It's too bad, too.

I just decided to pop in and see what was going on. I used to be around a lot years ago, can't even remember the old name I used to use. Actually, I think I had two previous names.

This is the engine that opened up the possibilities for game development for me. I remember when the community was vibrant. I remember when Gamestudio made me excited. Years ago it was revolutionary. Now, it seems, to has been left behind.

It really is too bad.

I feel like i am visiting a relative (Gamestudio) at the hospital (opserver.de) every day waiting for them to die.

not dead, it is rather undead!

in my case it is becoming very frustrating to develop a long term project I'm working on, while UE4 is whispering in my ears "come with me"...

RIP in piece.

So how did we get to this point?

Where is the forecast page?

over there http://manual.3dgamestudio.net/forecast.htm

@Stratego:
probably they missed investing more into the engine development when it was popular enough and could allow it, or attract investors to make the company bigger, and later they could not do it when less income came from 3dgs, thus had to work on other projects.
especially when unity3d appeared. I personally selected 3dgs over unity3d when A7 was around A7.81 because it was and is still better for my purposes, and A7 commercial seemed to be more achievable that unity3d pro as a hobbyist.
the new WED (announced 3 years ago) could be a great escape, but it was stopped one and a half year ago, similarly to Android support.
and today you have many more attracting choices if a game engine is needed.

Its only dead if you don't use it...I still think Gamestudio is the most stable, flexible and easy-to-use engine out there, and not expensive either.

I do think though it would be nice if they made the Pro-only features available to lower version owners at some point.

...but the bugs, lack of features, missing updates and dead community make it as unattractive as fuck.

Also I don't really think Acknex is very flexible but that might just be my point of view.

Anyway, it still is a good engine and fun to work with, but it could be a lot better.

btw. we had this would-could conversation a hundred times by now... It's senseless, it doesn't tell them anything they don't know. If it does anything, it motivates jcl&friends to stop development and let 3dgs die.