hntrjoe: I wholeheartedly believe that SDF, Terrance and Graysun never truly wanted to make this game work. If they truly did they would've acted accordingly and actually get a real team together with the millions they're making and make this game amazing at the fundamental level.

DogInATaco: Dark and Darker could have succeeded and been a phenomenal game if the devs capitalized on the early playercount and opportunities they were given.

But instead they dicked around for 2 years, added almost 0 new content, ignored and spat in the face of their community again and again, and got sued and lost.. At this point they're a company with billionaire investors and over 100 employees and the game still does not receive new content at even a decent pace. SDF is a complete clown that ran the game into the ground because of his ego and "vision" that no one but him ever wanted. It was doomed to fail with SDF making the decisions.

1vEverybody: Okay then stop playing it.. stop posting about it.. stop obsessing over it.. bro has Stockholm syndrome from a video game I stg. At this point the channel is just some neckbeard ranting about a game failing for almost 6 months.

The_MountainKing: Hey bud. This video is a great primer into the various topics you covered. Right off the bat, I want to say that yes, Dark and Darker - and all other games - are destined to die one day.

I recommend that you do make full videos covering each of the reasons why you think DaD was destined to fail. Not only for you to generate more content while you decide what to do about the state of the game as it pertains to your livelihood as a streamer and youtuber, but for the actual good of the game.

What I mean is, with SDF's most recent kitchen post, he is now openly considering REMOVING the BR circle. You would probably agree with me that the circle's removal would be a huge first step toward prolonging DaD's lifespan. If SDF is floating the idea publicly, then he is certainly going to remove it on the test server at the least. He may be desperate enough to listen to the community. So, if you make the other videos about specific issues, he might just listen to some of the ideas and improve the game as well in those various ways.

May your beard grow ever longer - The Mountain King

P.S. Make sure the other videos are super simple. SDF needs to be spoon fed the information or he'll get bored and stop listening.

RUSHFROG: I wanna make a doomer video too but theres no players to record footage gg man

gonzalocornejo9267: As someone from south america, i used to play with a couple of friends, and now, we cant bring ourselves to actually open the game xd, aside from the balance and other dumb issues.

the main issue for us, is ghost towns, in south america the population is kinda little, and then u have to understand how many queues there are... bro, we cant find any people, this is just a PvE game now, and for PvE bruh, for that price? NAH, we have waaaaaaaaaay better PvE games, like Night Reign New DLC for Risk of rain 2, so why in h we would try to play Dark and darker for PvE? thats just crazy af

nachoconqueso3000: I mean i just started playing dark and darker again, I hope its not doomed yet

zacharydeskins1530: I hope this game succeeds. I haven't had many other games give as much of a adrenaline rush. I like that its hard. If you keep at it you see real progress. I've gotten more /played out of this game than all the others on my steam account. I think people need to cut some slack. The games still being built

imspacedoutggs: They needed the inventory guy, after he left the company SDF began his human test subject trials.

(SDF is happy with the results of this test) is a bad omen for a wipe

glenoutofgum: Smells like goat in here, ah ofc it's Todd, can we get ironmace to sell to the project vision boys please? Thank and pay me later, peace mic drop

Momentik_DaD_Highlights: Yeah I agree Dark was always destined to fail. I personally think the biggest reason is that the core gameplay simply never was that interesting. There is only so much skill expression in smacking eachother with tools. At some point, people have figured out everything that has to do with positioning, metas, and what gear to use to win. Exactly at that point, it was destined to fail. Why this game was so much fun in the first place was the learning curve and exploiting unknowledgeable players by grinding the game 10x more than them. When everyone figures out how the game works and the skill gap between employed/unemployed players increases, it stops being fun, and the only thing that can carry it from there is the core gameplay, which as I said, is not that interesting. And obviously, the concept itself kind of died down - same thing will likely happen to arc raiders imo

anything4lroy: "go back to the playtest days"? what has even changed.... i still remember when melee combat was just a "placeholder" lol

ShaiMin_17: gulp

chost-059: how to save the game

option 1: sell the game to another studio

option 2: revert the game back to season 1 while only keeping the best of newer content and changes, revert shield rework etc bad stuff, stop adding new maps and at most add floor 2 GC and watermap

theonetruemorty11: W video. I been loving these Todd yap videos

humblebee-4039: I love this game so much i really hop they wake up from this cycle

AstralRikku: What this game needed to live? Not fucking around with stat numbers again and again and releasing more floors to existing modules like gobbo cave or some shit.

TheSADHU88: damn you put what we feel into words , good job man

Bykkmakk: No the fuck it wasn't.

it was killed

kadevanschindel5218: Arena is the only fun part of dark and darker.

TheBlackyoshi5000: net code needs to be better, what is happening on your screen is not "real time", it's not what is actually happening on the server side. There is a lag which throws everything off, I go to hit someone and they are not actually there.

keziah5647: I think after 6000 hour or w/e, any game is going to get stale. It's still fun with the homies but Idk, now that everyone has sort of moved on it's not the same. Certain things that are still in the game are just so obnoxious and annoying like club Barbarian. I know, skill issue. Once the casuals are no longer playing, it starts to become rinse and repeat and every game sort of plays out the same

ondrejhomola9988: As u mentioned. The game was fun at the early stages, bcs noone knew hoW to play it. It wasnt about ms, bcs noone knew how to kite properly. Idk whats the solution for the game. Mby one step would be removing true dmg entirely from the game, that could help from getting long range dmg. Getting half hp from ranger is annoying.

RonaldMcDonald-o5z: With SDF. Yes. simple as

doktorek556: devs skill issue

mrsstayalive: With SDF in the lead, I mean..

Dec 06 2025

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