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Legit the biggest, most transparent, most obvious, most blatant scam I've seen in the 25+ years I've been playing videogames.
If you bought into this game or believed in it at any point, you should not go anywhere without wearing oven mitts and arm floaties.
Okay but what were they thinking? Create more hype so that more people start questioning things? Release the game on a platform that has the best refund polices in the industry?
Like what?
Based on how many titles in the past have pulled off the "launch in Early Access, grab a lot of money in the early hype, disappear" strategy, I have to imagine something like that was the intention.
They probably assumed that there would be a big enough pool of naive fools that would believe in the game for just long enough to get away with launching a below minimum viable product and cashing out once the reasonable refund window was surpassed. And, considering that they were the best performer in Steam for a hot minute, you can't blame them for thinking that.
They just overestimated how much they could get away. Which, considering how much some other titles have gotten away with in the past, is saying a lot.
well to their credit, there is plenty of evidence that their plan could work. Look at star citizen or no man's sky.