Is the Paragon game still available?
After failed attempts to make the game sustainable and having trouble keeping a player base, Epic Games made the decision to shut down Paragon servers in April 2018. Based on Epic Games’ shutdown title Paragon, PARAGON: The Overprime launched in Early Access for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on December 5, 2022. A PlayStation 5 release was planned alongside its full launch, and already conducted two closed beta tests. Get the full end of service message from Netmarble below.The decision to shut down the game just came weeks after Epic Games announced that it will be slowing down Paragon’s development. This was because the studio decided to move some members of the Paragon team to work on its successful sandbox survival game Fortnite.The game started buy-to-play early access in March 2016, and then launched free-to-play access to its open beta started in August 2016. After failed attempts to make the game sustainable and having trouble keeping a player base, Epic Games made the decision to shut down Paragon servers in April 2018.Sadly, Paragon: The Overprime—-launched in December 2022—is shutting down, too. On February 21, Netmarble—the studio behind Overpime—announced that the revived MOBA would be shut down on April 22, 2024. Coincidentally, the original Paragon servers were shut down on April 26, 2018.
Can I still play Paragon?
Bio: Paragon is no longer available. Assets from Paragon have been released for free in the Unreal Engine Marketplace. Paragon was a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed and published by Epic Games, powered by their own Unreal Engine 4.
Why did Paragon shut down?
The decision to shut down the game just came weeks after Epic Games announced that it will be slowing down Paragon’s development. This was because the studio decided to move some members of the Paragon team to work on its successful sandbox survival game Fortnite. Success of Fortnite Epic eventually decided to reduce Paragon’s development team and diverted its resources in favour of Fornite. Paragon’s limited growth had not met expectations. Eventually, maintaining Paragon when it had the goldmine of Fortnite in its hands, just did not make business sense.