the ubuntu yyc is not what i care about at all and shouldnt effect the price in all justifocation, but if you ask me it is very justified they still raise tge price and just as much as the other yyc platforms
In my opinion they should not raise the price just on behalf of YYC. The YYC is far from fully optimised, and compiled executables is something they should have done ages ago.
work even on soft&hardware that hasnt been released yet. I mean, think about it, i can still run and make games in ancient GameMaker 4.3 on Windows 8 and zero issues. im very happy with my purchase and ill be covered with most my platforms a lot longer than i initially feared about
What about Windows 10 ? Have you tried running
your 4.3 games in it ?
the 2.x release which i probably wont be able to or care to afford for reasons given,
The price of GMS Pro is a bargain - in fact I paid a good price for it and it included HTMl5 module.
Perhaps when GMS2 will be released it will be initially on special. I'm sure GMS2 Pro will still
be a bargain. Of course GMS2 Master collection that is another issue. Whether you will be able
to transfer your GMS Master module licences over to GMS 2 for a discount is unknown but I'm sure they won't let GMS MC users down, that would be very bad
what i have is good enough and will be for a long time. If the windows port stops working in a future windows os release, that doesnt make or break my other exports, theyll have their own
What about 64bit only Windows. I think eventually Windows will be native 64bit,
no more support for 32bit, so that will be an issue
for ENIGMA and GMS. I think YYG/Playtec is already prepared and they will inevitably release a 64bit version of their software.
I persobally really like what yyg is doing. Their making a lot of good changes.
In all fairness, I think there are positive changes being done to GMS, of course some areas need improvements. As to ENIGMA, well sadly, ENIGMA will never be able to keep up with the improvements of GMS......as the crippling factor is the lack of developers. So ENIGMA will still remain as a *FREE* alternative to those who cannot afford GMS, but at the cost of less stability, compatibility and working around bugs.
There again now with the market place and extensions, GMS looks even more attractive, because now you can do most of the stuff you could NOT do with GMS before.
The crippling factor for ENIGMA is its compiler/parser and its IDE lack of developers and lack of time.......and now with free engines, and free versions of GMS and frequent sales, etc, I wonder really if ENIGMA really is attractive and has a market. I still think despite the shortcomings, ENIGMA is better in many ways, only because I like tweaking and doing custom stuff that I cannot do with GMS.......however stability wise GMS wins hands down.....
ENIGMA is attractive to windows developers.
GMS is attractive to mobile / console developers.
ENIGMA's executable is much smaller and better
optimised.
GMS could still use far more optimisations in their final compile.
However, I'm sure people would trade all this for stability, which GMS excels at, by its IDE, unlike
LGM which crashes all the bloody time.