Abandoned App Patch Drops, Trailer Is the Same as Twitter Tease

Why is PlayStation putting up with this?

THAT’S IT???? AFTER ALL THIS?

I seriously hope no one buys this game cause I'm 100% sure it is either a scam or a troll by the devs. It isn't Kojima at all

lol it's just laughter at this point.

a teaser for a trailer but they already showed us that teaser. lol

Absolutely pathetic, all that talk about what the demo could do and several delays all for what? A bit of footage thrown together in Unity in a few hours

I'm gona need more popcorn

@BigBoom3ai3 they probably don't even know who they are, despite some Twitter fans giving them a bit of publicity they are basically nobodies

@carlos82

You can’t tell me Sony isn’t 100% aware of this.

In other news Arsenal are still rubbish

Really becoming pathetic now. This could hurt Sony big time if it becomes nothing.

@BigBoom3ai3 why would they? At some level there'll be people aware of an app being submitted but how many of those do they get? Outside of a small social media presence nobody knows who they are

Top tier trolling.

@AFCC I'm definitely buying it if it has a platinum. I love playing bad games.

Delayed for a month and then 3 more days and it’s this.
If there’s actually more to it and it becomes active at midnight or whatever (I doubt it), I don’t think many people will bother now.

@Voltan for sure. They’ve burned up most of the good will folks had about the project.

Blue Box are a scam guys, just look at there history.

https://youtu.be/EPYiBEJ_ZlI

this whole thing is just so poorly done.

they even deleted the twitter posts about the patch being delayed because it was fixed,instead of just tweeting that it was fixed.

it's almost as if hassan is the only person on that team.

the weird thing though is how they got nuor to make that video. did they just believe him and accepted the money without seeing any game or does he have a game he showed them,but is just so poor at marketing it.

Kojima wouldn’t make something this bad!

What do you expect from an hoax?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 literally lost for words. What an absolute farce

@carlos82

The social media engagements seem large enough to me, and most game sites are reporting on it as well.

Wow, are Bluebox games being serious? What a joke

hahahahahaahahahahaha.....inhales.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

No seriously, I'm done.

@BigBoom3ai3 they have 60K followers and going back a couple of months when this could have been submitted they had nowhere near that and just single digit engagements on their tweets

This developer is just waste of everyone's time. They should move on to do better with their lives than this. Have some self respect.

Edit. Just found out they actually are funded by Sony. I am wondering what playstation division thinks about this and what did they think in the first place, when this developer if you can call it so, have never made anything in 6 years.

The next video (cinematic reveal trailer) will be the one in the woods with that awful narration that came out last year or whenever it was

Ha that's awesome! But...there's a hint of the PT table blurred at the end there!...and so the cycle continues...

At this point I think you'd have to be pretty crazy downloading that app if you have your credit card details attached to your console. I'm waiting to see if this thing actually is anything first.

Im loving this. The menu looks like something out of metal gear and the music was definitely royksopp esque.

It must be me.

Don't give them any more coverage, that's what they want after all. It's just a big hoax, and the publicity is probably getting them ad revenue or something.

You guys realize this is probably just Sony hiding a big game and waiting to have a big blowout. All of the anger and stuff and anticipation people have towards this is going to probably build up to something that will be a game we all want. Just give it time.

Also I don't see how people can get mad about this, they literally haven't shown anything to get mad about besides the cryptic refences to Silent Hill. This company is probably just a cover for a much bigger game and it will be worth the wait.

First letter S, last letter M.

One more thing. Kojima was saying that his latest trailer is the shortest hes ever done and then this 7 second teaser popped up. Another coincidence?

I know this whole saga is kinda funny and all, but honestly - I really wish the gaming press would stop giving it attention. Surely the time spent on this could be spent promoting a cool indie studio or two?

@SplooshDmg Nah, Sony has nothing to do with this outside of simply letting the game/app/joke be published on the PS Store. Not sure what @Bamila is talking about.

Even after the evidence on Reddit we are still feeding this?!?!? Ok then.

I was into this the first few days but I ended up not even downloading this app. Hard to believe we learned about this on the blog.

@Just_2_milky have you seen it? There is nothing bad about it. If this isnt silent hill (im convinced it is) I'm still interested just for the music choice alone.

@SplooshDmg @LiamCroft Shu retweeted it, so SOMEONE is clearly aware of it.

@LiamCroft source?

Hahahahaha! They're playing all the mugs getting giddy for this like a fiddle.

@Loftimus As @SplooshDmg said, the app was published onto the PS Store by Blue Box itself. All Sony has ever done for the game is put up a PlayStation Blog post alongside hosting that trailer on YouTube, which Blue Box will have paid to have done.

Still more than sony have put out recently...

I will give them this, Blue Box is officially the most trolliest troll to ever troll in the trolliverse. I've never seen such a level of troll in my life. Trolls will put Blue Box up like a messiah and worship their likeness in the hollowed halls of Trollhalla.

I figured out the name of the game by the way. It's called "Supreme Troll". Starts with an S and ends with an L!

Whoever is in charge of marketing over there needs a massive raise. They’ve drummed up SERIOUS chatter with almost minimal cost and if the game is even halfway good, let alone excellent they’re gunna cash in majorly. It’s a bit of a marketing masterclass really. Watch this space as they say

@LiamCroft Sony are not funding it, but they did reach some sort of exclusivity deal right, either full exclusive or console. So they have to know more about this game than the public do at this point I’d imagine.

Said it from the start, this is just going to be another janky af D game

@DeepSpace5D
I remember them saying it's also coming to PC but honestly can we trust a word out of Blue Box at this point!?🤣

LoL I am glad I deleted that rubbish and unfollowed them on Twitter to now I was just looking at someone on Twitter who mentioned it and I wasn't surprised. PATHETIC. Am I the only one who thinks this is making SONY and the PS5/PlayStation brand look stupid now??? Really disappointed in SONY now really and I rarely say that

@AdamNovice I understand the why, I just wish it wasn’t the case.

@Korgon Bluebox’s specific wording on Twitter I believe was something like “PC players will rejoice”.

But then I’ve seen them advertise Abandoned as only on PS5.

But either way, even if it’s coming to PC it’s at least console exclusive and one would think Sony must be interested in it if they have locked up some form of exclusivity for it.

And I just can’t believe for a second that they would agree to a deal without seeing the product, especially if it was from a supposed no-name developer who never put out anything good in the past.

The new development in this weird story is that Kojima tweeted the word Abandoned in a sentence and everyone went crazy again.

@Milktastrophe What are some of your favorites?

@QBGaming12 I also believe it is a big game and it will be a real surprise but they will get some back lash for this weird marketing.

@DeepSpace5D
I hear ya, this is legitimately the strangest thing I've ever seen for this industry. I'd imagine your right Sony must have some reason for wanting this as exclusive in some capacity. I don't know what to think anymore with this thing. Trolling at its most extreme right here.

@carlos82 that Voldermort and DT will be fighting each other by October and Don Robbie will know that he has lowered himself to the depths of Jerry Springer when they had midgets fighting one another!

Lol. Everyone being Punk'd

I’ve lost faith in this being real and think Sony needs to cut the charades off. There’s no reason for them to leave the app on the store.

@SplooshDmg
Haha! That is a good point. They also clearly aren't interested in making money through sales considering they've put out almost nothing like you said.

It's so weird lol

@DragonKnight123 That’s what delayed means though.

This is hilarious ngl 😂😂

It's a Silent Hills for sure. Ya know, the game that was Abandoned.

I think this guerilla approach is awesome and it's very Kojima. Not saying it is him, but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery after all.

Right, I've convinced myself (😂) that hes walking out of the first room and into the P.T hallway.

Am i wrong? Probably

@Dr-M Attacking Zegeta is the all time classic. I think I've got like 180 hours on it, beaten it dozens if not hundreds of times. Too bad the last trophy is unobtainable.

There's also Crash Dummy, it actually feels more like Attacking Zegeta 2 to me than the actual Attacking Zegeta 2.

@Loftimus nothing bad about the game itself (of what we’ve seen), but the marketing is baffling.

Someone, at some point must help us all make sense of all this Abandoned thing. I hope it will be the YouTube channel The Internet Historian.

What is mind boggling for me is how all this is happening on top of the PlayStation 5 platform.

@MUG3NHC sadomasochism? 😝

@Just_2_milky i think that is the hook to get people to look into it. No point in setting it up if nobody catches on.

I am loving this! I have no interest in the game at all but this whole slow motion car crash of high profile stupid is just hilarious and fascinating.

Well if it's not a scam, then it's different from the previous trailer as it is actually happening on the viewer's PS5, theoretically they could have any code in there to mess with it later and not play the same way. It's got to have some weird twist like that or what would be the point of having a real-time app over a standard trailer.

Gamers scream and cry so much, it's entertaining tho. No wonder the stereotype is 'man-child'. Good on the company for trolling them.

That’s clearly Silent Hill music with a slight change and the figure walking is wearing Harry Masons clothes, combined with the exact same walking sound effect from Silent Hill. Silent Hill is a psychological horror game, and it’s being advertised in a psychological mind f**k way. It’s going to be a Silent Hill remake! No doubt about it! The music is straight up from Silent Hill!

@SplooshDmg Squanch, yeah I do bro!😂 Maybe I’ll be disappointed, but I’d rather be excited about something and move on than be excited about nothing at all.

@NickTheGeek
Yeah, but you have to have some product. I would agree if they had something like P.T. They would have probably been successful. They don't though. They have the equivalent of nothing. P.T. you could play, and it was amazing for an unannounced E3 teaser to be same day. This? Nothing. Maybe even less than nothing.

Point being, P.T. could draw investors. This B.S.? Not at this point.

Bwahaha this is so funny

Writing's on the wall people

@reek my thoughts exactly. It's just video games. If you don't like it, simply move on to another video game.

@ScepticDK
I bet you're a blast at dinner parties. If this is your quality of work, I'll personally mute you. I have better to do than read drivel.

EDIT: and ignored.

@naruball Yea but teasing and trolling is gonna anger people no matter what, video games or not.

@XanderTigerclaw
I was thinking of something shorter, but whatever gets your motor running;)

Come on Sony, withdraw the app and ban the dev’s use of PS moving forward.

Just daft now.

@Dr-M I checked this story out for the first time yesterday and pretty sure the Kojima tweets with Silent Hill and Abandoned are both kinda old now. I thought the last thing was Kojima saying his latest trailer is the shortest ever or something.

Kind of funny they're just wasting everyone's time tbh. Think about it, no one plays along? Game gets announced or not, you either don't care because you didn't bother looking for something that isn't currently there or get a jolly nice surprise (if it looks good). Everyone plays along? They spend precious moments of their life hyping something that simply doesn't exist or may do, but it will be less of a surprise when it finally has something to show anyway. A quick browse of the timeline was interesting enough for 10 minutes but feel sorry for whoever compiled it lol

You guys should really stop giving this stuff publicity. You're giving them exactly what they want. Ignore them and they'll go away.

@stinkyx yeah, I get that. All I'm saying is there is a very simple solution to their problem. It's not like school/work bullying that you can't ignore.

@Squanch But why would a unkonwn developer, with very little development history and no success, be given a highly anticipated franchise? They wouldn't. More likely is Blue Box trading on Silent Hill imagery to keep the hype train rolling. In one way I respect that high level trolling. It's a fine line to walk and if they fall the wrong side into being too blatent Konami will crucify them. On the other hand, trolling is trolling. It's bad, m'kay?

From an outsiders perspective, who doesn't really care either way, the situation, and the attendant reactions, are quite hilarious.

Sony currently have no news to share, so this will keep the fires warm for a while.

Though, as someone else suggested, whilst there is no real news out there, it would be great to see articles / interviews about / with smaller game studios on PuSq. I've no idea how easy or otherwise such things would be to do though.

What about the song in the trailer and its lyrics:

"I remember I was chasing you, down corridors with walls that moved
Through places I had been before, shifting rooms and closing doors
And seeing that you could run so fast, out of breath I couldn't last
As you slowly disappeared, I couldn't shout, you couldn't hear
And I wake up to discover that this bed is all my own
And the morning light comes streaming in, through my window
And if I close my eyes I see, the fading whisper of the dream
About the time when you first kissed me, the memories
I saw stars

Back into the dream I fell, through the fields up to the hill
I could feel the town below, sleeping underneath the snow
We sat across a fallen tree, gave up all your soul to me
But I could hear a false alarm, as I wrapped you in my arms"

They are either trolling really hard or its SH after all. P.T got revealed at Gamescon i think, so we ll see soon enough.

Anyone tried the konami code...

Hilarious that people think it's a scam, lmao.

This guy is hustling the entire game industry and people are eating it up. If this crap game eventually makes any money at all, we'll have dozens of hustlers pulling the same crap. People will look back on this like they did with Cyberpunk, the autopsy will show later why we need changes to prevent these abuses. Sony took the money to feature this game on PS Blog and now this whole thing is blowing up in their faces.

@WizzNL the music is very Silent Hill. That is quite literally all

Blue Box have cried Wolf too many times...

@PossibLeigh
Though, as someone else suggested, whilst there is no real news out there, it would be great to see articles / interviews about / with smaller game studios on PuSq. I've no idea how easy or otherwise such things would be to do though.

I'd legit love something like that on the site. I'm pretty sure plenty of indy studios would love it. Maybe every couple of months.

lmao, I hope they keep trolling.

The app menu is formatted exactly like it's out of a Metal Gear Solid game. From the font to the line thickness of the boxes where the content will later be available. Clear as day.

Maybe it’s ok to just wait and see before forming conclusions?

I think it’s time to merge the sites, you seem to be running low on things to write about!

Doesn't matter what this is - no way I can buy it after these antics!

They say 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' but I would argue this is the definition of bad publicity. this team cant even release a demo player without huge errors, why would anyone expect a game they code to function?

Its been funny to see the internet chasing its tail on this, but I don't expect to see a game I want on the other end of this story...

@LiamCroft Finally saw this on a buddy's ps5 after he downloaded the app. Been sceptical myself of recent events. But we both noticed something odd...at the very end after the legs walking out of view stuff,there' seems to be a blurred screen with maybe a table corner in the left hand corner & a door looking blob in the middle. My buddy took a picture, & that's what they looked like on the smaller screen at least.🤔
It reminded me of Rockstar first tweeting that saturated image,& then updated it to silhouettes later announcing RDR 2.
Without trying to go too far down the rabbit hole,the other curiosity was Shuhei Yoshida after first tweeting about the Abandoned app launch- he responded to tweets on the delay with an emoji.
I couldn't possibly guess what it means,but just maybe there's something more to it than we first think.

I gave up on PS a little while ago, rather comical now lol

this is their entire history of lies, they never release games or demos or anything: https://youtu.be/EPYiBEJ_ZlI

This all reminds me of the Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes thing

It's a funny circus for sure, I for one hope they keep it going.

@Titntin while I agree that there most certainly is bad publicity and there are tons of examples that prove it, keep in mind that most indie games are released and don't get any attention at all. So for an indie game of a developer that no one had heard of before, this is definitely better than nothing. I don't see them releasing anything, but if they do, it will likely sell more than it would have, had they not through with this strategy.

Kojima posted yesterday on Twitter

The Murder Case of Abandoned Amusement Park

That along with Robbie the Rabbit.

Note the use of the word Abandoned.

@Styledvinny79 it's almost as if abandoned is a common word.

well im interested.

@naruball You could be right of course and only time will tell.

Id accept that the situation would do them good if it were not for the inability to code anything that's been been quite apparent here. Most people who are evaluating if something would be worth chancing would like to see that the developer can at least code something and make it work.
Time will tell!

Didnt they make a statement we have nothing to do with Kojima? Just wait and see the full trailer its not like im in a hurry.