Ah, yes indeed. I forgot to mention that back then the Quake 3 license usually came with a reasonably pricey fee for developers.

Heck, Unreal's royalty plan is insanely reasonable. Essentially they only ask for a cut if the game does as well as your average AA game, and even then I think the cut was only... 5% or something? Yup, just confirmed, it is 5%, but only after reaching a really number in profit from sales.