Is it just a rumor or true ?

[Slayer of eggless]

As far as I know, the problem is that this game will never be developed further again, allegedly the project was abandoned, the money was pocketed as much as possible, the game will never be completed, it died before it was even developed. No more Chinese games.

[StrikerL3ss]

#2 absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥

[廢膠]

Luckily, my friend share the game to me and this is a good experience for me. what if you had played it you would found that why China will ban it. bcs it really show how difficult for youngers now in China at begin into society. And why they will say "this is our last generation."

[StudyLord]

Originally posted by 夏逸轩:

my English is No god 我就说中文了 游戏确实很好 但是中国有很多未成年玩家 所以对游戏管控比较严格 因为这个游戏有负面情绪之类的，中国怕给未成年带来对生活的消极，以及游戏反应的一些现实残酷，怕对未成年产生影响，就像GTA5在中国都属于禁播状态，因为没有任何限制，怕带坏小孩，词汇量不是很好，大概意思能懂就行，如果这个游戏想继续开发下去，需要改动很多才能过审，这个游戏想过审要大改，可能会失去原本游戏玩法，，，所以工作室现在在摆烂

自欺欺人的说法，steam社区被ban也是怕带坏小孩？按你的说法，就应该加速steam国区实名制，索性也加入未成年人周末只能玩一小时的限制。去玩steam和谐版吧。

[Sovjetski]

I love this game and i hope thay can come back, and work on it.

[bridgeofblues]

I got this message when I was asking why Thermite shut down its discord and what happened to Nobody. This is the message I got.

"Hiya! The devs of Nobody - The Turnaround are still working on the project! Currently they need to adjust the game a bit and hopefully they would be able to reopen the purchase option soon. New announcements shall be made as soon as they are ready. Please stay tuned! Thanks!"


They are correct if you check SteamHD; they update it regularly. The question is why the radio is silent. Their last update was seven days ago from this initial posting. They have been patching what looks like every couple of days, Just have yet to give it to us.

[W0RTHL3SS]

The last recorded update was on 15th March, to be exact. Keep the hopes up everyone!

[Rain]

Originally posted by bridgeofblues:

I got this message when I was asking why Thermite shut down its discord and what happened to Nobody. This is the message I got.

"Hiya! The devs of Nobody - The Turnaround are still working on the project! Currently they need to adjust the game a bit and hopefully they would be able to reopen the purchase option soon. New announcements shall be made as soon as they are ready. Please stay tuned! Thanks!"


They are correct if you check SteamHD; they update it regularly. The question is why the radio is silent. Their last update was seven days ago from this initial posting. They have been patching what looks like every couple of days, Just have yet to give it to us.

I think they have to bribe the related government officials as well, and it will take a lot of time. Hopefully, it can relaunch this year but I am afraid the chance is slim. Currently China has a lot of unemployed people and the gov is advertising it is really profitable to do some low-end jobs (Since higher one are already gone), I don't think the game can release right now unless the political climate has changed.

[Wild]

"Oh yeah, lets waste thousand of hours in a project that would be available to buy only for 24hours, seems like a great strategy to steal people money!" -.-

Those guys spend months, years working on a game without real income from it. The moment it got released as EA it lasted like a day before it got removed from the store. Really people are that dumb to call a cash grab???

China goverment sucks, thats it.

[9]

Originally posted by 芝士芙蓉王源:

It is true,i will never believe our games,even though i am a chinese,the game sucks!Pay may money back!!!

Stop your broken English. If you wanna get a refund, apply for it.
This is an almost developed game that is good enough to play.

[9]

Originally posted by 廢膠:

Luckily, my friend share the game to me and this is a good experience for me. what if you had played it you would found that why China will ban it. bcs it really show how difficult for youngers now in China at begin into society. And why they will say "this is our last generation."

Totally agree bro, the reason that it got banned, is China's gov. Trolls among the young ppl are still struggling for their ruler and their party. Shame.

[9]

Originally posted by 多拉了个A春梦:

如果是真的那就是中国人再一次当着全世界玩家的面打了自己所有游戏厂商和玩家的脸

It is your gov's fault, not the game studio's. Maybe in the next five years, the only game allowed to release in China is "Emperor Xi's Legend". LMAO

[Andronius]

Originally posted by Morri:

Originally posted by iLoveTaho:

The game was well made, good quality, was well thought out and had depth. There were also additional challenges that were yet to be released which tells me that the developers had plans to add more into it from the start. That to me doesn't look like someone who is just looking for a quick buck to rip people off and ran away with the money. I've seen games that were just rip offs and you can tell that not much effort really went into it. Not this one though.[...]

The negative bombing review is quite suspicious. They seem to repeat the same terminologies and phrases over and over again which is very suggestive that its all coming from one point of origin. I hope they will be able to overcome whatever it is that is stopping them because this is one heck of a game.

This! Very much this! Also, as mentioned before; if they were just looking to make money, they wouldn't take the game off steam. No, all the accusations of them just pocketing the money (mainly coming from chinese accounts) and disappearing is clearly another attempt to discredit them.

Originally posted by twitch.tv/OGWild:

"Oh yeah, lets waste thousand of hours in a project that would be available to buy only for 24hours, seems like a great strategy to steal people money!" -.-
Those guys spend months, years working on a game without real income from it. The moment it got released as EA it lasted like a day before it got removed from the store. Really people are that dumb to call a cash grab???
China goverment sucks, thats it.

Originally posted by Akiflyer:

I've been following this game from the beginning, and I live in china. Let me share what I know. [...] The game is actually pretty good, even in it's current state. Getting very good reviews at first. So it's weird that they'd just abandon the project with a single day of sales.

Rumour is that they got reported and the Chinese government put a stop to their project as the game makes "china look bad". Which indeed a game focusing on the poorest of the poor in Chinese society, shady moral choices the player can make, and the general themes that is both grim and realistic breaches the regulations for Chinese games. (Even if they were okay with the grim theme, china absolutely doesn't allow games that allow players to voluntarily do prostitution or theft in a sandbox kind of game.)

TLDR, the game is dead. I doubt it will ever return, you're better off... you know... sailing the seas or buying a steam code. Shame, the game was really good and really captures the working class in Chinese society correctly. (Not as depicted by china or the west)

Originally posted by Rain:

I think they have to bribe the related government officials as well, and it will take a lot of time. Hopefully, it can relaunch this year but I am afraid the chance is slim. Currently China has a lot of unemployed people and the gov is advertising it is really profitable to do some low-end jobs, I don't think the game can release right now unless the political climate has changed.

Originally posted by 9:

It is your gov's fault, not the game studio's. Maybe in the next five years, the only game allowed to release in China is "Emperor Xi's Legend". LMAO

Precisely. Finally plausible, realistic explanations. Of course it had to be censorship.

I had been wondering, 'cause I was following the title with interest, and ''people'' suddenly reviewbombing the title out of the blue (from suspicious accounts with weirdly similar absurd texts), devs suddenly ''disappearing'' after so much work, while the title was getting positive feedback and good exposure, made not sense at all.

The "Nine Heavens" ripoff little drama was also odd (always thought it was a farse, a smokescreen, something didn't add up.... but now I'm sure). Terrible. I feel bad for those devs and hope for their safety (if they're even still alive).

The game concept had potential, unique flavor, good design and interesting ideas for mechanics and narrative. Followed its development (despite the country of origin) precisely because this one seemed different: a curious title, like an independent endevour, even propaganda-free, and watched all the Let'sPlays out there.

There was some controversy there (because of the beating when you took the first job, because of the ladies of the night in the alley, because of the portrayal of unemployment -which was actually sugarcoated but made the title realistic and engaging, and even a message of hope-, and other political / cultural bs).

Objectively, in truth there was nothing shameful in the title (on the contrary, it was extremely vanilla, sugarcoated, the protagonist being almost an anchorite monk, and it gave a hopeful message of overcoming adversity, even there)... but, well, totalitarianism: one never knows if it is the independent entrepreneurship, the individual initiative, the creativity, portraying hardship that most humans experience, or the unspoken message of hope and freedom that they hated most about this title.

The devteam vanishing was too odd; this wasn't the typical Early Access scam: there was effort put in the title, everything pointed at a game that was being actively developed; it seemed devs really wanted to put a complete product out there. The EA version gave hours of gameplay... terrible things must've happened behind the scenes.

The "Nine Heavens" ripoff drama was so suspicious: the so-called '''developer U. Ground Game Studio''' (that appeared out of the blue, with precise timing) was quickly banned from Steam and the alleged ripoff was withdrawn...

So, why stop developing the title when it was doing well? why 'run with the cash' when it was almost finished, much wishlisted, and publishing would earn them more? why stop speaking openly to the community? why the utterly odd gov-type letter (with stamp and all) published on the game News on december 2022, so different from the way devs always used to communicate normally?

Now it is evident what happened... as ever there. Such a shame!

[bridgeofblues]

Originally posted by Andronius:

Originally posted by Morri:

This! Very much this! Also, as mentioned before; if they were just looking to make money, they wouldn't take the game off steam. No, all the accusations of them just pocketing the money (mainly coming from chinese accounts) and disappearing is clearly another attempt to discredit them.

Originally posted by twitch.tv/OGWild:

"Oh yeah, lets waste thousand of hours in a project that would be available to buy only for 24hours, seems like a great strategy to steal people money!" -.-
Those guys spend months, years working on a game without real income from it. The moment it got released as EA it lasted like a day before it got removed from the store. Really people are that dumb to call a cash grab???
China goverment sucks, thats it.

Originally posted by Akiflyer:

I've been following this game from the beginning, and I live in china. Let me share what I know. [...] The game is actually pretty good, even in it's current state. Getting very good reviews at first. So it's weird that they'd just abandon the project with a single day of sales.

Rumour is that they got reported and the Chinese government put a stop to their project as the game makes "china look bad". Which indeed a game focusing on the poorest of the poor in Chinese society, shady moral choices the player can make, and the general themes that is both grim and realistic breaches the regulations for Chinese games. (Even if they were okay with the grim theme, china absolutely doesn't allow games that allow players to voluntarily do prostitution or theft in a sandbox kind of game.)

TLDR, the game is dead. I doubt it will ever return, you're better off... you know... sailing the seas or buying a steam code. Shame, the game was really good and really captures the working class in Chinese society correctly. (Not as depicted by china or the west)

Originally posted by Rain:

I think they have to bribe the related government officials as well, and it will take a lot of time. Hopefully, it can relaunch this year but I am afraid the chance is slim. Currently China has a lot of unemployed people and the gov is advertising it is really profitable to do some low-end jobs, I don't think the game can release right now unless the political climate has changed.

Originally posted by 9:

It is your gov's fault, not the game studio's. Maybe in the next five years, the only game allowed to release in China is "Emperor Xi's Legend". LMAO

Precisely. Finally plausible, realistic explanations. Of course it had to be censorship.

I had been wondering, 'cause I was following the title with interest, and ''people'' suddenly reviewbombing the title out of the blue (from suspicious accounts with weirdly similar absurd texts), devs suddenly ''disappearing'' after so much work, while the title was getting positive feedback and good exposure, made not sense at all.

The "Nine Heavens" ripoff little drama was also odd (always thought it was a farse, a smokescreen, something didn't add up.... but now I'm sure). Terrible. I feel bad for those devs and hope for their safety (if they're even still alive).

The game concept had potential, unique flavor, good design and interesting ideas for mechanics and narrative. Followed its development (despite the country of origin) precisely because this one seemed different: a curious title, like an independent endevour, even propaganda-free, and watched all the Let'sPlays out there.

There was some controversy there (because of the beating when you took the first job, because of the ladies of the night in the alley, because of the portrayal of unemployment -which was actually sugarcoated but made the title realistic and engaging, and even a message of hope-, and other political / cultural bs).

Objectively, in truth there was nothing shameful in the title (on the contrary, it was extremely vanilla, sugarcoated, the protagonist being almost an anchorite monk, and it gave a hopeful message of overcoming adversity, even there)... but, well, totalitarianism: one never knows if it is the independent entrepreneurship, the individual initiative, the creativity, portraying hardship that most humans experience, or the unspoken message of hope and freedom that they hated most about this title.

The devteam vanishing was too odd; this wasn't the typical Early Access scam: there was effort put in the title, everything pointed at a game that was being actively developed; it seemed devs really wanted to put a complete product out there. The EA version gave hours of gameplay... terrible things must've happened behind the scenes.

The "Nine Heavens" ripoff drama was so suspicious: the so-called '''developer U. Ground Game Studio''' (that appeared out of the blue, with precise timing) was quickly banned from Steam and the alleged ripoff was withdrawn...

So, why stop developing the title when it was doing well? why 'run with the cash' when it was almost finished, much wishlisted, and publishing would earn them more? why stop speaking openly to the community? why the utterly odd gov-type letter (with stamp and all) published on the game News on december 2022, so different from the way devs always used to communicate normally?

Now it is evident what happened... as ever there. Such a shame!

brother I could say it better myself.

[ikarosfd]

Originally posted by 9:

Originally posted by 多拉了个A春梦:

如果是真的那就是中国人再一次当着全世界玩家的面打了自己所有游戏厂商和玩家的脸

It is your gov's fault, not the game studio's. Maybe in the next five years, the only game allowed to release in China is "Emperor Xi's Legend". LMAO

he means gov slapped chinese players and devs face in front of everyone, basically the same thing you said.

In most chinese players' view, gov is not able to ban the steam sales and take the game down.
the devs took the game down from steam and sell cdkey on taobao, a chinese shopping website to avoid tax / steam service fee.

And a lot of accounts, with 1 game in steam inventory, commented positively to make the comments on steam turned from mostly negative to a lot of meaningless positive comments.
you can see they commented like bots. happened in last Nov.

the devs lost most chinese players' trust in the first week of sale already.

Just FYI.

[bridgeofblues]

Originally posted by ikarosfd:

Originally posted by 9:

It is your gov's fault, not the game studio's. Maybe in the next five years, the only game allowed to release in China is "Emperor Xi's Legend". LMAO

he means gov slapped chinese players and devs face in front of everyone, basically the same thing you said.

In most chinese players' view, gov is not able to ban the steam sales and take the game down.
the devs took the game down from steam and sell cdkey on taobao, a chinese shopping website to avoid tax / steam service fee.

And a lot of accounts, with 1 game in steam inventory, commented positively to make the comments on steam turned from mostly negative to a lot of meaningless positive comments.
you can see they commented like bots. happened in last Nov.

the devs lost most chinese players' trust in the first week of sale already.

Just FYI.

Well put together game like this?