There is no monthly subscription charge, but they charge 5% of gross revenue after the first $3000 per product per quarter.
The 5% royalty only applies to money made from the game above a certain threshold ($3,000) every 3 months. So if your UE4 games makes $4,000 in 3 months, then you'll have to pay Epic 5% of $1000 ($4000 - $3000), which is just $50 USD.
So the royalties are practically nothing, the only real cost is actually making the damn game.
i think they might expect a huge wave of people moving from unity to unrealwhich means if they make making a game easy, that means more money for them
Definitely, yeah. Everyone and their cousin is going to hop on this engine, and it's a brilliant win-win situation for everyone, really.
sorry my sarcasm detector is broken
uh... what
