Unreal Engine 4, Unity 5 and Source 2 will be for free

[Folie à Deux]

So it's happening.

Source 2

"We will be making Source 2 available for free to content developers. This combined with recent announcements by Epic and Unity will help continue the PCs dominance as the premiere content authoring platform."

https://steamdb.info/blog/source2-announcement/

Unreal Engine 4

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.

https://www.unrealengine.com/what-is-unreal-engine-4

Unity 5

The free version of Unity 5 is now a full-featured version of Unity 5. And there's no need to pay royalties. It's actually, honestly, legitimately free as long as you make revenue of less than $100,000 or have less than that amount in funding.

http://unity3d.com/5

Discuss this very bright future of videogaming, and which engine will you use and why?

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[Steve5451²]

Very excited about Source 2, don't really care about UE or Unity, though hopefully this does lead to higher quality indie games.

[McJob]

Unreal only continues to exceed my expectations and make me feel even happier.

Unity is becoming more and more outdated, and Source...well, I rather the Unreal workflow.

[LeetZero]

"PCs dominance as the premiere content authoring platform."
Annihilated.

[Mr Queeba]

Very excited about Source 2, don't really care about UE or Unity, though hopefully this does lead to higher quality indie games.

[Freek]

very good

[The Resonte!]

neat

[DrHitius]

[mod-man]

unreal is super fun to play with. ive lost interest in actually playing newer games, as my attentions been more driven towards game software/hardware, so unreals amazing visuals really caught me by surprise

ive never really used unity. i attempted to once, but just could not for the life of me get into the unity scene

im excited to hear source 2 will be free though. source has been my most used game engine out of the three, and im excited to know where valve stands with everyone else since they have to be so quiet about everything

[F3d323]

the master race demolishes the competition once again

[Foxscotch]

the master race demolishes the competition once again

actually, both Unreal and Unity are pretty well-known, I think, for their cross-compatibility. both of them can easily be used to make games for PC, consoles, or even phones. not sure about Source, but I imagine it'll be deployable to at least the Xbox One and PS4, so...

nothing has really changed here, except that it's now unbelievably easy to get access to great tools for making games. there's nothing stopping anyone from making these games for non-PC platforms, like it's always been
what the Valve guy said about PC being the "premiere content authoring platform" is pretty meaningless. it always has been, and probably will always be. the alternative would be creating games on a console

[Yes]

This is great.

[King of the Bill]

Unreal 4 or Source 2? That's gonna be a toughie if I ever get around to trying to make anything.

[Ayxrion]

holy stuff i was telling my friend i've been wanting to make a game from Unity before

now that it's free holy loving stuff i'm happy.

[Rainzx¹]

All of the lesser known engines may end up going free as well just to keep up.
I hope we get good indies games out of this instead of this just releasing the flood gates for stuffty games made in 2 minutes.