After suggesting that Fortnite is a priority, Epic shuts down another F2P game

Enlarge / In three months, Epic Games’ online “action MOBA” game Paragon will be… para-gone. (credit: Epic Games)

Ten days after eerie-sounding news for the free-to-play online game Paragon, the series’ creators at Epic Games confirmed fans’ looming suspicions: the game will soon shut down.

Paragon‘s late-Friday announcement gives the game exactly three more months of life until its servers go dark on April 26. That means the game will have barely passed the two-year mark for its lifespan after a March 2016 “pay for early access” launch. The news comes with a frank admission of the “action MOBA” game’s failings and an even more frank apology to its fans.

“After careful consideration, and many difficult internal debates, we feel there isn’t a clear path for us to grow Paragon into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable,” the post, authored by “the Paragon team,” says. “We didn’t execute well enough to deliver on the promise of Paragon. We have failed you—despite the team’s incredibly hard work—and we’re sorry.”