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I was excited to see the UT games on FlatHub, but they require the base installs. Why did they delist all Unreal games everywhere (but GoG)? Why not give them away and just let the players host the servers?

E: Yes, it's an AI made image, if Epic won't put the minimal effort to preserve their games, why should I for a disposable meme?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Why not give them away and just let the players host the servers?

In a rare Epic win that is exactly what they did. You have official permission to get them from archive.org. https://oldunreal.com/ helps you set up the old games and point the listing server to the community hosted one.

Apart from that community hosted servers have always been a thing with these games.

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ooooooh this is huge! Thanks, i was really itching to play em!

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Old unreal link doesn't seem to be working?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

The website seems to be down at the moment. Try their github page https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] bryndos@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip -4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, it's an AI made image

You don't need to apologize. People not liking it can just downvote and stfo.