Unfortunately it is not what is happening. There are plenty of people having the exact same experience, the hope of recovering it is slim to none. I didn't have

Unfortunately it is not what is happening. There are plenty of people having the exact same experience, the hope of recovering it is slim to none. I didn't have a backup recovery address, so maybe the developer put a default recovery address as the original address, maybe that's why. I just received an email from epicgames that they cannot change my email address without me providing the verification code sent to my gmail now...