> I asked Clickteam to confirm if Fusion 3 will be subscription based as well.
> One of the main developers (Marv) has confirmed that it will not be subscription based like construct3
> https://community.clickteam.com/threads ... post714137
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> They are already talking about what's going on here and bracing their server for the flood of construct2 users <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing">
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> So far the only hope for scirra is that construct 3 will come out a month or two before fusion 3, in that period of time if by some miracle they manage to change people's views on the whole license thing (which seems to be the main issue for most users here) - it might not be as bad
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> It will be interesting to see how things develop. I see that this community has a number of very loyal users and that the company has experience with going against the tide . hats off for that. I will be very impressed if this turns out to be a success! The technology itself is exciting- the editor being pure html5 makes a lot of sense and imo is a brilliant step towards making it run everywhere. I got excited about it running on mobile. But the price and the type of license still does not justify what we get from it, when you pit it against the competition - both game maker and clickteam fusion have a better deal. What else is in that editor that makes scirra so confident? It makes me want to wait and see what will be revealed.
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> I think that this voting thread would be more fair if you still had to pay for major version upgrades. Paying once for a lifetime does not make sense , but paying rent makes even less sense. I would rather vote for something in the middle - pay for major version upgrades that bring new features that are worth it. So pay once for 3, then pay upgrade fee to bump up to 3.5 and so on
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Which is a better product, C2 or Fusion 2.5? Someone is another thread said C2 was better, but failed to explain why. Fusion 3 is looking very promising from what I've read.
C2 is generally regarded as better editor than fusion 2.5, the runtime of fusion 2.5 is generally regarded as better than nw.js, and the android/iOS export is regarded as better, some (but not all) of the top fusion 2.5 games have existed the support of Chowdren to export the games to c++ built run times for maximum performance and comparability with consoles, chowdren is open source and gets updated as the developer works on paid projects for developers. Fusion 3 will have a built in exporter that converts the games to c++ built code so the export will be as good as coding a game in c++.
I've used klik and play since 1994/1995 when it demoed on a magazine and it's still easy to use for me but the new editor will be rewritten for the first one from the ground up and will be buy once, plus additional exporters.