Unreal Engine 4 Release Date Question

Tekoa

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Man, I almost had a heart attack when I saw the title because I thought it's out. You could add question mark at the end

Tekoa

Ha! My bad, I will do that now!

Froyok

There is no date or period about the release of the UE4 announced officially. And as far I know there is also no "unofficial" date either on Teh Internet.

Xendance

I'd say it's pretty close to being release ready, considering Epic has been giving the SDK to some folks on the internet already, Hourences for example http://www.hourences.com/
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/977368-Unreal-Engine-4-Video-Collection

passerby

ya a lot of people already are in the alpha of it, even after that is done I think it will be a long time till it gets the udk treatment.

Xendance

passerby wrote: »

ya a lot of people already are in the alpha of it, even after that is done I think it will be a long time till it gets the udk treatment.

Yea, the "udk treatment" is another story of course.

passerby

ya can't say much for obvious reasons but it does feel pretty mature in its current state.

illo

I concur its pretty solid, but they do have quite a few things still in development. I wouldn't really expect a release date terribly soon.
Although I suspect it will get UDK treatment right out of the gate.

iniside

I can only tell, that it will be released when it will be ready. And you have to believe me, that while awesome and solid now, it's not ready yet.

Mark the rest as my personal speculation. But there won't be any delays between ready and public version. When it will be in state to be available for public, it will be. The days since UDK have changed, and there are more competition in free/indie/try as you will engine space.
You loose nothing by releasing engine for free non-commercial use and can gain potential new people, who didn't know about it, or who just wanted to download the thing and check if it will work for their project.

If I had a choice between contacting license department to get trial, and going to cryengine page and downloading cryengine for free, you might guess which option I will check first (;.

weee

if you see the public beta coming out toward the end of next year, I'd call it fast

r4ptur3

weee wrote: »

if you see the public beta coming out toward the end of next year, I'd call it fast

i agree -- UE3 wasn't released until well after the first round of games came out.