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Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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[–] SeventySeven 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wow UT99 is still going. I might have to take a look at that again. It's been years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It looks like the reviews to the archive.org upload are full of harmful links likely containing malware. Not sure about the main file.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thats because Epic didnt make the games, only ever licensed them.

Digital Extreme did the actual work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds like it wouldn't have existed without Epic either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Easy goodwill. Good call.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you Tim Epic