Today’s Early Access Fraudsters comes in the form of Lonath Online, a title by 4NetGames that is by all measures a scam. How much of a scam?
If you head over to Lonath Online’s forums the two stickied threads you will see are warning people to stay away. Stay far away. 4NetGames is the product of one developer who apparently decided to just up and abandon his work way back in 2016, leaving the game in a state where it is still online and being sold for money ($7) while not actually functioning as a game as the server is offline. Yes, the forum moderator is recommending you stay far away.
Although I’d rather not do this, it has been too long. I’m marking Lonath online as abandoned(?), but 4NetGames may just be on hiatus for a little while. I have no idea if he plans to ever return or work on Lonath Online again. It has been (as of now, on the 21st of February) been marked abandoned.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them, I will try to help out as much as possible.
EDIT: Servers are officially OFFLINE, please do not purchase this until the developer (if) comes back.
Lonath’s website is gone as is its social media presence, and the developer has been unreachable for years. Given Valve’s reputation for poorly responding to broken/nonfunctioning/abandoned games, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that users have been reporting Lonath Online for the past four years only to have absolutely no action taken.
Is the game selling copies? Presumably no. Is it wasting valuable real estate on the Steam store? Definitely. From my search I haven’t been able to find any other titles created by 4NetGames, but we’ll be keeping in eye out in case anything pops up under this developer title. To give people a heads up on who they are giving money to.
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