(Re. those 2 posts about age related influx, most of us are justifiably disregarding them, as I hope Epic will. However that said, a more visual and dedicated “Learner / Beginners” area on the forum would be beneficial ( or alternatively a "Pro Area for more technical advice))
I may be one of those who benefit more by vision.
I have been trying to decide if I can afford for over a year, (due to injury, any spending of type of would be funds away from my bills, heating food)
So there I was, with time on my hands, but 0 funds, so I just followed along, read the forum and kind of thought that Epic were using the subscription to backdoor the cost (as I believed to really use the Engine constant updates and bug fixes were needed).
Then they made it free to students, that was impressive, but no real help for me, who just wanted the Engine to play around in and as a distraction, didn’t want to start something that I would get frustrated with because I couldn’t afford the bug fix updates.
There was a lot of internal debate and shuffling of funds, I finally decided, because of the great forum, and Epic’s obvious support and community management (despite some of the really inane posts on the forums… =p) that I would buy one months and then cancel and play around with it, with a view to buy another in 12 months.
After a month with a hotwater bottle and a duvet instead of having my heating on, the money was there, and I bought about a week ago.
Really impressed with the content on the Marketplace, but more so with the content on the Learn tab I hope epic keeps putting things in there.
Then email! Epic is declaring war on the game market and making a paradigm shift, which will usher in massive interest and development for Virtual reality and Augmented reality solutions, as well as the more established PC and mobile game markets.
To know I will be able to get future updates, bug fixes and features is incredible,
It makes anything you learn or do with the engine into a bankable life skill that has no future cost, so no worries or indecisions about having to sell lame content, or rush out games.
Using what was for me 6 weeks savings, to buy one months worth of the Engine+Upgrades, was a leap of faith, I expected to use it for a while until needing to upgrade, and then drift away, and maybe look at other things. Now I can fully commit to as my Engine of choice. Getting back that payment is massive to me…
Why am a spouting all the drivel at you?
Just to give a different perspective, and to show that we all come here from different places, with different perspectives, but most of all to
****THANK and all at Epic ****for making such a momentous decision.
I’m sure there will be massive change in the market because of and it will be to Epics benefit.