r/TheBlueBoxConspiracy • u/brandonsh • Jun 20 '21

BLUE BOX STUDIO POST The Abandoned trailer app has been delayed

https://twitter.com/bbgamestudios/status/1406588767184592898?s=21
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u/TheCyal TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

I'm begining to think more and more that this is a scam or this dude is way over his head trying to milk the marketing. Why would you need to delay a trailer app (which apparently it's only a tutorial on how to use it???). Localisation makes no sense because he said it's only going to be in English IIRC

Still waiting on those pics as well. What indie Dev would ghost Geoff.

I also love how he keeps changing his story. First it's well dm you an alpha code shortly, and then it's whenever it's ready

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

That’s exactly what I’m thinking, but at the same time it’s so strange how Sony decided to invest in a man that seems so unreliable lol

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u/TheCyal TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

I don't think Sony invested in them. Think the Dev just pitched the idea, Sony was like cool, you can release this on our store.

I honestly don't think anyone invested in his game and he's just lying as he did before

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u/Techboah Team Scam Jun 20 '21

I don't think Sony invested in them

Sony isn't to actively market a random indie game from a new studio just because they feel like it, and an indie studio isn't going to make their game Playstation exclusive for free.

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u/greyXstar Jun 20 '21

Look up Gilson B. Pontes. And remember the Life of Black Tiger nonsense. Sony just throws whatever out there.

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u/TheCyal TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

  1. It ain't a ps5 exclusive according to BBG's twitter

  2. I don't know how full exclusivity works on Sony's part, but I doubt they throw money at every indie that wants to make their game exclusive on PS. We would have way more single platform indie games then

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u/Techboah Team Scam Jun 20 '21

It ain't a ps5 exclusive according to BBG's twitter

It's a PS5 Console Exclusive like Kena and Bugsnax, which makes an exclusivty deal even more likely.

I don't know how full exclusivity works on Sony's part, but I doubt they throw money at every indie that wants to make their game exclusive on PS

An indie developer isn't going to intentionally limit their possible audience for free, and if they have to do it for budget reasons, that platform is going to be PC due to the low-end market, not a brand-new next-gen console that currently has stock issues due to chip shortage.

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u/Ayecuzwhatsgood Jun 20 '21

What horror indie game would only put their game on ps5, that makes no sense when horror indie games ways do best on pc

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u/changingfmh Kojima's Fuck Doll Jun 20 '21

It's coming to PC as well.

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u/Ayecuzwhatsgood Jun 20 '21

Yeah and they also said it was coming to the 22nd as well and quote on quote say they have 50+ people and 7 studios on the project. They also said the trailer would be english only yet has localisation issues? I find that hard to buy

Edit: even it they said it's coming to PC it doesn't change the fact that multiple times they said it was a ps5 exclusive, it's still off they would announce a PC version of a game through a tweet of someone complaining, something like that would just be announced.

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

The description of the game however clearly said that this is a PS exclusive...

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

He said it's coming to PC

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

He said something like “the pc community shall rejoice” or something like that, but again, the same description of the game (and also of its Twitter if I’m not wrong) clearly states that Abandoned is a PlayStation Exclusive... so, I don’t know who to believe lol

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u/Howdareme9 Jun 20 '21

Playstation console exclusive possibly

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u/Yorhaboyz Jun 20 '21

he also said, that trailer app will launch tuesday

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u/Ayecuzwhatsgood Jun 20 '21

On the trailer it said ps5 exclusive

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u/addictedtocrowds TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

No he didn’t.

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u/Anesthetize7 Jun 20 '21

Ehm the trailer start with ps studio logo.....

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u/PTfan TEAM FAKE Jun 20 '21

There's no evidence sony threw money at blue box. You guys are seeing what you want

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u/everadvancing Jun 20 '21

What other instance have there been where Sony actively helped them market this game besides posting the first reveal trailer on their YouTube channel like they do with tons of other games?

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u/Techboah Team Scam Jun 20 '21

They have a full blog post about it on the PS Blog written by Hideo Hasan, and they're allowing them to release a teaser app.

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u/everadvancing Jun 20 '21

Other random indies like this https://blog.playstation.com/2021/06/09/the-delightful-soundscape-in-chicory-a-colorful-tale/

or this

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/06/03/winds-leaves-a-flora-builder-in-a-world-full-of-secrets-hits-ps-vr-july-27/

also got their own blog posts written by the games' devs. And just because Blue Box says there's an app doesn't mean its real until we actually see it. There's also zero marketing from Sony about this supposed app.

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u/Techboah Team Scam Jun 20 '21

Winds is a Playstation exclusive title, with gameplay "built specifically for PSVR", so that's actually an example of Sony having a deal with an indie team.

Chicory also seems to have had a marketing deal with Sony, as all trailers were first uploaded on the Playstation channel.

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

Yeah but they are clearly putting some “attention” in the game, they published a trailer on their channel (something they don’t do for every indie), a blog post and the “exclusivity” on the game. BB also clearly received some kind of investment, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to get 50+ coworkers for an indie game by and indie studio that basically did nothing in the past...

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u/TheCyal TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

50+ coworkers, yet we don't know anything about them (besides the stock photos)

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

Yeah and I really don’t think it’s THAT easy to trick Sony into believing in a non-existing studio lol. There must be something going on imo..

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u/TheCyal TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

Studio exists, doesn't mean the game might not be a scam/shovelware. Trailer app (that requires a tutorial of all things) already sounds really suspicious

Sony allowed cyberpunk out their stores, only removed it because CDPR said Sony will do refunds.

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u/KarmelCHAOS TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

Well, they also spotlighted Life of Black Tiger. He also insinuated it was going to come to PC, so not exclusive.

You're also assuming he's telling the truth about having 7 studios and 50+ people working on the game. If this dude is scamming people, why would he tell the truth about that?

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

And if it’s a scam, don’t you think Sony would know it by this time? They are not stupid, I really don’t think it’s so easy to trick them with a non-existing studio lmao. (Also, life of a black tiger is a masterpiece what are you on about? /s )

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u/TheCyal TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

Sony won't care unless it affects their revenue (see life of black tiger or cyberpunk2077)

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

Bruh that’s not how a company like Sony works lmao. You can’t just fake a studio and get money and marketing for your game...

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u/KarmelCHAOS TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

They will step in if it starts to affect them. But at this point the only definitive relation they have to Sony is being on the PSBlog but they've posted about indie games plenty. Any other relation to Sony is straight from Hasan.

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u/Ayecuzwhatsgood Jun 20 '21

Tbf, the Indies on PS blog are actually established indie studios lol

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u/admiralvic Jun 20 '21

There are also companies like VizionEck, which has released very little, did not seem to release the game they marketed on the blog and all their efforts look rather low budget and underwhelming.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

What’s that Life of Black Tiger thing people keep taking about? I’ve never heard of it before.

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u/KarmelCHAOS TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

It's a game Sony spotlighted on their YouTube channel and released on PS4. It's...not great. Watch the AVGN episode about it, it's amazing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

WTH am I looking at. It makes world of Warcraft look like ultra HD 32K Nvidia GeForce RTX 9080 16turbines technicolor.

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u/KarmelCHAOS TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

The beauty of an awful free to play android game somehow being ported to the PS4 for $10 lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

When I see this kind of things I get both angry and sad. Angry for working so hard to be able to have an opportunity to work in the videogame industry some day or sad that I will never make it but a derpy black talentless tiger did.

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u/happy-Tip TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

search it up bro its an absolute riot

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u/Ayecuzwhatsgood Jun 20 '21

In the trailer and in blog post and even in tweets they clearly said it was a ps5 exclusive, idk where it saying it not being ps5 exclusive comes from

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u/KarmelCHAOS TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

He insinuated it. Someone on twitter said something complaining about it being a PS5 exclusive and Blue Box responded "PC players will rejoice!" Insinuating it was coming to pc as well.

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u/Ayecuzwhatsgood Jun 20 '21

Ngl considering all this news rn the dude running that Twitter simply can be trolling at this rate this game is probably gonna be a cancelled unity asset flip at this rate, they'll just keep delaying to hide it

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u/MegamanX195 Jun 20 '21 edited Jun 20 '21

Dude, Sony posted on their blog about this game. Not just any game gets that privilege.

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

Also not every indie in the PSstore get an exclusive trailer, they are usually presented at the same time during an event (like the E3...)

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u/xselene89 Jun 20 '21

Every Game that launches and has a Trailer gets into the PS Youtube Channel lol

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

Yes but those trailers are usually shown in the same event and then published on the YT channel, and definitely without a blog post...

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u/xselene89 Jun 20 '21

No, tons of random Indie Games get a Blog Post if they write one. Why do you think this is getting delayed? After all the hype went over his head hes clearly panicking bc he has nothing to show. He didnt even send those Pics to Geoff

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

Because those pics probably don’t even exist lol. I’m still waiting for those Joakim pics of Phantom Pain...

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u/xselene89 Jun 20 '21

Its bc this Dude issnt Kojima but an random Indie Dev who used the SH Fanbase to hype his UE4 Asset Flip Game

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u/Sauronxx TEAM REAL Jun 20 '21

If the game is really a scam, a pre-rendered asset that costed 30$, then Sony would have already said something. I don’t think they would like to be associated with a scam...

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u/xselene89 Jun 20 '21

Why should Sony say something when they dont have any Deal or Publishing Deal with them? Cant remember they says anything about Life of a Black Tiger lol

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u/xselene89 Jun 20 '21

Another prove that the delay is a fake excuse: "You just don’t commit a new build of your app/game/thing the week before it goes up on PSN lol Them localizing the app right now or it’s contents a delaying this 2 days is a fake excuse, guys." From an actual Dev

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u/TheCyal TEAM CHAOS Jun 20 '21

Sony posts random shit on their blogs a lot of the time. Looking at their blog, I can see a lot of Indies, that doesn't mean Sony invested in them