now I'm here to talk to you again about
snail games have you heard of snail
games I know I have they're basically
this big Chinese holding company that
wants to you know take over the survival
game genre they fund and own a bunch of
Studios that make survival games you
might have heard of some of them ones
called ark survival evolved Pixar you
know uh dark and light Outlaws of the
old west all of course fantastic titles
a bit of sarcasm in there somewhere see
if you can get it they also released
last Oasis although there's some
confusion here because the Developers
for last Oasis say winner owned by snail
games we'll get to that because I think
you're a liar bad digress why we're
talking about this today is that most
snail games products seem to be just
doing things to their consumers and
their fans that I don't like very much
and is very very anti-consumer and just
basically very insert word that begins
with c that will get my video monetize
because YouTube doesn't like English
people Australian people or basically
anybody from these islands that uses
this amazing word if you know you know
what people have been dming me about
this all the time so I figured I'd give
the low down which is why you can see a
million tabs open let's do this it'll be
fun editing out when I'm trying to find
what I'm actually looking for that I've
seen as we go so last Oasis released and
it didn't go very well I actually
covered the game at the time because I
used to play games on these YouTube
channels of course not done that for a
long time I wonder if we're going to
bring that back I miss the old Kira get
that comment all the time this is just a
video of side tangents I guess what the
[ __ ] is going on so I don't record
videos at 12 o'clock at night but
basically when this game was about to
launch they sent me a code and were like
oh do you want to check out last Oasis
and I said yes I like survival games
let's do that and then I played it for a
few days with a couple friends and we
really enjoyed it thought it was a
fantastic experience quite early but
considering the game was Early Access
you know easily access still that's fine
right because you know what you're
getting you're gonna get some bugs maybe
a little bit of uh lack of content but
it's probably going to be worth the box
price to get in and have some fun
especially on launch because these
things like an MMO are you usually fun
at launch because that's when there's
you know the discovery and there's the
most people playing so I released a
video saying last Oasis is really good
but unfortunately that didn't age very
well age like milk as the kids say they
launched on the 26th of March and the
servers were so [ __ ] that nobody could
really play it was laggy they were
crashing if you even got into the game
and then of course they just took the
game down for I believe it was about a
week but it could have been a little bit
longer and they said you know we're
gonna fix it and we're gonna release it
again to that assay are you dumb stupid
or dumb you could essentially have done
like a limited play test for a free
weekend or something without charging
anyone any money people would have still
got upset because even if you give
somebody something for free if it
doesn't work they're gonna moan about it
but before you had actual consumers
paying money for something you could
have figured out the servers didn't work
but instead you gave it to a limited
number of influencers [ __ ] that word but
that's what they call us and we put out
positive coverage of a game that was
pretty good and then that made us look
silly which I'm not a big fan of to be
honest even though it was out of my
control I couldn't know the servers
weren't going to work and then by the
time the game had released again a lot
of people had moved on and were just
playing other things and it kind of
Forgotten so essentially if you look at
the numbers of last Oasis you can see
that when it released they were in a
unique position that not a lot of games
get they had 33 000 concurrent players
which would put it in the top couple
percent I believe
of games that release on Steam in terms
of like initial hype you're in a good
spot to do real well and by the time
they'd got it working properly and they
still had some issues mind you it was
basically you know down already by quite
a large percentage unfortunately it
continued to go down because there just
wasn't that much content which again
Early Access it's understandable and
you'll see this with a lot of survival
games the ones that are good eventually
bounce back and go up because people are
always looking for these types of games
to play so they give them another chance
and they go back for big patches which
as you can see here happened they had
the opportunity here if any of these
patches have revitalized the game for
the game to like go super well again and
continue to climb up but they just
couldn't seem to do it they couldn't get
the game to work in a way that people
really enjoyed and kept them playing all
the time but when you're getting down to
like hundreds of players online in a
game like this you know you've done
[ __ ] up now let's get to the bad
things the things that make me say
you're a bad company and you should feel
bad as soon as things start going
terribly for products people have paid
money for what they do is they start
digging into your company in your
history and they found of course that
donkey crew had made other games one of
which being called of kings and Men
which they tried to crowdfund on
Kickstarter originally failed and then
released the game again on Steam Early
Access and it wasn't very good and they
tried to change the game a couple times
nobody played it and then they just
pulled it off steam and [ __ ] off and
made last Oasis so you've already got a
bit of a pattern form in here but hey
I'm I'm fine with Second Chances if
you've you know made a game and it just
didn't go to plan it's not crime you
didn't do the worst thing in the world
people fail and people were still
playing last Oasis even after seeing
this they were hopeful for season five
which of course they would do in the
gaming seasons and then season five
released and they did like this big push
marketing they had the game on the steam
survival weekend or whatever that put
the game 50 off in value and they got
the biggest push of players they'd had
for basically since release of the game
unfortunately it didn't matter and also
people discovered in this time that
they'd not really been spending a lot of
resource is developing this game anymore
they instead had been spending their
resources making another game so they'd
done it again which as you can see this
looks kind of cool not gonna buy a
course because [ __ ] these people but it
does look kind of cool and here we have
it donkey crew allegedly this is a bit
of a rip of their previous game although
this one's going to be single and Co-op
I believe as opposed yeah single and
Co-op instead of being like a big
Survival game because they probably
learned a lesson that they just couldn't
handle what they tried to do previously
and if they were still developing last
Oasis that would you know that'd be okay
but of course as you can see from the
charts at this point when they weren't
really working on the game anymore they
started thousands of people that were
buying the game playing the game and
wanted to play the game that they were
sold that was in Early Access which is
somewhat of a promise to say we will
continue to develop if you give us money
now it's not the finished product now
but it will be one day which of course
is a promise that a lot of game
developers just [ __ ] ignore and just
do whatever they want and then when you
start looking into it a little bit
further it gets worse than this because
they've not posted an announcement on
their Discord since November 23 2022
they've not posted [ __ ] on their Twitter
since October 21st 2022 in tweets or
replies so they're not even replying to
anybody and they don't post in their
Discord they're not even really
moderating it as you can see people are
just changing their name to you know
talk [ __ ] about the product what is
bellright are they still developing the
game no
donkey crew equals deceitful Crocs
which is a great Discord name really and
then something looks real interesting
because when you go to the Bell Riot
discussions on Steam there's just one
post but then if you go to any social
media that isn't controlled by the
donkey crew team you'll see that
everybody who posts anything even if
it's positive gets banned from the Bell
right section I have a bunch of examples
here we've got somebody posted
you were banned reason off topic how
about this classic you've been banned by
a bellright developer off topic lots of
off topic bands here personally how I
manage my community is when somebody
says something that's off topic I say
can you stop doing that please here's
another one you've been banned off topic
and of course they're banning some of
these people for criticism and while
this is technically off topic it does
just look like you're trying to silence
people from saying things that you don't
like which is true you've abandoned
multiple games at this point especially
considering the time in a view pushed
like a big sale on your game with an
update at that time didn't even have a
steam profile file now there's also in a
really interesting thing here that makes
me think that these developers are just
not being completely honest you see a
pogo son he says we're not owned by
snail games though they're just a
regular investor like any hedge fund
could have been or any other company
now I didn't know whether this was true
or not so I looked up the SEC report
which you have to file to do business
and in the snail games one it says our
games Ark survival evolved are Flagship
franchise and then talked about last
Oasis developed in connection with our
wholly owned subsidiary donkey crew now
I don't know if I'm taking crazy pills
here take me back to the 80s where that
saying comes from but if you're a
subsidiary that means you have a parent
company and when you're a wholly owned
subsidiary that means you're owned by
that parent company wholly meaning all
of it even with Atlas here you can see
there's a distinction between whether
they'd say holy or in Partnership they
say developed in partnership with grape
shot games which looks like Atlas might
not be 100 owned by snail games but when
the company that owns you is saying in a
report to the [ __ ] United States
Securities and Exchange Commission we
wholly own that company if you can't
turn around and say where they're owned
by snail games though you [ __ ] talking
all liar based on what they're saying
you know are they just lying into the US
government because that doesn't seem
like a fantastic idea but as you can see
this was filed on September 16 2022 and
he sent a message on October 28 2022. so
we can't even make the excuse that oh
they just bought them you know after he
said this they already owned them so I
don't know what pogosan's talking about
which I will just show you he is a
developer he is the red name as the
other red names are as the developer
role so it's not just some random guy
talking [ __ ] they also of course had a
free weekend at the point where they had
the sale so they did this big push of
like everybody come play last Oasis come
play this update we've just pushed come
give us money we're not developing the
game anymore by the way and after this
we're not going to post on any of our
social media including anything in any
general post or anything and if you even
speak about our other game to warn
people that we repeatedly abandon our
games in Early Access and don't finish
them even though people pay those two
we're gonna ban you well you can't ban
me so so here's a YouTube video about it
and the reason this bothers me so much
is I've been a big proponent of Early
Access I love Early Access games I love
the function and the fact that this
exists because over the years I can
guarantee I've spent more time and way
more money of course playing Early
Access games than I have AAA games
because AAA games for me a lot of the
time outside of a few select developers
like fromsoft for example they're mostly
just kind of copy paste for me they're
the similar experiences that we've been
playing for a real long time and Early
Access brings us something fresh that
we're not getting and focuses on some
genres that I really do enjoy like
survival for example so I support Early
Access games always have done probably
always will do but I don't like
obviously when some companies show up
especially ones that are owned by big
companies with big money and just [ __ ]
around with the name of it because
people get burned and then they might
not support another game that has
passionate developers that could have
delivered the experience just based on
that fact and then I have to see all the
other people that show up in the
comments like Early Access never even
though some amazing games have come from
Early Access that wouldn't have done if
we didn't have this platform and the
ability to do this so I really don't
like when companies do this and it seems
like snail games for whatever reason is
a Serial offender of doing [ __ ] like
this whether it's nail games that does
this stuff and makes these decisions or
the company that that they definitely
wholly own according to the SEC reports
I don't know I'm gonna guess though
based on how ownership works there is
their decision so that's it I'm gonna
stop talking about snail games now it's
probably gonna be a while before I make
another video about this company
hopefully at least but I would suggest
you don't buy the next game because if
it doesn't do supremely well they will
probably abandon it so there we go
thanks for watching as always see you
next time peace out oh wait guys I I've
just I've just found this I wanted to
just double check before I publish this
ignore everything I said in this video
about uh donkey crew being owned by
I can't say this was a [ __ ] straight
face ignore everything I said about
donkey crew being owned by snail games I
lied they are not wholly owned they lied
in their SEC report they do not wholly
own this company this developer that
posted and said oh yeah we're not owned
by snail games though he is 100 right
there that snail games only own 99 of
donkey crew so I put my hands up I was
incorrect they've got me there somebody
somewhere does own one percent of the
stock so they've [ __ ] done me on the
technicality there
[ __ ] it oh man I love being a YouTuber
because I'd never experienced anything
like this if I if I wasn't and just was
randomly looking through SEC documents
so yeah I'm a liar whoever's out there
with that one percent you've [ __ ]
done me on this one