Hello everyone, this is not another criticizing topic adressed to IMC, this is actually a guide on how you can, as a game developter destroy your own ultra-hyped game in some very simple and clear steps, if this in any way reminds you of a specific ultra-hyped game that was spoiled by it’s developers that’s not my fault 
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Step 1: Go on closed beta, but dont listen to your players complainings. Pretend you’re not listening, just go full retard and pretend to be deaf, if they say blue would be better you go red, if they say they like wine you give then beer, if they try to run you make then walk, just completely ignore their warnings about the unbalanced classes, broken meta (Wizard going full Con sort of stuff), stupid trade system (no silver trade, limited trade among team characters, days to retrieve AH silver, and others), ridiculous respawn, and many other things they might come up with.
Step 2: Plan a massive game with global impact with a ridiculously small crew, try to make your players wait for days for their tickets and messages to be responded. Oh you are saying you work all day, work out at night and only play about 2-3 hours a day and only really play straight hours on the weekends? Well that’s your problem, we just wont provide support in the weekends because… Well because f*** you, so if you want to play just leave a ticket on friday night and maybe next week with a lot of luck we might answer.
Step 3: Allow stupid game exploits and then punish the whole game for it. For example, dont check foreign payment methods right and allow people to exploit this payment method system in order to obtain game advantages, then you just punish the whole game for YOUR mistake with trade sanctions and other sort of stuff and voilá, you already have a raging community incomming, from now on things will get easier.
Step 4: Divide the game in regional servers but dont put any in loco employees, this way if something bad happens in the server you will have NO ONE to actually go in person at the data warehouse to check what is happening and how it can be fixed, just cash in foreigners money but dont give then real support, just let then hanging for whatever they might come up with.
Step 5: Go F2P when you clearly cant even handle the early acess. Your early acess PAYING players who trusted you with an unfinished game are having a rough time already in their servers with lots of bugs, maps crashing, lags over the top, and massive disconnections? No problem, now is the time for you to release the game as a F2P, this way the already super-lagged servers will crash once for all, the game will become unplayable in the big majority of maps and channels and the people who dont gave you a cent will be able to troll all over the game as they dont spent anything to play the game and you will make the people who actually putted some cash in your project even unhappier. Congratulations you’re almost there, from now on its pretty much intuitive.
Step 6: By now everyone is pretty much giving up on you, people are already planing to leave you because they see you clearly cant handle the game you created, you’re just too incompetent to do what have to be done so now its time for the final strike (wouldnt it be a great name for a skill?). Release a ctrl+c, ctrl+v official note saying you will be working on the servers stability and just f*** the whole thing up even harder making the game completelly unacessable, now as a final touch just ignore every single complain about how people just cant connect to the servers and here you go my friend, you have just destroyed your own ultra-hyped game, you’ve managed to transform a potencial ground breaking game into a joke for the years to come, now you only have to be an a**hole and ignore everyone whos trying to get their money back as you are based in a country in the other side of the globe and cant be sued by these stuoid foreigners.
That’s it guys, the guide is completed, if anyone have any further questions regarding any of the steps i’ll be pleased to answer, and i also have some bonus tips on how you can increase the rage even higher, but this bonus content i’ll release soon, depending on a certain hypothetical game i’m using as a inspiration for the guide, THANK YOU!!! See you all soon, or maybe not 
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