What went wrong for Friday the 13th?
It was shit from the start
They got hit by a lawsuit that forced them to stop any further development on the game because of copyright issues
Literally not true
store.steampowered.com
While the lawsuit was happening, this game was being updated. The Friday the 13th devs just made shit up to justify stopping development
user, sorry that you're delusional but the lawsuit did happen
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I didn't say the lawsuit didn't happen, you bigger mongoloid than Jason Vorhees nigger
freddy is a cooler villain
thats what
1: Twice the price of DbD, which had a full year headstart to establish itself and work out its kinks
2: No compelling grind/metagame elements to force addiction, just casual fun
3: Console focus coupled with cheap indie devs means you have to wait three months for a bug fix because the console players need to get the update at the same time for some reason
Game was already dying before the lawsuit thing.
>Dbd
Get killed and filled with rage over shit mechanics, lag, jank and meta bullshit.
>F13
Get killed, smile and laugh about the character getting fucking slaughtered.
I don't know why but getting killed in F13 is fun but getting killed in dbd is just aggravating.
It's because in DbD you're playing because of the grind, always chasing another perk so you can play the way you want to play. Being killed means more grind. In F13 your performance barely plays a role in your scoring so you go in expecting to die and not caring.
>No compelling grind/metagame elements to force addiction
100% this. Dead by Daylight has all sorts of progression whereas this had little to none.
And a skilled Jason will effectively wipe everyone with little issue. It's silly.
Absolutely amazing if you play with your peers, however. Far better than DbD in that regard.
Holy shit there was a lawsuit? I'm guessing over character rights or something?
>And a skilled Jason will effectively wipe everyone with little issue. It's silly.
Skilled counselors coordinating would shit all over Jason, with killing him being the easiest way to win.
Both were overpriced, but DbD sensed weakness in F13 and dealt the final blow by featuring in a Humble Halloween Bundle which breathed new life into the game.
You want a list?
>Forum mods going on a power trip and alienating players
>poor balancing.
>Legal rights magically disappearing.
It was sad because it seemed like they were getting over the intial problems.
One more thing. I haven't played F13 but basing from let's plays on youtube, the killer's teleport mechanic just feels cheap.
There has to be a better game design.
It's meant to be Jason running, but they can't show Jason running because he doesn't run
Yea. I got F13 for me and my cousin extremely cheap in Halloween but SPECIFICALLY the PC version has bugged rooms compared to the console ones so finding players was impossible.
Game was dead long before the lawsuit. Stop making this shit up.
I donr know the details but I do know Copyright can be horribly complicated.
Friday the 13th was about being a fun game.
Fun doesn't sell anymore.
Jason fucking runs in part 3 with a God damn knife injury to his knees. I swear to fucking God, no one who plays F13 actually watched the fucking movies.
>They cant work on the game anymore! All licenses are being pulled!
>Months later, this gets announced
It's pretty shit so I don't see why it would stay popular.
This is pre zombie Jason
This game is post zombie Jason
This should have shut the lawsuit retards up by now, but they're low IQ friday the 13th fans
nothing went wrong, it's a good game but there was no grind or autists that keep playing it like dbd
You can also still buy Jason for Mortal Kombat X and download Killer Puzzle: Friday the 13th.
GUN Media saw that no one cared for their shitty game, it was deader than Jason Vorhees, and they still had a bunch of kickstarter incentives to fufill. The lawsuit excuse was the perfect chance for them to bail out of the project and have retards defend them for not completing their promises. Now they're working on a Predator game which I'm more than certain is going to be shit and run like shit too.
>The lawsuit excuse was the perfect chance for them to bail out of the project and have retards defend them for not completing their promises
Like, licenses fuck over games all the time which makes it semi believable if you don't look into it, but it's so wildly spread by the games retarded fans that it's the standard narrative at this point.
>Deathgarden on humble bundle
>Decide to check player count first
>200 average players
>While in a bundle
Yeesh how could they fuck up so badly?
>nothing went wrong, it's a good game but there was no grind or autists that keep playing it like dbd
That sounds like the games fault then, doesn't it?
He didn't do the smart thing and just be in DBD like all the other horror personalities.
He could've gotten somewhere.
What do you mean? The games had 2 years, I’d say that’s a good run for a game without grind
From a business standpoint, yes. But as a game I don't see it as a fault.
>The games had 2 years
The game died way before that.
This.
The devs realized they couldn't bring what they promised, and were making the game worse with every update. So they used the lawsuit as a copout, even though the people behind the lawsuit said it wouldn't effect the game in any way.
They ran away with so many people's money, I'm surprised THEY haven't been sued.
JUST
Jason???
I enjoy Friday the 13th much more. DbD is basically turn on generators simulator.
>Still haven't got enduring 1 on ghostface
its been 70 bloodwebs when will it end
It's literally too easy to kill Jason. They broke his block button on console with that engine update they did a year ago.
>"Jabon ruwn ib da moopie"
>Posts a clip where Jason moves exactly as fast as he can in the game
based retard
Jason Cuckhees
I just want to know how QTE-simulator is even popular in the first place. Shoddy visuals, 30fps-UI (which in turn makes the QTEs feel worse), host issues out the ass, and allows friends w/ outside communication to team up against one killer.
wasn't there some kind of drama where one of the developer of the game's friend got mad and accused somebody of being a pedo and the person got banned or something? or was that a different game...
It's just a way to gamify how in the movies Jason suddenly appears in different parts of the camp in an unreasonably short time-span. In-game you have very little options for intel when you use it and with a wind-up time its very useless trying to catch short distance players with it, so its only really effective if you have a hunch that someone is where you're teleporting to or if you want to examine key areas ahead of time (vehicles and such)
iirc it was a dispute between the director and producers over who holds the film IP that wound up causing collateral damage because F13TG was about to wrap up work on Jason X
Nah you're thinking of the right game - honestly stopped me from buying the game because I don't want a game ban on my Steam profile
>because F13TG was about to wrap up work on Jason X
Stop. Blaming. The lawsuit. You. Fucking. Brainlet.
no singleplayer
dead by daylight came out first, so everyone interested in a game like that had already dropped the 60 or so dollarydoos. Only for this to drop out of nowhere, it also looked pretty jank so that didn't help.
DBD was never $60. Friday the 13th did price itself out at $40 though, but it supposedly had "superior gameplay" (apparently not because people aren't playing it)
I think there was some retarded kid playing Jason and one of the players called him out on a being a retarded kid. Then another female player helped the retarded kid kill the other players because ohmigosh language or something like that which caused the player to lash out at the woman. Woman is friends with dev and shit went down.
Does candy crush have superior gameplay to *your favorite game*?
What a tired, unoriginal and autistic attempt at an argument.
I have a lot of favorite multiplayer games that are currently dead, and they're probably dead for a reason.
>Jason teleports ontop of you and breaks your neck instantly
It was complete shit
Did you seriously miss the point that hard?
Your favorite games are probably superior to candy crush in gameplay, however they aren't as addictive and entry-tier, meaning they naturally die off.
Do addictive qualities and entry-tier gameplay make for superior gameplay?
That's only if the counselors have less than 3 Bugsbys with bat perks. I've never felt more pity than the time 6 Bugsbys stun locked a Jason.
They just need to drop all the pretense and get that licensed Friday the 13th chapter already
It's really unfortunate. Friday the 13th was really fun for me. DbD is too stressful.
Left 4 Dead 2 literally has 0 addiction based mechanics and it has a pretty good playerbase unlike friday the 13th
The only games like it are vermintide and world war z. Neither have versus modes and both came incredibly late to the game
>DbD is too stressful.
Explain
youtube.com
The devs pretty much.
Not him, but the esport design and perk unlocks makes people try really hard. In other gamesm like SCPMP, I could have fun with it and the hunters would too.
It's sorta like versus L4D when you have a lobby of the usual tryhards. No fun, only stress
i admit that i payed 39,99 € for this game when it came out, had my fun and pushed me to see all the movies in the franchise,
but i admit this game was a dumpster fire with delays on top of delays of promised content, especially Grendel and Uber Jason (which his model was literally completed in the game files), still the devs are going to do a Predator game and if they fix and dont fuck it up maybe they can redeem themselves
>Freddy
>would kidnap children
>tie them up and torture them for days/weeks before finally killing them
>not a pedo because that would be pushing it "too far"
I never understood this.
Like he literally tells Nancy that she is his new girlfriend and tongue fucks her through the phone, but the studio is still so adamant that he would never fuck a child.
Basically a girl was friends with the dev and was in a game with a literal kid and a another guy
>guy had some kind of disagreement with kid, or just didn't like playing with a literal child and was talking shit
>girl teamed up with kid to get the guy killed
>guy calls her a stupid bitch for team killing
>girl gets screenshots of this and runs to her dev friend who then bans the guy
this
>hold M1: the game
boring as shit
Americans have been trying and failing to convince the rest of the world they're not pedophiles for ages now
... what
And how exactly would you go about representing that with real actors?
I'm not asking for a full penetration scene, but a line here or there saying he is a pedophile, and a child murderer would be nice.
It gives me more of a reason to dislike him, and treat him as a monster, rather than a clown he has become.
They even try to make us sympathize with him in the later movies, by explaining that his mother was gang raped, and he is the product of a mens hatred.
How about you deal with reality rather than trying to act like some smug badass on Yea Forums before I fucking eat the shit out of you nigger?
Maybe if Disney can’t bribe enough people to extend it again, they’ll stop caring and we can get some people to reverse the damage they did.
You're going to eat his shit? That's gay
this DbD is kinda boring with F13 can still be fun even if it's a buggy mess.
Big shame that it barely gets attention and the updates just made it worse
Who says that he’s not a pedo?
I played one game ever of DbD, I spawned and immediately got grabbed by a killer who then drug me down to the deepest basement part of the map, slammed me on a meat hook and then I died.
I never played again because it was such a bad first impression.
Wes Craven.
He designed Freddy to be a pedo, but some shit came out around the time of the first film, and he was forced into changing Freddy to be just a child killer.
Also, Freddy says he isn't a child molester in one of the movies (I think it was either FvJ, or Freddy's Dead). One of the kids calls him a pedophile, and he takes the moral high ground and says "I only kill kids, I don't fuck em", or something like that.
Lawsuit that took the game in the crossword and sweaty compfags that couldn't stand Friday being more balanced so they settled for DbD because Survivor is easier.
This. Clearly the devs could still update and use the license, but they had no idea how to salvage the game so they let it rot.
Game had the opposite problem. Jason was a joke. Most games were literally just counselors bullying Jason and beating him up.
Women find it easy to play and the appeal of cheating to make it even easier when using discord voice chat with friends makes it feel info itely more appealing, while they also obtain an inflated sense of self-implrtance because now they're at a redrank they owe to their friends.
It had terrible game design that you would see in a free HL2 mod. Clunky and okay to pass the time, but not for $40 and especially not if you can get banned for being on a roof or saying something on the mic. It needed a free-for-all wild west type community and released in 2008 before Twitch and it could have taken off like Left 4 Dead.
>DbD is basically turn on generators simulator.
You mean capture the point and Pac-Man.
>boring as shit
Play killer then. For the whole match you have ZERO downtime. A loop that takes 5 seconds as a survivor feels like 30 seconds as a killer. It's intense.
Unironically DBD is much more fun when you play alone and don't know what the killer is doing or where he is. And when you have no obligation to save friends who got hooked.
Playing killer doesn't make DbD interesting, Scott. It just shows how much in favor the game is for Survivors, especially swf outside communication ones.
>It just shows how much in favor the game is for Survivors
It's the opposite now. I can 4k every game all the way up to rank 2 with shit tier killers. Only exception is SWF, which is still cancer as fuck but that's never going to change unless they just gut survivors because mic comms is too powerful in that type of game.
>Playing killer doesn't make DbD interesting
Actually it does. You have 16 killers and over 70 perks to choose from, giving you thousands of different ways to affect a match. Just because other killers run the same four perks, doesn't mean you need to as well. You also don't need to kill four survivors in order to win.
Too expensive, twice as much as DBD. Too little content. Very buggy, even more so than DBD. The developers focused on the wrong things instead of fixing bugs and stability.
All I remember is that in the remake or whatever there was that whole subplot of “we lied, he didn’t really molest us!” But later on they found out he totally did.
I'm pretty sure tons of people dropped it when they patched away team killing
Fucking up a teammate to save yourself was a popular and funny strategy. But people would get butthurt and report and so they removed it
Read the thread fag.
It is now Thursday the 25th.
I don't get why companies let games die like this?
Can't you hand it off to the fans? Give it to another willing studio? You'd still make money off it.
>primary method of escape is cramming multiple players into a vehicle and hoping the driver doesn't fuck up while everybody else sits helplessly
This seems like a bad game mechanic.
>I don't get why companies let games die like this?
Look into Last Year: The Nightmare. Had better graphics, audio, UI, and game design than F13 (until survivors found a way to break combat, that is). Released a Discord exclusive to pay for development funds... We got two updates then a promise of a huge update. Seven months later, still nothing. All the nice looking maps and characters, down the drain because of shit management.
Just like real life.