engine gonna live for sooo… soooo many years now; no kidding.
Now THAT is a move I couldn’t predict 
Nice one though.
Now devs HAVE NO ****** PRETEXT NOT TO USE IT ! USE IT !
My twitter feed just went extremely monomaniacal. Apparently, Epic’s move is A Good Thing, and People Are Happy.
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Now devs HAVE NO ****** PRETEXT TO NOT USE IT ! USE IT !
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You’d hope - but somewhere right now there’s a budding, somewhat dim-witted, developer sitting at their desk reading news and still saying to themselves “…but… 5% royalties is waaay too much! When my game makes billions, I’ll have paid millions in royalties!”.
I was totally cool tossing $20 at Epic every month for (and would have paid more), but I won’t complain that it’s free! I just hope doesn’t mean the updates will slow down - they kind of had incentive to update every month to justify the fee, now things might slow down a bit.
Epic, is really a smart move from really experienced smart guys. With such initiative you even secured even more profits. There are so many devs still relectunt and heistating to use UE4, some even stopped their monthly subscriptions for personal reasons and I know some who stopped working on their projects because of that. Even those who who got subscriptions ended, and are still working on their games, they are using some old builds with their games for now and when they wnat to ship their games they have to get a last time subscription and won’t be enough for them to enjoy the latest features brought by the latest updates, well until it becomes free. Well you really facilitated the woek for all, now expect more skilled people to jump on the boat, which means more projects and more games to be released than before which can theorically increase your revenues. Really smart for you 
I really like your new launcher design and I even got Fortnite thanks !
So do we expect you to release the engine on steam just like you released UDk on it?
Will also yout Github repository acces be free for all people too, and all your Partners github repositories which use your branch tooo?
Thansk again !
Edit: it seems only the Fortnite tab and not the ability to play it 
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Edit 2 : Marketplace for UT lol !
Wow… just wow i have no words to express feeling. You guys rock too much, seriously.
Thank you very much!
Btwwww.unrealengine/ still says “Maintenance Mode”
Ps. Didn’t have the time to redeem some codes i had for a free month
EDIT: Strange thing is i’m still able to use the code and get “You will receive: Monthly Unreal Engine Subscription (30 days of subscription time)”
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It should be back online now, it looks okay on my end. There is a lot of extra traffic at the moment, so it may be intermittent.
And just hang onto the codes for the time being, posted earlier they will look into what to do with them soon.
@ weird, must be the extra traffic because no matter how much i f5 it (maybe i’m the one overloading the server XD) it’s still in the orange screen :P.
Ok i’ll wait to see what epic end up doing with the codes. Probably (and as usual) they’ll make something epic 
I was blown away (as well as Unity and CryEngine LOL) by the news…can’t wait to see what is all about. GDC will be where it’s all at