Five Nights at Freddy's Roblox game debuts by accident because series' creator 'approved a skin'—devs say it was a beta, then nuke its Discord over unholy NSFW content
Five Nights at Freddy's, a cultural gaming giant big enough to have its own movie (that was apparently Just Okay, according to critics) has come toRoblox—wait, hold on a second, it's gone. Now it's in beta? Oh, but the beta's been «taken down for a few weeks.» Err.
The whole thing was a comic misunderstanding according to the series' creator Scott Cawthon (thanks, IGN) who is otherwise retired after significant donations to right-wing parties brought him under fire from LGBTQ+ members of his fanbase. In a response on the game's subreddit, Cawthon writes:
«Yes, there is an official Roblox game being worked on; I'm actually a big Roblox fan and play it a lot with my kids. But the fact that this was released today is one of the most baffling, insane, things to ever happen in my ten years of working on FNAF.»
Cawthon maintains that the game was in its «infancy» and never supposed to come out in the first place: «apparently there was a huge misunderstanding when I approved a skin, and it was interpreted as RELEASE THE GAME.» Which is an interesting snafu, since you'd think the people making the game would have the most knowledge on whether it was releasable or not. They could've checked. This game release could've been an email.
«I obviously took the game down immediately,» he adds. «I will fix in 2024. Again, I hope everyone can at least believe me when I say that this was a game in its testing phases and was in no way ready to be released to the public.»
Best I can tell from the footage of this thing, Five Nights at Freddy's: Survival Crew appears to have been a Dead by Daylight-style multiplayer game where Roblox characters try to avoid the Fazbear himself. Only, it's severely under-polished—here's a good example, courtesy
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