I agree totally but respect conitecs decision every company has to face their individual situation unity had their motivation to makes this step as like as conitec (and atari?) had their motivation for making lite-c free. I remember in 2001 or 2002 I only saw what other made with 3dgs,there was none free edition and I had to wait as long as I didn't had the money for my a5 standard(gold edition package of sybex btw) but then I worked and played around for so many years (later with a6 extra) with it. so we can be lucky that there is a powerfull lite-c free and yes the lite-c free is really powerful u can nearly do what you want, use external things like directx and opengl, win api etc.