It’s crazy to think that Fortnite is now this behemoth franchise with millions of concurrent players. For those of you who followed its development, it seemed stuck in limbo as a kind of Minecraft-inspired tower defence type thing for many years, before being reinvented and essentially exploding as a Battle Royale-style game. It’s undoubtedly one of the most popular titles on the planet right now.
But the game’s success means that Epic Games’ fellow free-to-play experiment, MOBA Paragon, has fallen upon hard times. And starting on 26th April, the project will be shuttered for good. The good news is that if you spent any money on it you’ll be entitled to a full refund, and you can’t really say fairer than that, can you? Hats off to the company for handling this the right way.
“After careful consideration, and many difficult internal debates, we feel there isn’t a clear path for us to grow Paragon into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable,” it said in a statement. “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, candid.
To get a refund you need to create an Epic Games account through here and link it to your console. Once you’ve done that, you can request a refund through here.
Paragon was famously the closing announcement at one of Sony’s PlayStation Experience press conferences, which came in for some criticism at the time. Of course, we still strongly suspect the platform holder had intended to reveal its partnership with Hideo Kojima at the end of that particular presentation – but you may recall Konami’s lawyers had other plans.
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This is so saddening to hear I actually really liked paragon it will be sad to see it go
It was a really good game that I had a lot of fun jumping into now and then. I love that Epic are giving refunds to everyone who ever spent money on it, even though it had a 2 year lifespan. Class act.
Yeah it was a shame how PSX ended that year, it was obvious that the Kojima partnership was going to be the closer.
It seems that MoBAS are becoming yesterday's news and battle royal games are the new rage.
Sad, really. I mean, this game has to go while games like Umbrella Corps and Hardware Rivals are still up and running? smh.
Anyway, I still wonder if there's a possibility for this game to come back. Maybe as a sequel (but it better be multiplat) or a spiritual succesor.
I played a little of Paragon and just couldn’t get into it. I won’t miss it, but to read these candid and self-critical remarks does make me feel sorry for the developers.
I'm not too familiar with MOBAs, but it probably was an uphill battle against titles like League of Legends and Dota, despite this being on console.
Openly admitting mistakes and offering refunds to everyone, that's very refreshing for this industry. I hope they have better luck with their next project.
Everyone's here showering Epic with pity and praise when in reality they really did fail their players and they don't deserve it. I've played this game for 2 years and they've constantly ignored the playerbase at every turn and taken the game further and further from the original vision to be a more generic moba in order to copy Smite. But they were too slow to capitalise on it so it didn't become popular, and they alienated the fanbase it did have. Screw 'em.
Pretty sad that they've been working on Paragon for this long, only to ditch it because the other game they spent 5 years hyping up bombed at launch, so they had to carbon copy a game mode and add micro transactions. Epic is going to be in trouble when the battle Royale bubble pops; well probably not, they can just stay afloat from U4. Still, sucks that the PVE part of fortnite is also suffering because of this.
@LieutenantFatman I mean, Fortnite has blown up. They're dropping this so they can put more resources into Fortnite.
@get2sammyb Makes sense, would be crazy not to really when a game is that successful.
Its a great game makes me wish Fortnite had been a failure
I am sad about paragon. Been playing it for 2 years.. Totalt game time 81days.. I spend over 500 euros on the game... I am really glad for the refund. But it's really sad that their closing the game. Guess I have to get a pc and play on the Asian server.. Riip BTW Grim. Exe the best hero of all time
@AnimeGamerFan Why would I lighten up? I invested a large amount of time in a game I loved and now it's dead because they'd rather follow the money than fix their mistakes, naturally I'm bitter.
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