Scott Cawthon's Plan for the FUTURE of FNAF...

Everyone give it up for Scott Cawan because FNAF Scott Games has been posting nearly every single day for the past month. It's a little bit over a month now. It's about month and a half ever since the 12th anniversary. So, I put together a little presentation. What's going good? What's going bad? And most importantly, how Scott was somehow able to turn the FNAF century of humiliation into the century of winning. Because pretty much for every single day, for the first half of this year, this century of humiliation image was haunting the internet. Every single post online for FNAF, you got this image. And honestly, for some pretty valid reasons, first of all, that kind of initiated the whole thing was FNAF 2. Received not so great reviews, not only from critics, but also from fans as well, despite being a box office success, just like the first film. critically panned and despite the first film which some fans really liked, there was a lot of FNAF fans that did not like this second film. It also doesn't help that the same week we got this movie which was very mixed in the fan base, we also got, shout out DJ in the chat, a very interesting book released, the Ultimate Guide version 2.0, which contained chapter 13, Chica Secret Party, which 9 months later, fans are still trying to figure out what the heck this is, DJ. Is it a teaser? Is it a troll? Was it a mistake? What's going on? We do not know. An alleged lost secret games FNAF game from 2016 that was only up on the website for 3 days. There's no way we could have missed that. So, what's going on with this? There's screenshots like it's an actual game. Shout out to DJ, co-author of The Ultimate Guide version 2.0. Was not aware he was going to be in chat. This is a little bit awkward now that now that we're talking about his book. But speaking of books, something I can't blame on DJ, at least I hope I can't, is the second FNAF movie novel, which just like the film, received very mixed weird reactions, especially in regards to some of the content focused on our dear beloved character, Jeremiah. So, the movies aren't safe, the books aren't safe, and as it turns out, maybe even the games aren't safe. Earlier this year, we got the jump scare that Five Laps at Freddy's may not even be in development anymore. Might have been quietly cancelled behind the scenes. Some sources say it's still going on. Still to this day, we we haven't heard anything from Click Team or Scott. If it's canceled, if it's still in development, we have no idea. And speaking of Click Team games in development, we also found out at the same time as the fivelapse info, multiple seemingly canceled, scrapped, leaked FNAF games from Click Team. So, all of this, including the abysmal release of Secret of the Mimic VR after waiting a year for the VR mode to finally be released, it was super buggy. So all of this just just kept growing and growing and the wait for the FNAF community was becoming so intense. The first half of this year was not looking too good for FNAF fans, especially because our one savior, our saving grace, Scott Cawan, was nowhere to be found. [laughter] It was virtually radio silence from the beloved man coffin, from the big general. In desperate times like this where we're getting all these projects that seemingly lacked a whole lot of quality control, the one person we got to look up to to say, "Hey, what's going on? How are you going to fix all this?" wasn't giving us anything. Now, historically, there's there's been a couple of ways that we can hear from Scott. The first one, if you're a longtime fan, was the Steam forums. Honestly, a really underappreciated form of communication from Scott. Here, I pulled up the upcoming projects mega thread, which was like 2018 to 2019, a big thread on the Steam forums from Scott that was detailing the progress and all the info on upcoming projects. FNF AR, FNAF VR, Into Madness, the console ports, the movie, the AAA game, Into Madness. You know, some of the stuff wasn't released, but a lot of it was. And so to go on the Steam forum and get constant updates on progress to see how development was going was super incredible. It was probably some of the most clear communication we had up until that point. Now, as amazing as the Steam Forums was, so the project's mega thread came to an end at the end of 2019 after pretty much all the projects had come out and instead of, you know, updating progress on a 2-year-old Steam page now that Sew was making the posts, Scott really wasn't able to release updates on the new pages for the new games, which is totally fine cuz we still have a couple other ways that we can hear from Scott. Second one is team stream chat, but really we only heard from Scott when we already kind of figured that there was news. Typically Do was live reacting to a PlayStation State of Play and Scott Coffin pops in. He's like, "Hey guys, what's going on?" And then we know now, oh, there's going to be news on charity streams. We usually know that there's news. Scott shows up in the chat and that's how we got the news. But it's not really like a super mainstream way to share news, especially because it only happens when Doc goes live, in which case we already figured there would be news. But that's totally fine cuz I think by now you've you've anticipated one of the best ways that we would get updates from FNAF. And that's scottgames.com. Beloved, may it rest in peace. Scottgames.com, an absolutely phenomenal website. We all love memories checking Scotts, seeing the brand new teaser, theorizing with our friends. though I think we all know what happened after Scott's retirement from making the video games. Scott Games was no more. Which leaves us then with the fourth and so far final communication, which was the Reddit page, which honestly was the best option out of these four. Let's be honest, as cool as Scott Games was really all we could get, a little image. With Reddit, we get full-on posts from Scott. He's replying to fans. He's he's commenting on fan art. He's making goofy little remarks. He's addressing all the drama. The Reddit was great because it it truly felt like we were connecting with Scott because it was just straight up him engaging with the community, posting to the community, giving us constant updates, which is why it was so amazing in 2024 that we got the news that an official FNAF Scott Games Twitter account was being made. It was being hyped up for the big 10th anniversary of Five Nights at Freddy's. They were posting every single day leading up to August 8th. We got brand new books, brand new games, a bunch of behind the scenes for the FNAF 2 movie, couple of demos for TJ and and five laps. We also just straight up got an interview from Scott talking about the Twitter. So, this is what Scott had to say about the Twitter in 2024. >> As the franchise has grown bigger, what challenges have you faced with running a franchise of this size? Is there anything you could think you [music] could be doing better? I I I think something I should have maybe been doing better is I should have had a better a better structure in place as far as people to talk to the fan base. You know, I've always kept that on myself all during the years and and in the early years, I think that worked great because it was a a little indie game, a little indie community, and then me, the indie dev, just chatting with the community and talking. >> By the way, FNAF is now easily worth over $2 billion. Before the first FNAF movie came out, it was valued at $2 billion. That was like two years ago now, almost three years ago. So very clearly, this is not just a small little indie series anymore. >> But as the years go by and the franchise gets bigger and bigger, I don't know. I I feel like I've slowly slowly kind [music] of lost touch with the fan base, unfortunately. It's not that same it's not that same relationship that it used to be. I I really used to enjoy chatting with everybody and just kind of uh I don't know. And I guess that's I guess that's expected because FNAF was is more of a it is more of a big it's kind of a just just kind of a bigger thing now and it's bigger than one person and I can't just pretend like I can hop online and chat with everybody and solve everybody's problems [music] anymore. Used to I kind of could I could just go in there and chat with everybody and resolve little problems as if it was like just a squabble on a forum. I can always just step in and solve it, but it's just not the same. And I think that I should have realized that sooner and I'm really only realizing that this year that I really need to have a better structure in place, you know, and the fan base deserves that. The franchise deserves that. The fan base deserves that to have um more people in charge and running a Twitter page and official news feeds, you know, an official news feed so that there's not so much confusion about what's real and what's not real and real news and fake news and is this confirmed? Is this not confirmed? You know, I could have avoided years of that if I just kind of had a better structure in place with um people to listen to and like I said, a news and someone else to just provide better answers to the fan base. >> So, you'll notice just pausing for a second that Scott keeps talking about other people. He's not saying like him like I can get on there. Let's remind ourselves here the Twitter page is not run by Scott. I know I say like, "Oh, Scott just tweeted or everyone else says, "Oh, Scott Cawan just posted." It is not him. I'm sure everything that gets posted to that account is obviously approved by him and I'm sure he knows exactly what's going on with that account, but the actual people behind those typing those images, they're not him. He has a team of people running the account. >> So, I'm trying to get all that in place, and I I really think it I think it would just better serve the fan base. I think everybody would be a little happier if it's not just me trying to jump in and straighten things out when needed. So, the FNAF Twitter account was going pretty strong for the 10th anniversary, and then as soon as the anniversary passed, it just kind of slowed down. As you can see, these five tweets were what we got in the span of 2 years. There was a Thanksgiving tweet, a Christmas tweet, there was three teasers that pretty much spoiled all the big chase sequences in Secret of the Mimic 2 days before the game came out. a quick little thank you for the 11th anniversary and then some teaser images for FNAF 2, but that's all we got. And so now that we've also completely gone silent with FNAF Scott Games Twitter, we can add it to the century of humiliation. That's why leading up to this year's big 12th anniversary, the common thought process behind the community was that nothing was going to happen. There's there's going to be no info. There's going to be no big announcements because nothing ever happens. We are in the century of humiliation. I saw it firsthand. I was making tweets like, "Oh, the anniversary is in a week. The anniversary is in a month." Like, what do you guys want to see? Every single comment, every single curt retweet was, "Nothing ever happens. Who cares? I don't want to be a FNAF anymore." But little did they know, Scott Coffin was cooking because on that day, we got some pretty major announcements. Two brand new FNAF games, sequels to some beloved games. FNAF World 2. Obviously, everyone loves FNAF World now. It wasn't super liked on launch, but now it's become a cult classic. Everyone loves it. We've all been asking for a better, bigger FNAF World, and we're finally getting it. Security Breach 2, a sequel to the biggest FNAF game ever. That's another absolutely insane announcement. A real life Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. Again, remember, everyone thought we were going to get nothing for this anniversary. to get two big sequel games. You get a real life Freddy Fazbear's pizza that you can actually eat at, watch real animatronics perform on the stage, and then also this horror experiences mixed in that you can play with your friends. It's incredible. And the best part is that Scott Games was back, baby. They got a brand new profile picture for the 12-year anniversary. They hadn't updated the profile picture for like 2 years since the 10th anniversary. It was truly the century of winning. We're at the bottom. And now we're right back at the top, baby. FNAF is back. And they've been posting pretty much every single day since then. We've done a whole bunch of videos going over all the posts. So, I'm not going to go through every single one here. Instead, I asked you guys on Twitter and YouTube your thoughts on the account. What's it doing right? What's it doing wrong? What do you like about it? What do you don't like about it? And so, I've put together little pros and con lists because even though we are in the century of winning, there are a few cons. And especially one big problem that people really don't like about this account that we got to talk about. We are not just back, we're front, we're the side. The last two months have been amazing. I mean, just look at the century of winning. You're trying to make out every single picture. And the more you look, the more you see. There's new book covers, there's new games, new merchandise. Real life Pizzeria. FNAF Rewriter. FNAF Scott Games is back. But first, I want to start off with the pros because I think in general, objectively looking at it, there are really not any big serious problems with the account. The fact that it exists in the first place is like the best piece of news ever. So, I want to start off with the pros cuz I want to make it very clear. I'm in full support of this Twitter account, I think it's doing a fantastic job besides a few small little nitpicks that I'll get into. But overall, the pros are really, really good. The community is active. They're talking about the posts. What is posted today? What's going to be posted tomorrow? What do you think the schedule is like? Is there any meaning behind what time they post? And they don't post on Sundays. What does that have to do with Scott Coffin and how the people managing the account are working? You know, even silly stuff like that. People are talking about the account. They're talking about FNAF. News is guaranteed almost every single day. Again, there is something to look forward to. Whereas before, we used to just get news out of nowhere. But now we know 1:00 p.m. Eastern time every single day besides Sundays and maybe if they want to skip a Wednesday or something, there's going to be news. It can be on anything. There's news guaranteed every single day. There's something to look forward to every single day. It's the reason why you're getting out of bed every single day is cuz what if there's FNAF news? And there is going to be FNAF news cuz it's guaranteed now. There's new official artwork and acknowledgement of characters in progress that typically don't really get a whole lot of love. Just a random tweet about Lawbit showing Lobbit some love. Elanor got mentioned in a a tweet about Circus Baby. There's new artwork of like Freddy Fazbear. We got that of Baby and that tweet as well. The quality of the posts is looking so much better as well. Especially because of the actual content of what's being posted, specifically the book covers, those are absolutely heat. They're absolutely fire. Snardless, please guys, hearts in chat for Emma. She does such a fantastic job. We're so lucky to have her as an official FNAF artist. One of the biggest compliments I've seen is that it feels like FNAF in its prime, in its heyday, where we would get excited about brand new teasers, brand new info, brand new posts from Scott. It feels like the good old days again. Something I really appreciate is that it's treating the franchise equally. It's highlighting every single type of media, the books, the games, the collabs, the movies, the merchandise, everything is getting equal coverage. You know, every now and then they'll focus on one thing in particular, like the Tales books. We were pretty heavily into that news for a long time. Kind of right now we're heavily into the merchandise news, but still every single aspect about FNAF is getting coverage. I think that's really really awesome. And also the nice part about having a Twitter page and now an Instagram page is that the news reaches such a larger audience than ever before. It's trending whenever there's like big substantial news like the collab teaser or the bee teaser, even though we don't really know what those are. It gets people talking. It trends. It's being reported by more like mainstream accounts. We get community highlights. That's right. Like it it really is bringing the community together again in a way that we haven't seen in FNAF for many many years now. And I think that is the best best part about the about the Twitter. I want to clarify that the cons we're going to talk about next really I don't care. It's [laughter] like these are nitpicks. These are personal nitpicks. Quite a lot of them. First one is that I really don't like how the account looks. [laughter] More specifically, the banner is so lame. It just says Five Nights at Freddy's Scott games. Come on, man. Hire Snles to do a big art piece with all the characters together. That would be super cool. Or even just like the background of the The Office or something. I saw some people nitpick the name FNAF Scott Games. I think it's fine. I guess you could just do Five Nights at Freddy's or Scott Games if you want. I think FNAF Scott Games is fine. A big thing that people are upset about is that some of the posts can feel underwhelming, especially the merchandise posts. Not really much you can do about that. I'll be honest here, folks. It's like they're are going to tweet about everything. Everything includes the merchandise. I can understand it's underwhelming when we get a big teaser like a collab teaser or like the bee teaser and then the next tweet is like, "Oh, check out these jump scare boxes from Jazwares, but there's nothing we can do about that." I would much rather them promote and advertise everything about FNAF than just go silent again for a couple months. That that would really suck. I am very happy that they are tweeting about merchandise. I'm very happy that they are working with the merchandise companies like Hex and YouTubes to get teasers early to post on Scott games before Hex and YouTube's then reveal the full merchandise. These next two kind of go together and that is the fact that everything probably has like a pre-approved road map like a schedule they have to sk uh stick to which kind of limits the account if something comes up like let's say I don't know a new book series gets leaked. They can't really make an official announcement about that because they've already slotted in the time that they're going to post about the Chica pillow pet or slot in the time that they got to, you know, ask FNAF fans what their thoughts are on M Prague Springtrap. You know, doesn't really leave a whole lot of wiggle room if they should, you know, have to address something, which is the next bullet point. Hopefully, this account is going to have to be able to handle responding to the community. You know, let's say the community is really, really excited about the collab teaser. Maybe at that point you should take interest of what the fans are talking about and maybe shift the schedule around to focus more on that collab teaser. Or maybe people really like the B teaser, but you don't have it scheduled for another like 3 weeks. Maybe bump it up a little bit sooner. Who knows? They do a really good job tweeting out like historical FNAF moments in terms of like DO beating 50/20 or like Mark beating 1020. Something that they did for the 10th anniversary that they haven't done so far is like sharing artwork, fan art. I think they could do that. Uh, replying to more comments. That may be a bit of a gray area because I'm sure all that needs again approval from Scott, but you did it for the 10th anniversary. You could probably do it a little bit more now. I also think they did a really good job expanding to Instagram. I do think at some point they should also make the jump to Facebook at the very least. YouTube and Tik Tok would be good as well. Uh, but especially Facebook cuz there is a lot of misinformation on that platform period. And there's especially a lot of misinformation on FNAF on there. And then of course the biggest con that a lot of people have with the account are the big gaps between the major posts, the collab and the B teaser. The collab post is now a month old. And while it is pretty heavily speculated that it is Fortnite, there's been no official acknowledgement of that collab for a month now, which is leaving fans a little bit antsy. The B teaser is also leaving fans a little bit antsy, mainly because we don't really know what it is. Is it a game? Is it a book? We don't know. It's just B. Just like uh people feeling underwhelming for the merchandise news. There's not really anything we can do about this because we can't just tweet news, brand new massive projects, you know, like every single day or every single week. There has to be time between those big events cuz they're still working on them. A lot of people forget Scott Games was notorious for not posting a whole lot. Uh and honestly, that's what made Scottames fun. scottgames.com was you would go on one day and then suddenly there's a new teaser and you're freaking out. You don't know what it is. You go online, you talk with everyone. That's that's the fun part about these big teasers is that they happen spontaneously. They come out of nowhere. They surprise you. B is for boredom. B is for bedroom. And it's me and Vanessa. Like it could be anything, bro. We We don't know. So, those are kind of the big cons. Again, I think the pros greatly outweigh the cons in all seriousness. Again, there's a few things that they could work on, like maybe starting up a Facebook, you know, sharing fan art, engaging a little bit more with the community, getting a proper banner, but overall, I think the fact that this account is active, it's getting people talking about FNAF. That's the best part. That's the biggest takeaway. There's a few small little other nitpicks that I personally have, some of which they've already addressed. The first one, having a dedicated time of the day to post. They did that and I'm so thankful that they did because for a while it was a post anywhere between 1 and 4 PM Eastern time. And that is such a big part of the day, man. It was so annoying to make sure I was home and ready in case there was a tweet at an hour. Let's say I had to go to the grocery store one day, right? And I'm like, "Oh, well, let me wait until after 1:00 cuz what if they post at 1:00? They don't post at 1:00. Let me wait till 2:00. They don't post at 2:00." It It was annoying. So, I'm glad that they finally settled on 1 p.m. I would like for them to tag the other accounts and artists. They did that with Snardless or at least said Snlesles's name. There were so many people under the Hex tweet under my tweet that were adding Grock. They were saying at Grock, "What is a Hex?" There's a few artwork that they tweeted that they don't say who the artist was, but they did it for the art from Snardles, which kind of bugs me. The biggest complaint I have with them, their captioning can be real dodgy sometimes. I get for the for the cryptic teasers. They don't want to give anything away. Uh I think they did a fantastic job with the Foxy post about the pizzeria. It was like between shows, stop by Pirates Cove and see a performance by Foxy at the uh pizzeria. That's great. Then they'll put out a post with Into the Pit artwork that's like, oh, let's see what this looks like as a book cover. It's like, okay, is it actually going to be a new book cover? Are they actually going to be reprinted? What's going on? There's one. I think it might be one of their worst captions ever. [laughter] when they did the Security Breach Jazwares Endo series and they just straight up said Security Breach Gang by Jazwares that tells you nothing about the product. Doesn't tell you what the Endo series is, when they're available, their prices, anything of the sorts. It just tells you it's the Security Bridge guys. I know. I'm watching the video. What are the figures? There's other nitpicks like they said TS for the silver eyes. You should just type out fullon Silver Eyes. There's going to be a lot of FNAF fans that don't know what that alliteration is. As someone who has done FNAF news on Twitter for many moons now, many years now, I am personally very picky when it comes to captions. So, I don't know where I got these examples. Someone must have made them in in in my sleep or something. But personally, let's say hypothetically, if I was, you know, trying to run the Twitter, I would probably caption them something like this. Again, don't know where these examples came from. That's kind of weird. But hypothetically, I like these captions. tells you a lot more about what the actual content of the post is about instead of just saying new FNAF YouTube's out now. You know, I think the pros greatly outweigh anything negative I have to say about this account. Again, I think the fact that it is active, it is getting people talking, people are excited every single day, even if they're a little bit upset, they have to wait a little bit to find out what Fortnite skin FNAF is going to have, I think the fact that it is working is giving people hope and confidence for the future. And that is the big takeaway for this presentation. I think the future of FNAF is going to be very, very bright. Truth be told, especially because this Twitter account is active outside of the anniversary month. I think it is showing great confidence in Scott in the Twitter team that they have a lot to post about and FNAF fans should be very excited for what's to come. And I think you can see this excitement and this confidence of the future with who they're highlighting recently. This is Snortles, who you'll likely know by now, but this is a tweet from 5 years ago of her saying, "I want to do official Freddy art so bad." And now look at this. This is some, only some, of the artwork that she's done for book covers, for Halloween Horror Nights, for the movie. It is crazy. This is Dregular Sauce, who you likely know as well, who started off as a simple cosplayer with a hope and a dream. And now he's working with Steel Wolf. He's worked with the Jim Henson's company on the second FNAF film. And now he's the creative lead for the real life pizzeria. We're getting a with all due respect proper writer, Hollywood writer for FNAF 3. You know, there's a lot you can say about the scripts that Gary Doberman has offered with films, but I think the fact that they looked to outside source for the script says a lot about the care that these FNAF projects are getting going forward. Again, the next FNAF games are sequels to some of the most beloved games from some truly beloved companies. So, I'd say morale is up. I think FNAF is in a really good place, and I think there is a lot of hope and confidence going forward for the future of FNAF, and I think the Twitter account shows that with who they're highlighting, what projects they got coming up. Um, and I think we are in for a very, very fun time. No pun intended. So, that was my little presentation on FNAF Scott Games. how it's going, what's it getting right, what's it getting wrong, and the future of FNAF. I will say when I practiced that presentation, it took maybe a third of that time. [laughter]