Early Access: Magnificent 5 Is A Magnificent Bomb


From the worst developer on the planet.

Sergey Titov is a name that deserves a lot of awards; Most incompetent, biggest con artist, most prolific liar, most dedicated shyster, most likely to abandon his latest dumpster fire within a year, and most likely to recycle the same garbage and try to spin it as a new product. Now normally I don’t like to get into hyperbole with developers but I would happily pay Sergey $100 to never darken my towels again and leave the industry for good. Unfortunately he refuses to tuck tail and beat it.

So let’s get an update from Free Reign Entertainment’s latest embarrassment; Magnificent 5. Magnificent 5 is the battle royale spinoff to New Frontier which itself is the new racket built off Wild West Online which threw away the fake shell corporations (none of which appear to still exist) and officially confirmed merged into the hivemind.

Like everything else Titov’s name is attached to Wild West Online was abandoned in short order and its customers given the middle finger so Free Reign Entertainment could cannibalize the already-recycled assets into a new game and try to sell it all over again. Magnificent 5 launched on January 23 of this year and astoundingly nobody wanted to play a hastily cobbled together battle royale game from a company that has proven its incompetence time and time again.

Magnificent 5 peaked at 55 players on launch day, low enough that nobody could quite get into a match. Since then the peak numbers have dropped to a baker’s dozen ensuring that should you feel desperate enough to give the game a try, odds are the game will simply not function out of a lack of players to start a round.

You will notice that Free Reign Entertainment uses different developer/publisher names on Steam, likely so that people who look up their titles won’t see their full library. It gives a modicum of disconnect to Magnificent 5 and New Frontier, as well as Romero’s Aftermath and Titov’s various other shell companies (OP Productions/Hammerpoint Interactive).

Don’t give Sergey Titov money. Ever. For any reason.