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Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely not the fastest but it's really close.

The fastest full shutdown currently belongs to The Culling 2 which only lasted 2 days between launch and being closed completely.

The Day Before is another big example of a game that lasted an incredibly short time but despite that game lasting 4 days before no longer being sold, the games servers stayed on much longer than that meaning that it was shut down after Concord despite being cancelled before it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why did culling 2 fail? Wasn't the first game pretty big?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Including joke reviews, the game had a 16% rating and was so poorly made that within those 2 days it killed the popularity of both Culling games extremely quickly.

The first game was popular because it was a twist on the genre while the 2nd one was a quickly thrown together (almost exact) clone of DayZ.

The word scam was thrown around a lot in those 2 days.

[–] Buddahriffic 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds like the first was made with the mindset of, "it would be cool to make a game that does x, let's do that and see if it will make money" while the second one was more of a, "all we gotta do is make a game that does x and we'll make a ton of money!"

[–] Denalduh 2 points 3 months ago

They really know how to cull their player base.