Remember Paragon? You know, Epic Games’ MOBA game that featured some incredible character models in its teaser trailers, showcasing the visuals that Unreal Engine 4 can achieve? Well, Epic Games will be shutting it down on April 26th as it cannot grow it into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable.
Now this is a bit funny as in February 2017, the company revealed that the game had more than 5.7 registered players. Not only that, but Epic Games claimed back then that Paragon was growing and that there were 44% more players playing each week. So, what exactly happened in just a year?
Here is Epic’s official statement:
“After careful consideration, and many difficult internal debates, we feel there isn’t a clear path for us to grow Paragon into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable.
We didn’t execute well enough to deliver on the promise of Paragon. We have failed you — despite the team’s incredibly hard work — and we’re sorry.”
Epic will be also offering a full refund to every Paragon player for every purchase on any platform. This refund will come directly from Epic rather than your platform provider.
And that is that!
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Fortnite happened. It’s too bad really. I enjoyed my time with it.
Aren’t they completely different types of games?
Yes but the goal is the same, audience = money, doesn’t matter which game it comes from
I remember the 1st paragon build. Man… all the details. I have ton of 4k pics saved for the memories xd
Gonna dropp this here. Good times
https://youtu.be/sG-ePZBNa8o
Did they downgrade the graphics?
lol no… I been playing it since alpha state…
yes they did.
Bit weird that they didn’t attempt to let the community run servers to keep it alive for those who liked it. A decade ago if a game wasn’t doing well enough to make money the devs would stop supporting it and whether it stayed alive was up to the community. It could be like that again. All the locked down stuff in modern MP games prevents community servers as long as the game is generating money. But once you’re done sucking money why not release everything needed to run servers? You can’t lose money on a game you claim won’t make money.
Honestly a bit shocked. Yeah I know it didn’t do well, but to have the plug pulled so soon is still surprising.
Meanwhile Unreal Tourment development is still going slow to a crawl. Sad because the alpha is amazing!
Yes its a lot of fun and quite close to the original!
I agree the development is too slow…they need a bigger team focused on that!
” Para Gone ”
get out.
multiplayer game only without massive sp story is easy to die …
Yeah that’s why Overatch is doing so badly.
Oh.
Wait..
Countering an single example with another single example does not change minds i guess.
UT, Q3A, TF2, PUBG, DOTA, Counterstrike, Rocket League..
That’s better, but maybe the major point is don’t let your assets come to waste when the game folds
Oh theres plenty of people want the MOBA crap, problem is there are already plenty of better established MOBAS. Im glad Paragon failed because im fed up of companies copying other games to try and cash in on their success, instead of making something original. I am disappointed it was Epic this time though.
Thats makes no sense . . . .
I guess PUBG is next to die right ?
Maybe not now. But someday. Unless ofcourse there is lan support.
WoW from 2004 is doing well pc sheeps still play it
AHAHAHHAHA! Glad to see all these f2p cashgrabs going down lately.
Aren’t they completely different types of games?
Yes its a lot of fun and quite close to the original!I agree the development is too slow…they need a bigger team focused on that!
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not getting attention these days?
I just got . From you .
how pathetic your life must be you pirate loser using meme to get attention of your life hahahahah can’t even hold a argument
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The only reason i didnt block you is that its fun you have around . You are like a retarded dog . https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/952b9886f357bb3bb036c670b677176746aeb6d4bf5dc9d6fe62b3a3d44903b6.gif
Funny typo in the article “the game had more than 5.7 registered players”. That .7 guy isn’t all there I guess : ) Yes, I knew he meant 5.7 million.
It’s good that they are refunding gamers though. They don’t have to but it would be a nasty ding on their reputation otherwise. Gamers won’t be getting back their investment in time into the game though but surely everyone knows by now that this type of game is usually temporary. Every Developer wants the next League of Legends game though. That game has been around for over 8 years and has made Riot Games billions and billions of dollars from microtransactions.
It looked DOA from the first time it was showed, epic can suck it they only have 2 old a*s ips one of which is as dead, unreal i mean. As for gears off war, whatever, i never enjoyed it
Usually i’d be sad when i see a game dies and has no hope of being played again, but honestly dont give a crap about these type of games that were clearly only existed chasing a fad to sell micro transactions.
You can help our Petition! Let the Paragonservers run!
https://www.change.org/p/epic-games-keep-paragon-alive
Stop EPIC breaking my heart! :/