![]() Epic shifted all of their resources to Fortnite. Then basically a year after the pre-alpha of UT, Fortnite blew up and started making millions of dollars a day. It never got very popular, but UT seemed like it had some potential to grow. People ported over all sorts of classic UT maps and there was a small classic instagib CTF community. So a couple people from Epic passionate about Unreal Tournament convinced the business to at least do that. I'm pretty sure the idea behind the community driven development was because Arena shooters had been dead for the past decade and just money pits with no return. Epic had a couple people that worked on it part time, sort of as a side project, but it was supposed to rely heavily on community development. It was meant to be the last version of UT that would be continually updated with development done by both the community and Epic. It was completely FREE, not even "free to play", although it was going to have free and paid community cosmetic items. It was named "Unreal Tournament" but also kown as Unreal Tournament 4. They did 7 years ago but it never made it past pre-alpha. all stuff the real fans would not touch, and banned anybody who did not tow the line did not help. That their last community attempt was run by some of their forum mods who liked stuff like Onsalught, instagib, and TAM. Epic was wise to realize their key franchise was dead and to run as far away as possible and go all in on Gears and let the "fans" make their last Unreal because it was just morons huffing corpse farts. UT2003, Onslaught, and TAM killed Unreal permanently it was never coming back. Introduce the TAM (Team Arena Mode) mode and that was the final nail. Then UT2004 had Onslaught The Noob Mode and further cut the community into slices. In truth it died with Unreal Tournament 2003 which was so polarizing half their fans hated it. ![]() The attempted fix for all this was also to have UT3 on the PS3 as well and when it didn't work Unreal was dead. ![]() He was even parading around in pictures with his mock Gears Chainsaw gun at that time. Also that their real profit stream was engines now. Bad attitudes, pirated too much, and cheated too much. Cliffy B flat out stated that PC gamers sucked. This all happened back in Gears of War era. Click to expand.That is not at all what happened and has nothing to do with it. ![]()
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