{"id":246641,"date":"2018-01-29T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T06:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=246641"},"modified":"2018-01-29T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T06:33:17","slug":"epic-games-shuts-down-paragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/246641-epic-games-shuts-down-paragon.html","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games shuts down Paragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/paragon\/en-US\/news\/paragon-to-close-on-april-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it will shut down support for Paragon on 26 April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Paragon is a third-person multiplayer online battle arena for PC and PlayStation 4, which was launched less than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Epic said it would offer a full refund to any player for any purchase across any platform. Users can request a refund on the <a href=\"http:\/\/paragonhelp.epicgames.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/2313879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Paragon website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After careful consideration, and many difficult internal debates, we feel there isn\u2019t a clear path for us to grow Paragon into a MOBA that retains enough players to be sustainable,&#8221; said Epic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the player population continues to decrease, matchmaking times and quality will further degrade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/244821-playing-doom-on-the-htc-vive-pro-is-awesome.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Playing Doom on the HTC Vive Pro is awesome<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games will shut down its support for Paragon in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":246643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9691,48579,48581,16484],"class_list":["post-246641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-epic-games","tag-paragon","tag-refund","tag-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246653,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246641\/revisions\/246653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}