$$$ HL2 Engine License $$$ Thread

Does anyone know anything about how much the HL2 engine license would be. Its probably around $10,000. If so, then damn. But if it was cheaper then let me know.

HL2 $750,000

UT2k3 = $500,000

Lithtech = $250,000

Q3A = $150,000

Quake1 = $10,000

Valve is pulling all the bad tricks really.

HL engine licesne? wtf would that give you

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eh? what.. is that if you want to buy it.. and make a game to sell with it ?

A much cheaper one, with all the goodies (per pixel light, ragdoll)

AMP2 - $300

...whats amp2 and btw omg engine licenses are damn expensive... btw cheapie where do u get that info?

- Edited By Neo-Reloaded On Tue 19th, Aug 2003 @ 7:09:31pm

What about Doom 3?

what about wolfenstein 3d?

Quake 3

lol azzor, do you really have to pay that money to do a game with other people's engine? i think its better to make your own engine then

Q3 is actually $250,000

Q2 is also $10,000

I thought Quake 1 was free now, with the source and everything...

That's the GPL part. The same goes for Quake2. Quake1 can still be licensed for 10grand.

It is free. but the license is for if you want to sell a game based on that engine. But that HL2 price is expensive. I'll change my mined about making my Periculum game stand-alone.

I mean quake 1 is free. Sorry.

UberSoldat wrote: It is free. but the license is for if you want to sell a game based on that engine. But that HL2 price is expensive. I'll change my mined about making my Periculum game stand-alone.

You can use the source for free under GPL and still sell it. The main point of GPL is that you have to keep the code open source, if you plan on distributing/selling it.

The license just lets you keep your code to yourself...

vampire: the masquerade is going to use hl2 source engine

But they paid for the license to sell the game.

I don't think any of us can afford ANY of those licenses.
Why would we want to anyway?

for braggin rights, f3wl

there is other engines for cheap...thribes 2 is cheap

But my mod demands graphics, to have spooky atmosphere and horror. They should have a contest for getting a license. Just like Unreal.

Pfffft. Doubt they would knowing the price of the Half Life 2 engine.

Personally I believe people will wait until HL2 and a couple of patches are out before even considering buying the engine, just to see how good it really is.