Gamemaker Studio 3 - Pricing + Better Free version
101News have come yesterday on how GameMaker moves forward. By the start of the next month the we will get the last update on GameMaker for everybody that has the old perpetual licence. After that a new runtime is being set and if you want to use it commercially you need a new perpetual licence under the Professional Tier or if you need to have exports for consoles the more expensive Enterprise Tier subscription.
What did change?
The new Free Tier is an upgrade because now you can export to all platforms except consoles. That means you are no longer locked in the GameMaker file format which allows you to create demos or full games and share it in a playable version with everybody. The only restriction is that you cannot use it commercially (sell it or use for commercial purposes).
The indie subscription (and the others ones) is gone and being replaced by a one time license for deskop, mobile and Web exports. This is a good move because the majority prefers to buy a software and keep it. The downside, if there is that the Free Tier does allow the same exports aswell, so if you are not using GameMaker commerically, there is no need to buy it.
For people already having invested in the old subscriptions, you get discounts/a reduction of the set price of the Professional/Enterprise Tier.
So should you get it the Professional Tier?
I would wait and see if it makes sense for you, personally I will stick for now on the last update and see if transition makes sense. In the futuer I will get the Professional license anyway, but not now (maybe on a discount).
I have a subscription running, what happens now?
The old subscriptions as far as I understand will cease to exists/run out and you get a discount of payed money towards the new payed Tiers.
Tldr:
- Free Tier: Has best of all worlds, exports now free!
- Professional Tier: Like the old perpetual licences, buy once keep the licence and sell your games
- Enterprise Tier: Only interesting for developer teams or developers that really need to export their games to consoles
// yes it is satire
Offical blog and release notes:
https://gamemaker.io/en/get
https://help.gamemaker.io/hc/en-us/articles/14954144182941
https://github.com/orgs/YoYoGames/projects/13/views/1
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 The newest GameMaker pricing/tier roadmap
0:31 Tldr
2:12 New and old GameMaker
3:42 New Free Tier
5:25 Professional Tier
6:38 Should you update to the new runtime
7:18 Enterprise Tier
8:12 What happens for current/old subscribers?
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