With Unity4 incoming, is NGUI worth it?

Questions & Answers
1

Well, as the question above says, is it worth buying NGUI or should I wait for Unity4?
I’m currently learning how to make games in Unity and I use the free version, although I someday wish to get the pro version, but that’s not really important right now.

I watched some videos on the GUI Editor in Unity4 and it seems simple, so does NGUI tho.

The reason I ask for your opinion is because I can’t decide, NGUI seems nice and it means I will be able to start making nice GUIs directly but Unity4 is free.

2

yes, it is most definitively worth it. The new gui system for unity 4.0 is still months (if not a year) away.

3

Unity 4 GUI… not really much different from the Unity3 GUI. Just tweaked a little faster. I cannot see anything any good about it. In some cases it seems to actually be even slower and less flexible than before. Buy NGUI if you need a complex or super fast - or even vaguely efficient - UI system.