98 Hours: The Fastest "MMO" Closure of All Time

[@IdylOnTV]

first (please don't like or subscribe or i will create a post apocalyptic survival MMO)

[@ryderamthor123]

Cheater

[@Pepewannahug]

Fuck I just did that

[@nosphoenix1911]

Make it a bad osrs plugin somehow. If you don't eat food or drink something in time you get locked out of your account, or something like that.

[@matte5705]

First

[@pixyldoge8523]

Gud wusn't gunna, nerd.

[@adamcake7]

19:02 those voices aren't AI, they're just default text-to-speech voices in Streamlabs. Specifically, the voices of Brian, Justin, and Joey, in that order. I think it's interesting that Brian is the voice that's selected by default if you don't change your settings and is also the first voice to show up in their video.

[@258thHiGuy]

It's somehow even funnier that they're literally just default tts voices

[@c-puff]

That is both better and worse than using AI

[@Alice_Fumo]

So, how do you know with certainty that the voices provided by Streamlabs never used any machine learning under the hood? As far as I know, those voices were developed by IVONA, which was later bought by Amazon and turned into Amazon Polly. The Amazon site on Polly states: "How it works ... Amazon Polly uses deep learning technologies to synthesize natural-sounding human speech" I am not sure whether this applies to the original IVONA voices, though.

[@MitsukiTakeda]

@@Alice_Fumo I mean, Elite Dangerous uses IVONA Voices. Granted the IVONA Voices are for the COVAS, not to fake voice chat in a Trailer. For instance the default Cockpit Voice Assistant uses IVONA 2 Amy with a synthetic distortion filter on top of it.

[@CokeZorro]

You should know by now all these KZbin videos essayist do the absolute minimum. It's extremely rare to find one that isn't half ass, this is one is in fact half ass

[@CinqAssocSouthSect5DonQuixote]

my friend talked about this game to me and said "its the day before" and i was genuinely confused because i asked for the games *name*, not when it shut down fucking amazing in hindsight

[@liad9852]

My jaw actually dropped at the Unreal Delay, they just entirely changed engines?!? Insane

[@Omicron9999]

So many awful devs love to switch to Unreal mid development. Like they don't even realise they're throwing everything out and starting again with a fraction of the development time and all the money and resources they used up to that point wasted.

[@NM-wd7kx]

Didn't they switch versions of unreal? which makes less sense to me if I'm honest.

[@autistvidya2215]

DNF. Nobody learns.

[@p_o_z_e]

so, that happened... now im starting my journey of creating a studio + game that will last 72h, wish me luck!

[@Dcat682]

Need any unpaid volunteers? I'm sure my definitely legit degree in mmo design I definitely have would be a huge asset.

[@mr.thomas6348]

Need any unpaid volunteers? My very much legit music production degree would be a huge asset.

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

Don't feel like you also need to be #1 Wishlisted on Steam. That's overdoing it.

[@SomeoneSomewhere-x6b]

Need any unpaid volunteers? I can bring you coffee.

[@Electric_]

They basically begged the public to make the game for them for free. They were hoping a bunch of dorks would just jump in and start improving things, and then they could profit off their great work.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Ah yes, the Bethesda model.

[@Elyseon]

Or Paradox.

[@Delmworks]

Worked for Bethdesa…but they had prexisting clout to work off

[@Delmworks]

@@ElyseonNaw, the Paradox model is to make live service games and not tell anyone that they’re making live service games. Why do you think Stellaris has about 14 dlcs?

[@Electric_]

I think Bethesda games are at least good without any mods. Buggy, but good. There was nothing good at all whatsoever about this “MMO”

[@purplehaze2358]

It kills me inside that Fntastic's actual Twitter account responded to criticism of their game with, and I quote, "shit happens".

[@SpaceManRD]

Tangential note: "Tasty Makeover" is, more than likely, all of those things. I've played games that looked pretty much exactly like that, with home decorating, match-3 puzzles, and dating sim elements all kind of mushed together haphazardly.

[@xenamorphic]

as someone who actually plays their hidden object game (seeker's notes), they really do All of it. There's a match 3 location, a connect one, memory card game, and of course hidden objects.

[@TekGadgt]

Wow, this video ran for over 1/200th the entire duration of the MMO it's about.

[@Baldilocs]

Love that you added an imaginary 1 before 23 in his username every time

[@Acrysalis]

4:44 they were talking about animal crossing in case no one ever answered you about what they meant

[@renakunisaki]

Ohh, that kind of boss...

[@HazeNDeuce]

Off the bat, I was trying to tie Sly Cooper into it somehow - fuck was I excited. AC was my second thought, the furniture placement later on confirmed.

[@terryechoes3192]

For fuck's sake, Tom Nook is not greedy, and he's not a raccoon. He gives you a house for free and lets you pay it off when you feel like it.

[@Noccyboy]

Can I come in to make a comment that APB was a game I put 3k hours into and it was amazing. It was rereleased shortly after by another company and it did well under them. It’s one of the most iconic games in my life and defines like 6 years of it. The servers are still up, there’s still a playerbase (though was admittedly hit hard in the last few years in the face of actual GTA MMO)

[@beensandchees]

Your game got swept back as an intro here. Feel for ya thats rough.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

That's APB Reloaded, not the original. I tried it over a decade ago and I found it to be terribly p2w + some PvP missions had stupid exploits. Struck me as a greedy game on life support. I heard the original wasn't like this and I still think it's a very nice concept.

[@FruitsaladOSRS]

the original was actually okay i thought, i played it in beta way back when. it wasn't the best thing i ever played and it defeintely didnt seem to have required its absolutely huge budget. but it was decent @@fonesrphunny7242

[@nyoin2028]

Same. I think about this game every now and then. Miss just roaming the streets with my bois in a candy van sprayin.

[@griseo3300]

Glad someone wrote this correction.

[@DrNowsSugarBaby]

My bf got me into your channel based on the OSRS content but I'm loving this pivot into MMOs as a whole it's v entertaining and has even tempted me into trying out non OSRS ones so ty for that! Well done on animating number 34 btw. rly impressive stuff

[@aeopu]

The production value on that 34 animation is through the roof.

[@crimsonlion100]

Switching game engines this close to release would be like if you had to get a spine transplant 5 minutes before a playing in football game.

[@connor3284]

The "greedy raccoon boss" reference could be either Animal Crossing or Project Zomboid, and it's wild that either is equally likely.

[@birdenthusiast5421]

Epic Mickey... just mentioning that name brings me back to high school and the last time I let pre-release articles convince me to pre-order something. In hindsight I'm very glad it's a lesson I learned before the model of "sell a broken game to fans and maybe fix it 3 years down the line" became the norm

[@MontegomeryLoL]

Disappointed the end of the video wasn't just the 34 spinning animation.

[@bobinasack]

I burst out laughing at the "PP got money" part, good lord that caught me off guard, lmao

[@The_FrogGod]

my person favorite thing about the day before was from the youtube stream by Kaif, who ended up finding a way to dupe ammo and money. This allowed them to just go into the world with the best gear, also the first hour of "gameplay" was sitting in the menu trying to get into a server.

[@S4DF4C3]

That PP got money song goes hard

[@xXJacobBuckXx]

Randomly stopping to chopping redwoods in Runescape... Bro that's what I'm doing right now, 38m xp dry on pet...

[@tgreaux5027]

Great content bud, keep it up and your channel will def make it. Im from Northern NJ 5 minutes from the GWB and noticed the city in the background of your vid, Im almost positive you probably live less than 15 minutes from me. Small world. I wish you lots of luck man! (I could also be completely incorrect and that wasn't NYC in the background lol)

[@zWooTWooTz]

that PP got money beat goes hard

[@EAADetailing]

I remember playing APB reloaded years ago. It was fun for five minutes

[@R3bel02]

It's way better with stoned friends!

[@SilphBoss]

apb reloaded was amazing with friends! we fucked around on that game for hours, but we wouldn't do any missions. we'd drive around in trash trucks just hauling ass, then run over as many other players as we could. we also would take busses and trash trucks and bring them to the longest road in the game, and just drive into each other like jousting and witness the remaining explosion. that game was a lot of fun.

[@calelkestifer3570]

10:40 "but they just had to lie really quickly" is just all AAA gaming at this point

[@purplehaze2358]

To be fair, I believe IGN was _also_ the thing that infamously gave a game a 7/10 rating because it had "too much water", so I'm not sure you should be using them as a frame of reference for how bad the reception for the game was.

[@taysandean]

Notifications always on for this guy’s sillyness

[@tdegraaf1990]

I like those different shots of you sitting outside and behind the greenscreen. Nice and dynamic! Must have been horrible to be outside, so bright.

[@lmSheep]

WOW this video is so high quality, I was shocked that you are a relatively small youtuber, but the video is so good! Instantly subbed

[@asaholloway9139]

it's such a shame that idyl doesn't have more subscribers. love the new mmo videos but i miss my osrs vids aswell lol

[@jadiellima8922]

3 out of 5 most viewed are MMO related and the other two are about osrs plugins. It’s fair if he embraces a bigger niche.

[@Althexia]

tbf as the president of MMORPGs, he has a duty to uphold.

[@Brett5ive]

How's your hat on max size, barely hanging on, when your head doesn't seem that large? Is that a child-sized hat? WHAT IS GOING ON

[@IdylOnTV]

MY HEAD IS HUGE I HAVE SO MUCH INFORMATION IN THERE

[@IdylOnTV]

and it's on the 2nd largest size ACTUALLY because i don't have THAT much information in there

[@Ash_Lawless]

@@IdylOnTV how much of it is useful though

[@c4ke_rs]

I'm honestly surprised you didnt blew up yet. The whole shift to becoming the President of MMO is just so good. One day asmon is gonn react to one of your vids and you deserve it. Keep it up man.

[@mrosskne]

asmoncuck wishes this guy would react to one of his vids

[@s1o]

I think you’re thinking of Black Ops 4, Black Ops 3 was actually amazing and has single handedly supported the zombies modding community for like 10 years now

[@enderguycypher]

This. Also in my opinion the campaign wasn't even all that bad, and the multiplayer is easily one of my favorites.

[@just_limerence]

I love Idyl videos because I get to go down rabbit holes and learn weird things, but simultaneously spend 36 minutes watching a video I have no idea what happened during. 11/10, would watch again

[@solarsandwich]

Dang im excited

[@IdylOnTV]

you should be there's a picture of you hidden somewhere in the video see if you can find it!

[@mkultrawasalie3428]

I approve of your use of the Baldurs Gate 3 soundtrack

[@xjustinjx]

"mortal online 2 understaffed 30 person development team enters the chat* someone say SMALL dev team MMO?

[@desperson]

I was going to comment on this video sooner but I had to completely rebuild the engine my comment was running off of first. Sorry for the delays, everybody!

[@exceptwhy1293]

Doing something "unwillingly" is by definition not a choice so I have no clue where he was going with that

[@Reece_107]

Once Human. People have been saying that it’s what TDB promised. It even already has a playable beta. Though I think it might’ve ended recently, it still has way more than TDB ever had

[@durant4526]

The grind never stops! Great video

[@ButWhyWasTaken]

18:25 Why exactly was that employee evicted? Since not paying rent is easily the most common reason and otherwise it would have to be either that person being extremely loud / violent / etc. (rather unlikely) this very much brings into question about how much this employee earns working for Fntastic. Maybe the so called employees are in fact volunteers as well and the employee was evicted cause they had no money to pay rent, being forced to work for free on The Day Before rather than working a job that would allow them to actually pay rent.

[@L-A-C-IV]

We cannot thank you enough for exposing the world to "PP Got Money" It has been added to my discord's OSRS bossing "Ear Cancer" playlist

[@SportsPlug-cp1eq]

It's insane to me how expensive games are to make

[@RandyBanks]

Great video Idyl, best one so far in my opinion. It feels like you're starting to find your groove. Soooooo that happened...

[@meats7854]

greedy raccoon boss aka "we're claiming this game will work like animal crossing"

[@colemix1852]

My man, huge props every song choice and transition accentuate your points and cadence incredibly well, I'm not sure if that's all you or if you have an editor in this but huge ups on the various d

[@OnionManSteve]

Unironically love the deranged rabbit hole about NicoRico123 when the username is clearly NicoRico23. Your content is chaotic and I love it, never change.

[@SoapyFae]

"You mad it to the end if the video. This was kind of a long one so that's conerning" Bro I've watched every one of Quinton reviews multi hour videos on nickelodeon sitcoms A little over a half hour doesn't qualify as a long video to me anymore

[@UndyingZombie]

Matrix Online had similar issues when it was launched and was also why it died. IE, It really was released too early. It had game breaking bugs that where reported in beta but where not fixed before launch, ect... Same thing for another MMO called Vanguard and to a similar degree Warhammer Online also went that way. ( Warhammer Online lived a little longer than the other two but still died out. ) Its something that makes me feel sad a bit because all of the ones I mentioned here where really fun games. They all had huge potential but the ball was dropped. *EDIT* I should mention that the "similar issues" is aimed at APB

[@jaredh923]

I miss you APB. You were among the greats, like Everquest, WoW (Before WotLK) and Dofus 1.29

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

Yaknow, I think that a game dev company that doesn’t know that Tom Nook is a Tanuki is a flag to begin with. Not giving a piss about other games/genres/ect shows a lack of caring about the rest of the industry.

[@autobotstarscream765]

Tanuki are called "raccoon dogs" by some people, so they could've just misremembered what to call him.

[@changedmynamee]

alright that might be a bit of a stretch lmao.

[@faerieknight2298]

I had a friend who bought APB on it's launch, and paid for 5 years of subscription time up front. Only for the game to get shut down within a couple months, at most. He was pissed. I contacted him recently, only to learn he also pre-ordered The Day Before, with plans to buy 5 years of subscription time immediately if it had a subscription model. He clearly never learned the lesson.

[@Davey_Da_Vinci]

Game dev here, I can say with a fairly high amount of certainty that the reason they closed was they had a deal with a production company to be financed based on sales. When they had a 40% return rate the investor backed out

[@dancinswords]

Nice job animating the number 34. Pretty sure it's never been done before

[@JustAverageJeff]

So I googled greedy racoon boss and it came up with a bunch of Sly Cooper results and knowing the context that kind of makes sense if that was it.

[@gerrrb]

4:33 "the concept in that cute game where there is a greedy raccoon boss" ....... animal crossing??? TOM NOOK IS NOT A RACCOON

[@autobotstarscream765]

Tom Nook is a tanuki, which are called "raccoon dogs".

[@liveslowoutdoors]

To be fair, cyberpunk 2077 is now a fully serviceable rpg. It’s actually quite good too!

[@avawetzel3408]

sooo, THAT happened

[@MJ-98]

I just want to say the use of the BG3 music is a genius creative choice.

[@omekamon9740]

It took me a solid minute to remember Tom Nook.

[@GhostOwly]

great vid you'll blow up soon keep at it

[@SeraidenAF]

You call this a long one but this was gobsmacking and entertaining in how you put it together. Like to the point of "Awh darn, I reached the end?".

[@bumblehoney7206]

Looking forward to binging your channel at work today 👍

[@Ash_Lawless]

just wanna throw it out there that technically if you are under willful employment its technically considered voluntary employment..

[@rauhatonta]

So, that happened to be the best review of that dungpile I’ve seen so far, kudos sir 🙌

[@dukksauze433]

I see you chopping those redwoods while making the video. No XP waste brotha!!

[@dawgatemybrain]

All Points Bulletin - that’s a name I didn’t know I remembered.

[@mundaneal]

35:53 Jeez, give me a sec! My hands are busy wirh skin care! 😭

[@aTypicalGabriel]

my favourite cap wearing bald man

[@happylula5286]

So, that happened

[@EyeDeeTenTee]

My favorite part of the video was that super neat animation you did of the number 34

[@mentalyunstable2872]

CEO of fantastic: we have concepts of a plan

[@RedeemedOSRS]

Great video to listen to while vacuuming. Thanks Idyl

[@mattrit1407]

Really enjoyable 36min of playing runescape. thanks Idyl

[@Souls4Roca]

the fact that PUPG is an asset flip and made it work, and those guys managed to fail, it's funny

[@SuperGameFan77]

Callum Upton called it a scam well before it launched and people called him a fool. People just can't comprehend that something might be too good and will fight tooth and nail to say otherwise

[@toomanyaccounts]

zombie gamers

[@Elyseon]

Fanboyism, blind hype, and sunk cost fallacy.

[@King_Kristof]

I like that MMO you created and have up on the screen behind you

[@AverageGreg]

I hope someone has informed you that the 'greedy raccoon boss' thing is talking about Tom Nook. He's saying the base building would be similar to Animal Crossing.

[@voisinsean]

I like your content and personality. Thanks.

[@apinakapinastorba]

So. That happened. That I watched the whole vid.

[@algi1]

To be fair the idea that made it the most wished game on Steam was "what if boring but so big it's impossible to make?"

[@mouseroot8053]

love your style, i subbed.

[@SuPeRNinJaRed]

Whoa I remember APB... that was crazy how you can blink and how the eff does 15 years goes by?

[@AlternativeImpulse]

Speaking of rabbit holes. What the hell is in the sky behind you at 30:35 Great video btw.

[@YT-zx4wr]

What a crazy level on incompetence to not claim the Trademark

[@dndbuilds]

So that happened... I don't know why I've been so interested in this dumpster fire of a game but I've been hooked. Also digging all the MMO content btw.

[@gavinbarnes4701]

You put more effort into this video than fntastic put into the day before

[@loganswalk8621]

MMOs are probably the most common canceled game type the amount of MMOs that are announced by small to unknown developers which most of them are scams or have extremely predatory monetization then shut down after they have your money. MMOs are by far the most expensive and complicated games to make there’s a reason why there’s only two major MMOs right being World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14 which the first version of FF14 failed and even the giant companies like Amazon fail such with their MMO New World which while promising at first was plagued with exploits and bugs then they changed how gear works rendering crafting pointless. In short any company especially smaller one saying they’re making a MMO you should be extremely hesitant.

[@demanager0412]

bro I've seen all your vids, this is the best one yet! can't wait for the next one

[@Wrathom]

18:46 Can anyone tell me what soundtrack clip this is? I have a work music playlist and I keep hearing this one in random videos

[@digitalwastlelandgaming]

I can't believe people didn't see this coming. I learned my lesson with The War Z, a massive scam game that came out of no where and was utterly trash and broken.

[@Sondi]

Eduardo is chilling with Tupac in Cuba right now . Please respect his privacy 😂

[@Kate_Hanami]

the most shocking part of this whole story is that, despite all the struggles, the changes in industry and many minor and major global catastrophes, Yahoo! is still around in 2024

[@raelyndelmonte608]

Great video. Very J1mmy energy that I love. The state of games is dire rn.

[@akaviral5476]

The state of games is honestly both at the very best it's ever been and the very worst it's ever been

[@ThreeAdam]

Sooooo that happened This was such a good video, I really liked how you took on the video game documentary style but didn't lose your own style. It may have taken me a couple days to watch but even still I hope you make more like this! Very entertaining :)

[@Sensansenkai]

"You made it this far, that's a little concerning" XD Sooooo that happened lmao

[@ghohenzollern]

Just woke up to a man screaming. So... That happened.