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[ManaByte]

False.. Changed in 2018 and since then devs are able to deploy patches and get them verified within hours.



"Then we were supposed to get a tech demo and the day of its expected arrival, it was delayed for a patch to go through. What's interesting is that there doesn't appear to be any patch listed on PlayStation 5 in connection with the Abandoned app. Usually, if a patch or update is in progress, a patch tracker will list information about when it's supposed to go live. The studio mentioned an update was coming to fix the reason why the highly anticipated teaser was delayed again, but nothing is showing up. Now, this could be explained through certification submission protocols, though the timing still feels off. If it were a certification issue, it's more than likely that it would have been picked up before the update was slated to go live." - https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/0...-kicks-up-ps5-game-abandoned-rumors-once-more

For a big developer like HighRez, sure.

For an indie developer who never released a game and has six years of fraud releases behind them? Probably not.

But there is no evidence of a scam at this point.

There are six years of evidence of making fake games, taking money for them, and releasing nothing.

 

[begotten]

I guess hotfixing doesn't exist anymore.

 

[SaucyJack]

There are six years of evidence of making fake games, taking money for them, and releasing nothing.

What money have they taken other than about $100 on Kickstarter?

What money are they getting on Abandoned? From whom?

I am open to being convinced, but failure to deliver =/= fraud.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

For a big developer like HighRez, sure.

For an indie developer who never released a game and has six years of fraud releases behind them? Probably not.

Do you really think PlayStation handles submissions differently based on the success of the developers?

 

[SaucyJack]

I guess hotfixing doesn't exist anymore.

Wouldn’t that still be delivered as a patch? Lots of games have patches that are tiny and take seconds to download and install, isn’t that just a hotfix under a different name?

 

[THEAP99]

What money have they taken other than about $100 on Kickstarter?

What money are they getting on Abandoned? From whom?

I am open to being convinced, but failure to deliver =/= fraud.

I read somewhere that the Norwegian government funds project like these. So maybe he just taking money from them and doing this lol.

 

[Calverz]

The thirst for this to be Konami game is strong because let’s be honest, fuck all else to be excited about on ps5!!

 

[supernova8]

The Doritos Pope is desperate for attention for his events after his E3 thing was a complete failure.

He pretty much only had Elden Ring and if, like me and plenty of other people, you had no interest in Souls games then his show was a 100% waste of time.

 

[Corndog]

Ahem, it's a floor.

I'm playing Call of Duty Cold War campaign in PS5 just right now and textures are equal or better than this.

It's impossible to evaluate the graphic quality of a game only with an asset close up.

Ya. Not much geometry to a floor unless your modeling each plank of wood and even that isn’t much.

 

[SaucyJack]

I read somewhere that the Norwegian government funds project like these. So maybe he just taking money from them and doing this lol.

Yes, they do ……




….. in Norway.

 

[supernova8]

Do you really think PlayStation handles submissions differently based on the success of the developers?

Unless they have unlimited resources or a completely automated process? Yes probably. Assuming everything else is equal, if they only have the time/capacity to deal with one submission today, do you think they will deal with Call of Duty or some random shovelware indie game?

 

[dotnotbot]

Yes, they do ……




….. in Norway.

Maybe Netherlands have something similar.

CD Projekt Red took 30 millions PLN from polish government for developing innovative open world with advanced AI and even "seamless multiplayer" in Cyberpunk. Did anything like that make it into the final product? Not really.

 

[GHG]

Yes, they do ……




….. in Norway.

Hasan is also Norwegian now according to team fake.

And they accuse team real of speculation...

 

[THEAP99]

Hasan is also Norwegian now according to team fake.

And they accuse team real of speculation...

Norway, Netherlands.. tomayto tomahto

 

[GrayChild]

Hasan is also Norwegian now according to team fake.

And they accuse team real of speculation...

Hasan is a citizen of the world, free of any national clutches.

Hasan is more than a human being.

Hasan is an ideal. A guiding light, an utopia.

Hasan is each one of us when we throw away the shackles that bind us.

 

[ethomaz]

I have serious doubts that anything about this app is meant to unlock at a specific time.

I think Hasan submitted the patch a while back, and was a bit clueless how long it would take. Probably set the release time to Tuesday, but the patch didn't pass cert until after that.. so it came later.

But that's just a guess.. dude is a total bullshitter, so it's impossible to really know what is going on in a situation like this.

I don’t know just the patch is 5GB size… it should have a lot more than 5 seconds render… even more due being render instead video.

 

[ethomaz]

That's not how submitting patches work. It's an hour by hour process. BBG lied about "last minute failure" cause he/they never submitted the patch.

- or it was all intentional...

I believe he didn’t submitted the patch because it showed more than what he wished… so he told it was a bug and back to fix (block) the parts to release the patch.

BTW patches can be release in few hours in today Sony rules.

 

[GHG]

Hasan is a citizen of the world, free of any national clutches.

Hasan is more than a human being.

Hasan is an ideal. A guiding light, an utopia.

Hasan is each one of us when we throw away the shackles that bind us.

I think he'll be getting funding from NASA soon, with his creativity and vision he will have us on the moon in no time.

 

[mylifedotcom]

 

[Kilau]

The Abandoned app rendered my controller inoperable after watching the teaser. The system wasn’t frozen however and I could only navigate the menu that pops up after hitting the PS button. I had to power down the system to regain functionality. Anyone else have anything weird happen as a result of using this app?

Should have tried connecting to controller port 2.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[IntentionalPun]

False.. Changed in 2018 and since then devs are able to deploy patches and get them verified within hours.



"Then we were supposed to get a tech demo and the day of its expected arrival, it was delayed for a patch to go through. What's interesting is that there doesn't appear to be any patch listed on PlayStation 5 in connection with the Abandoned app. Usually, if a patch or update is in progress, a patch tracker will list information about when it's supposed to go live. The studio mentioned an update was coming to fix the reason why the highly anticipated teaser was delayed again, but nothing is showing up. Now, this could be explained through certification submission protocols, though the timing still feels off. If it were a certification issue, it's more than likely that it would have been picked up before the update was slated to go live." - https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/0...-kicks-up-ps5-game-abandoned-rumors-once-more

Did you read my post?

That tweet doesn't contradict it.

There is a short cert process; you don't get that right away. Devs in other places have confirmed how it works.

Either way Hasan bullshitted about the patch, at face value.. so not sure why it even matters lol

 

[Crimson_Fate]

Considering Abandoned isn't its real name it makesd sense

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Norway, Netherlands.. tomayto tomahto

I'm from Denmark and I approve of this message

 

[GHG]

You know what, if team fake are ultimately proven to be right and this guy inserted a fucking fake ESRB rating at the start of his trailer then this will be one for the ages. Nothing else will top this level of fraudulence.

 

[ethomaz]

ESRB can be just a place holder until it is receive the final rate.
In most cases trailers use a place holder ESRB rating that the devs things it will fit the content until the final game is submitted and the ESRB give the final rating.

In any case the actual game is not called Abandoned… it has another name.

 

[mylifedotcom]

Considering Abandoned isn't its real name it makesd sense

But someone noted that it shows Rated M in the screenshot Shu shared.

And a search for all PS5 titles currently rated doesn't reveal any games not previously known.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Why do you guys keep repeating that the game isn't named Abandoned?

Either way this dude does not have any content to ESRB rate lol

 

[ethomaz]

You know what, if team fake are ultimately proven to be right and this guy inserted a fucking fake ESRB rating at the start of his trailer then this will be one for the ages. Nothing else will top this level of fraudulence.

? You can place holder ESRB rating before final rating.

Trailers, demos, etc are all done using place holder ESRB seals… ESRB doesn’t rate the trailers before go online and the game is not finished yet to do so.

Plus ESRB is a form application where the devs says what it is the content… just when the final game is done the ESRB check if the content matches the form submitted.

 

[ethomaz]

Why do you guys keep repeating that the game isn't named Abandoned?

Either way this dude does not have any content to ESRB rate lol

Because he said so since first reveal.

 

[IntentionalPun]

? You can place holder ESRB rating before final rating.

Trailers, demos, etc are all done using place holder ESRB seals.

There is a specific notation for that though.. "RP" or rating pending.

 

[GHG]

? You can place holder ESRB rating before final rating.

Trailers, demos, etc are all done using place holder ESRB seals.

Interesting, I did not know that.

 

[mylifedotcom]

Says Rated M there.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Because he said so since first reveal.

Where? Link?

edit: Found a couple tweets..

Where he also said that nothing shown in April was the game as it was in early development then.. 2 months later, he babbles about Abandoned being a code name.

Yet.. he has it as the name everywhere and has yet to reveal the name he claimed he was going to reveal on June 18th lol Which was when he did that "Starts with an S, ends with an L" tweet.. he's just pretending he's Kojima.. hence the code name and the heavy handed reference to Silent Hill

Stop taking this guy seriously.

 

[Papacheeks]

I think I and others who leaked/hinted at what this is will be right as we stay silent in these trying times of #TeamReal.

Going to put this from back in June here:

I still believe the interactive app is a first person perspective of you walking around the woods trying to find things. And like he said trailers will follow through out the summer for playstations event.

They did something similar at one of the PSX years ago.

I think bluebox was contracted to make the game/app for Sony.

Silent hill will be shown at some point this summer as people find it in the interactive app.

 

[dotnotbot]

Fake rating, using songs without licence. Can't wait what's next.

EDIT: nevermind, that song is royalty free

 

[ManaByte]

Says Rated M there.

Yea it's definitely not a placeholder. He's putting a fake M rating on a game that hasn't been rated by the ESRB.

 

[ElCasual]

Well.....

 

[ManaByte]

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[GHG]

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[SJRB]

I wish Shawn Layden never left Sony.

I like how he's throwing shade left and right from the sidelines though.

 

[THEAP99]

Is it possible that Hassan can go to jail for what he's doing?

 

[ParaSeoul]

Well.....

Don't expect him to know anything tbh

 

[ManaByte]

I wish Shawn Layden never left Sony.

I like how he's throwing shade left and right from the sidelines though.

If he didn't a scam artist would've never been promoted on the PS Blog.

 

[ParaSeoul]

Is it possible that Hassan can go to jail for what he's doing?

Is it possible for you to go to jail for what you're doing?

 

[IntentionalPun]

Is it possible that Hassan can go to jail for what he's doing?

Incredibly unlikely..

If he ever successfully got an investor, and did so while lying about his company? Sure.

But even then, it'd probably be a civil action w/ monetary consequences as that's usually how petty shit like that is handled.

 

[GrayChild]

Do people really believe that a large corporation like Sony would promote an indie game on their blog without doing any background checks on the developer?

 

[IntentionalPun]

Do people really believe that a large corporation like Sony would promote an indie game on their blog without doing any background checks on the developer?

Yes.

 

[SaucyJack]

Is it possible that Hassan can go to jail for what he's doing?

That really depends on what it actually is that he’s doing.

 

[ParaSeoul]

This thread is going through the same arguments again,we're gonna have to wait for the alleged state of play and the future game show to get some real news.