Unreal Engine Made Free By Epic Games

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unreal Engine Made Free By Epic Games

The Unreal Engine 4 is now free to everyone along with all future Unreal Engine updates!..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unreal-Engine-Made-Free

[blackout23]

RIP Unity

[Pajn]

100% Free 0% Freedom?

[d2kx]

RIP Unity

This. And I say this having done several university projects with Unity and liking it for the purpose :P

[samdraz]

we still need to build the binary for linux

[Calinou]

A reminder: its license does not respect the Free Software Definition nor the Open Source Definition.

Consider using an engine like Godot, Torque 3D, Tesseract, … instead.

[dungeon]

Microsoft can make Windows 100% free like this

[Ferdinand]

A reminder: its license does not respect the Free Software Definition nor the Open Source Definition.

Consider using an engine like Godot, Torque 3D, Tesseract, ? instead.

Could you name a few good games that use it? Games that go for $20 to $60.

[plonoma]

A very good revenue/pricing model.
No upfront cost barriers for developers.
This means free(gratis, 0$) games could use it for free(gratis, 0$) right?

[GreatEmerald]

A very good revenue/pricing model.
No upfront cost barriers for developers.
This means free(gratis, 0$) games could use it for free(gratis, 0$) right?

Yes.

Now, while this isn't free as in freedom, this is a pretty nice step. It wouldn't be too hard from here to take another step and dual-license the engine, following the Qt model. The only real issue left here is mostly legal, as in the use of third party components and whatnot (and they actually have those put in a special location already, so it might not be too hard to separate them). Because at this point I don't really see what they would lose by a move like that, and yet they'd have something to gain from it.