Epic Games Store

[Radu]

Nothing to do with Epic, or does it, but Ubisoft will also be supporting Blender:

"Not only will Ubisoft help funding online support for Blender developers, Ubisoft Animation Studio – a department of Ubisoft Film and Television – will also use Blender for their productions and assign developers to contribute to Blender’s open source projects."

https://www.blender.org/press/ubisoft-joins-blender-development-fund/

[Zarsky]

3 hours ago, Radu said:

Nothing to do with Epic, or does it, but Ubisoft will also be supporting Blender:

"Not only will Ubisoft help funding online support for Blender developers, Ubisoft Animation Studio – a department of Ubisoft Film and Television – will also use Blender for their productions and assign developers to contribute to Blender’s open source projects."

https://www.blender.org/press/ubisoft-joins-blender-development-fund/

This is amazing! Didn't want to spam this thread with this, but I'm really excited for the support Blender is getting. There's also rumors of some more announcements at Siggraph in a week.

Should there maybe be a Blender thread here too? I'd imagine there's many mappers here using blender.

[-HP-]

Fuck yeah Blender! I wish I had time to transition now, but I deffo see a future where I fully adopt Blender into my workflow. 

2 hours ago, Zarsky said:

Should there maybe be a Blender thread here too? I'd imagine there's many mappers here using blender.

Deffo make one!

[Pericolos0]

+1 for Blender thread! I've been using it for my professional work for over 2 years now, and it's really made me love modelling again. Of all the modeling packages, its probably the best one for level design too

[WD]

I'd like to learn to love blender. Whenever I try, the polygon tools just doesn't seem to work for me. I'm too used to think how I would do things 3dsMax style. I get frustrated and quit and return to using max

[Zarsky]

15 minutes ago, WD said:

I'd like to learn to love blender. Whenever I try, the polygon tools just doesn't seem to work for me. I'm too used to think how I would do things 3dsMax style. I get frustrated and quit and return to using max

Have you given Blender 2.8 a proper look? They've revamped the UI and added industry standard keymap with left click select + many sweet improvements like PBR-viewport etc.

RC2 just landed and the final release should drop this week if no showstoppers arise.

[Radu]

5 hours ago, Zarsky said:

This is amazing! Didn't want to spam this thread with this, but I'm really excited for the support Blender is getting. There's also rumors of some more announcements at Siggraph in a week.

Should there maybe be a Blender thread here too? I'd imagine there's many mappers here using blender.

 

[Zarsky]

1 minute ago, Radu said:

 

Damn. You beat me to it by a few seconds.

[blackdog]

Valve is hitting back, with a new clause in their contract that would make devs to choose between releasing on Steam, and other storefronts if they want, or be out of steam for good.

 Seems like a smart move, I guess they are counting on the non-sustainability of the Epic model.

 Video has offset to the meat.

 

Edited September 24, 2019 by blackdog

[blackdog]

The cost of free games

https://www.polygon.com/22417954/epic-games-store-free-games-cost-epic-paid-publishers-developers

[FMPONE]

3 hours ago, blackdog said:

The cost of free games

https://www.polygon.com/22417954/epic-games-store-free-games-cost-epic-paid-publishers-developers

Surprised they didn’t pay more for Subnautica. They got a bargain.

Paying $1,000,000 for “Mutant Year Zero”? Wtf

The rest seems reasonable. 

[-HP-]

11mil might sound like a lot of ruppies for you and me, but that's a drop in the bucket for a big corpo. Gotta hand it to Epic, they're playing the long game to win.

[blackdog]

14 hours ago, FMPONE said:

Surprised they didn’t pay more for Subnautica. They got a bargain.

Paying $1,000,000 for “Mutant Year Zero”? Wtf

The rest seems reasonable. 

Think Mutant was one of the first exclusives?

14 hours ago, ┌HP┘ said:

11mil might sound like a lot of ruppies for you and me, but that's a drop in the bucket for a big corpo. Gotta hand it to Epic, they're playing the long game to win.

When I saw that I thought “only?”, I was expecting that costed them much more.
 Anyway gotta spend money to make money. And they have loads thanks to Fortnite… when you make up to $400 mil in a month, you paid for the free games for years ahead!

~

It will be interesting to find out more about their publishing initiative, haven’t heard anything after Remedy signed on.

[Vilham]

On 5/4/2021 at 7:56 PM, ┌HP┘ said:

11mil might sound like a lot of ruppies for you and me, but that's a drop in the bucket for a big corpo. Gotta hand it to Epic, they're playing the long game to win.

Honestly they would "win" more by investing more in the actual software and maybe a little less on the free games. One of the reasons Steam is the go to for consumers, its largely due to features.

Edited May 9, 2021 by Vilham

[will2k]

Windows Store Will Soon Let You Download the Epic Games Store

https://www.ign.com/articles/windows-store-soon-download-epic-games-store