alt Hacker NewsTo those asking about the reference to Nebraska, I'm pretty sure it's a reference to XKCD 2347 "Dependency": https://xkcd.com/2347/
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HPsquared • today at 7:59 AM
I just think of Steve Ballmer's ad for Windows 1.0 (1986)
"Order today! PO box 286 DOS... Except in Nebraska!"
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Yep, and then we always get those regular posts "project XYZ is no longer", yeah people not paying.
Unreal is free to the extent it contributes to bringing even more people into the ecosystem, eventually becoming paying customers, Epic doesn't make it available out of their kindness, rather also taking into account there are other competing alternatives.