aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) So apparently Epic is shutting down Paragon. My guess would be low player base or Fortnite just taking over everything at Epic. It's a shame because I love the characters and art design of this game. I hardly ever played it because I don't like MOBAs. But it'll be gone soon so if you like it play it while it's around. https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/paragon-to-close-on-april-26 Edited January 26, 2018 by aZombieDictator 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaterasuthewolf Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Thanks for the heads up! Never actually played this game, but I'll play it over the weekend. It always looked interesting to me, but I didn't expect them to close down the servers so soon. Now I have an excuse to play it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 Also there's no trophies for it either so it won't mess with your completion rate if you care about that! I might play a few matches just to give the game a nice send off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaterasuthewolf Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I don't care much for my completion rate, but it's good to know I don't have to try to rush to get a platinum. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Amaterasuthewolf said: I don't care much for my completion rate, but it's good to know I don't have to try to rush to get a platinum. I don't give two shits about my completion either but I know lots of people here do so that why I mentioned it I just really hope this shutdown means they'll get more people to work on the Fortnite PVE I've probably dropped like 200 hours in that game and there's still so many bugs and two of the areas are still unfinished, and it doesn't look like the game could release F2P this year in the current state. Edited January 26, 2018 by aZombieDictator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Good thing I didnt drop any real life cash in their lootboxes or costumes. I figure this would come sooner or later, they just cant compete with Overwatch or even Smite. Already had wasted too many hours on Paragon with trophies promised months and months ago, I gaved up long time ago on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 3 minutes ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said: Good thing I didnt drop any real life cash in their lootboxes or costumes. I figure this would come sooner or later, they just cant compete with Overwatch or even Smite. Already had wasted too many hours on Paragon with trophies promised months and months ago, I gaved up long time ago on them. And with how popular Fortnite got that was probably the killing blow to Paragon. I just really hope they push the resources from Paragon into Fortnite PVE. But we'll see what happens when it officially shuts down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) 7 minutes ago, aZombieDictator said: And with how popular Fortnite got that was probably the killing blow to Paragon. I just really hope they push the resources from Paragon into Fortnite PVE. But we'll see what happens when it officially shuts down. The problem is Fortnite isn't even that great. It's just popular atm blown out of proportions. Paragon is a better game than the rest of it's competitor's but people go for the popularity vote. Fortnite is not Fortnite anymore, it has become just a PUBG, same thing H1Z1 became,very low end shallow gaming. I dont know the lure to these crappier games, I truly believe being able to find cheats so easily is driving a lot of these games. Pvp is a lot like real life sports, a long lost art, now a days everyone is looking to cheat some system instead of earning their way. edit: But yes hopefully they can put more effort into Fortnite and we get our damn F2P PVE mode. hurry the fk up EPIC. Edited January 26, 2018 by ERGOPROXY-DECAY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gage Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 12 minutes ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said: I truly believe being able to find cheats so easily is driving a lot of these games. Pvp is a lot like real life sports, a long lost art, now a days everyone is looking to cheat some system instead of earning their way. Yes that's why Fortnite BR is so popular on console, because you can cheat. ? It says in the shutdown post that they directly refunding absolutely everyone who's ever spent money on Paragon if someone chooses to ask for a refund, which is pretty unprecedented as far as I'm aware. Pretty serious about trying to stay on as good a side as possible as thay means they're also eating the system holder fees that Sony/MS would have taken from transactions. I've not played Paragon but from an outside perspective on player base size it seems like the writing had been on the wall for a while with the game and people shouldn't be too surprised they've decided to cut their loses and close the game instead of spending money supporting a tiny player base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highpark_united Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 No surprise they did confirm a few weeks ago that they’re shifting their resources to fortnite and they’ll update us on the future of paragon. It was inevitable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExHaseo Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Not terribly surprising, even when it was released MOBAs were on their way out. Overwatch has already been replacing them as the go-to PvP game. So there's not really any room for anything new anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavergray Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 It's really sad, Paragon was my favorite moba to play and I'm sad to see it go. We will see how well/fast this refund goes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 46 minutes ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said: The problem is Fortnite isn't even that great. It's just popular atm blown out of proportions. Paragon is a better game than the rest of it's competitor's but people go for the popularity vote. Fortnite is not Fortnite anymore, it has become just a PUBG, same thing H1Z1 became,very low end shallow gaming. I dont know the lure to these crappier games, I truly believe being able to find cheats so easily is driving a lot of these games. Pvp is a lot like real life sports, a long lost art, now a days everyone is looking to cheat some system instead of earning their way. edit: But yes hopefully they can put more effort into Fortnite and we get our damn F2P PVE mode. hurry the fk up EPIC. The battle royale side of Fortnite is so bland and boring in my opinion, it's better than PUBG at least but still the battle royale game mode is very shallow and boring so I agree with you there. There's so much more deep, complex, and fun multiplayer games you could be playing over battle royale stuff, but it's the popular thing now. It's just sad the awesome PVE mode is overshadowed by the bland Battle Royale, I dropped a few hundred bucks and nearly 200 hours into Fortnite PVE before battle royale was a thing, then that came out and now people don't even know there's a PVE side. If they push all the Paragon resources towards battle royale that's gonna make the PVE playerbase play even less. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skadoki Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 No one should be surprised by that, no other outcome for the game that's been in early access (with bundles for the price of the whole game) for over a year. I'm really disappointed in Epic - Paragon was one of the games that I actually was excited about...but no, let's focus on the most overrated genre of all times... *STARES AT PUBG FURIOUSLY* 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 5 minutes ago, Skadoki said: but no, let's focus on the most overrated genre of all times.. *STARES AT PUBG FURIOUSLY* I absolutely despise the popularity of PUBG. I play games for story, art, gameplay, all that good stuff but a game like PUBG being so popular and overshadowing so many good games that release is sad. And it doesn't help how poorly optimized and how ugly and bland the game looks. There's nothing truly unique about PUBG, yet it's just so damn popular somehow. The devs for PUBG are a bunch of assholes too, like trying to sue over a game mode when their game is using the engine that the people they are trying to sue created. Little bit off tangent sorry, but rant over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skadoki Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 47 minutes ago, aZombieDictator said: I absolutely despise the popularity of PUBG. I play games for story, art, gameplay, all that good stuff but a game like PUBG being so popular and overshadowing so many good games that release is sad. And it doesn't help how poorly optimized and how ugly and bland the game looks. There's nothing truly unique about PUBG, yet it's just so damn popular somehow. The devs for PUBG are a bunch of assholes too, like trying to sue over a game mode when their game is using the engine that the people they are trying to sue created. Little bit off tangent sorry, but rant over. Amen to that ^ Rather sad how people were bashing games with lootboxes (not ideal but still) and kept giving developers more reasons to create online-only service games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 16 minutes ago, Skadoki said: Amen to that ^ Rather sad how people were bashing games with lootboxes (not ideal but still) and kept giving developers more reasons to create online-only service games. Oh yeah I completely forgot PUBG has a lootbox system too. Fortnite battle royale doesn't even have that, they let you outright buy and earn anything you want which is how microtransactions should be. And the battle pass system gives you back all the currency you spent on it if you play enough. That's one thing I love about Fortnite battle Royale, I wish other companies would take note of their microtransactions system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ac3NiNjA9 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Damn, this sucks. My nephew loves this game- we usually play together on weekends. He's not going to like hearing this but I guess I'll need to find another cross-platform (or couch co-op) game that we'll both enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aZombieDictator Posted January 26, 2018 Author Share Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Ac3NiNjA said: Damn, this sucks. My nephew loves this game- we usually play together on weekends. He's not going to like hearing this but I guess I'll need to find another cross-platform (or couch co-op) game that we'll both enjoy. Try out Dungeon Defenders 2, Brawlhalla, or Orcs Must Die. (I'm not completely sure if those have local co-op, but dungeon defenders should have it at least and they're all free) Some paid games with really good local co-op would be Borderlands (preferably Handsome Collection) or Salt and Sanctuary. I'm not in the big loop of local co-op games but those just come to mind. Also Fortnite is cross play with PC/PS4 (if you see the founders packs on sale you can get two copies for like $30-$40) and I think Rocket League is as well. There's not many cross platform games. Edited January 26, 2018 by aZombieDictator 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavergray Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 On 1/26/2018 at 4:36 PM, soultaker655 said: We will see how well/fast this refund goes. Just to update everyone, yes they are really refunding people. It took about a week for them to confirm my refund and then another two weeks for it to go through. For receipts, I just showed them the emails that Sony sends you when buy something of the psnstore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boringname123 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Quote 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. Wow, rarely see such direct, honest statements these days. Sad to see a once ambitious project crumble so quickly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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