cogadh: How are you disagreeing when what you said basically reinforces my point? Unreal is
everywhere; Epic has licensed it to almost every major dev house at some point and it is used to power some of the biggest games out there. Epic must be making a fortune off of it at this point, even if past licensing terms weren't necessarily the same as we see here.
anjohl: Read my post again. UNLESS the licensing agreement for UIII engine vs U engine is DRASTICALLY more restrictive, there's no "greed" to speak of. You are making out that they are going overboard with the UTIII licensing agreement, but unless it's significantly more restrictive then past U-engine deals, what's the issue?
You need to re-read what I originally wrote, I asked the question "Is this the standard" for licensing agreements and stated that if it is, it certainly explains a lot about the huge costs involved with making a commercial game and therefore some part of the high price for games. I'm not saying that they are going overboard at all (I don't know if they are, hence the initial question), just that there is obviously some greed associated with it. At the same time, the fact that can get away with that greed without complaint says a lot about the value those in the know (i.e. the developers) assign to the Unreal brand.