US:HD, the group behind Pressure, opted in as a Haunt participant some time in advance. They made a dedicated sub-game anticipating The Haunt to be a "dev hunt"—in present terms, a real Roblox event—only to learn days before it began that
the entire sub-game wasn't necessary.
When I say "dedicated sub-game", I mean they made a whole new half-length version of their base game, themed it for the scary season, gave it a new story, setting, and enemy types, made new music for it, recorded unique voice lines for it, gave it its own sub-lobby that you have to go to to play it—just to learn very belatedly that all of that effort was a waste because,
unbeknownst to them, it's not what was being asked for.
So it was released two days in advance of The Haunt itself, and upon the event starting this plaque appeared:
(This was taken from a tweet circulating around about developer mistreatment, but the tweet itself seems to be gone?)
And on Xitter, a thread appeared:
(Zeal's thread. He quotes MaximumADHD at the beginning, but the quoted tweet seems to be gone.)
He has a few additional tweets talking about it, but this is the meatiest of them. Even with past drama covered in mind, this just sucks. The discrepancy between what the player base and the developers that rise from it wants and what Roblox corp. wants is so clear-cut it's not funny, and you just
know the latter will continue to not listen.
You know what
is funny, though?
A Scottish skeleton trying to beat your skeleton out of you because having your skin on is a dress-code violation for a bonehead bash.
