so I've been hit up left right in center people are telling me big fry fantastic is back they've learned their lesson they're apologizing and they're releasing a new game and I thought surely there's no way these scammers are back after getting removed from Steam and basically erased from the internet after releasing one of the biggest scam lying manipulative games that I've ever seen in my life there's no way fantastic is back I went to check out their Twitter and oh oh I I'll go myself I guess so yeah fantastic is back with a website that
looks like it was made in the early 2000s and we're going to go through it piece by piece cuz there is a lot to talk about here uh so fantastic.com help fantastic return once you helped us create fantastic through Kickstarter today we need your help again to bring back by funding our new game on Kickstarter and supporting us on social media and Discord so they have a Kickstarter that we're going to go over in a little bit but we have to go through again piece by piece take action with your support our team is ready
to create our next favorite games and the way you can help guys is by supporting their Kickstarter campaign joining their Discord and supporting them on social media oh by the way they're also selling merch $90 for a hoodie I know our Looney is a little bit less than the us but holy look if you guys really want to buy a t-shirt you can pick up my new shirt here and it's literally literally half the price and you're telling me the hat is sold out already who's buying this everyone deserves a second chance now I will
say I I agree with that sentiment 8 months after you tried to scam the entire internet though I don't know about all that we deeply apologize to everyone for the day before and take full responsibility for what happened take a look at our plan fantastic 2.0 where we share how we'll fix our past mistakes and are preparing to return better I'll say this the fact that you have me blocked on Twitter after you were following me up until like a week ago tells me that you guys haven't learned so we have a brand new logo
it looks very much like the twitch logo uh let's have a look here fantastic 2.0 the plan for Recovery uh here we go principles honesty from now on our development and marketing will be based on the principle of honesty we commit to building trust within our community Through direct and honest communication we commit to openly communicating the challenges we face without concealing any details and all aspects of our marketing will remain clear transparent and free from embellishments guys this is something you should have just like it's this is what you should have done from day
one transparency we understand the mistakes and absence of past Communications we commit to ensuring transparency and development and openly providing honest and all of this like if this is the the like you have to come out and say hey guys we promise that we're going to remain honest like you seriously up we are transitioning from a volunteer-driven approach to one firmly rooted in professionalism our objective is to gather industry professionals and Specialists and improve our existing employees skills we will continuously raise all standards and practices aspiring to become the company that earns your trust and
admiration and I think the key word here is earns you have to work so hard right now to earn people's trust selling merch isn't it a Kickstarter isn't it we're going to talk about that in just a little bit brand rebuilding the new Fantastic brand embodied by its vibrant blue logo and bold geometric design represents more than a mere visual update it signifies the company's renewed commitment to transparency and honesty shut the up we've discontinued the practice of involving external volunteers and are now fully committed to a more professional approach what will the community gain
from your return Why should the community supports your Kickstarter oh let's let's just zoom in on this one real quick this is the this this is the real question a successful Kickstarter will allow us to release our new game escape Factory and soon announce an Innovative game in the prop hunt genre we have many exciting plans for future games and you'll have the opportunity to be involved in their creation alongside us we're asking for a second chance and we believe that with your support we can create your future favorite games that didn't answer the question
why should the community support your Kickstarter what because you'll be able to release a new game make money off that new game and then make more games to make money off look you burned everybody now granted steam did initiate refunds instantaneously everybody was refunded nobody got but if steam didn't step in at the time we all would have been and 8 months later we're asking for a second chance look I fully believe in second chances there has been plenty of games on this channel that I've covered that have gotten second third chances and they have
made some out of it but truth is they didn't scam people like you guys did you lied you manipulated you led people astray for years and and we have it all documented from the court case about the day before his trademark to all of that to the launch everything and now 8 months later you're asking for a second chance go yourself coming back and asking for a second chance is one thing coming back and asking for a second chance while also asking to fund that second chance is insane all right let's go have a look
at the kickstarter let's watch this trailer uh I'm going to I'm going to bring it up here I haven't seen this yet Escape Factory I'm I'm going to say just over here Kickstarter ain't looking too good but let's have a look here [Music] you guys are asking for $2,000 Canadian dollars what's that about 16 16 Grand US no no here's my thing okay I know how much money I put up in the early days of working on my own project if you guys can't put up$ 20,000 Canadian dollars to to develop a game and bring
it to the finish line what the there is no possible reason why you guys just can't fund this game yourself it looks like it's already pretty far along at least in the trailer why do you need our money okay 20K equals Game launch secured dude $20,000 equals Game launch secured and Fantastics return you're telling me that you guys can't scrape together 20K between your team to bring this game to the finish line 50k for a steam deck version so it would wait what you're telling me that $20,000 gets you to the finish line and you
need an extra 30 grand to make a steam deck version 100K brings it to consoles I don't believe that each location has its own unique soundtrack 250,000 what this is insanely 500k is a new mode 700k is a Creator mode this is all horseshit wait what enjoy an unforgettable dinner with the founders of Fant for 12 Grand where the are you eating on the moon as a token of appreciation you'll be named as a special sponsor in the game credits bro you don't even get like an executive producer role you don't get any special sponsor
that's cool that'll get what the are you guys eating here we go game development is 65 to 75% so $220,000 65 so dude so realistically you could you're telling me that you could build this game 75% for about 15 grand if if that's the case just put up the money yourself if you're entering into the gaming space and you need to raise $115,000 or else you'll just not make the return I don't believe that well I guess it all makes sense now that the game only cost $155,000 give or take to bring to the Finish
Line because data miners this is coming out as I'm recording this video data miners have found out that the game is an asset flip from front to back going through their files in the codebase it's made up of assets simply flipped from the unity store Many of which you're free to use the networking Lobby and matchmaking mechanics are all examples of unity demo code that's typically used by those learning to develop games now I haven't looked at the demo I haven't played the game this is coming from Insider gaming they make mention of somebody named
ocular malice who I guess went through the files and found out yeah yeah all of this stuff was basically free on the unity store and they slapped it together and here's the thing while I was watching the Gameplay trailer you guys are seeing it on screen these are the kind of games that I like playing with my friends off stream not making content just fun party games you can screw around in and I said like it actually doesn't look too bad well yeah there's a reason for that because they built it in probably six months
using free assets from the unity store and now they're saying that they need 15 grand to come back to the gaming industry and it needs to come from your pockets nobody should be backing this game on Kickstarter you guys shouldn't be supporting these developers at all because after 8 months they're still blocking people for criticism they're still deleting Forum posts calling them out for this and they haven't learned a thing only how to scam you out of more money you want to earn people's trust back do it the right way or off [Music] w [Music]
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