Maven@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
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.
lambda@programming.dev 1 week ago
Why did culling 2 fail? Wasn’t the first game pretty big?
Maven@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Including joke reviews, the game had a 16% rating and was so poorly made that within those 2 days it liked 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@lemmy.world 1 week 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@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They really know how to cull their player base.