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Nice response to Unreal Engine price change. Now the hard part is trying to pick which one to learn and use. Competition is a good thing.

by rdudek 12y ago

cwyers 12y ago
The timing is really, really close, but it's hard to believe they were able to roll all of this out in a day -- it's a new version on top of the licensing change. I think it's more likely to be a response to Unreal Engine's earlier price change of $19 a month than a response to yesterday's news.
- rdudek 12y ago
  Yea, but they've been marketing Unity 5 for a long time now. Finally they just said "screw it and release it to public".
  - maccard 12y ago
    I doubt they just said screw it lets release. This week is GDC so both companies were likely to make large announcements during GDC IT just so happens that epic didn't wait for their keynote, meaning it's more like unreal said "screw it lets just go for free"
    - rdudek 12y ago
      They had to. Even their forums exploded with people asking about this. And honestly, I'm very glad they did it. Now I have two game engines to mess around with.
      - maccard 12y ago
        My point was that they had most likely planned on releasing during GDC anyway, (which is this week)
zanny 12y ago
When in doubt, UE4 is going to be open source and Unity is not. In my book until Unity opens up their code there is no competition for anything more than a hobbyist toy that needs to get at the engine guts without a new car or more to see it.
- jeznav 12y ago
  Although Unity is not 100% publicly open-source without requesting for their source code license, they have released a bunch of their source code to the public. http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/26/4-6-is-released-with-source-for-ui-system/ http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/26/4-6-is-released-with-sou... https://github.com/Unity-Technologies https://github.com/Unity-Technologies https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/ https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/ Asset/Cache Server: http://unity3d.com/unity/collaboration/ http://unity3d.com/unity/collaboration/ Built-in Shaders: http://unity3d.com/download_unity/builtin_shaders.zip http://unity3d.com/download_unity/builtin_shaders.zip

Nice response to Unreal Engine price change. Now the hard part is trying to pick which one to learn and use. Competition is a good thing.

by rdudek 12y ago

Nice response to Unreal Engine price change. Now the hard part is trying to pick which one to learn and use. Competition is a good thing.

cwyers 12y ago

The timing is really, really close, but it's hard to believe they were able to roll all of this out in a day -- it's a new version on top of the licensing change. I think it's more likely to be a response to Unreal Engine's earlier price change of $19 a month than a response to yesterday's news.

rdudek 12y ago
Yea, but they've been marketing Unity 5 for a long time now. Finally they just said "screw it and release it to public".
- maccard 12y ago
  I doubt they just said screw it lets release. This week is GDC so both companies were likely to make large announcements during GDC IT just so happens that epic didn't wait for their keynote, meaning it's more like unreal said "screw it lets just go for free"
  - rdudek 12y ago
    They had to. Even their forums exploded with people asking about this. And honestly, I'm very glad they did it. Now I have two game engines to mess around with.
    - maccard 12y ago
      My point was that they had most likely planned on releasing during GDC anyway, (which is this week)

zanny 12y ago

When in doubt, UE4 is going to be open source and Unity is not. In my book until Unity opens up their code there is no competition for anything more than a hobbyist toy that needs to get at the engine guts without a new car or more to see it.

jeznav 12y ago
Although Unity is not 100% publicly open-source without requesting for their source code license, they have released a bunch of their source code to the public. http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/26/4-6-is-released-with-source-for-ui-system/ http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/26/4-6-is-released-with-sou... https://github.com/Unity-Technologies https://github.com/Unity-Technologies https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/ https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/ Asset/Cache Server: http://unity3d.com/unity/collaboration/ http://unity3d.com/unity/collaboration/ Built-in Shaders: http://unity3d.com/download_unity/builtin_shaders.zip http://unity3d.com/download_unity/builtin_shaders.zip