Final nail in the coffin...

I've pretty much given up on the grumps for some time now. I've been a part of rantgrumps for many many months at this point, and I haven't watched any grumps videos pretty much since the beginning of the Phoenix Wright series and I've been burnt out on them for far longer, but I've still been subscribed just to keep up with what kind of content they're posting. But this is just too much for me. This is the final nail in the coffin of what I can tolerate from them.

For those that don't know already, Arin has done a couple videos on Russian bootleg games. They supposedly found a rare lost prototype of a game on the Dendy console. They are now trying to pass this off as a legit 30 year old lost game that is "the first battle royale", and are developing a beta.

It's pretty obvious that it is not an actual 30 year old game and that this is something they have made. In the most recent video Arin shows a supposed ad for the game that he found, but there is no link to a source for the video and as far as I can tell it does not exist. In the video you can see the art on the cartridge that is very clearly a condensed version of the box art they had made for the game.

Now, I am a HUGE fan of ARGs and anything in that genre, but this is just plain scummy. NOWHERE have they made ANY indication that this is an ad campaign for a game that they've made. They are sticking to the story they've created, which is BLATENT LYING TO THEIR FANS. Many of the lovelies think this game is super cool and want to support it because of the rad backstory behind it, and they aren't aware that they've essentially been lied to because there is no indication of this anywhere in any of the videos.

And I think it's pretty fair to say that a majority of their audience nowadays is leaning towards the younger side of the spectrum, so essentially they are lying to their young and impressionable audience in order to market their game, without disclosing that what they've just watched was a blatant ad (which I have to assume is probably illegal.)

It's just entirely shitty and pisses me off SO MUCH, as both a former fan and a lover of genuine lost media. I'm just really disappointed that they've stooped this low. It's scummy and embarrassing and I just can't take it anymore.

Submitted December 04, 2019 at 06:37AM by TheAtomicAce https://ift.tt/2P4attG