Unreal Engine 4 is now free
Game engine can be used for free by anyone, but Epic Games still expects royalty
Epic Games has announced that Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free, and all future updates will be free.
Anyone can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. However, when shipping a game or application, developers pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter.
Epic’s founder and CEO Tim Sweeney elaborated: "In early 2014, we took the step of making Unreal Engine 4 available to everyone by subscription for $19 per month. Our community has grown massively. When we asked people to submit their projects to be shown this year at GDC, we had the challenge of picking just eight from over 100 finalists that were all good enough to show. The state of Unreal is strong, and we’ve realized that as we take away barriers, more people are able to fulfill their creative visions and shape the future of the medium we love. That’s why we’re taking away the last barrier to entry, and going free."
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