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[Draugoth]

Bonus: Fntastic developers have deleted their social media accounts and Discord Server. Day Z devs have made a statement:

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[Diddy X]

What the fuck.

 

[kazuyamishima]

Yeah, It was a SCAM!!

 

[diffusionx]

Valvechads stepping up.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Video games FINALLY have their very own Sam Bankman-Fried.

 

[LordCBH]

Straight to jail.

 

[SJRB]

These assholes have pissed off lord Gaben. They're probably looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives.

 

[rofif]

It's not more broken than some other early access games honestly.
it is clearly a scam but legally it's early access.

Probably something about huge numbers of refunds triggered gaben

 

[Gambit2483]

Took the money and ran. They are definitely going underground for awhile...maybe Steam should change policy so that this can't happen again.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I have never seen a more transparent scam in gaming. Like wow. Pretty pathetic

 

[GHG]

It's not more broken than some other early access games honestly.
it is clearly a scam but legally it's early access.

Probably something about huge numbers of refunds triggered gaben

No.

It's a scam. They announced they are shutting down the studio today.

 

[rofif]

No.

It's a scam. They announced they are shutting down the studio today.

ah ok.
I didn't go that deep into it

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[Saber]

I'm actually impressed they were able to come clean doing such act lol
Not impressed with the Twitter deleting stuff. It's common for twitards going dark or just deleting their accounts.

Games are devolving, isn't that great?

 

[RiccochetJ]

Had Steam paid the developers yet for the initial sales or is Steam going to eat this?

 

[skyfall]

please stop buying stuff before it's released

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

That was fast. Good riddance.

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Found him, he's "traveling" for some time.

 

[Gambit2483]

Had Steam paid the developers yet for the initial sales or is Steam going to eat this?

I'm guessing if they had the balls to shut down the entire company then yea they probably got something

 

[Holammer]

Had Steam paid the developers yet for the initial sales or is Steam going to eat this?

They won't see a penny and there were no pre-orders.

Q. When can I expect to be paid every month?
A. We pay out by the 30th of the month following sales. For example, we will pay you for calendar February month sales by March 30th. It may take a few business days for the payment to post to your bank account. In that case, you may see the payment in your bank account during the first few days of April, following the example above.

Reporting and Payments FAQ (Steamworks Documentation)

partner.steamgames.com

 

[MiguelItUp]

Good on Valve for refunding, sucks that they had to. Screw everyone involved with FNTASTIC, I love that they thought they could get away with some shitty excuse on social media. Everyone saw through it, so they delete everything as if they never existed. Insane.

Really shitty learning experience for Valve. Hopefully they can do something to keep this kind of behavior from happening again.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

 

[Gudji]

 

[Mr Hyde]

Saw Gameranx review just now and was flabbergasted what a trainwreck this game was. And then I read up about the pre-release controversy and just shook my head. What an all around disaster. I hope the people responsible for this dumpster fire gets punished accordingly.

 

[justiceiro]

Damn, the what happened episode on this is gonna be lit

 

[TheStam]

Valve are goodest guys in this business

 

[SmokedMeat]

Total scam trying to mislead people into something that didn’t exist.

 

[mortal]

I don’t know how people were foolish enough to give their money to these people despite all the red flags, but at least Valve is doing their part.

 

[Red5]

If it takes Valve 30 days to pay you the money from your customers so obviously they didn't get any money out of this what sort of game are they playing? And their names are burned so they'll never sell a video game again.

I wonder if they were just biting way more than they can chew? Relying on online bought assets and stuff.

 

[M1987]

So will the scammers not get any money?

Edit: it was answered above

 

[diffusionx]

Took the money and ran. They are definitely going underground for awhile...maybe Steam should change policy so that this can't happen again.

they're not getting any of that money though.

 

[Labadal]

I'd be pissed if this was removed from my library. This is the stuff of legends.

 

[Kdad]

Lol...jfc.

 

[Gambit2483]

they're not getting any of that money though.

I hope not. I wonder why they didn't just hold out until the end of the month? Also their post indicates that they made some money and are spending it to repay debts...

 

[TheInfamousKira]

I still think The Completionist will get TGA 2024 award for best scam artist of the year.

 

[Red5]

I hope not. I wonder why they didn't just hold out until the end of the month? Also their post indicates that they made some money and are spending it to repay debts...

They had 200K units sold with 95K refunds, they couldn't hold out even if they wanted to and Valve was probably going to step in with that much publicity and that many refunds.

 

[Darchaos]

The worst is that shitstreamers like for example Sacriel and Grimmz or whatever they are called played this game earlier today, and defended it and said that people should read that its actually in Early access. Then theire deranged community picked that up and fought people in chat that said this shitgame was a scam. Typical streamerbrain without any sort of spine and accountability to what they say and do.

 

[skit_data]

We might need a new term for whatever these guys and the Abandoned dude were doing...
"Career suicide by shitty asset flip"
or something

 

[Kdad]

If it takes Valve 30 days to pay you the money from your customers so obviously they didn't get any money out of this what sort of game are they playing? And their names are burned so they'll never sell a video game again.

I wonder if they were just biting way more than they can chew? Relying on online bought assets and stuff.

Rode investor money as long as they could?

 

[timothet]

Rode investor money as long as they could?

That's my guess too. They defrauded whatever money they got from investors/publisher and released this low effort asset flip of a game just to release something out of contractual obligation.
There is just no way they had good intentions and didn't plan this from the beginning.

 

[Barakov]

So much for The Last Of Those.

 

[YuLY]

Took the money and ran. They are definitely going underground for awhile...maybe Steam should change policy so that this can't happen again.

They wont get anything, Valve pays after 30 days and they just stopped the game from being sold. People are also getting refunded. They probably thought they had this lil scam thought out but they actually didnt. They will probably lose money in the end, at least due to all those UE5 store assets bought. Plus not sure worth it to their reputation, I dont think any company would want them now, they had to delete their social media accounts.

 

[Fake]

What a shitshow we got here... jez.

 

[N30RYU]

We might need a new term for whatever these guys and the Abandoned dude were doing...
"Career suicide by shitty asset flip"
or something

SuicideDevs
AskforBan Devs
LokiDevs

 

[The Cockatrice]

They changed their name for their previous work. Scum of the earth.

 

[Kdad]

 

[Reaseru]

These people should be brought to justice.

 

[Lambhalf]

May I say it? The Day Before; The Refund After.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

 

[Sybrix]

How does Star Citizen get away with it?

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Please make a move of this. Its gona be short as fuck but I'll still watch it I promise

The CEO of the company nuking his socials is the icing on the cake haha lmfao