Totally confused by 1.4 licensing

[Virgil]

I have previously paid for a license for V 1.39. Does this cover the 1.4 version or not. There were no pop-ups to enter a license key when I ran it for the first time so I am assuming that it is licensed.(Yes/No?)
I will probably never do any commercial game production, I just enjoy making the games for fun.
So will it keep working without any future pop-ups to re-license or is it time limited?
Also is the splash screen on the exe files an indication that it is not licensed?
Can someone clear this up for me please?

[krenisis]

The 1.3.9 is totally different then 1.40 . Once you paid for 1.39 then you can release games in all the formats it supports free or commercial.
Now the 1.40 is way different if you release a commercial game. You have to pay $1499 plus $99 dollars plus $300 dollars to release an iphone game commercially. Basically in 1.4.0 you have to spend $2000 dollars to make a commercial game.

[Virgil]

Thanks for the reply. So I can use 1.4 freely for personal non-commercial use and the 1.39 as previously licensed for selling games. I hope I've got that right. Looks like I need to re-install 1.39 if I want to sell any games. Unlikely but a possibility.
Thanks for clearing that one up.

[PieOnGravyEquilDeath]

Wow, I probaly won't be selling games any time soon then.

[CANTSTOP]

Sure you can, just grab your ankles and they will let you sell.

[akr]

Thats wrong. You have to pay $99 for ge, $50 for the SDL license on iphone for the game. Its $149 total. Furthermore u cant compare to 1.3.9 in iphone case. 1.3.9 has no apple support.

The development effort was just huge. So if u look at the dollars I showed u its peanuts compared. If u like GE support us and buy a license.

andreas

[DilloDude]

In reality, $149 a year is not really that much. If you plan on having any success at all selling your game, you'll be able to cover it.
And that's only for iphone games - otherwise, it's just $99 for GE.
If you're not planning on selling games, you can just use the open source lisence, which is free (although if you want to buy a license anyway to support the developers I'm sure they'd appreciate it).

[Orlando911]

could please let me know,
how can I buy SDL , and use it when I finish my app by EG ??
I am using windows ,

thank you

[akr]

See here:

http://www.galaxygameworks.com/

[Orlando911]

I will see thank you ,

I wish to understand it very well,

thank you ,

[schnellboot]

but can I make non-commercial games without buying SDL?