This is one of the weirdest gaming stories I’ve heard in quite some time, and that’s really saying something, given how this year has gone. It has do with Five Nights at Freddy’s and Roblox, two Gen Z sensations, and how they combined for something truly awful that was revealed in a thoroughly bizarre fashion. Here’s what happened, according to FNAF creator Scott Cawthorn, who took to reddit to explain the mess.
This week, a Five Nights at Freddy’s game went online within Roblox, and it was so bad people thought it must have been some sort of illegal rip-off, and it was taken down shortly after.
However, this is not true. It’s a legitimate FNAF Roblox game, officially subsidized by the studio and Cawthorn, but still in development. Very, very early in development.
Cawthorn says that what he believed happened, and he is astonished that it did happen, is that he was asked for approval for specific skin in the game, which he gave. And then somehow this was misinterpreted as a directive to launch the entire game.
But the game is far from ready. Cawthorn says it’s “in its infancy” and, as players saw, it’s full of transient resources, gameplay, everything. He got rid of it immediately, but not before it baffled and disappointed many fans.
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Cawthorn seems astonished by how all this played out and apologized, saying he will fix this and the actual, finished game should be nothing like the disastrous early release that he said he hadn’t even played yet. He says it’s one of the most “baffling, insane things to ever happen in my ten years of working on FNAF.”
So, in the end, it’s. . . Good news? I mean, someone wasn’t illegally creating what looked like an FNAF-licensed game. And the good news is that the game is rarely that awful and was accidentally released too early in development. Although the considerations of the fans remain about the game. It’s probably full of microtransactions and going through something called “Freddy Pass. “
I’ve rarely noticed anything like this before. I can’t tell if anyone misunderstood what Cawthorn said and then said “well, it’s okay if he says so!”and boosted the early game. Or if it was absolutely done by a twist of fate with a technical error. Probably even if Cawthorn turns out to be saying it’s the former, it turns out that he’s still investigating the precise insanity that happened here.
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