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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by jorvi on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:37AM (#18882071)
> Not so long ago Epic was selling their Engine for hundreds of thousands of USD

? Hasn’t Epic always been quite mod/dev/indie friendly, giving away the Unreal SDK for free, publishing is free for non-commercial projects and as long as you weren’t an AAA dev/publisher you ‘only’ had to pay 5% of your profits once you made over $100.000

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by da_chicken on Friday January 11, 2019 @09:15AM (#18883672)
It's 5% of gross revenue per $3,000 per quarter per game [0]:

> Once you ship your game or application, you pay Epic 5% of gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product per calendar quarter.

[0]: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/faq

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by y4mi on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:13AM (#18882613)
You're talking about unreal engine 4 i believe. The parent is probably talking about the previous engines. They were very expensive
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by jon-wood on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:04AM (#18882899)
Extensive mod support has been present in the Unreal Engine since day one - it wasn't full source access to the engine itself, but people built some really impressive stuff on top of the Unreal games back in the day.
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by jorvi on Saturday January 12, 2019 @11:33AM (#18891892)
Red Orchestra and Killing Floor come to mind, both with eventually have become full-fledged game series!
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by dkersten on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:09AM (#18883275)
UDK was Unreal 3 based. Prior to that, every AAA engine in existance was expensive, it took some time for that to change and Epic with UDK were part of that change. I remember UDK being the first up-to-date (ie not old engines like how id open sourced their old engines) big-name AAA engine that I could download and tinker with for free as a hobbyist.
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by gsich on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:30AM (#18882712)
ue3 had this too.
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