I’m kinda confused about the statement.
So engine would move to a seat-based licensing, but at the same time no change for game development?
How would it be sold then? You claim that you want to develop games and so you can use engine for free(I guess as long as you don’t sell interactive tools or make movies etc)?
What about smaller non-game development?
What if I want to solo develop tools for small companies, so something like a car configurator would be for an automotive industry but at a much smaller scaler for smaller businesess. Tools that on their own don’t generate money directly like games or movies, but at the same time they are part of a service in a way?
Tim Sweeney mentioned (If I heard that right) “Not unusually expensive nor unusually inexpensive” and mentioned adsk maya.
So a subscription model with something around $200 monthly and maybe around $1800 yearly option?
I 100% expected this would come at some point, covid, inflation and whatnot… I also understand that large companies that do movies and big industries that implement UE in their pipeline can and will likely accept this.