History Trivia / UnrealTournament4

* DefunctOnlineVideoGames: The game has been de-listed from the Epic Games Store's launcher in 2021, though people who already had the game could still play it until January 24th, 2023. Afterwards, the game was even removed from the Epic Games Store's own launcher.

* DevelopmentHell: There have been no updates since June 2017. It was believed at first that Creator/EpicGames was preparing the game to be pulled out of pre-alpha state right into alpha. However, the sudden success of ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' - especially in light of the fact that Epic's ''other'' free-to-play shooter, ''VideoGame/Paragon2016'', saw its playerbase plummet and ended up shut down within six months, with all of its game assets being placed in Epic's own developer marketstore, and that the last ''UT'' update came only three months before the release of ''Fortnite''[='=]s Battle Royale mode - now have most convinced that Epic has shifted to focus exclusively on it; it was eventually confirmed in September 2018, fifteen months since the last update, that [[https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums/unreal-tournament-discussion/ut-game-general-discussion/401869-unreal-tournament-abandonware-with-all-the-earnings-from-fortnite-you-would-think/page3 updates are on-hold indefinitely]] as there are simply not enough hands to spare from ''Fortnite'' to continue updating ''UT''.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The game has been de-listed from the Epic Games Store's launcher in 2021, though people who already had the game could still play it until December 2022.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The game has been de-listed from the Epic Games Store's launcher in 2021, though people who already had the game can still play it.

* DevelopmentHell: There have been no updates since June 2017. It was believed at first that Creator/EpicGames was preparing the game to be pulled out of pre-alpha state right into alpha. However, the sudden success of ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' - especially in light of the fact that Epic's ''other'' free-to-play shooter, ''VideoGame/{{Paragon}}'', saw its playerbase plummet and ended up shut down within six months, with all of its game assets being placed in Epic's own developer marketstore, and that the last ''UT'' update came only three months before the release of ''Fortnite''[='=]s Battle Royale mode - now have most convinced that Epic has shifted to focus exclusively on it; it was eventually confirmed in September 2018, fifteen months since the last update, that [[https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums/unreal-tournament-discussion/ut-game-general-discussion/401869-unreal-tournament-abandonware-with-all-the-earnings-from-fortnite-you-would-think/page3 updates are on-hold indefinitely]] as there are simply not enough hands to spare from ''Fortnite'' to continue updating ''UT''.

* RefittedForSequel: [[RefittedForSequel/{{Unreal}} Shares a page with the rest of the franchise.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Unreal}} Shares a page with the rest of the franchise.]]

See also:
* [[RefittedForSequel/{{Unreal}} Refitted For Sequel]]
* [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Unreal}} the series' "What Could Have Been" page]]
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* DevelopmentHell: There have been no updates since June 2017. It was believed at first that Creator/EpicGames was preparing the game to be pulled out of pre-alpha state right into alpha. However, the sudden success of ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' - especially in light of the fact that Epic's ''other'' free-to-play shooter, ''VideoGame/{{Paragon}}'', saw its playerbase plummet and ended up shut down within six months, and that the last ''UT'' update came only three months before the release of ''Fortnite''[='=]s Battle Royale mode - now have most convinced that Epic has shifted to focus exclusively on it; it was eventually confirmed in September 2018, fifteen months since the last update, that [[https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/forums/unreal-tournament-discussion/ut-game-general-discussion/401869-unreal-tournament-abandonware-with-all-the-earnings-from-fortnite-you-would-think/page3 updates are on-hold indefinitely]] as there are simply not enough hands to spare from ''Fortnite'' to continue updating ''UT''.

! [[center:[-[[Trivia/{{Unreal}} Main page]] | [[Trivia/UnrealI Unreal]] | [[Trivia/UnrealTournament Tournament]] | [[Trivia/UnrealIITheAwakening Unreal II]] | [[Trivia/UnrealChampionship Championship]] | [[Trivia/UnrealTournament2004 UT2004]] | [[Trivia/UnrealChampionship2TheLiandriConflict UC2:TLC]] | [[Trivia/UnrealTournamentIII UT3]] | [[Trivia/UnrealTournament4 UT4]] -]]]
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* DevelopmentHell: There have been no updates since June 2017. It was believed at first that Creator/EpicGames was preparing the game to be pulled out of pre-alpha state right into alpha. However, the sudden success of ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' - especially in light of the fact that Epic's ''other'' free-to-play shooter, ''VideoGame/{{Paragon}}'', saw its playerbase plummet and ended up shut down within six months, and that the last ''UT'' update came only three months before the release of ''Fortnite''[='=]s Battle Royale mode - now have most convinced that Epic has shifted to focus exclusively on it.

* DevelopmentHell: After the June 2017 update, there were no more updates announced. It's believed that either Creator/EpicGames is preparing the game to be pulled out of Pre-Alpha state right into Alpha, or the sudden success of ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' made Epic to focus exclusively on it.

* DevelopmentHell: After the June 2017 update, there were no more updates announced. It's believed that Epic Games is preparing the game to be pulled out of Pre-Alpha state right into Alpha.