Game Theory: FNAF, The Circus Of HORRORS!

fredbear's Family Diner this is where the entire animatronic Empire began the chain of deaths and Williams' descent into madness everything came from this place or at least that's what we all thought until today hello Internet, welcome to Game Theory where it's finally time that today graduating from FNAF boy to FNAF man and taking on my first FNAF

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, although I say I've actually been helping Matt write FNAF theories for the last 3 years, thanks Tom, thanks, safe flight back. I couldn't talk to you about Gregory. as a robot, he's okay, I want to be fair, that was our sin, but you know, I threw something away in my first math, I threw something away there.

Gregor is a robot first in FNAF

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and look how well received he has been, look how good he is. He's gone for all of us, he's gone very well for all of us, yeah, what could go wrong? But don't worry theorists, I promise today's theory is a lot less crazy, hopefully, because today I'm going to address a simple little detail that I think is really important to understanding this franchise. H Wanted 2 was full of collectibles, most of which are obtained in a prize machine after beating a mini-

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. Some are set rewards that relate to the level you just completed, such as a sun figure for beating the first one.

Daycare mission or a meat pretzel for beating the Fazbear theater; However, after beating the

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there are some extra prizes to collect that are randomly awarded to you when you repeat a scenario, usually these are just extra plushie models or food, but sometimes you get banners. and one of these posters stood out above all the others, ending up on the back wall right next to the Faz key entrance for the Princess Quest minigame. It's a poster promoting Fallfest 1970 now for the FNAF community. Fallfest is nothing new that we first saw. This name appeared almost 5 years ago in The Curse of Dread Bad DLC for the original.

We wanted a Halloween-inspired event full of attractions and of course spooky versions of all our favorite characters to fit with the Halloween theme, but there is one crucial one. difference between this fo Fest and the one we see in the post from help wanted to the date the posters around the curse of dreadbear Hub World showed this event taking place in 1983, but this new poster is more a decade before this whole fall festival. it's clearly been running for a long time, in fact it's been running since before the first confirmed parts of the FNAF timeline in silver eyes, when Charlie searches for news articles about Fredbear's Family Diner he starts the search in 1979, which seems to imply that this was when the dinosaur was founded, but that was nine years after this poster was posted and that's not all.

Look at the design of this poster while it's advertising for the festival, it's not inherently creepy like the event we see for the Curse of the Scary Bear. It has original elements, but it's mostly designed to look like an old two-tone

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tent right in the middle, and this isn't the first time Steel Will has offered us hints that circuses could be important. for this franchise. the mini games in H22 like the carousel and fazer blast, there are the circus costumes that are in Ruin's basement, there are even circus themed Funko products, clearly Steel Ste Will is hitting us over the head with this circus thing for a reason, but why?

In 2022, in preparation for the Xbox port security breach, Steel Will did an interview with Game Jolt to talk about how they made the security breach provide some updates on the development of the ruins and give some small hints about what might be happening for them and the FNAF. franchise and when asked what kind of game they would like to make in the future, they said that something I have always loved to do is go back to the origin of Fazar Entertainment. how things were done here i would like to go back further than the 70's they want to create a game about the origins of freddy's set in the 70's most of us at the time assumed this would just be fredbear's family diner but still As these circus images appear, the question arises: What if Fredbear's Family Diner was not the origin of Freddy's?

What if it was this 1970s circus instead? And once I realized things started to fall into place, this poster is the key to clearing up some massive things. holes in the FNAF timeline, confirms a number of things we've been predicting for a while and sheds a little more light on the franchise's latest villain. Come to think of it, maybe this isn't such a small theory after all. You better grab your popcorn theorist because the show is about to start and I'm going to reveal to you the true origins of Freddy's, but just before we get into that, I need to talk to you about something else that's really important, which is something you might have.

I've seen it if you look at our own sister location's style theory, but we have an exciting theoretical event coming up. We are organizing a fashion show called creating hate in fashion and it is the first of its kind, not only because a fashion show has never been done. on YouTube before, that's cool though, but since we're getting weird, how weird, the first runway of the night will be FNAF themed, you heard that right, we've had FNAF games, a FNAF movie, a FNAF cookbook FNAF and now. FNAF is completing the theoretical Gauntlet and getting a FNAF Runway, although if you've ever bought high quality FNAF merch, FNAF being high fashion may not be that surprising, but what might be surprising is what creators we have planned for the event, It's called creators in fashion, after all, so we wanted to make sure we spotlight creators from all corners of the internet and make this unique event even more special.

We've got the likes of zhc seek upset, Cassie ho and Critical Role all looking glamorous to strut their stuff. his stuff we just have neological nails for the event and everything will be commented on by Rosanna Pansino and Trisha Herburger talk about star power but of course we couldn't do a theorist's fashion show without a strange little theorist. There are shenanigans besides the FNAF track, we also have dogs walking around the track and no I'm not just talking about, oh, I mean literal dogs strutting up and down and I'm not lying when I say they look adorable and fierce, talk about fierce, we also have our incredibly talented style presenter, Theory Amy, taking center stage to co-host this event alongside the man I know you've all been missing, that's right, Matt Pad will be returning to host this event. special event and to celebrate we are going to soak the man live on stage, maybe it's water, maybe it's Nickelodeon slime, who knows, you'll have to watch the broadcast to find out, so mark your calendars for April 25th 2:30 p.m.

PST, we'll be live right here on Game Theory, so if you're not already, make sure you're subscribed because trust me, you won't want to miss this. Amy has many more surprises for you up her Lacy sleeve. so remember it's April 25th at 2:30 p.m. PST right here on Game Theory. I'll see you there, but for now let's get off the ring and back to the circus. Now I understand that there may be some hesitation in me changing the entire beginning of the timeline. I get it, it's a nice big tease and while there have been a number of hints about circuses throughout the games and books, it doesn't necessarily mean that's where it all started, so let's take a look at one of the more recent examples. of innuendos about the circus, so I can show you where I come from in the basement of the ruined DLC where you find the imitation.

There are two costumes hanging: an elderly Blackbird and an elephant dressed as a clown in the game files. There is also a lion wearing a varsity jacket. three animals, all associated with the circus, elephants often perform tricks, lions were regularly domesticated by lion tamers, and although crows or black birds are not traditionally circus animals, they often appear in circus-focused media like Disney's Dumbo, plus the elephant is literally dressed like a clown. It doesn't get more circus than that, but the most important part isn't actually their circus theme, but the fact that they aren't animatronic costumes. In our initial theory about the ruin, we talked about how these costumes seem to be related to circus babies because you know, the circus, however, when Circus Baby entertainment and rentals or even pizza world were due to be released from Circus Baby, they were all animatronic and complex, so why then would they have physical costumes which they wouldn't have unless these costumes actually came from something with a circus theme that was before animatronics were a part of this franchise in the imitator, not the robot, the stories of the Plex pizza story that bears his name, we learn of a character named Edwin, owner of a robotics company who became big by manufacturing a robot vacuum cleaner, however, with the birth of his son , the death of his wife and then the crippling pressure of running his own business, he decides to sell the company to none other than Fazbear Entertainment, why does Fazbear agree to buy because they want Edwin for his knowledge of robotics, specifically they want him to turn his character costumes in full-blown animatronics, we've seen him do exactly this with chica in the first few pages of the story, he then goes on to explain that this is the 18th character he was asked to create and describes the collection as quotes. a circus variety of animal costumes and other circus characters as you say, we long believed that Edwin is the book's parallel for Henry, the animatronic genius who helped Afton turn Fazbear into the animatronic empire we know today, so that the circus-themed costumes we see in Ruin's basement probably came from that same time period, a period when Henry was transforming costumes into animatronics, and these costumes are also not Henry's only connection to the circus when Charlie returns. to his childhood home in the silver eyes he looks at.

He stops by Henry's office and finds an assortment of books whose quotes would have seemed eclectic to anyone who didn't know the man. There were books on biology and anatomy, some on humans, others on animals. There were books about the history of the traveling Carnival and the circus, there were books on child development, about myths and legends, and about sewing patterns and techniques, there were volumes claiming to be about tricks on the gods, about how to make bee quilts, and about cheerleading squads. football and its mascots most of these make a lot of sense things like Anatomy Mascot Sewing Patterns it all ties back to the idea that I was creating characters and turning costumes into animatronics the books on child development relate to the fact that He was serving children and was therefore trying to figure out how he could better serve his clients. o is linked to the human anatomy books and relates to Henry creating robotic versions of his daughter Charlie, but there is one selection that has always stood out as strange that I have never had an explanation for and that is the story of the Traveling Carnival of the circus, why would Henry need books on that topic if all the work he's done is on animatronics and diners?

He needs it because Fazbear's origins are rooted in traveling circuses and carnivals. It was a clue to the early years of this business so This Forfest Circus seems to be where all the Fazar entertainment started but now the question is who else was there and I'm not talking about human characters let's be honest we don't have many of them to be really important, especially not in 1970, I mean. Which of Fazbear's characters was part of the original roster, as I mentioned during H one 2, we have a series of minigames that take place in carnival-like settings, namely Fazza Blast and the Carousel, and it's the carousel the one I want us to take?

Taking a look first, the game itself is pretty simple, you know when you don't have an ash trying desperately to keep your mic on oh my god, oh my god, but despite this Matt managed to notice a very interesting detail in the design of the level. Random pumpkin sitting there waiting to be thrown. I think we can all agree that pumpkins are something we associate specifically with Halloween and the only event we know will take place on Halloween in this franchise is, you guessed it? Full fest, we even have a Halloween theme. Moon's version appears during the nightmare level of Carousel Ride.

The carousel is from Fallfest, which means it's from the first part of the franchise, but then take a look at the characters used in the carousel. Freddy Bonnie Foxy Girl, what do you know she is. as expected, except it's not just the original FNAF 1 versions, the one that immediately stands out to me is this white and pink version from Foxy Funtimefoxy, well, because you can also notice that he has a hooked hand, something that is Funtime foxy. Clearly missing from Sister Location, however, there is a version of Funtime Foxy with a hooked hat and that is in FNAF World, a game that came out before Sister Location and does not have any other Funtime animatronics present, implying that Funtime Foxy didn't originally belong. that group of animatronics is from a previous set and this carousel tells us exactly what group the other characters are on this ride, besides Funtime foxy and the original four, they all have rosy red cheeks that line up with the toy animatronics from FNAF 2 toy Freddy toy.

Bonny toy Chica and Funtime Foxy, the toy version of Foxy, the animatronic toy, being here feels wrong, doesn't it? The toys didn't become a thing until 1987, with their special recognition software and new, more complex endoskeletons, they replaced the old withered versions of the original Freddy's Bonnie Chica and Foxy, how then are they on a journey from 197? Well, this is because I don't think the toy animatronics are meant to recall the 1983 Freddy animatronics, they're supposed to reference the original circus costumes dating back to mime history. Once Edwin leaves the warehouse, Fazbear's employees are sent to collect any Fazbear property. as well as their costumes, a character mentions a few of them, a brown Freddy Fazbear costume, a yellow girl costume, a foxy costume, a Bonnie costume, the original four existed as costumes before their introduction as animatronics in the Freddy Faz pizza and what's even crazier are the designs. of those costumes really exist a few years ago there was a, let's say, controversial, but at that time the official FNAF artist posted an image on the FNAF subreddit without context or explanation, the only thing we knew is that these images contained the copyright Scott officers.

The images were commissioned by Scott, making them as good a test as any and what are these images of versions of Freddy Bonnie and Chica in a style similar to the mascot costumes you would find at a theme park like Disneyland, all with large proportions? and large round heads to have a human fit inside them, these appear to be the original costumes of the characters and where these costumes were used. I suspect they were used in the circus, why we notice bright red cheeks, exaggerated features like big red noses. or cheeks have been used by clowns and circus performers for centuries.

Joseph Galdi is recognized as the ancestor of modern clowns and in 1802 he created the design for his most iconic character, Joey the Clown, and one of the iconic features of this character was painting his cheeks red in a similar way. Albert Falini is known to have helped redefine a type of clown in the mid-20th century, known as the August Clown, with the bright red nose we know today. Why did both artists feel it was necessary to have bright red features for the evolution of the clown? When the word clown was first recorded in 1560, it meant boring rustic or peasant, this often boiled down to a simple stereotype: the town drunk you often saw after having too much to drink, with a red nose and cheeks. bright.

This happens when your body cannot digest alcohol properly, causing a release of histamines that essentially cause your face to have an allergic reaction, i.e. red cheeks and nose. The idea of ​​referencing this was to make the clowns or characters immediately seem silly, silly, or disarming. so people would be quicker to laugh at them instead of being afraid of them, which is pretty ironic if you think about it, that's why I think these costumes are circus costumes, not because they're trying to make the characters look drunk. that they wouldn't do it. being very kid-friendly was to invoke those same reactions of silly, clever fun and the best thing is that you can see this trait carried over to the most definitive circus costume we have available, the elephant in the ruined basement costume, usually You do not get it. a chance to see them up close, but freeze frame just right or look in the game files and you'll find that, although he's a bit faded, he also has red and rosy cheeks, so red-cheeked characters like the ones we see in these designs would have I've felt at home in a circus, which also opens the door for other red-cheeked characters from this franchise to potentially be part of the original roster, perhaps characters that weren't originally animal costumes, but more well humans carrying the same type of face paint case. and point to the balloon boy, hello, balloon boy has never fit in anywhere.

We turned on FNAF 2 and he was just there and we've hated him since I said read the, but for a security breach he got his own arcade cabinet balloon world and if you played that game and you'd see a circus tent in the background . Balloon Boy's only standalone adventure places him in the circus, but while he never fit in with the new characters in FNAF 2, he bore a striking resemblance to a handful of characters in Sister Location and the Circus. babies, other wooden puppets like the magician and the fortune teller, all the jobs that would be found in a circus, selling balloons was an important part of any circus, so the balloon boy with his little sign offering them to the children was would feel right at home with the rest of them and To top it all off, when Funko decided to release their new circus line of FNAF products, it contained not only clown versions of all the characters, but versions of all of them in the iconic balloon boys costume, They were showing us that balloon car and specifically that suit. inherently tied to the circus, the balloon boy has to be a part of this festival, it's where it finally makes sense.

Another example would be the circus baby, she's been showing up a lot in the recent games, as has the circus footage, so she feels like Willer is deliberately trying to do it. connect the two, she also has the red cheeks we've talked about as well as that white face paint we see on most traditional clowns, she would fit right in in a circus, plus you know she literally has circus in her name, maybe this character. whose location in the timeline has left us stumped for Tex for so long belongs much earlier in the franchise's history than any of us expected, but above those two in the books is another costume called the Four main ones, but always one more, a jester costume. now I'm sure Mad is going crazy once again because jesters aren't clowns and they aren't part of a circus and dude, I get it, but trust me on this one on that quote from the mime story about the costume rack later. listing the four main characters we know and love, they end up adding bright pink, yellow, and green court jester costumes, so the colors we see Sun wearing in a security breach, yeah, I know they're a little off of place, but they're pretty close and just look at the rest of her costume, curly, pointed tips with pants or flared pants, I guess, and the tutu like ruffles at her waist and ankles.

He is 100% meant to be a court jester, he even jumps out of a fucking castle. when we first meet him in a security breach and as Matt was very keen to point out, jesters originated as royal entertainers in their castles during the Middle Ages, finally there are the epilogues where the jester character returns once again , but this time we get a description of his mask. quote Lucius approached the costume, suppressing a shiver at the jester's toothy grin and wide eyes. One of his son's most distinctive features is his ugly toothy smile. It's so iconic that he had to have teeth under his teeth just in case and those big empty spaces.

His eyes definitely give off that learning vibe that Lucia was describing, so even though Sun isn't as red-cheeked as we talked about, he still seems to be very obviously connected to the original team Freddy Foxy Girl and Bonnie, as well as the circus here. . he is the last one mentioned when everyone is listed as if the costumes are grouped together as if they come from the same collection of characters. The characters that came from Fazbear's circus days, the sun and the moon, actually make a lot of sense as characters on a journey. circus in Bobby Dots' story, we get some much-needed backstory on this character who just showed up in a security breach and doesn't match any of Plex's fantastic '80s pizza designs.

It turns out that they were not always daycare assistants, but rather an artist that they put in shows where Sol would be the hero and when the lights went out, Luna would appear as the villain of the story, which relates to the comedy and tragedy masks that we have found in ruins masks showing the faces of the Sun and the Moon so that It has also been an ideal performance to keep children entertained at a circus venue and later, when daycare was introduced, the same Bobby Dot story describes the design of the nursery as a carnival-like space, emphasizing the connection to the character's origins and then the icing on the cake. the help of the cake jury that he wanted is who we face when we try to fix the carousel of those old fall days, he has been there from the beginning and when you think about it in the early days of the franchise when you try.

To keep costs down, purchasing a complete mascot costume or fur suit from a trusted supplier can cost more than $5,000, while costumes for professional jesters and clowns typically cost only a few hundred dollars, keeping costs down and nice when you just start, it really feels. as if the origin of the circus was helping the characters who are out of place to finally have a place to belong sun and moon, balloon boy, they would all be at home here at the circus, however, Fallfest is not just the origins of the Fazbear franchise, it is also the origins of William Aton's first great tragedy.

Faz Blast in Help One2 is a shooting gallery that matches the layout of the Hub World during Dreadbear's Curse. The Dreadbear DLC even makes an appearance in the attraction, so this attraction clearly takes place over four Fest 1983. However, the penultimate fazer blast level ends with you firing a series of rockets and popping all versions of Fazer's balloons. animatronics that appear, doing so seems to cause a chain reaction that leads to everything ending in flames and when you go back through the In the final level, the place burns to the ground, we see the same thing happen during the Carousel when you try to fix it.

Sparks Fly and the thing lights up, leading to the nightmare version of the level where the whole place is already on fire and if you go out of bounds during that carousel level, you can see the burned trees of Red Sky, the tower of water and the windmill, all present during the final phase. Explosion level in the distance, steel wool clearly shows us that, like every other establishment in this franchise, this 1983 Forfest event ended in a fire. 1983 was shit for this franchise, but especially for Afton, he loses his son due to a spring suit malfunction and the negligence of his other son.

Fredbear's Family Diner closes and, to top it all off, loses what started all of this. business, circus steel wool is all about the backstory of a sympathetic villain, try not to set out to turn an attractive villain into a monster, they have a reason for it, these aren't just like the supernatural forces that emerged out of nowhere to just hurt. people and punish them as if they had resulted from other bad actions. Adding a fire to an already pretty terrible list of tragedies and losses would make it a little less surprising that Afton could suddenly snap and go on a killing spree, but this fire tells us more than just how this first chapter in FNAF's story ended, It also tells us that there was another character here, someone else present from the beginning, who you wouldn't suspect of imitation, yes, I know I was surprised too, but everything seems to point to this.

Being here since the early days of the franchise, we get many different descriptions of the impersonator during the epilogues of the Sulex tales - sometimes it's a traditional endoskeleton, other times it's a spider-like mess of slimy black wires - but when we arrive for the first time. By introducing it, we are given an additional detail, a detail I never fully understood. It wasn't just a basic metal frame, its steel frame was contained within a collection of curved metal rods and plates and an impressive system of ball joints and pistons all topped off with a long shiny steel skull of a vaguely rectangular shape.

The skull was the only part that was bright the rest was dark and faded as if Southwould have survived some kind of fire, that's a pretty specific way of putting it, especially when he points out that the head is not blackened by the same problem, they are giving us a clue where this mime came from because the other detail that is important to keep in mind The account is that the quote comes from the beginning of the story when the endoskeleton first arrives at the Pizz Plex, it was delivered to this place already burned, which tells us that it had to be in a previous Fazbear fire and I think the fire It was the fire of f Fest, but what makes me so sure that the imitation was obtained. everyone got burned during that fire specifically, this is what I know, we always joke that everything in this franchise ends in fire, but we can actually count the number of fires on one hand, even if you're an animatronic with only four fingers, which which means it should.

It won't be too difficult to go through each one and determine which one the imitation came from. Working backwards, there is a fire at the end of the security breach. If you make it past the burn trap, Aon is defeated, the dough steals him, and the entire Plex pizza goes up in flames. and collapses, but as we've talked about before, it doesn't look like this is the end of the security breach barrel. We found Gregory's drawings for the non-cannon endings during the ruin and the last one we collected is his drawing of the burn trap ending. meaning this fire wasn't a real fire and even if it was, this ending takes place at the pizz Plex, so the knockoff couldn't have been delivered to the fire-burnt pizzaplex, since the trap ending Burns comes later in the timeline, second.

The option is the FF 6 fire, but once again we face problems with the timeline: the petplex is being built on top of the ff6 location, which means that the imitation could not be delivered to that location when the ff6 location is being built. Plex pizza as we see. in the book because it would have already been there, the only other fire left besides Forfest is the FNAF 3 fire, but the owners of Fazbear fright seemed pretty excited when they found their first working animatronic springtrap, up until that point they had only had fragments. and pieces like a fox head, so it seems like they would have also gone to great lengths to find a copycat to bring it back to the location, even if they thought it was just an endo, so it doesn't seem like that could be it. one that leaves only one fire for the mimik to have been burned in the Forfest 19 1983 fire, meaning the imitator has been around for a long time.

In fact, we theorized this when we covered the sun and moon after the events of Ruin, connecting the cast imitates combine a simple and slim animatronic design with that of the sun and moon, that is, a very strange but distinctive feature that moves the teeth Standalone, it's a strange design detail that we've never seen before, so the fact that both characters have the same detail in the same game makes it seem like they have to be connected somehow and if the sun and the moon come from the early origins of the Fest franchise, so the fact that the mimicry is present at the same time would explain that connection, but there is one more detail that tells me that the mimicry has to have existed during the forest era of FNAF, something that has been right under our noses for years for a while, we believed that the help glitch trap virus wanted one, the virus that takes the form of a yellow bunny and takes over Vanessa's mind is actually not the William Aton himself, but a version of the imitation program that imitates Aton's behavior in the game.

We heard that Fazbear was trying to keep the costs down for this new game they're developing. I mean, they sent us those things in the first place. without explanation he told us to scan it, he said it would speed up the process so we wouldn't need to program any routes. When we met, it was a matter of budget. I guess they were just junk circuit boards and stuff like that looks pretty old, that game helped. I wanted it to be an in-Universe game that takes the original FNAF games and turns them into new virtual reality experiences, which is exactly what we learn happened with the knockoff show in the Narrator's quote.

It's a simple template style software that takes previously created stories and rearranges and transforms them into new scenarios for VR AR and arcade games, that's what the glitch trap is, the copycat program that has been scanned into the system receives a crash course in Aton's murderous tendencies and is now imitating them, thus appearing as Afton's iconic Yellow Rabbit. Except there's a part of it. explanation that never sat well with me, if the glitch trap copycat was learning about Afton in the FNAF Universe games 1 to 6, then why does he take this form in all those games, even the 8-bit minigames, He always wears his snap-zip suit because that was the costume he wore in Fredbear's Family Diner, but the version of the suit that the impersonator shows us as a glitch trap is a completely different design and at the time we had never seen this version before, This is not your spring.

Lock Suit is a hand-sewn suit with plastic-looking facial features similar to what we saw in that concept art. Those costumes came from Forfest, so it would make sense that this beautiful golden rabbit costume would also come from the same time period, but for The Copycat to have been able to copy this design they would have had to have some memory of this afon version in their banks. memory before being loaded into The Help Wanted game system. You should have watched Aton perform in this iconic golden rabbit costume. alongside a golden singing bear at the fall festival, the impersonator would have to be present during the franchise's first costume days.

The girl on the tape said the circuit boards looked pretty old, after all they were just junk circuit boards and stuff like that looks pretty old, maybe the copycat. It was originally intended to imitate an afon specifically. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure about this, but it seems like this is where the clues for both W Fest and the dinosaur might be headed, after all they were open until 1983, so they coexisted for at least 4 years with Dino's opening in 1979 and we know that Aton was performing as Spring Bonny at the restaurant, so it is possible that the imitation was part of Aton's plan to expand the business.

I could literally be in two places at once. Over time, imitation would be. locked underground with some circuit boards containing his programming set aside just in case and when the knockoff software was finally used again to help speed up the process of a new virtual reality game, he was shown all those old FNAF games and while watching them and learning He recognized someone, William Afton, the golden rabbit from the circus, and decided to take the form he remembered from all those years ago creating the monster that we have spent the last three games and two DLCs trying to stop, but well, that It's just a theory, a game theory. thanks for watching