Schwertz: Whole Unreal franchise is delisted already in Steam.

Seraphis: If they're delisted but we own them on GOG, we can continue playing them right?

Seraphis: If they're delisted but we own them on GOG, we can continue playing them right?

Jigsy1: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-is-turning-off-online-services-and-servers-for-some-older-games

Wonder if this means that the games will get delisted from GOG?

natewrench: UT3 looks like its coming back but UT Alpha is going to be unplayable, while Unreal Gold/UT99-03-04 will be playable via community servers p2p masterservers and lan

tyl0413: UT4 has full offline bots and LAN just like older games.

natewrench: but can you play offline without an epic games account though?

EnforcerSentinel: Epic = Gross

While Unreal Gold and Ut99 run on community masterservers so will be unaffected in that aspect, as an Unreal 1 player it's difficult to ignore Epic's disdain for the community over the years in so many instances one after another, this being the biggest middle finger so far. We've been modding, curating, mapping, supporting and playing their debut Unreal (and engine) title that basically helped put them on the map since 1998 with no thanks, appreciation or recognition (and will continue to keep the community an experience we love alive).

Even though i'm not so much of a fan of UT2004, I do hope those guys are able to find some means to keep playing multiplayer through community masterservers (if i recall i think they might have).

If they have any decency or respect, Epic would at the very least make the game's they're delisting free and hosted elsewhere since the publishing costs are obviously too much for a multi-billion dollar company.

TheBigCore: If Epic had any decency or respect, they also would have released the source code for Unreal Gold, UT99, and UT2004 to make those games much easier for the community to support.