Well, it took them too long. I read in Operation Reality Gaming that Crytek CEO, has announced the availability of a Crysis 2 editor and a CryEngine 3 SDK around August. The SDK is free for non-commercial use on PC and includes a lot of interesting stuff (read the details in the original link).
Now that commercial engines are stepping on the free engines' turf, it is time for the later to start rethinking their goals and desing. At least, thats my humble opinion.
I hope Crytek will release the engine under an open source license. Some OS licenses (AGPL,...) seem to provide Crytek exactly what it wants: make the engine free for non-commercial purposes and keep licensing income from commercial projects.
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