For Christmas I've come to tell you a story of an incident that probably snuck by all of you simply by just how badly it was handled. A story about a little game called Decksplash.
>Bossa Studios, the developers behind such hit meme games as Surgeon Simulator and I am Bread, make a proof of concept early version of a game they call Decksplash, a game that combines skateboarding with the goal of painting the map like Splatoon
>Give it absolutely no marketing
>Instead of doing the reasonable thing and releasing it into the wild to let it organically grow and spread, they do the absolute most faggoty thing of all
>Release for a weekend and say if it doesnt get 100k players they will take it down and not develop it
To give you a scope of just how fucking insane that is, Warframe currently has 50k playing it. Granted this was spread out over a whole weekend and was cumulative rather than current but still. But oh ho it gets even better, Children.
>Intrusive anti-cheat that is difficult to completely remove
>LOOTBOXES
You couldnt buy them but the whole reason for this test was to see if it was "Worth spending time on" but apparantly they dont mind working on creating unlockable assets for a game they werent even sure was gonna exist past the weekend. And the piece de resistance:
>The small amount of players who DID play it where completely unable to play online because broken matchmaking combined with very low player count