Paragon’s servers will shut down on 26 April, and players can claim refunds through their Epic Games accounts. We have failed you - despite the team’s incredibly hard work - and we’re sorry.” We didn’t execute well enough to deliver on the promise of Paragon. “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 received many passionate ideas for where to take the game the outpouring of thoughtful suggestions is another testament to this incredible community,” the developer writes in an update on the game’s blog. “We truly appreciate everything you’ve put into Paragon. After a week of waiting for an update from Epic, today they have confirmed they will shut down. The game’s imminent termination was inevitable. Epic confirms Paragon is shutting down in April We have failed you. Less than two weeks back, community coordinator Edgar Diaz explained on Reddit that ongoing work on the game was already kind of an awkward mess, with “a number of Paragon’s team members” moved over to Fortnite instead, and player counts dropping. Until Fortnite, the studio’s other next big thing, which despite its own somewhat insipid early access launch in July 2017, blew up from 500,000 players to over 10 million with the subsequent addition of a free-to-play Battle Royale mode. Paragon’s Next Character Is An Angel With A Heart Of Darkness. Paragon’s Game Changing Update The New Dawn Is Out Now.
Bluehole is, of course, working towards releasing the full game, but at the moment PUBG has no release date.Īre you sorry to see Paragon closing down? What would you have done to keep the game alive? Do you think Epic Games made the right decision? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.Almost exactly two years since it launched in early access for PC and PS4, Paragon has been cancelled, with Epic Games admitting that it didn’t “execute well enough to deliver on the promise” of the game.Ī megamix of MOBA and Overwatch, Paragon was supposed to be the next big thing for the Gears of War studio. Paragon, the free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game that launched on PC and PlayStation 4 in 2016, is shutting down on April 26.Epic Games announced in a blog post that there. Epic Games Are Shutting Down Paragon On 26th April. I made use of all the paragon cinematics and the voice lines that epic rel. In addition, Fortnite Battle Royale managed to beat PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to the console and gained a ton of players as a result.Īt the moment, PUBG is still in Early Access and Game Preview on PC and the Xbox One. See, I was kinda wrong about the full launch thing, so I made a shut down trailer. The game has over a million players due to clever team-based gameplay and Battle Royale mode that allows 100v100 death battles. As the servers get shut down on Paragon, Evolve, and more, players pay their respects to the games that are no longer with us Comments Death is a natural part of life, so said the great British. That said, Fortnite is likely making up for the loss. If you are on PC, head to Paragon’s support center and fill in the required information. If you are playing on a console, just link up your Epic Games account and go from there. Though Paragon was free-to-play, there were still plenty of microtransactions and loot boxes players could buy.ĭue to the shutdown, Epic Games is offering refunds to any players who want it. It came on the tail of Overwatch’s success and like so many games at the time, was unfairly compared to Blizzard’s huge success. It seems that Epic Games did not want to put more effort into Paragon than was perhaps worth it in light of Fortnite’s success.įor those that may not know, Paragon came long before Fortnite as a moderately successful MOBA. Unfortunately, that also means that a great deal of the player base moved on to Fortnite as well, leaving Paragon in the dust. It seems those intentions were dashed, as Fortnite has absorbed many team members from Paragon “to help sustain the game as it has grown far larger than anything in Epic’s past.”
Last week the developers mentioned on Reddit that they would be looking into how to get Paragon to evolve and grow. Epic Games has come to the sad conclusion that they will be closing down Paragon once and for all.