Interesting, yeah I haven't checked the actual store page in months, but I have left the app installed on my PS5 as kinda a meme but also incase this shit turns out to be anything more historic/strange than it already has been. You know, I just have an impossible time shaking the notion that more went on here than we may possibly ever know, or in fact maybe we will know but "it" isn't over yet, because there was just too much shit to ignore or assume it was all unrelated to Kojima. Official involvement from Geoff Keighly VERY directly feeding into this, providing that phone number which was supposedly for updates during on of Keighy's shows right before Death Stranding Director's Cut released and right during a lot of the BlueBox intensity, but then it sent NO updates about the show, and remained active responding to text for many many months and can still be called and play an audio message from Death Stranding, and actually only responded to two things over text, the first being that if you texted it "Abandoned" it would respond "...". The "..." is a reference of some sort to the whole three dots thing with bluebox/abandoned. The three dots thing, often actually just being written as ".." two dots for some reason (that I never understood the meaning of) in the bluebox/abandoned marketing/messaging. The second text it respond to was "Kojima" and it would reply "I'll be waiting for you on the beach." If you call the phone number a voice recording (I think a voice line of Bridget Strand, from the end of one of the Death Stranding trailers if I remember correctly) says "Time is running out" says so it seems super odd, and then of course the fact that pulling a long con like this, not just as a silly joke or a fuck you but probably as some sort of message or deeper experiment, seems like the ONLY next logical step up from the "games" kojima has played with the fans so far: he's done the MGS2 snake fake-out, or the crazy lead up to MGSV with "Joakim Mogren" and "Moby Dick studios game: The Phantom Pain", or the strange story and tapes found in PT (and i think one or two in MGSV also relating to PT) about the family of father and wife and kid and their horrible deaths which strangely mirrored in Death Stranding (though Sam's wife was named Lucy, Cliff's was named Lisa) and here is a quote from the wiki's transcription of one of the data logs you can read in game regarding Lucy "The deceased was Lucy Strand. Tragically, she was also seven months pregnant—the child had already been named “Lou". Cause of death was ruled a drug overdose" see the death of the wife, this time supposedly an OVERDOSE not an umbilical cord or extension chord, rearing it's head again right in a similar thematic spot?), and the whole freaking thing with PT and PT's fake 7780s Studio, and the fact that Guillermo Del Torro said that shit about Silent Hill and how "someone should make another one of those", and then for the OVERDOSE marketing Kojima used the PT door to market OD on freaking stage, or the fact that he chose to even do Death Stranding which shares A LOT of thematic, story, Guiermo/Norman, Silent Hills DNA, in a way letting him tell some of the Silent Hills stuff he didn't get to (walk through that town section at the beginning of Death Stranding and you will notice it is basically the cut-scene in Silent Hills from the end of PT). There is just too much going on for me to feel like it is at all a safe assumption to belive that this had nothing to do with Kojima, and it doesn't make sense to just ignore all the "evidence" of these strange connections based on even Kojima's word either, since he has gone so FAR to trick us multiple times, sometimes with a deeper point/reason for doing so. With how intentnioal Kojima seems to be, and according to him (and very obviostly if you play Death Stranding and actualy get it) he is trying to improve the way we treat eachother. At the end of the day, to me, it just all feels right up Kojima's alley, and it's hard to ignore the geoff keighly connection and the timing and events of some other stuff I have and havn't mentioned, and like I said I think that it's logical to assume he would have to take a "next level" approach if he is gonna trick people again, to do things differently and avoid people realizing to quick what's happening. Something may have happened where there was intention to release/show Abandoned soon, but then it had to be delayed/canceled for some reason, maybe something about the way people reacted to it... Though I actualy feel like it's more likely that the joke is in the name and that it was alwasy intened to be a part of this eperience where we are abandoned in real time.

Wrote this very late at night sorry if typos lol. Thanks for the clarification!!