Frostpunk 2 Is Already Getting Hit By ‘Scammer,’ Says Dev

The first fragment of promotional art for Frostpunk 2, a survival metropolis-builder recreation launched final week, displays a shirtless man kneeling within the snow, the observe “liar” painted in dusky tar across his chest. This week, Frostpunk 2‘s builders acknowledged that some form of sketchy insist concerning pre-orders for the game popped on the net predicament Kinguin. Hooray for metaphors!

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Frostpunk 2 is 11 Bit Studios’ note-as much as 2018’s Frostpunk, a relentlessly unforgiving metropolis-building sim. Role in an replacement history whereby the arena freezes over on the pause of the 19th century (sure, the Industrial Revolution did its component true rapidly in that timeline), the principle recreation tasked you with maintaining a runt population of survivors alive for so lengthy as that you are going to also imagine. It demanded meticulous resource administration and tricky option-making, the set apart nearly each different you made in total came on the expense of something, or someone, else. 11 Bit Studios hasn’t confirmed anything else beyond a cinematic trailer for the sequel, but says that Frostpunk 2 will feature a political zigzag that wasn’t present within the principle recreation.

For fans of the unusual, Frostpunk 2 sounds cool. You additionally can’t officially purchase it appropriate now. (On Steam, GOG, and the Fable Games Store, there are alternate choices to wishlist, on the opposite hand.)

As of this writing, there’s a net page on Kinguin that purports to give pre-orders for the game, equipped by the utilization of the retailer g2play.win (5 stars! 1.7 million ratings!). It’s at the moment on hand for $37.50. But 11 Bit Studios acknowledged in a tweet that the list is from a “SHITTY SCAMMER,” while noting that, “we don’t know the value of our recreation yet, [and] we don’t hold any keys.”

Frostpunk 2 doesn’t at the moment if truth be told hold a begin date.

Some observers point out that this will most most likely be a total “grey market” note, the set apart third-party sellers set apart up pre-repeat keys for upcoming games on the market—no topic no longer having keys on hand at that very 2nd—after which pause up in actuality dazzling the ask of when the game does sooner or later come up.

Again, the developer itself doesn’t know the value of the game.

“In actual fact, we haven’t been the pricepoint yet, on the opposite hand it doesn’t topic,” 11 Bit’s PR lead Paweł Miechowski told Kotaku by the utilization of email. “What obtained me so exasperated is that they’re promoting something they don’t hold, they’ll’t even know if they’ll hold it (!) on the opposite hand it appears it grew to alter into rapidly customary due to the big passion from our colossal neighborhood. That’s no longer ethical. They would perchance perchance even peaceable no longer monetize on the folks like this.”

“We ask for forgiveness for the inclusion of unconfirmed recordsdata that seemed within the list on Kinguin.win in regard to Frostpunk 2,” Brandon Doerfler, Kinguin’s performing CEO, told Kotaku in a recount. “Now we hold since eliminated this and made it clear to anybody visiting our predicament that the game is on hand for preorder excellent.”

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Replace, 1: 30 p.m. ET: Added responses from 11 Bit Studios and Kinguin.