The issue is now and will always be about money. Conitec is a business and they are in it to generate a profit. Therefore, like any other business they have a budget and this is based on projections tied to product sales. Certainly there is a figure set aside for development of the engine and this would be mostly in the form of paying salaries for programmers to program tools and features for the engine. There is no money comming in if you are creating a product, only when you sell it do you generate an income. So by simply thinking about it everyone can see that Conitec obviously knows what they are doing because they have been around for a very long time. Have they produced a good working product? Yes. Does it compete with Unreal 3, Hero or Bigworld? No not at this time. If anyone is not please with what they have produced then you have 3 choices. Deal with it. Pay someone or write your own engine, see you in 5 to 7 years. Choose another engine, hope your pockets are deep. It all boils down to this, you get what you pay for and we are all getting a decent game engine for less than $200. Yeah sure pro is more but even then your still comming out on top. GS out.