I want to apologize about the loudness of the music. I realize it can be quite overwhelming at points due to it's style of cinematic music, and is something we will fix in the future. I really appreciate the kind comments about increase in production and delivery however, thank you for that guys. I have a new mini-series planned as well, that will detail why I don't play certain games and in my usual fashion provide a timeline of events and a litany of reasons outlined including examples. As the channel grows more and more we have 2 major series planned, one will target singleplayer games and the other a hybrid of MMO content and journalism together (live content :) ). Thank you for joining me on my journey, make no mistake...it's a long one and one we will constantly be creating new stuff on. :)

Its sad because Paragon was actually fun.

Hearing the Paragon intro music gives me teary eyes.. T T

Who else played this game before Fortnite came out

paragon had one of THE best graphics, in game actual graphics, in game mechanics, in game music. the fucking bass in their lobby music is so good wtf. they had so much going for them. sigh.

If no one knew, it’s been taken over by a studio called Omeda and it’s back under a new name called “predecessor”

I actually liked Paragon whereas I've hated every other MOBA I've played. I'm sad it's gone.

Paragon was so beautiful... Goddammit ☹️

I say the game was killed by Col. Donald Mustard. In the Boardroom. With the Fortnite.

I miss this game.... So much. Its one of the few games i was bad at, yet still came back to every chance i had to try to get better. So long, Paragon. You were too good for this world

Hey look I'm quoted in this video, when I had the audacity to post the math behind the fall of paragon count I was mocked by the player base. When we foretold the closing of paragon again we were mocked. The death of paragon hurt more than a game should.

My heart hurts watching this, I loved this game so much.

This is the reason I'll never play fortnite. Just because they got a lucky success they abandoned paragon instead of working on it. I'll never play another game by epic.

This channel is criminally underrated, each time I come back the production quality keeps increasing

As a beta player with the $99 founder package, after spending hundreds of hours into this game and once ranked top 0.02%, I'd like to point out a few of my opinions:
The conspiracy of Tencent's involvement seems exaggerated, people are leaving paragon because the game which was once perfect, slowly morphed into a much less interesting game over all.
1. People complained the map being too large and each game takes too long, Epic could've simply shrunk the map while keeping everything the same. Instead, they spend MONTHS to make a new map-Monolith- which was 100 times inferior to the original map due to path design and unfinished texture. Adding to that is increased movement speed, which makes a once medium-paced game feels like an Overwatch clone. There was once a lot of 1v1 opportunities which forces players to dodge opponents' shots and predict spell cast, after the update, it's 5 man death-ball the whole game. The game loses it's micro potential simply because the number of players scrambling together plus the speed everything moves and dies.
Most people I know dropped the game soon after the release of Monolith.

2. The fucking card system is the core of every game. It's a good idea to patch the balance of cards while gradually add new cards. However Epic decide to scrape the whole system a year after beta and build another one from scratch, which i would't say is better or worse than the original but many people who have spent hundreds of hours on the original system doesn't feel like learning a new system all over again.

3. Match making is a nightmare. A lot of people complained the lack of ELO based matchmaking from the beginning, I was okay with it for a while because there were so few players on this game that the default matchmaking sometimes take 20+ minutes, if they start ranking players then sometimes you'll never find a game. But what's worse is the game never separates group players with single players, which every other MOBA game does. What happens in Paragon is single players often team up against 5 player streaks (usually with voice communication or may even be sitting in the same room), in which cases single players will almost always lose in a very painful, pathetic way. the top ELO players are those who always player in 5 player streaks and have a winning rate high than 90%. Individual player can hardly get above 70% because every once a while you meet a 5-streak and lose the game hopefully, no matter how cooperative your teammates are.

God this game was cool; I should have given it more of a chance while it was still out. The character design was so good.

I seriously applaud you for being the only one to finally fully explain the in-depth death of the such beautiful game  Paragon which I fell in and out of love with. I still cannot beleive epic games was so selfish to not listen to their fans they weren’t the ones playing and living the game smh

Ugh, just hearing that theme again bums me out, man.

Thanks for making this video. None of your content has hit this close to home for me. I played from the invite-only beta on my friend’s computer up until the announcement that the game was to close. I still have a few clips from cool plays up on my channel.

It really does seem to be a mix of reasons why the game ultimately failed. Even the speculation about Tencent’s stock acquisition and Steve Superville’s departure have their place at the table here. Those reasons as well as EPIC consistently ignoring the player base on the forums and Fortnite’s unexpected success all led up to the disappointing closure of the game.

While I would like to see Visionary Games create the spiritual successor to Paragon I’m worried that they won’t have the capital to create the world in the high fidelity I appreciate from Paragon. There are also other companies trying to do the same as the assets are free to be used. It makes me wonder how it’s all going to work out once these companies try to monetize their products.

RIP Paragon.

That music gave me nostalgia

You should be already prepairing Death of a Game : Save the World