Epic Games is de-listing and stopping sales of old Unreal titles

[wildweasel]

And for that matter, shouldn't they be going after the likes of Quake 3, Half-Life, and literally any other game with an online component from the era?

[KynikossDragonn]

Source: https://www.gog.com/forum/unreal_series ... mes/post26

Something about that seems really, really stupid... and if this is actually true, then the USA might as well devolve into a anarchist hellhole because the govt. completely failed and the justice system means absolutely nothing anymore.

I'm trying to search for any actual proof Epic is delisting all Unreal games as a result of this court case and I've already lost my patience with the search engine, so I have no idea what this person on the GOG Forums is even talking about, where is the actual source that the Fortnite case has absolutely ANYTHING to do with the Unreal games from 1998 onward?

[Xeotroid]

Wouldn't this put under scrutiny any non-E-rated game ever released and their publishers as well?

[Kinsie]

That post seems like a lot of “if we say the magic words the famously stubborn gigacorp will love us again” cope, frankly. Remember, for a long time (until like 2015?) the only way to get any of Epic’s pre-Unreal games was to mail-order physical media from Tim Sweeney’s dad! They just have a long and proud history of not giving a shit about their old stuff, with the exception of like one borderline-powerless community manager who I think made the GOG stuff happen.

[leileilol]

I doubt it's COPPA. Unreal wasn't trying to extort personal information and impulsive MTX spending from little children, and COPPA's been around long enough that it would've given all multiplayer games the red flag for 24 years if this were the case. COPPA would spell trouble for the strategy they're doing for fall guys, fortnite and rocket league though, and COPPA's been a scapegoat for a lot of things lately (generational frustrations probably likely, as more online commercialization towards children gets increasingly rampant, i.e. mobile markets, cartoon tie-ins, and fomo peer pressure)

that post's just someone attempting to speculate the fortnite FTC situation from days later with unreal, and makes less sense regarding the pending UT3X Epic service-tied return, and the fact that Steam already complies with COPPA to keep <13's off where these Unreal games were sold (a higher barrier than spoiled brat's mobile devices), and GoG should also already be COPPA compliant (And if not, then that's on CD Projekt)