Epic Games Is Making A New Unreal Tournament

[RushPL]

This is amazing news!!

[blackout23]

It's funnny to read the comments on Windows gaming websites. The idea that something is developed in the open seems to confuse the shit out of some people.

[TheLexMachine]

I don't care at all for multi-player FPS but give me a fully working (and updated to work with today's Linux ecosystem) Unreal 1 on Linux - preferably on Steam where I already own the game - without me having to track down a retail copy of a game that is no longer sold and I'll be happy as a puppy with a bully stick.

[d2kx]

Is Epic Games planning to make the game free as a large tech demo for showing off their engine and pay the development by licensing the engine?
Or are there other ways Epic Games gets the needed cash for this project?

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/the-future-of-unreal-tournament-begins-today

We?ll eventually create a marketplace where developers, modders, artists and gamers can give away, buy and sell mods and content. Earnings from the marketplace will be split between the mod/content developer, and Epic. That?s how we plan to pay for the game.

So basicly what Team Fortress 2 is doing.

This is some serious stuff. We hoped for a Linux client, we get a Linux client, code and content on GitHub. I don't even...

[clementl]

Is Epic Games planning to make the game free as a large tech demo for showing off their engine and pay the development by licensing the engine?
Or are there other ways Epic Games gets the needed cash for this project?

It seems so. [strike]They didn't say anything about a bussiness model.[/strike] Just "not free to play" and "will be free".

Worth noting that they see this as a living project: the game will keep evolving, that's why it'll be called just "Unreal Tournament".


Edit: see below.

[plonoma]

Is Epic Games planning to make the game free as a large tech demo for showing off their engine and pay the development by licensing the engine?
Or are there other ways Epic Games gets the needed cash for this project?

[Nuc!eoN]

They actually stated it will not be "Free to Play" but free. Completely free.

Goddamn they have the plan to collaboratively produce a commercial game on github! This is fuucking amazing!!
Why isn't this in the goddamn heading?!?

[_SXX_]

Sounds like a stallmannian game.

Source code license is still proprietary.
So it's more like FreeSpace Source Code Project.

[blackout23]

Not sure if it will be completely open-source. At least a part of it will be on Github.

? All code and content will be available live to UE4 developers on GitHub

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?4474-The-Future-of-Unreal-Tournament

Sounds like a stallmannian game.

[clementl]

I went from meh to woot! So even Richard Stallmann could play this game.

Not sure if it will be completely open-source. At least a part of it will be on Github.