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Midnight Society Closing Down, Development of DEADROP Ends

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Today we are announcing Midnight Society will be closing its doors after three incredible years, with an amazing team of over 55 developers contributing to our new IP DEADROP. We are actively seeking other game studios that would be interested in offering employment opportunities to our talented team members. If you know anyone who's hiring please forward this message to them or DM us for direct intros. We express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of our community members and deeply sorry we were unable to reach our ultimate goal.

Midnight Society was founded on the core principles of transparency and open development. From as early as the creation of the very first weapon, environment, and gameplay systems, we shipped playable builds of our games to our massive community of players. With the leadership of three industry veterans, the studio grew to over fifty AAA developers from the largest franchises in the world (Call of Duty, Halo and Fortnite), alongside hundreds of thousands of community members who signed up to play in-development Snapshots of our first game and provide crucial feedback for the team.




DEADROP Snapshot VII: Midnight Ride Gameplay Trailer:


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So it's dead? The trailer reminds me of the tabletop game from the 80s/90s, Car Wars. That was cool. But I suppose that's what the very first GTA was - top down car shooter 'em up.

I mean, its a tough time for a lot of games studios (unless you're a small indie doing it for the love.). But how much money was 50 AAA devs sinking?
 
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Such "massive" community of players the company went under. These corporate lies used to be somewhat believable.
 
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When your company is built and marketed by a child predator and your "game" was a nft scam already taking money from people for a product that was years from being a reasonable alpha nothing is surprising here.

I was going to ask if this was that "game" but you answered my question before asking. Thanks! Also, yes good riddance.
 

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So Dropdead Dropped Dead ?, aah o well.

Then again Fortnite is not my kind of game and on top of that only the 1st COD was any good.
 
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When your company is built and marketed by a child predator and your "game" was a nft scam already taking money from people for a product that was years from being a reasonable alpha nothing is surprising here.
Ah of course, I remember that news.

I'm honestly surprised they lasted this long. NFTs fell apart a good year ago or more.
 
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Well, it didn't last long after the departure of their "celebrity co-founder" DrDisrespect.
Also, I suspect that even if was out, he and everything he touched became toxic for investors. So outcome this ain't too surprising.
 
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So like Star Citizen except with NFTs?
 

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When your company is built and marketed by a child predator and your "game" was a nft scam already taking money from people for a product that was years from being a reasonable alpha nothing is surprising here.

Ouch. I didn't know about any of that. Yeesh.
 
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Ah the ever informed comments are here so let's present a different view:
- Legal teams cleared it,
- Stop trying to hype sensationalist tribalism, whatever you think happened, lawyers disagree.
- You hate the doc, it's your right but it doesn't make the drama true
- Midnight society got famous because of the doc, and they are the ones that threw him away like a dirty glove
- Doc publicly ridiculed them for focusing resources on loot box mechanics and crappy monetization instead of making great games
- The day Midnight released their closing statements is the day Youtube re-monetized the Doc's channel.

Everything else is just drama bs and tribalism, jabs and grabs by people at bits and pieces, trying to get something flashy to virtue signal, letting their tribe know that they're good and submissive. If you have a problem, check legal. It's all out there anyway since it was the nr1 drama for a while
 
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