is this game dead?

[Messi No.1]

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[N0P3]

Yep.

Case of cold feet and the dev(s) took the money and ran; sounds like they were all in on it to me and are hiding behind some dev that supposedly lives/operates in Russia so as to bypass NATO business laws. The pricks couldn't even re-release the standalone game version and let everyone who payed for the title play at least some of the game.

Oddly, it dawned on me that the game looked a great deal similar to Defiance - sus af.
Equally odd, some of the games assets appeared in a free to play MMO on the Epic games Store which has been removed, pulled or renamed.

[spaceboy]

That's interesting. Did we get scammed by both of them, and not just one? I guess we'll never know. The story did have a little bit of strange feel to it. I mean, a massive amount of work was put in with no legal agreements or protections. That's extremely high risk.