Amid Fortnite's Success, New Unreal Tournament Stops Development At Epic Games

This behavior is called "putting all your eggs in one basket"

This is a damn shame but easy to see coming. Fortnite is garbage in my opinion, and UT was always a solid game over the years. Look at Doom making its comeback again with a new awesomely solid game a few years back. It's bullshit to say nobody will play it, I see people playing the alpha all the time and servers are filled. I play it alot and enjoy the shit out of it. Personally it's a much more skill oriented game than fortnite will ever be. New players are popping into games all the time on UT, so they're just focusing on the current greed, but it's like anything they really should be diversifying and using older solid titles to keep that diversity going. Nintendo has used its solid library of games over and over for the last 30 years. Yeah developing brand new random games might not be on the docket and are always taking a chance in making money, but a small dev team working on UT is easily profitable because the name sells itself. This was always a solid FPS right next to Quake, which in itself has a solid new game in Quake Champions so anyone saying nobody will play UT is way off the mark here. It's just piss poor management in these projects. At this point sell off the damn property to a smaller studio and let them push UT back into the limelight. It will catch back on and work. Watching fortnite to me is garbage and it's boring as **** to play along with those other shit Battle Royals like Realm Royale etc... PUBG did it right and these copy cats are garbage. Give me back some solid games like Doom, Quake, and UT over Fortnite any day.

One would think that they're making more than enough money to be able ot afford hiring new people, instead of putting everyone on that game. But if they were planning to make the new UT f2p then chances are that it wouldn't have been much of a success anyway, so I guess profit wise it was a wise choice. Until the Fortnite trend eventually dies down and they'll be left with nothing cause it's all they've focussed on.

This isn't really telling us anything new and I wonder if they will come out to clarify the situation.

Saying that the game "isn't being actively developed" is the situation as we have seen since they moved the UT4 developers across to create the Battle Royale mode - since they had all the FPS experience.

He isn't actually saying that the game has been cancelled. Although, us UT fans are still well aware that they won't come back until people get bored of Fortnite & that may well be a good few years!

Is that game Chair was doing with J.J. Abrams still kicking in development?

Crazy how the popularity of 1 free to play game, some credit due to PUBG as well, is impacting the industry. This year we have seen a number of big titles incorporate some form of a Battle Royale mode. Now we the cancellation of a game, and popular franchise, that's been in development for a couple years now. It's like companies are panicking about how they can compete with the popularity of Fortnite.

The sad thing is we will continue to see this trend long after the Fortnite hype and popularity runs out, which I feel like is already losing steam.

Wow, this game we've heard nothing about for years is cancelled :O

So you mean to tell me Fortnite killed Unreal Tournament.... That's it's time to kill Fortnite.

I hope the Unreal Engine doesn’t become the Fortnite Engine. Ugh.

Such a scumbag money-hungry "developer." At this rate, they will live off Fortnite until people get sick of it and then they will scramble to make some sort of (way less successful) ip to interest people again. This is a dumb move by EPIC Games. Should be Called EPIC "GAME."

But people are too high off the game to realize any of this so weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Well it’s a shame they are abandoning it. Unreal tournament made epic. It was their biggest game. I hope the community keeps this thing going. Looks like I will try out quake champions. Been having an itch for a fast paced arena style multiplayer game.

Sad, they forgot their oldest & most prized asset. Its like a parent abandoning their oldest child

They found the golden cow and they need to milk it as much as they can.

UT pretty much made Epic games, and to see them treat it like that is rather sad. Greed is a powerful thing I guess.

Will someone please put an end to Fortnite already?

The valve-fication of Epic makes me really sad.

Repeating exactly the same steps.. Design good games, then a good engine, then just sell games and rest while your most profitable game does all the work (fortnite/dota/tf)

We already knew this for quite some time as UT didn't have any updates for months. They're just confirming what we knew and making it official.

I just can't get into Fortnite. I've played several times but it just gets so old landing and almost instantly dying. Hopefully Epic is smart enough not to put all their eggs in one basket though. I feel a game like this can die just as fast as it grew...

Such a shame. I still respect them for their game engine, but they no longer make any games that interest me. Kinda like Valve.

What a great developer.