Sorry to say, but I'm not going to subscribe to C3. If one time payment option comes up, I might buy it. Subscription model doesn't fit my needs when the program doesn't fill my commercial needs. If Construct 3 could make native apps the price would be more acceptable.
It would still be able to make apps via NW.js as far as I understand.
Not native though I guess.
To me the question is again...is it fast enough for your game?
I mean if it runs everywhere...the player won't know it runs "in a browser" right?
If Scirra can show that html5/Webgl2.0 is fast enough running.EXE / Mac Apps then I don't think it will be an issue. Most see the whole html5 /Chrome browser the issue for non performance though.
I'm still debating it. Playing with C3 I'm over the...it's not a desktop application. What grates me though is if I stop paying I lose access to my content. That to me is a the main issue. If Scirra can find a way around this I'll be more inclined to pay the $99 a year. The affordability is not my main issue.
The technology or performance is something you decide on any case on various engines. I can lose a bit there if ease of use and power is better than the competition as long as I can still run at least 30fps.
I'm waiting to see where they go with C3 after beta...
I'm playing with Unity and have a few demo games. It works well with Playmaker/Blocks/ Gameflow so the option is there but it's definitely not as fast to throw stuff together.
I do feel Fusion 3 is without a doubt a direct competitor to Construct 3 and launching in this year stil with what the community seems to think every main issue with events and so on got fixedl. I'm keeping that option open. I got the $15 Humble bundle deal for Fusion 2.5 but have not really looked at that yet mainly because of lack of native Mac support. Fusion 3 will have that though.
Construct has that now and the Beta works well. I'm also not minding the in browser anymore either for the most part it works well enough.
So for me it's still 50/50 if I go with C3 or Fusion 3. Currently I'm really hoping Scirra can have the exporters for.exe/mac executable, iOS and android available for us somehow easily.
My main platform I want to try release on is Steam. All others are secondary to me. If C3 doesn't cater for that I'll have to look elsewhere even though I really like Construct and really hope somehow that Scirra listens or gives us some options here. Again I don't mind the $99 a year so much as I mind that if I stop paying I can't open a previous project etc.