Well the problem is they have chosen to silently sunset UDK. Its not like UE4 is some radically different initiative – UDK was supposed to be the engine/process that Epic uses to target the indie developer community. UE4 replaces UDK in form, function and intent. I am not asking for a freaking unrealscript converter, but expecting some thought to go into an upgrade path is completely reasonable. Its also not like UDK is suddenly cheaper either, it still demands 20% more in royalties by default.
Was “no upgrade path” decision made a year ago when the UDK updates suddenly stopped coming? 6 months ago? Why the vow of silence? Certainly they knew before today. Could they not have informed the community of this when that decision was reached? Certainly they know NOW and could say something?
I really feel dumped on the side of the road here. I feel like the message here is “You should have gone with Unity, sucker”