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Epic Games halts development of Unreal Tournament
Well, it most definitely had a good run. Epic Games halted the development for Unreal Tournament. The latest iteration will be free and available in online game stores, but the developer will not update the game. Unreal Tournament is still in the prealfa phase.
The news comes from Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeney, who mentions this to Variety. The developer would be planning to sell some of his older titles via GOG.com.
“‘Unreal Tournament’ remains available in the store but isn’t actively developed,” he told Variety. “We’ve recently worked with GOG on making classic Epic Games titles available and we’re planning to bring more of them to the store in their original glory.”
“Unreal Tournament” is the ninth installment in a first-person shooter franchise created by Epic Games and Digital Extremes in 1999. This latest installment was announced in 2014 as a sort of opensource development version of the game. But as “Fortnite’s” popularity increased with the release of its free Battle Royale mode, resources were pulled from other parts of the studio to focus on “Fortnite.”
While the game isn’t officially dead, the “Unreal Tournament” hasn’t received an official update since the summer of 2017.
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#5613901 Posted on: 12/05/2018 04:56 PM
Great. Put all your effort to Fortnite and leave in the dust one of the best game franchise of all time.
Unreal RIP 1998-2018.
Great. Put all your effort to Fortnite and leave in the dust one of the best game franchise of all time.
Unreal RIP 1998-2018.
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#5613904 Posted on: 12/05/2018 05:01 PM
Microtransactions are way more profitable, that's why.
Microtransactions are way more profitable, that's why.
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#5613908 Posted on: 12/05/2018 05:08 PM
You can put microtransactions into UT simple enough. The problem was the design of the game. There are like 50 people on the planet that want to play an arena shooter in the style of UT and all 50 of those people are already gods at the game. The new player experience was atrocious and there is nothing you can do to fix all the issues outside of not designing a 90's arenashooter. In which case it's not UT.
I think the best case for saving that series is like combine the action arenashooter UT fast style with their cancelled paragon game somehow. It would be a total mess and nearly impossible to balance but I'd bet it be fun as hell.
Microtransactions are way more profitable, that's why.
You can put microtransactions into UT simple enough. The problem was the design of the game. There are like 50 people on the planet that want to play an arena shooter in the style of UT and all 50 of those people are already gods at the game. The new player experience was atrocious and there is nothing you can do to fix all the issues outside of not designing a 90's arenashooter. In which case it's not UT.
I think the best case for saving that series is like combine the action arenashooter UT fast style with their cancelled paragon game somehow. It would be a total mess and nearly impossible to balance but I'd bet it be fun as hell.
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#5613923 Posted on: 12/05/2018 05:33 PM
50 people, right...
if they made a serious approach it would have been a lot different, but instead they took a easy way and did it in some amateurish steps.
Add to that that shit unreal app/shop and you have a fail receipe, Good riddance. I asked to delete my persona and have no regrets. Not interested in fortnite bs one bit.
Also who in the right mind would want to be a alpha/beta tester for 1-2years.. I personally never, gave up on quake champions as well and it's in a far Far better state.
50 people, right...
if they made a serious approach it would have been a lot different, but instead they took a easy way and did it in some amateurish steps.
Add to that that shit unreal app/shop and you have a fail receipe, Good riddance. I asked to delete my persona and have no regrets. Not interested in fortnite bs one bit.
Also who in the right mind would want to be a alpha/beta tester for 1-2years.. I personally never, gave up on quake champions as well and it's in a far Far better state.
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I feel like it's been halted since June last year.
I don't think it ever would have been successful - game design has moved on since 1999.. unless they were willing to make some major changes, it would just be a niche shooter played by a dozen or so hardcore fans and no one else.