GameMaker Studio now has subscriber-only features

Well, you're welcome. ^^

I think Steam is the last place left where you can get a permanent license for GMS 2. With the purchase they also give you some subscription time, mine was around 30 months but I also have the mobile version (every license add to sub time). Interesting that they didn't remove the Steam page yet.

Edit: Also there used to be license keys for them on Steam but now you have to link your Steam account to Yo-Yo account in order to use GMS 2. Once it's on your account you don't need Steam to launch it.

I have a sweet spot for Godot for some time. It's FOSS, latest developments made it pretty decent and I won't need a Windows partition just because of one program.
Though I'm not much of a programmer to make my own engine yet. I'm more like an artist who self-educating on CS. So I wouldn't even consider it crazy at the moment. :P

I was late to the party so I wouldn't know. It was a pretty good thing, a stand-alone license for a good engine. But Opera changed things, like they're Adobe. Now I see on Reddit, a lot GMS2 users considering to switch to Godot.
At least Godot is in the rising, so there are more tutorials everyday.

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GMS had a decent percentage on indie games for the last couple years. With subscription model, I think they will lose it. Subscriber-only features are even worse at this point. They deserve the hate for this.

I guess you had many licenses, mine was only 30 months.

Yes, Godot is awesome. I believe it would be even easier to make the leap with Godot 4 for many GMS users.

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I'm actually be happier when I see someone who uses a FOSS application effectively. Blender, Godot, Krita lately, all of them are good programs and getting better every day. Most of the indie developers use Unity as percentage and as I recall Godot surpasses GMS on latest game releases. And with this subscription model of GMS, I think that will even be higher.

Yeah, I don't think there is anyone who likes subscription model on software. Indeed it's a plague.
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Yeah it's a pretty well piece of software, making easier what I wanted to do. But these news made me worry about all of this stuff. I must finish my game as soon as possible and start to learn about Godot, there is still time but I should do this eventually.

GMS is pretty versatile and you can even make relatively big RPG games with it. But it seems my RPG project will land on Godot instead of GMS. I don't know C# so Unity was not a choice for me. But so many indie developers who make 3D games use Unity, and it's good in FPS too. For example I like Verdun.

Some people use Godot for 3D but I think it's better on 2D area.

I guess don't updating until the project is done the better choice here, at least they let licensed users do that. But I agree, we'll find another. It's just not a good idea on mid-project though.

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