So, with Unity upgrades costing a small fortune and Epic Games releasing Unreal Engine 4 for a monthly fee, Crytek has one-upped them both by "doing an Epic" and announced CRYENGINE for $9.90/9.90EUR a month under-cutting Unreal Engine.
Competition is an amazing thing isn't it, now what engine will developers pick? All are major game engines and all support Linux.
Crytek say their SDK will still be free, but if people want the newer more advanced features they will need to cough up the cash.
Crytek's "Engine-as-a-Service" (EaaS) program starts in May this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MShEe8twY6g
Source Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Competition is an amazing thing isn't it, now what engine will developers pick? All are major game engines and all support Linux.
Crytek say their SDK will still be free, but if people want the newer more advanced features they will need to cough up the cash.
Crytek's "Engine-as-a-Service" (EaaS) program starts in May this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MShEe8twY6g
Source Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
0 Likes
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
The comments on this article are closed.
7 comments
Great :)
Only thing not great is $=€
Only thing not great is $=€
0 Likes
wonder if their tools will be available on linux too. or is it just sdk
0 Likes
Quoting: PlopGreat :)
Only thing not great is $=€
well, that is one fucked up logic on which other countries squeeze more money out of eu. but, stupid case here is that crytec is german developer, who seems to agree that eu econony should suffer more
0 Likes
Quoting: AnonymousQuoting: PlopGreat :)well, that is one fucked up logic on which other countries squeeze more money out of eu. but, stupid case here is that crytec is german developer, who seems to agree that eu econony should suffer more
Only thing not great is $=€
The wording in Crytek's official statement is odd. Since they are EU obviously they used a comma instead of a decimal point. So in USD it *may* be in the $14.00 range, instead of a flat 9.90 rate.
0 Likes
Just a note: VAT should be deductible for companies developping games, so it could be just a financial issue (VAT must be advanced and sometimes it takes time to obtain the refund or to offset that input VAT with output VAT), not a real cost. That's why sometimes professional services' prices are advertised "VAT excluded".
0 Likes
You missed the big price difference: the CryEngine is royalty-free.
0 Likes
10 bucks a month for this engine? Not a fortune.
0 Likes
Patreon
PayPal
See more from me