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Poop Slinger is an action video game developed and published by Diggidy.net initially for the PlayStation 4 in a digital form in 2018. The game received a physical release by Limited Rare Games in 2019.

Although the game did have a digital version on the PlayStation Store, its physical version is notable for becoming not only the rarest PS4 game, but also one of the worst-selling video games of all time. It shortly became an extremely valuable item, with one copy currently on sale on eBay at over $13,000.

Background
Months after Poop Slinger was initially released, its developer, Diggidy.net, was contacted by a South Carolina-based company headed by a Russian, named Limited Rare Games, during the game's development. LRG suggested them a physical release of the game, which would then become the only game LRG ever published during their lifespan. To fund the release of this version of the game, LRG explained that they had taken out a loan with their bank. Poop Slinger was then released on April 1, 2019 on a physical disc.

Release
When the physical version of Poop Slinger officially launched, at the time, it was only sold on LRG's website which only contained a link to purchase the game via PayPal. According to the company, they needed to sell the game to repay bank loans in order to continue surviving. However, right after its release, the game was met with severe issues that heavily stagnated its sales.

The first issue was its release date. Initially, Poop Slinger was released only digitally in August of 2018, but its physical release was exactly on April Fools day. This caused many customers to think of the game as a joke, therefore not actually existing. It also led to people claiming that LRG was attempting to scam players with their game, since it was only sold via their website which contained a PayPal link to purchase the game.

The second issue was its absurd launch price, which was $33.99 while the digital version was only sold for $4.99. This was absolutely inexcusable for a game with a very lackluster gameplay comparable to hyper-casual mobile games, which only consists of the player shooting poop at people with a slingshot.

The third issue was that the physical version was, as mentioned above, only sold on LRG's website which had a link to purchase it via PayPal. However, the website's design was made with the slightest effort put into it, only showing a white solid background and using the Times New Roman font for all of the text. The site also claimed that only 820 copies are known to exist; however, according to mh:awesomegames:Sony's policy on physical games on the PS4, a physical game needs to have atleast 1,000 units manufactured prior to being released. This led to even more accusations that the game was a scam, therefore hurting the sales of the game much more than when it was released during April Fools.

Limited Rare Games's bankruptcy
LRG was on the road of bankruptcy when their game's sales were very slow. According to their tweet written the same day the game was released, when they discovered that, the solution they came up with was to increase the game's price to $50 as an attempt to do not be defunct within a single day after their game's release. However, the game continued to sell poorly, and that did not help LRG to avoid going out of business. They stated later in another tweet that if their game didn't sell enough units in 2 hours, they would close down the company due to financial losses from manufacturing the game. However, many continued regarding LRG as a scammer, and, of course, the game still didn't sell well.

Legacy
Those problems led to the physical version of Poop Slinger immediately becoming an ultimate failure in sales, with some even regarding at as one of, if not, the biggest software flop in video game history. The next day, LRG stated that the physical version only sold, and we're not making this up, 84 copies out of the 1,000 existing units of the game. It is unknown what LRG did to the remaining units of their game that were left unsold, but rumors say that they were sent to LRG's bank's creditors.

When LRG closed its doors after their game flopped, they still did send all of the 84 units that they sold to their customers on April 15. Even before the copies were sent, they were still receiving backlash from gamers, accusing them for mistreating their customers.

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