Thats because Epic didnt make the games, only ever licensed them.
Digital Extreme did the actual work.
I’m not sure what your claim is based on. Epic members including Tim Sweeney and Cliff Bleszinski are among those credited for programming and designing them.
Also, if you’re the copyright holder, no amount of contract work would take away from that, so you’d still have every right to not allow your IP to be used.
They may have done engine work. But the actual unreal tournament games were built by Digital Extremes. It is why they have periodically released the UT weapon skins in Warframe.
There’s no denying that they played a part, but I just don’t see the evidence for saying that it’s their game or that Epic doesn’t deserve the credit.
On the wiki page for Unreal Tournament they’re listed as co-creators. In various live streams they’ve talked about how they created the weapons, maps, map modes and vehicle systems for the games.
The series would not have existed without them.
This is great news! I had to use Internet Archive to download Unreal Tournament 1999 as i lost the disk ages ago and still play online to this day. Epic shut down the UT99 master server browser a year ago, but everyone is playing it using the community patches anyways.
Links for those who wanna play UT99:
https://archive.org/details/unreal-tournament-complete
https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases/tag/v469d
It looks like the reviews to the archive.org upload are full of harmful links likely containing malware. Not sure about the main file.
Wow UT99 is still going. I might have to take a look at that again. It’s been years.
Easy goodwill. Good call.
