Yeah : Big pro Engine with big features.

But i assume the Indie License will not be any more for Unity 3.0 ?
OR perhaps they will remove some features like "Beast" lightmapping , "Umbra" Culling or Deffered lightening ?
They have now a complete renderer with great lightmaps , at same time with all shaders for a scene : AAA engine features.

I 'm not a team, and can't produce a complete big level of quality with AAA characters, i've got no AAA projet,i target Inidie games not big AAA.
Who can produce games like Bioshock 2 , Bad Company2, or even
Mass Effect 2 ??
So im'not that excited by the news, i'll play with it when it will be out only.
But cool news for Unity 3.0 that don't stop improving a lot each time !

seems it may be happening already, i mean, even a bug i mentioned weeks ago still isnt fixed and the forecast page is damn pathetic, theres NOTHING there, as if they think the engine is complete, a game engine is never truly complete, not with new technologies being released, everything from physics to rendering can and should be changed/optimized

Indie is gone a few weeks ago. The so called Indie became the normal Unity, and turned freeware. There will be a free version for 3.0 too. See this thread:

http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=45787

Personally I think GS is a bit "year 2000". It never saw proper, rapid and dedicated development. It feels and looks like a side project. Since its stuck in a corporate setting, don't get your hopes up about it going open source. I don't think it will die completely, since its a nice intro to game development. But Im sure we will see less and less people using it for bigger projects. The pipeline for every facet of the toolset is severely outdated. It just isn't a serious toolset.

Unity has a free version with which you can make commercial games. Sure it lacks the advanced features, but you still get that amazing pipeline and ease of use. The only thing that will truly save GS is if they make everything up to the commercial license freeware, and start updating everything very quickly.

edit: As for the price, $1500 for unity pro is crazy good, if you look at what you get. Comparatively, GS PRO should cost about $200. Its overpriced.

While i think lite-c is a very good language(lite-c is why i didnot switched), but yes, features and editors are waay to old.

The next engine(A8? which i think they should start working on immediately) they should completely rewrite the rendering engine and the editors from scratch while keeping the lite-c functional. They should stop worrying about backward compatibility, and make a better engine with up-to-date features. Years ago when the unity was not around and when there was no T3D, GS was a good competitor to them. But now the editors are still same with that times, gamestudio is falling way behind them, soon it wont be able to keep up the race. -personal thoughts.

im gonna embrace Unity3 for my next project im affraid...
That would mean the end of 3DGS for me

Im still in love with game studio!

Same here. I don't see myself using GS ever again. I just hope I can sell my A6 pro license...

How is A7 overpriced o.O you get most features of unity pro already with the comm version. The outdated tools just kinda hide it.
While Unity allows you to create games, gamestudio is perfect to learn backgrounds about the technology.

Well, because you get most features of the comm version with the Unity free version too

What hurts a bit is of course the missing realtime shadow in the free edition. But GS Realtime Shadow is also not the best. So i can live with this odd blob shadow. Doesn`t look too bad when it`s combined with lightmapped terrain.

The outdated tools is the problem. Yes, you may learn the background about technology. But it`s an outdated technology in several areas. Dunno if this is really worth learning it then.

GS has waited too long with the jump to the next gen workflow in my opinion. And pays the price now. Given the pace of development and the number of involved people at Unity now, i don`t see GS coming back again. Counts for most other 3D development kits too by the way. They will all loose lots of customers in the nearer future. Even when they release free editions too, like Dark basic Professional. Unity is at its way to the top of the market at the moment.