Why Is Unreal Free?

[Scrag85]

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OK, so how many of you may have seen, Unreal Engine 4 is now free (Mainly Because Of The Money Being Made On The Marketplace Now). To a lot this idea seems , but to me it seems like this will turn Epics name into a joke like Unity name is now. The great thing about the $19 a month, and no free plans was that people who were on the forums were serious about game development, and that is the difference between Unity and Unreal. Now that it is free I expect soon to see the forms page having a lot of immature posts like Unity’s. That isn’t the only problem I see although, the other issue is that ever since Unity has become free so many games have been releasing that are either incomplete or stupid, and has made PC gaming a joke and most people always blame Unity for this (although it is not their fault). I just don’t want Epic to fall the same way.

I’m happy that unreal is free but your right, now it’s free it seems like a lot of non serious developers or kids mucking about with games will join up and turn this great community of serious developers into some sort of farce. Maybe epic should make like a paid forum… $5 a month for serious developers. It does seem a lot of people on here chat regularly on Skype anyway and I’m sure they won’t let people who just want to muck about join into their projects.