no charge, but it's not free.
Yeah; the initial title said "is now Free", suggesting by lack of capitalization of "now" and capitalization of "Free" that it was being open-sourced. I'm glad that the edited title uses lowercase for that word.
Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#7The Unreal Engine is free neither as beer, or freedom.
Its free as in a mob protection money is given freely, with a lot of strings attached.
Overall a very smart strategy. Free Software Walled Gardens I highly believe will start to become a common thing in the software industry. As you get most the benefits of Free Software, without the normally feared industry risks.
Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#8It's available at no charge, but it's not free.
I don't see the reason for downvotes. The parent's sentiment is pointed, but has merit. It's initially doesn't cost anything, but if you want to charge for a game, it costs you. You also don't get many freedoms along with it, you gain no rights on the code and are bound to whatever Epic comes up with later.
Re: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
#9How does it fare against Unity?
My understanding, from previous versions, is that Unity offered a lot more tooling than Unreal. Also, Unreal's SDK demanded a lot of C++ code, which can be unappealing for small studios compared to Unity's Mono and several possible (managed) language choices.
However, Unreal appears to be much more capable, and better performing.
Also, is Crytek still competitive? It used to be competitive with Epic's offering, but was Windows-only.
EDIT: Unreal does have a comparison page for Unity developers: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/GettingStarted/From...