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It was never going to come out.

Despite what I say on the internet, I actually have a lot of respect for developers of NFT games. Actually respect isn’t the word I’m looking for. Interest? No, too vague. Anyway, the point is that I think it’s hilarious whenever an NFT game pulls the rug on its customer base of nitwits and leaves them with absolutely nothing to show for it.

Midnight Society is the latest example of farming schmucks for cash and leaving them empty handed after a relatively short development period. And before we continue I’d like to say that I’m not implying that the Midnight Society folks were running some kind of scam. Well, NFT games as a whole are inherently scams, but nobody at Midnight Society was planning to cut and run with the money. And I say that genuinely and not as a cover against potential legal threats. The problem is that they built their mansion on a foundation of swamp and diarrhea. DD was doomed the day they announced it.

Deaddrop, the vertical extraction game previously headed by Dr. Disrespect before Dr. D got fired for texting minors inappropriately, was a monetization scheme in search of a game. We thought Evolve was bad by advertising collector’s editions before the game was even fully revealed, Deaddrop was selling cosmetics long before a minimally viable version of the game even existed. They were playing off FOMO with limited quantity founder’s packs in a way that even Strauss Zelnick would find greasy and unethical.

Well the company is dead, and Deaddrop is cancelled. And by that I mean they pulled the brain dead carcass off life support and stopped manually pumping its lungs, even though it really died well over a year ago. And Twitter is having a moment.

There is a lot of entertainment to pull from Deaddrop being officially dead and dropped, particularly around the desperation and hopelessness of the dweebs who actually spent real money on it, and are now feeling buyer’s remorse. Specifically on who is to blame and what they could have done different. And no, Deaddrop didn’t fail because Midnight Society fired Dr. D. The game’s player base was dead already by that point and the game was doomed from the start because a vertical extraction shooter in itself is likely a dead end game concept. More importantly the NFT game market had already imploded by that point outside of bots and investors running bots pretending that a healthy economy exists.

People are asking where their refunds are if the company is going bankrupt, and I don’t think they understand how bankruptcy works. I am however in full favor of them suing Midnight Society on the grounds that such a lawsuit would waste thousands more in legal fees trying to draw blood from the rock that is a now-bankrupt business. Go for that, it’s the smartest idea you’ve had since investing in an NFT game.

On the other hand I have a Patreon you can funnel money into and still not get a released video game out of, but I also promise not to shut down in three years.

One of the positive features of NFT ownership for games, as I’ve been told, is that even if a game shuts down players can theoretically use those titles in other games. I’ve yet to see a game actually offer this, and Midnight Society certainly doesn’t seem willing to hand their assets out even though the company itself is going kaput and will have no need for them. In fact people seem to have absolutely none of the ownership they were advertised when the game first launched.

Sucks for them. At least if the game was non-NFT and was on a reputable store you’d be able to get your pre-order money back. It’s a real travesty.