Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games
The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.
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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.
Sounds like it wouldn't have existed without Epic either.