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00:00 Intro
01:21 Announcement
05:30 The Delay and the 'volunteers'
09:52 Going Intercontinental
12:12 The Name
16:14 The Gameplay (and the plagiarism)
20:19 The days before The Day Before
24:17 The Day Of
28:30 I played it (so you don't have to)
33:18 The Day After
36:01 The Rug Pull
40:47 The Last Of It

 

[adamsapple]

Worth a watch, and notice just how many times IGN comes up. IGN just kept on giving this game coverage over and over.

 

[TheAusHulk]

Daddy Skillup never disappoints.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Gudji]

I gotta make one of those.

 

[adamsapple]

I did not know about their shadow marketing for the Teams style app, and all those empty offices lol.

What a fucking scam.

Long-form video on Hassan next.

 

[SJRB]

Worth a watch, and notice just how many times IGN comes up. IGN just kept on giving this game coverage over and over.

Insane amount of exposure for this game through IGN.

If only they had some actual journalists who could've looked into this game after the second "too good to be true" trailer.

But hey, gotta get those clicks, I suppose.

 

[DaGwaphics]

I guess it was like the ultimate pump and dump for them. Hard to believe that only 90k bothered to grab the refund with how bad it was.

 

[Vyse]

That was absolutely crazy.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

People still playing. lol. But hey, not bad 38000 concurrent gamers at launch.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I guess it was like the ultimate pump and dump for them. Hard to believe that only 90k bothered to grab the refund with how bad it was.

Probably a lot of them dont even follow gaming news or tested it out. It's in their backlog and they'll get around to it in 2024.

 

[adamsapple]

Probably a lot of them dont even follow gaming news or tested it out. It's in their backlog and they'll get around to it in 2024.

Just the fact that this was, at one time, *THE* most wish-listed game on Steam is mind blowing.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Gamers are an easy mark, I'm sad to say. Lots of them are easily influenced by flash and no substance.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Didn't Valve issue full refunds to everyone?

Was this game actually successful?

 

[adamsapple]

Didn't Valve issue full refunds to everyone?

Was this game actually successful?

It had around 200K + sales at launch and then 90K or so refund requests within a day when people actually started playing the game.

Since then Valve has made an exception to their 2 hour rule and are offering blanket refunds to the game.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Gamers are an easy mark, I'm sad to say. Lots of them are easily influenced by flash and no substance.

Aside from things like needing to preorder concert or sports tix because of limited stadium seating, or putting down a deposit to buy a brand new house that has to be built, how many other products are there out there where people put down preorder money for something that doesn't even run out like digital games? How often do the disc copies even run out? But for gamers, it's preorder mania as if gaming will disappear tomorrow.

Also, with the internet all a gamer has to do is wait for day one reviews to see if a game is good. It's not like the old days where you had to flip through magazines and hope the game you want is reviewed that month before launch. On one hand you're itching for a new cartridge, but there's no reviews yet. What to do? Now, a game launches and at noon there's like 30 reviews up, plus Youtubers amped up to upload their videos after dinner.

Yet some reason gamers cant just chill out and wait 24 hours to buy a game after sifting through info.

 

[Ribi]

"asset flip" not scam

 

[skit_data]

That Teams ripoff thing they had going is so damn wierd. Even wierder to try to push that shit in exchange for info on the game.

 

[Humdinger]

I watched that whole video. Crazy shit.

 

[TwinB242]

The sad part is they will actually end up making some money on the game. A bunch of people won't bother going through the process of getting a refund.

 

[demigod]

"asset flip" not scam

It’s a scam, it’s not a functional game.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It’s a scam, it’s not a functional game.

Not just a scam product, but a scam company to boot.

I think the company closed up and the CEO deleted his twitter.

 

[March Climber]

There are multiple lessons to be learned here, but one very important lesson should be learned by Ubisoft:

People are still clamoring for a new Division game set in a sprawling Urban/City environment.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

 

[Ribi]

It’s a scam, it’s not a functional game.

It functioned well enough, there's asset flips on the Xbox store that don't even have animations ffs

 

[phaedrus]

Daddy Skillup never disappoints.

So when is he gonna cover the Completionist scam?

 

[mckmas8808]

Nah bruh. No where close to the same thing. You should be ashamed.

 

[diffusionx]

I don't watch ShillUp but how was this successful? I mean once refunds and all that clear realistically how much money isgoing to the devs? The game shut down in like 4 days.