UE4 goes free
https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free
Pretty big move. Wonder how much longer before engines like Unity will go the same way its still fairly expensive to get some of the Unity pro extras.
Pretty big move. Wonder how much longer before engines like Unity will go the same way its still fairly expensive to get some of the Unity pro extras.
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Book of Tim Sweeney 3:16
It would make game development only focus on making games!
Fucking A.
Tis extremely generous of them, considering the price of Unity Pro (either upfront or sub), the Unity guys are gonna have to try REAL hard to beat this (if they even can), though I too am wondering about UE5, though i haven't checked out 4.7 yet, as when i installed 4.6, my hardware struggled with it
The 30 dollar refund is a nice touch too.
one might say this is an 'unreal' deal
Oh yeah, I found invitation button.
AWESOME!!!!
Now you guys are ready to join Houdini Engine UE4 Beta in April :poly124:
Also, really nice of them to give a prorated refund.
Epic are such nice guys.
No but puns aside this is Epic!
Guess I know what I'll be using next year!
how do you do this? I still have only 4.4.3 available and 30$ in the account.
edit: oh, it sits in my library.
I just signed in and hit the +Add versions button.
Indeed, while it is great they're offering this for free, it is a big risk, as the engine subs have been a major source of income for them.
Although, this does eliminate the whole "What about modding support for our games?" concern some people (myself included) have been wondering about on the unrealengine forums. Since now, devs won't have to worry about stepping on legal toes implementing moddability in their projects.
Literally in the same boat as you first got UE4 at 4.12 not updated since.
Also is this an attempt to pre-empt the Unity 5 announcement at GDC? They have stated PBR functionality is available for Unity free.
For some reason I came to PC first to find out what was happening. Bold move Epic!
i'm not entirely sure wether i like this news or not..
it feels kinda wrong and distorts the market..
One the other hand I've been testing the latest Unity beta and I've lost all hope for it.
Enlighten is a complete disaster in terms of workflow and the quality in realtime isn't that great.
Thanks for the 30$ though Epic!
Oh well, only 19 dollar.
Did you get your money back? (;
Finally I get my hands on this beast of the game engines. Blender + UE4 = awesome combination of freebies.
in email has been explained ,because you were paid user, you got 30$ marketplace wallet to spend
I imagine the online learning centres are going to see a lot of new traffic. lol
Bravo, Epic, bravo.