There's no such thing as free

I can publish to android and ios (if I had a mac). Always could publish to them since version 3 when unity made the basic license free.
Care to share where you got your info from because I think your miss informed.

 

Are you addressing me? I'll assume you are since I'm the last poster but being able to publish to a platform != free. Yes, if you have Unity Free you can publish on iOS and Android, but you'll have all the restrictions of the free license. To remove the restrictions you'll have to purchase the appropriate license(s).
Where did I get my info from? It's common knowledge but you can also look at Unity's pricing page.

 

What restrictions? only difference is the splash screen

"Unity 5 Professional customers who earned/received more than $100,000 in revenue/funding in the previous fiscal year must purchase iOS Pro and/or Android Pro deployment add-ons to deploy to these platforms. The iOS and Android Pro add-ons enable deployment without the Personal Edition splash screen.

Unity 5 Professional customers who earned/received less than $100,000 in revenue/funding in the previous fiscal year can deploy with included iOS and Android support with the Personal Edition splash screen."

 

Ah ok. Ya I see your point but with 5 it is all free.
the difference is now severest. And of course if you want a custom splash screen. But from all I have read it is all equal and you can publish without problem.

 

Apparently you missed the big announcement. Unity 5 completely changed the marketing plan. As far as the editor features go there is almost no difference between personal and pro. Just the splash screen and the dark theme.

 

No that's what I'm referring to.

 

Then what are you referring too? I'm genuinely confused. The theme and the splash screen are the only restrictions of the Unity personal editor. There are a bunch of services you miss out on, but nothing that you have to have to publish.

 

That's your biggest mistake.

By far CE3 is better as pricing over all. $9 once and you get everything, no royalty, no restrictions.

 

The documentation is missing a lot if you compare with Unity and UE4, and it's very very tied to FPS games.
It's C++ is not easy to learn , and very long learning process.
Yes the graphics are good , but for indie people not making an FPS games it's outdated, too hard to use, you can't make any game style in some hours, it's just impossible.

Crysis engine would need a big rewrite to make it friendly and make it adaptable to make any game genre in some hour.

The community is too small to have enought help, and the bahviour of Cryteck admins was ignoring indies , so they just get what they worth about indies.

 

I don't understand why automatically if it's C++ is hard to learn. That's only your assumption. There is a lot of documentation for everything, you just need to read it.

CE3 comes with C++/LUA/Python/Flowgraphs, and the new 3.7 will be much much better from what I've heard.

I am not saying is perfect, for some peoples is, for some peoples don't. You see, you chose what you like overall. But with all respect, making games means working .. you can't make games just with drag&drop..

I was talking only on price.

 

C++ is a lower level language then C#. Its built for high performance code, with usability as a secondary consideration. It has no garbage collector, and lets you do pretty much anything you like with memory. Ultimately its requires a greater knowledge of the underlying system to use.

 

We don't ask drag and drop, but a flexible engien where you can put physics in some clicks, code gameplay in some hour and have something running, whatever is the game type.
Crysis is really FPS centric, while Unity let you make any game , it is not tons of stuff underlying, you directly access objects you drop on the scene and code gameplay directly, without inheriting tons of complicated classes unlike Crysis you must learn.

Also it was a serious limitation about sounds , and you had to buy some 700$ license to be able to play sounds without limits.

 

That's just wrong. It's 9.90 USD per month (some Steam discount options available). If you cancel your subscription, CryEngine stops working.

 

The weird thing is that now the Dark Theme cost $1500.

 

Stop ruining every thread with the same thing. Before the whole personal edition you were not happy when free did not include all engine features and posted about it multiple times and now when it does have em you comment in all threads about a theme (at least in 3 past 10min) and try to get them derailed and locked. You already voiced your opinion in the theme threads that got locked and they have passed the info forward.

If you are not happy then move along.

 

This is not a good enterprise strategy.

 

How about you make a project from start to finish Neoku?
That way it will take your mind off little issues and you can get productive with all the other great features that you now have access too.

 

Seriously, you can't use it no more ? What a joke.

 

It is clearly superior to whinging about things over which you have no control.

That said, you can control it, in three ways:
1. pay your $1500, or...
2. move elsewhere, or...
3. get over it and make your product.

Flapping on about an "enterprise strategy" is all hot air unless you're finishing projects to commercialize.

 

That's not true. Steam is only used for updates, nothing more.