How This Dumb Game Broke The Internet
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2024
- How has Content Warning already got over 200,000 peak players? While this might look like a silly party game, what if I told you that this was the most genius game launch EVER?
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I will. Hope they add more colors like purple etc
i got the game
i got it not knowing what really what was it
MEEEE!!!
Phasmophobia walked so Lethal Company and Content Warning could run
That game looked interesting, but was too serious for me
true because there’s no running in phasmophobia
what are those 3 doing in common though, apart from all being in first person?
@@angel_of_rust proximity chat, better with friends, goofy graphics, correctly finishing the round gives you money so you can get items that help you finish the round easier so you can get more money, monsters and they are horror games that people find funny
Games like Outlast crawled so these guys could walk, it's an interesting thing to think about all the games that came before that probably inspired them
"Guys check out this new co op indie game it totally changed gaming forever"-every youtuber at the moment
"Guys check out this new co op indie game it totally changed gaming forever"
"for 2 days on twitch and youtube until no one talks about it anymore"
Well that is also their strategy to gain views and get some bucks
@@ItsRayful *among us*
he literally did not say that in the video lmao
@@ItsRayful so you would pay 20$ for 2 hour movie and call it an amazing experience, but when a cool indie game comes out and gets deservedly popular and many people have hours of fun for 8 - 10 dollars, it's a crappy game that's just being hyped up by social media?
Content Warning is literally the epitome of "goofy proximity voice chat endless horror".
Your goal is to be a UA-camr that records scary shit with your friends, and at the end you can download your video and upload it to UA-cam alongside other people who recorded scary shit with their friends.
It's literally a perfect gameplay loop.
yeah im definitely getting to old for this shit
knowing that these youtubers exists is enough for me, getting that useless shit stuffed into my face constantly is aggravating but, it is what it is, right?
But actually roleplaying being an absolutely useless piece of meat leeching off of others? THATS a "perfect gameplay loop"
l m a o
@@ItsRayful is this an insult? Like a negative comment?
@@ItsRayful not that deep bro, chill out
@@ItsRayful What's goin' on your life for you to act like this bro
@@scott6312 my life has to be miserable for it to make sense for you to call trash like this not okay?
Well, okay then, im very miserable and my life is living hell. Can we finally stop praising dumb shit that is CREATED TO DRIVE ENGAGEMENT by giving it engagement?
Honestly that’s the magic of steam. With Epic Games always spending big money to grab as many big triple a games on their platforms, steam has always been a platform about indie games focused or something so stupid that the internet started playing. Something fortnite money cannot buy.
The magic of Steam is that they offer their peer2peer service (afaik for free), afaik Epic does not have such a service, yet it makes it trivial and dirt cheap for developers to create multiplayer games. Both Lethal Company and Content Warning basically make the players host the game, making it so that the devs don't have to spend thousands running servers. It also makes modding very easy to pull off with no server to get in the way and mods are another thing that contributes to how long a game can stay relevant.
And another is the fact that there are just too many launchers, since I have most of my games through Steam, I often forget I even have Epic Launcher even installed
Epic has funded a lot of indie games. That is why games like hades was epic exclusives.
@@oo--7714yeah people just love spreading misinformation on the internet it’s amazing
@@oo--7714 Hades is on Steam though...?
Bro, make sure you'll not regret what you said, competition is what makes each other kept in check. Steam is still good now cause of Gaben(if not mostly).
But look at his body, doesn't look too will live forever.
The easy clip sharing, but that's what the game itself is about is just 500 IQ
they def aren’t paying for marketing but they sure as hell are paying boat loads for some good servers to handle all those players who didn’t pay for the game 😭
Edit: Turns out they are using Photon Unity Networking for Unity Multiplayer Games which is costing them money. That being said I think most companies would pay whatever amount on hosting they are in advertisement costs for the game that the devs don't even have to do without hesitation. I imagine a ton of people are buying it now that it is not free to play with their friends who may have even gotten it free.
@@JimmerzzOfficial who pays for steamworks tho? is it free?
Steam charges developers 30 percent of sales. They handle the servers if the developer chooses to use steamworks. They charge developers the 30 percent weather they use it or not so I guess you can call it "free"@@LuisSierra42
@@JimmerzzOfficial
It's an missunderstanding from a guy making one of the videos afaik.
Pretty sure steamworks just makes it free to get the steam gamer tags, but what was also reffered to in that video was actually a free to use API to implement server browser and have this as a service on steam servers for free, a free servers list not free servers.
You still have to pay for servers and nothing on steam's steamworks page indicates that you get access to an scalable compute platform etc.
And no, you don't pay for servers on a specific hosting platform for xbox, you pay for amount of cpu time that was used to handle your API requests, pretty sure it's just so you can get billed for the minimum compute time(1 sec) every hour/day.
If Content Warning is dedicated servers then yea. But considering when a host leaves the game ends I think it is most likely P2P. If it is not P2P and they are using a dedicated server then yes there will be costs.@@niewazneniewazne1890
Landfall has been building up these layers since the start of tabs and content warning is the game that aligns all of them
The parody/similarity is a landfall day thing
The jankness is the engine and the landfall thing
The meming and not taking anything seriously is a landfall tradition
Landfall almost never advertises their games , only in their youtube channel and some more
And this game added the advertisement being the gameplay itself
If you haven't noticed everything stated here has been a landfall tradition and is very enjoyable they had all the layers it was just a matter of time
Landfall is truly a legendary company
Agreed
Landfall my beloved❤️❤️
Reminds me of how hi-fi rush just blew up out of nowhere-
i have been following Landfall forever , i remember waiting for the release of TABS, playing the older version. I remember all the games they released. Landfall is the best and they finally got alot of popularity
your telling me stickman and tabs didnt have the same level of virality as this game? Tabs ruled youtube gaming with an ironfist from beta to its full launch
Bending narrative to fit into the theme of the video, ain't new thing on UA-cam especially with shitty titles like "this game will change gaming forever."
True, i played almost all their games. Clustertruck was a bit viral for its unique gameplay at the time, TABS started as a goofy strategy game and now its a mix of serious and funny, TABG was popular for a bit too due to the mix of serious and funny too, Stick Fight is still being played but not much compared to Round due to it having less replayability. Basically all their games were a bit famous, not like Content Warning but still better than most games. The ones that completely failed were TABZ, Air Brawl, Knightfall, Square Brawl and Landfall archives, i didn't even know they existed.
@@enzucka4775ya remember that one superhot reference in clustertruck?
@@enzucka4775 yooo just unlocked an ancient memory for me, TABZ was jokes
how many "THIS GAME WILL CHANGE THE INDUSTRY" videos we gonna have this year
If Friday night Funkin comes out, we will have 3 more.
5 if famous composer in the fnf community sturm is involved with the actual game.
@@Cubeytheawesome .... who cares
I do@@bayouboigaming
@@Cubeytheawesome idk bro fnf is mad controversial 3 this game will change the industry would probably be followed up by 9 this game is an absolute cashgrab
@@Cubeytheawesomeehhhh, I mean I have no problems with FNF, but it really cant be anything special
That's not true, EVERYONE was playing Stick Fight....that game had its "virality"
Going on Steam now, seeing 93,596 reviews at very positive for stick fight.
I remember Vanossgaming making a ton of videos on Stick Fight a couple of years ago that got millions of views. It was definitely more popular back in the day.
I still play it with my friends
Same Same with Tabs and ClusterTruck
Nobody is saying that everything from the company was bad. Far from it. They're saying they are not paying 1 dime for marketing because the marketing is already made by playing the game itself. People who didn't buy it when it was free are simply bloating their budget without them needing to lift a finger. People who played F2P will gather those who didn't get it at the time of Free to Play. Guess what? This is genius marketing without marketing at all. All they have now is the possible new players buying it just to see the experience. And it's working!
realizing landfall is indie is so inspiring to me
It’s not indie actually
It’s big enough of a team
I love how recently games have been using clips from the game as the marketing, starting with Lethal Company and Helldivers 2 and now Content Warning.
Agreed
the single free day gets a lot of people into it immediately to spread the word fast
the gameplay gets you hooked fast
anyone who didnt get it will now likely get it to play with friends who got it already
Spore wanted to do this strategy so badly back in the early 2010's. Glad to see someone else actually pick up the ingenious idea of built in content creation in a game.
What, the adventure maps thing?
@@MDG-mykys No. The test drive feature. It was added and overhauled late in development. (If you consider a few months before release out of 2 years of real development.) They spent a lot of time fine tuning it and debugging it unlike most other aspects of the game which makes me believe EA management directly ordered this feature in as a "silent marketing" feature.
For those unaware: The test drive feature allows you to record movies and share gifs of your creatures doing things.
@@denether huh.
Didn't know about it
"This game broke the internet." "This game just changed gaming." This video showing up in my recommended is the first time I'm hearing of it.
See, but now you HAVE heard of it through the organic marketing this guy was talking about.
@@Nightweaver1 Sure but I'm still not going to play it. Or spread it. My point wasn't really "its not spreading" it was "it's not taking over the internet entirely."
Not to mention it's directly following games like Lethal Company, a significantly more successful game (yes, even within the same timeframe). It is by literal definition not doing either of those things, all it did was be a free game. Argh...
I suppose the marketing strategy is kind of neat, but it clearly hasn't worked out to the same degree.
@@lamegamertime dawg the game is fun stop being a hater for the sake of it
@@focal_13 ???
I LOOOOVE this game but I hope lethal company doesn't just disappear forever. I made so many core memories in just a few months
I don't think its gonna disappear at all, because Lethal Company still hits its own itch.
Didnt lc dev abandonned it?
@@rodrigohaddad3798 source: literally just imagined
I hope it does.
@@nihilisticpancake308 do you feel unique or special now that you have told people that you don't like a game?
Silly + friends + horror = $$$ is the 2024 game method
See, for me there is a big problem with one of those 3
@@MDG-mykys friends? clearly!
From your video, I gather that marketing by the bigshots is not really to raise awareness of the product but says "buy our game because we are the biggest and we automatically have the best game to play." Content Warning's "marketing" is organic yes because it actually has people having fun and is not artificial like a AAA title's.
Content Warning really is a game for the UA-cam/TikTok generation, people who appreciate and can poke fun at online celebrity and viral videos. Older people (I'm 44, so I guess I count, but I still like it) may be confused at the premise of the game because they didn't grow up with the internet. But after watching a few of my streamer friends play it together, I can say it's a genius idea and I hope it continues to get support and updates through the years.
Yeah right a 44 old with a brony picture you're so 44 old that you outmature your 4th grade friends
i'm 19 and i think those types of games are absolute dogshit honestly.
dang, Lethal Company is a genre now?
of course
I like to call games that follow similar formulas to Lethal Co as "4 Idiots in a Situation" Games.
Can be anything, horror, survival, shooter, as long it allows 4 idiots aka friends into crazy shenanigans and hijinks.
vampire survivors became an entire genre, i don't see why other games couldn't do the same lol
its a "spoopy genre" where it's horror with comedic elements
it's always been like this, no? whenever new games resembled the feelings of a previous game people quickly grew tired of saying "it's like x but does this, this and that different" and instead just used themost popular early game as a genre.
rogue-likes and lites are like rogue
souls-likes are like fromsofts soulsborne games
metroidvanias are like a mix of metroid and castlevania games
and now i guess funny coop horror games are lethal company likes, or smth
we'll see
Can y'all stop with the overhyped titles already. This game didn't change anything. It's just a really fun game. That's it.
Real
fax this overreaction is cringe
it is pretty impressive how popular it got in over like a week though, like as soon as it came out I already saw videos with hundred thousand of views on it on multiple channels and it's kinda insane imo
@@PunkRatSoda yeah I agree. But it didn't change a thing.
true, it's just a fun game that exploded on the internet, not much more.
landfall has been my favorite studio for a long time, they never miss
Oh boy, what changed? In reality, nothing has “changed”, just reached a new trend.
It's the same thing as powerwash simulator or anything that "emulates" in that vein.
It makes the thing people want to experience which is your 5 minutes of virality.
except you don't have to risk your privacy.
When a game takes off, and soars above the rest, that tells me the mutual interest has been studied and
researched to psychologically fit within most people's desires
Many wanted to shoot pokemon with guns, many want to be influencers today, many have watched too much incest porn
all 3 games show experiences you wouldn't think you could have
This game going viral is no different than lethal company and such. The internet will stop talking about it in a month.
I notice it's often if not always it's the west where it starts the hype, being just
It looks like a goofy aaaah roblox game
Ihe only reason this game went viral ots because
His launch was free and its similar to lethal company
@supermito573
W take
I would rather have a 10 dollar flavor of the month title every few months rather than keep buying the triple a slop being pushed out buy esg sponsored companies
Definitely, especially this one, there is even less to do than Lethal Company.
But I think that's the point of the game, "going viral".
And I actually like this more than Lethal Company because it has a more defined identity.
I still don't know if Lethal Company wanted to be goofy or Scary and I'm sad that Phasmophobia didn't go the direction wanted, that game had the same problem, trying to juggle between a immersive horror game, a survival management, a competitive puzzle game and a funny multiplayer game.
I personally am not the biggest fan of playing games to make pranks or be goofy with friends, but it's fun to watch others, and Content Warning it's funnier and has a better direction.
2:18 "they came out of nowhere" shows TABS a game that had the people by the balls for quite a while
Still continues to amaze me that the same people who made “ultimate battle simulator” made this
Its genius, because the thing you do in the game is what UA-camrs do in real life while playing the game. You go look for scary stuff while messing about with your friends, and then post the reaction online. Its surprisingly meta.
This game is so popular that I did not know about it before this video...
The thing I love about this game is that when lethal company came out it invented a new way of gaming a way that makes the game so fun and now more games are using that way of letting the players make the game what it is instead of there being things you have to do. I hope a lot of games start implementing this.
Bro is saying that this is Landfall’s most viral game. I have literally never heard of this and Landfall is like my favorite indie game studio💀💀💀
Lets come back to this in a month
its already dead
@@leopard2a6mcan42how
in the end, it all boils down to: Make an interesting game, and people will be talking about it for you
*Sees game is made by landfall *
**Immediately wants to buy it* *
Flavor of the month slop game for neurodivergent minors with autism
im glad someone noticed how strange indie games nowadays are, they dont seem indie, they seem like theyre sponsored by something which helps them get popular so fast, and their community is almost always weird.. somethings going on
fucking spot on
I’ve played TABS for a while, since 2016, and I’ve been keeping up with landfall ever since. I’m so glad it’s getting popular.
so basically they did what a lot of other successful indie games have done: wholly depend on their game's gimmickyness to catch the attention of sharers and influencers to do the marketing for them. nothing new
this channel is indieslop in the flesh and bone
Im glad it got pretty popular. I loved tabs when i was young, and that game became a huge part of my childhood.
Great, this is where I learn that Landfalls has a new game instead of a trailer or something.
Great marketing strategy, fr fr!
when ever a new game comes out
youtubers: gaming just changed
A random indie game dropping from out of the blue that will go down to influence gaming as we know it?? Who could have guessed!
Great video! Subscribed
aw yes another video from going indie thanks
landfall are masters of recognizing fun and funding projects that are actually there to purely entertain the player.
This is the 3rd time the internet has been broken this week
gaming changed for the 9th time this year bro
lethal company syndrome
Honestly, I’m pretty sure landfall is my favorite videogame developing studio, they make great games, great community connection and updates, honestly in a studio system where huge game companies that barely know what they are even making raking in millions of eyes on them because of shitty little military fps games, landfall is a saving grace.
What I've also noticed is that the file sizes on the videos are incredibly small. 2 megabytes small. So you can share it in full quality on pretty much every platform. Just makes sharing even easier.
Fun Fact: Content Warning was developed in 6 weeks for the Landfall Day AKA April Fools Day
GAMING JUST CHANGED!!! no it didn't
but i'm glad indie games that aren't sequels or anything are getting this successful
I like how LandFall made a game that broke the internet and great video Going Indie :]
I feel like the formula to a successful indie game is a multiplayer experience with something that makes it stand out, is replayable and emergent with its gameplay, simple to understand, and most importantly: good plain fun.
this changed gaming so much that it's gonna be forgotten in 1 month from how much it changed the internet
Land fall can’t stop making bangers
As someone who plays tabs and follow landfall I think there is a hidden 5th reason, good will, as as from what I seen when they release stuff it good and polished so people like me see it and give them more good will, so when they released the game, we were the first to visit and show others the game, asked UA-camrs to play it, ect, I think this might also show the big corporations like EA or Activision that good will is still a very important thing, I just hope content warning can benign the era of actually caring for games that you make back.
Pls stop yapping, it only got popular because it was lethal company with ragdolls
Game wasn't even polished and good lol
200,000 players is 'breaking the Internet'? How many people do you think play Minecraft?
Thx for the video!
2:09 look at the top right.😂😂😂😂
TABS devs can't stop cooking good stuff
Almost 100k🎉
my god the landfall team are geniuses
Yeah this game is blowing up fast , devs are genius
I saw the trailer on insta because i follow landfall there because they make funny videos there. So when i saw it i told 5 of my friends to get it while it is free and they told their other friends too. So i think the game being free and it being a coop game made a huge part of the player count
This game has rekindled my dying flame of hope for a better future for Video Game Industry.
bro when a game made by a popular developer gets popular 🤔😲
when I saw the trailer for content warning I knew it was to be A good game up to the levels of lethal company And probably some other games That might look shit But are really fun to play I'm annoyed that I need Windows 10 To play CURSE YOU CHROMEBOOK LAPTOP!
personally i think a huge reason is how the monsters interact with the players, and how the animations look realisting and body parts wont just clip through everything, and it just looks like its meant to be there unlike other games
ive always belived that making games should not be for making profit. marketing is not the answer to making money on a game. if you make a good game because you want to, most likely someone will be happy to give you some money for it. but it should be about the art of expression and not about making money
For me what differentiates Content Waring from Lethal Company is in Lethal Company you are trying to avoid danger while in Content Warning you need to seek the danger out
" yo this broke the internet"
i've never heard of this game and never will bother with it
I've been calling it "Do It For The Vine: The Game" 🤣
can you do a video of the future of space game
2:13 TABS used to be EVERYWHERE! Especially it’s alphas and betas!
mark my words : spooktube will die rather quickly. It relies on the player going into dangerous situations to get footage. Basically get close to big scary monsters, and that's the whole point. Lethal company relies on bringing back scrap as fast as possible to meet quota, but the area is dangerous, while also being a roguelike randomly generated dungeon.
The problem is that after 10 or 15 hours of gameplay, monsters start losing their "spookiness", you become used to them, and then you tryhard the game, or just focus on your friends... Except if the whole point is going into scary situations, and you stop being scared, then people get bored, your friends aren't having fun, and the whole game itself stops being fun.
Lethal company can be played like a try-hard, with speedruns and quota chasing, with monsters being PVE enemies instead even when they are not scary, basically you can still have fun trough killing them as fast as possible.
Lethal company will stay attractive while content warning will die in a month or so
I'm saying the same thing man.
People keep acting like these flavor of the month games are going to stay attractive longer than a month or so. Lethal Company actually had nuance that keeps it fresh.
You're giving it a month? You're optimistic aren't you?
Lethal has been boring for me as of recently as well
@@benjamincharlton1388 i've Come back to it and now it's fun as tryhard
@@jeanladoire4141In the past hour I've look more into the update, and I think it could just potentially need tweaks and a new perspective. I might come back
5:30 What is the OST for this part? It reminds me of some anime I've seen...
i had not realized this game was so popular
wow
The "Marketing" worked so well I didn't even know what the game was about until I was about to die to a snail guy. I just saw a free for the next 24 hours indie game and instantly claimed it, then saw the Landfall logo and knew it was gonna be funny, the horror aspect was a bit of a surprise lol
Well Landfall is always the peak of april fools games anyways
2024 is probably gonna be the renaissance of gaming.
The fact that you can record ingame + the fact it was free for the first 24 hours of its launch contributed to its success
Lethal Company now has a son called Content Warning
How adorable, hooe there is a collab ;)
Off the shoulders of giants. Lethal company had to ground break to allow for this game to flourish. You downplay the similarities between the games.
2024 indie devs eating good
i love logan paul simulator.
lmfao
The cold drop strategy is working and we will see more of this in future.
Landfall never misses when it comes to games. Besides that knight one from 2022 I think
THE POWER OF LANDFALL
i remember during launch i was literally constantly spamming all my friend's dms with the exact same text along the lines of
"ayo free game out get it cuz free today and tommorow"
and that way one download became 5.
i imagine many others also got the game like this
Proof that quality sells more than marketing
1:08 had me cackling
3:40 I miss Knightfall man, that game was so much fun!
The list of trendsetting meme games through the years is getting looong!!! Content Warning, Among Us, Lethal Company, Fall Guys, Stardew Valley, Valheim, Terraria, Barotrauma ++++++
Why are there Stardew Valley, Terraria and Valheim here?
Straight up missed Helldivers 2
What exactly does meme game means to you if Terraria and Stardew Valley is included in it? Those haven't exactly been a meme like sus sus amogus, nor are they joke games. Does it just mean "popular games" in your book?
why the fuck is barotruama in here
I personally learned about it from two instances. A friend on discord told me it's free to claim (limited-time), and one of the streamers I watch got approval to play it so they mentioned it. That's pretty much it.
Haven't watched a gameplay yet, but the game's concept is already good in and of itself to pique my interest.
the concept is good enough ?!
What is the concept??
Run around in a world without content and imagine having fun with your friends
wow great concept
@@ItsRayful I don't think you know what a concept is. But thanks for sharing your opinion.
How they release so well? release free copy for the first 24hours of release XD
That's the magic of Landfall
None of this was intended
Not sure if I should be proud of how far out of the social media loop I am. This is the first I am hearing of this game.