And this Black Edition was marketed substantially, heavily pushed on users, at times for free to new customers, including on Steam and in bundles. It also added a lot of new features and content. This version resolved all of the major issues with the game: the most atrocious UI an arena shooter had ever seen, the horrendous mass of bugs, and the complete lack of polish. After two years of substantial updates it was re-released as UT3 Black Edition for free. They then kindly charged a mere additional 50 euro/dollars for it, while UT2003 remained atrocious.Ĭonversely, UT3 did actually get fixed and re-released. It was a re-release of the exact same game, barely a year later, but with the atrocious design refined to something playable. UT2004 does not get to count as "Epic fixing up UT2003". That is perfect if the goal is to pick out the more skilled player out of the bunch, but horrible for getting new players into the game. And not just "oh I killed them 5 times but they killed me 10 times" but 0:10 or 1:10 because by nature they are very snowbally, the moment you die you go back to starting weapon while your opponent keeps their arsenal and have few secs to grab health/armor/more ammo. They have same problem fighting games have: if you are only a bit worse, you will be crushed by better players. They would work well within that framework. Unreal Tournament and Quake are ultra-competitive and high skill ceiling FPS games. I mean some of the most popular games have all pulled it off for the most part. Stuff like ranked seasons in LoL were not brought "for e-sports", it was so people kept coming back into the game You need to bring viewers first, and the best way to get them is to make a good game, and the best way to keep them is to keep game fresh and balanced enough that players don't just use 5% top weapons/characters and ignore all the rest. Devs didn't go "how we can make the best e-sport", just "how we can make fun multiplayer game".
They were not made for e-sports, just for multiplayer.
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