How to purchase software licences

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Hello! I have been working with UE4 for quite some time now and would like to experiment with some game ideas I have. To do this I will need assets; currently I am extremely interested in landscapes. Looking at how software is sold today, it appears to primarily be in licences where I would need to pay monthly or yearly. Most software licences also have a tier based system such as hobbyist, freelancer, indie, etc… This leads me into my primary question. If I purchase the hobbyist licence of lets say Megascans and three years down the line I make something that I feel is worth selling, would I need to repurchase all the assets with an indie team licence or could I, before release, upgrade to the indie package and use all the assets I previously purchased. Dependent on the answer to the following question, is that how it would work for all software which works on that licence system or would I have to contact each company individually to seek out the answer. If any information is needed for clarification please ask. Thank you all for reading!

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For Megascans their terms for the Hobby License is that any content that you use your points for with that subscription can’t be used commercially. If you decide later on that you want to sell stuff then you need to pay for one of the higher tiers and spend points on the content again that you want to use commercially.

For other software it’s not so straightforward and you just need to have a commercial license at the time of release. Not all software is subscription based either.

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Hello, thanks for the reply, that clears a lot up.