Next Gen Unreal Tournament - PC Exclusive, 100% free

They investing in their engine basically. Draw an army or modders to it and you get a ton of people with UE4 toolset skills who are likely to start their own games or join the workforce in some capacity. That's a LOT mroe valuable to Epic than just releasing a AAA $60 game. They are also going to be doign profit sharing on the stuff modders make for the game.

Ah ok so they will be charging for mods?

They can be free or the modders decides to sell them for a price

I like what I'm reading.

- New Unreal Tournament
- 100% free

I can't find a damn thing wrong with this.

Up to the modders,there will be both free and paid,my guess it´s the free stuff will dominate that market so you won´t even have to buy anything ever,unless you want to.

From what they explained this looks like the perfect free game model.

Between Killing Floor 2 and this being announced I'm happy.

PC gamers will be able to develop the Unreal Tournament that they want with no dumbing down for consoles. The mods will be no doubt expand the game and make it a lot more interesting, UE4 going be pushed to the limit.

Epic has a damn good strategy going.

Awesome

A new Unreal Tournament game for pc gamers and made by pc gamers

Where are the console trolls?

Awesome, been wanting to play UT for quite some time now.

Awesome news. I can't wait to play it.

HELL YEAH !!!! . Bu bu but PC gaming indie . CAN'T WAIT .

Silly smart person.... its free2play so instantly for some reason its bad.

Its just "free" like the developers stated not "free2play"

Blog .? How about this .?

http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/pc-games-have-surpassed-console-games-globally/033849

Can we stop this already .?

That's good. I only hope is it somehow is similar to UT2004.

Free? Not free to play? Wow.

That link has nothing to do with the issue we were discussing, which was piracy. But, we all know Peasant Class cannot win that argument, so again you guys resort to another posting another article referencing that debunked analyst. Of course, you posted in both of the threads where I provided a multi-source link and easy-to-understand chart for you Beggars. But, you thought if you found a different site that cited the same analyst, you could get away with it. I would say nice try, but that'd be a lie.

Then there's this: "The Entertainment Software Association has released their latest survey results pertaining to the US gaming audience. Highlights from the survey include that 59% of Americans play videogames, with 68% of the audience playing on consoles."

Hermies are a dying breed, increasingly being replaced by soccer moms on facebook games and Chinese gold miners.

1 pirated copy =/= -1 legal purchase . Get a clue .

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100606-Used-Game-Sales-are-a-Bigger-Problem-Than-Piracy

Dying breed is making more money than consoles .? Ya , like crying out loud gonna help .

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/dying-lights-producer-i-laugh-at-those-who-kept-predicting-pc-gaming-to-be-dead-by-now/

Gonna trust developer instead of typical drone on that one .

And lol at your stupid "American Survey" comment . How many Chinese play consoles again .? You talk like America is only country in entire world . (Proof : PC makes more revenue) .

Time for me to get to work on modding WiiMote and Nunchuck controls into this.

This is GREAT news and I'll be grabbing it for sure. Loved Unreal Tournament, not Championship.

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

That's cool. We need those types of games back again.

So basically same model as Dota 2/TF2/Valve's stuff? I wouldn't be surprised to see a potential Half-Life 3 done in a similar way, particularly if this is successful for Epic.

dota 2 and TF2 have microtransations..this game will not.

and i doubt valve will releasing half life 3 for free..they wont have any means of profiting unlike Epic games.

Wow that's awesome news!

PC gaming as usual most/best exclusives, superior multiplats, superior in everything, for the last 4 gens.

Epic games don't have their own money? There working together with the UR community, modders, Unreal Engine developers to make the game so they don't have to spend as much. This is a long term investment to get more people into their new engine. Those who want to work on the game would have to pay a monthly subscription to use UE4 anyways.

Im not against collaborative open doors development (being an Early Access participant for a few games). I am just worried about it being a design-by-committee mess. Those involved will never agree with each other, especially on an internet forum with franchise vets.

Glad this has come to light, though. Dont really care if this is some glorified UE4 advertisment. We get a free Unreal game. :3

@IgGy621985: The lead programmer in that video only blinked maybe three times, lol.

On a more serious note, the small team that is working on this game seems fairly serious, and they're all veterans from the UT2k4 days, and some are even from UT'99. I realllly hope this game blows us away (or at least blows me away; I would love a new UT to make my jaw drop and give me loads of enjoyment).

@DJ_Headshot: I concur.

Awesome news and it's F2P? I am cool with that :D

Now if ID Software were ever to make a new Quake arena game...

Obligatory: Master race remark.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

Sounds intriguing

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

....yes because it'll certainly be the same without mods even though its being based around user-made content and twitch gameplay.....

(inferior consoles)

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 are pc exclusives

The worse one actually had a console version

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

can't see microsoft/sony liking the idea of a free game that they can't profit from.

@Jankarcop said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

....yes because it'll certainly be the same without mods even though its being based around user-made content and twitch gameplay.....

(inferior consoles)

..yes because there has never been any sort of user made content with the console versions...

@lawlessx said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

can't see microsoft/sony liking the idea of a free game that they can't profit from.

Can't speak for M$ but Sony has a number of F2P games available that don't cost a cent to play online or offline. But if this game did come to consoles I'm sure there would be some form of micro transactions.

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

....yes because it'll certainly be the same without mods even though its being based around user-made content and twitch gameplay.....

(inferior consoles)

..yes because there has never been any sort of user made content with the console versions...

The xbox360 version for UT3 didn't even have mod support

@CroidX said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

....yes because it'll certainly be the same without mods even though its being based around user-made content and twitch gameplay.....

(inferior consoles)

..yes because there has never been any sort of user made content with the console versions...

The xbox360 version for UT3 didn't even have mod support

But the PS3 version did..

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

Guess you don't know that there are UE games that are exclusive to the PC.

And lol this game will be design heavily around PC because Epic is having UR pc community to help develop this game.

@OhSnapitz said:

@CroidX said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

....yes because it'll certainly be the same without mods even though its being based around user-made content and twitch gameplay.....

(inferior consoles)

..yes because there has never been any sort of user made content with the console versions...

The xbox360 version for UT3 didn't even have mod support

But the PS3 version did..

And? Not like it was that good since UT3 was a dumb down game from the others. Don't forget it relied a lot on pc mods since console don;t have their own dedicated modding community with experience people who know how work things like the engines.

Since obviously your not going run the UE4 engine and its tools on console lol

New UT will be design for PC by pc gamers you know for mouse and keyboard not controllers and all that.

@OhSnapitz :

Console version having full mod support hype recorded. Begging for inferior scraps.

@deathlordcrime said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

Guess you don't know that there are UE games that are exclusive to the PC.

And lol this game will be design heavily around PC because Epic is having UR pc community to help develop this game.

That was in a time before people woke up and realized the money was in consoles.

Thank you Halo, thank you.

@uninspiredcup said:

@deathlordcrime said:

@OhSnapitz said:

@Jankarcop said:

Consolites jelly.

Another gen, another instance of PC getting the most aaa/aa scoring games and most devs.

..yes because I'm sure it'll stay exclusive.. Just like the other UT games.

Guess you don't know that there are UE games that are exclusive to the PC.

And lol this game will be design heavily around PC because Epic is having UR pc community to help develop this game.

That was in a time before people woke up and realized the money was in consoles.

Thank you Halo, thank you.

And now they woke up and realized the money is on PC.

Probably why this is going f2p competitive, to get in on dat' LOL/DOTA money $$$$$

The competitive nature is probably why it's not going to consoles, apart from the mod focus. They'd have to redesign it ground up to be slow and shitty in that case.

Yup, just read it. That's way lower than I expected...

Q3 was the shit. I remember countless hours playing it at home, and then we installed in on the school network so people were playing it 24/7 in the library...got a suspended for that lol. But when UT2k4 came out, it reclaimed the throne and set the new standard for Arena twitch shooters and ever since then UT has been leader in the genre. I really hope Quake comes back with a bang, cause it was epic. Anyways, back on topic, I'm actually very excited about this, but I hope that epic releases it with a sizeable amount of content. While user content can be of superb content, its very rare when it surpasses that of the original developer. Either way, Im super excited for this :D

Hopefully they include bot support.

This recent announcement from Epic is surreal. I loved UT2k4 and would love to see a proper reboot of the series unlike what they did with UT3.

I haven't been this excited for an FPS for a long time. I have no doubt in my mind that Epic with the help on the UT community will build a great game.