I doubt Epic is hurting for money in the slightest so my general assumption is a combination ego and apathy. The initial pitch as I understand it was to remove all Unreal games but then put back Unreal Tournament 3 Black (The one Epic did solely as oppose to ones done in cooperation with Legend and Digital Extremes) as a remaster that would would require a EGS account to functi More @Wikipedia
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