The Abandoned Realtime Experience story starts to become ridiculous at this point, and we’re not even at the end yet…
Abandoned (or “Abandoned” as the game’s name is not final yet) was planned to get a reveal via an update to its Realtime Experience app, which would run the trailers of the game in real-time, making use of the PlayStation 5’s 3D audio and its DualSense controller’s abilities, respectively. After a couple of delays, the teaser video would have surfaced on August 10, at 9 PM CEST. However, the app (which has several language options, seemingly having bad machine translation, such as Google, and even English coming with atrocious grammar…) didn’t get the update.
“There is a technical issue with the delivery of the patch. We are working on getting this live ASAP. We apologize for the inconvenience. We will inform you once we resolved the issue,” Blue Box Game Studios wrote on Twitter at 9:15 PM. At 11 PM, they added: “Quick update: we are still working on it. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.” Then, on August 11 (today), at 1 PM, the studio added: “The delay is taking longer than expected. We are fully working on this. We thank you for the patience, and we apologize for this.” The problem here is that it’s not the first time we saw a last-second problem pop up.
Hasan Kahraman, the head of Blue Box Game Studios, was interviewed by a Middle Eastern publication AlHub, and we aren’t surprised to see the link not work, given the previous experiences with Hasan. In the interview, he said: “You have no idea, it was crazy and had a negative effect even on the development process with a lot of distractions, but I’m sure people will like Abandoned, we believe in the game, and I still think people will like it. I can’t reveal much about the game, but I can say that it takes place in a deserted place in America.”
He referenced Hideo Kojima and Silent Hills in his first sentence, which is why his project got so much attention. However, he can only blame himself for all of this. After all, the studio’s Twitter account previously wrote (as the tweet is no longer available) “Abandoned = S…L.” After this comment, what on Earth did Hasan expect!?
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