To be honest, I was very worried exactly about this when I saw that it became free. I’d really prefer the subscription method but still, I haven’t seen any abuse of the engine excluding this piece of **** ACCIDENTAL RUNNER - Complete Shit - YouTube
It’s unbelievable that they made this garbage via the runner tutorial and somehow got it on sale on Steam. Yes there’s no legal thing about using assets in commercial projects but this one went too far I think. And that is the exact thing that you feared of right? Right now unity is still the champion in the beginner people but I really, really hope that Unreal won’t become the very thing you fear of. For me Unreal is not just a game engine. It’s a culture. A culture that began when we saw that beautiful waterfall near the Vortex Rikers in Unreal 1 and to this day. My hopes that good quality indy developers will use Unreal for good and interesting projects. Right now there are lots of beautiful projects that is in development and I think we’ll see what will become of the Unreal Engine as community in the coming year. But I have positive hopes.