Although I think there are many things that Epic Games doesn’t do right, there is one thing that they are better at than other developers. I speak politically. Unlike most developers, they don’t lock away their old games forever and prevent those who would preserve them from doing so.

As an example: PC Gamer reported Over the weekend it was announced that Unreal Tournament 2004 is now free to play. Additionally, the shooter is thanks to the efforts of a community project called “ OldUnreal. The team’s goal is to protect Epic’s shooters. To this end, they have also updated the game to make it playable on current PCs.

As mentioned in the PC Gamer article, the installation will initially require more effort than installing a normal game Download it from the Internet Archive. A trip to GitHub will also be necessary Get the patch before the game starts. This is the first public patch in over two decades and brings improvements, but the team warns that there could still be bugs.

Still, a little more work during installation and a few errors are still better than the game disappearing forever.