you now remember this was a thing
>>729678116>the day before>new yearI see u OP
the bug compilations were pretty funny
To this day I don't understand what their plan was.
>>729679557rug pull
>>729678116>put black man on the cover>become the most wishlisted game evermaybe gamers aren't as racist as I thought
>>729678664That would be the 31st retard
>>729679557Their plan was to create a fake vertical slice, get investor money, and then make the game afterwards. But they are fucking retards who vastly overestimated their capabilities.
>>729679557Same as mindeye - to scam investors, to scam players, but in case of tdb it's a raison d'être of Russian gamedev
>>729679635I don't know, man. Even as a rugpull the plan is so stupid it's hard to believe. They had so much hype that if they had opened a crowdfunding page they could have raked in millions, and then run with the money. The combination of only ripping off a relatively small amount from each individual, plus the risks inherently associated with crowdfunding projects, plus their being based in Russia probably would have made it super easy to get away with it. Yet they didn't do that. Instead they shat out a buggy mess on Steam, barely got any sales, and never actually saw a single cent of it because Steam holds the money to prevent that kind of thing. Very poorly thought out rugpull.
>>729678116>Absolute rug pull of a "game">Still lasted longer than Concord.What a time to be alive.
>>729678116I honestly never heard about this game until I saw a video about it earlier this year. Who the fuck didn’t see that this was a scam from miles away? Are investors retarded?
the initial trailer wasn't even impressive at all i dunno why so many morons fell for it and then continued falling for it
>>729678116I wasnt there at the time of this game hype train but yeah seeing videos about it, it was clear it was an scam.Steam/PC gaming has more retards than console gamers I swear.
>>729681874>Are investors retarded?Yes, that's why they give their money to other people instead of using that money to run their own businesses. >>729683120The premise alone got people hooked, and then they just didn't bother looking too closely at what little was shown.
>>729680574Not all scammers are smart. Like the other anons said, they probably initially intended to just scam investors into funding an actual game they were going to make but probably didn't consider thinking whether or not they were even qualified in development, then thought they could get away with selling literal dogshit stitched together at the last minute before redacting it out of sheer embarrassment. Or they're even dumber and thought they could false-advertise a rugpull from the start without considering the crowdfunding option or that Steam holds the money, but I doubt that's how bad it actually was.
>>729683297very few people actually bought it which makes the whole thing even more bizarrethey ran a scam to get $0 steam wishlists
>>729683847Didn't it officially sell like 200k (granted like half of that was refunded and like 1000k or so streamers who wanted to record the trainwreck).Felt like a big deal back then.
>>729684382i think almost all of it got refunded didn't it? I know snoy did it automatically when they yanked it and iirc steam allowed you to a refund regardless of whether you were within the rules either way there is no way 200k would have made the retarded investors happy
I'm looking at info for this and many other bad games are being mentioned around the same time. I felt like the last 3 years just zoomed by. I hate covid.
>>729684605At the very least it was big enough Nvidia used it to shill its Ray Tracer on it.If I remember 90k+ was refunded before the 2h policy.What happened later was Steam refunding regardless of the 2+ hour window so it had sold like 1k.MyTona published mostly mobile slop so those sales wete probably acceptable.
