
Update - Publisher Mytona has posted an update on The Day Before situation, pledging to work with Steam to open up refunds to any players who choose to do so.
The original story follows:
The Day Before saga has reached its seemingly inevitable conclusion, with developer Fntastic closing up shop just days after releasing the atrocious game into Steam's Early Access program. Sadly, this means the promised PS5 version will now likely never materialise.
Fntastic put out a brazen statement announcing the game's (and thus the studio's) immediate financial failure and that any money made would, unfortunately, be needed to pay off debts owed to the developer's partners. No funding means no patches, and Fntastic ends with the following: "We apologise if we didn't meet your expectations. We did everything within our power, but unfortunately, we miscalculated our capabilities. Creating games is an incredibly challenging endeavour."
If that wasn't incriminating enough, the company's CEO, Eduard Gotovtsev, has coincidentally obliterated his online presence, dropping a digital smoke bomb and receding into the shadows. Second Wind's Nick Calandra has been covering the action in real-time, and we are beginning to suspect this company might not have been on the up-and-up after all.
Fans and even developers were quick to mock the entire affair, with the social team behind DayZ being especially quick off the mark. The Rust team also got in on the action, in what is likely just the tip of the meme iceberg.
Who could have possibly predicted such a shocking turn of events? Are you surprised to see The Day Before so quickly abandoned? Do a vanishing act in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com, ign.com]
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”Sadly, this means the promised PS5 version will now likely never materialise.”
Sadly is not the word I would choose!
So the PS5 version isn't cancelled yet. I was worried, phew.
To quote Benny from Fallout New Vegas (RIP Matthew Perry) 'The game was rigged from start'
Seriously tho with all these unfinished products from the likes of gamemill and scams like this there needs to be some laws implemented. Or if they exist, acted on
The question I have is...did they even run off with that much money? Like was all of this worth it in the end?
@Bentleyma haha! I was thinking the exact same thing!
Freaking hilarious, we all knew it was scam yet people still bought it. Hopefully Valve's lawyers takes them to town.
YouTubers have been documenting for years that these developers were scammers with games that were abandoned as soon as they were released.
It baffles me that with all the evidence this game still got dozens of thousands of players when it first released. Some people really like to live in denial.
I see... they made what turned out to be an extraction shooter and then promptly extracted what loot they could gather before vanishing into the shadows. Mission completed.
I wonder why the devs bothered going through all the smoke and mirrors to begin with. They went from hovering around scam territory all the way to full on scam by fleeing into the abyss. If that was the payoff then what was the point of even shoving a garbage product out at all? Should've just cancelled the game then disappear. Just seems very high effort for no reason.
Tbf im unsure it's a scam since they have actually released other games as well, aren't they offering refunds also?
They also recieved no crowd funding, so they have spent money and time making this which is still better than some of the shovelware I find on the the Eshop and Playstation store, so I doubt this was set up as a scam but more so a colossal failure with no way to turn it around so they had to abandon ship.
Well, at least there's still hope for Abandoned 🤣
Sucks for those who paid i guess but some times you gotta learn the hard way
@BeerIsAwesome Free Radical was a studio to care about these were scammers from day one.
@UltimateOtaku91 Look up a few of the YouTube videos that will change your mind soon enough.
No one could have seen this coming… right? Right?
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@Danloaded What? I love FO:NV and never knew that was Matthew Perry. Feel I have been living a lie…
Definitely a scam.
Seems more like ineptitude than an outright scam. Couple that with the weak economic environment and its easy to see a scenario where they are not only failing to realize their vision but they weren't able to put out much of a functioning game at all.
Meh, this wasn't even on my radar. News like this will only stack with all these failing conglomerates.
Well…isn’t that just fntastic
I need a documentary of how all this went down.
Even before Nick started pointing out that they nuked all the accounts, you couldn't buy the game anymore from Steam, the sales were blocked.
Classic bait and switch scam.
The Day After... it was all gone. Is a little bit suspicious that the guy has deleted any presence online too. Not sure what he was expecting after years of clearly fake trailers that promised a game that would never get made. Then when they finally release what is supposed to be early access then it is a completely different style of game that lacks most of what was promised and looks almost nothing like the early trailers. Makes you wonder in the 5 years they were developing it if they put as much effort into the game as they did making fake trailers they may have actually had something that resembled it at least visually.
"Please don't accuse us of scamming!"
Seems like the negative reactions got into their heads, so they've upped and left.
Everyone saying it's a scam but tbf like they said they didn't do pre orders or kick-starter, go fund me or anything like that and everyone is getting refunds from steam without any issues so 🤷.
It's a shame it didn't end up being what they showed but it never was going to be anywah.
But still.....
@Stickleman it's a fake business. There's definitely scam and fraud involved. If you act like you own a company but also don't pay any of the people that make the "product" and then shut down the entire company and pretend it never existed you would probably expect some sort of investigation.
100% these people will be in charge of another "business" within a year, and probably in another country.
They claim any funds the company had will be used to pay off "partners" yet they said they had no investors. So who are these "partners", other than themselves or their pet dogs with bank accounts.
I don't know who to blame for this Steam and their ridiculously lax policies (such as this paid "early access" BS) or the supposed "master race" of PC gamers themselves who are so sweaty for games for the machines they overpay for that they fall for Steam's BS. Either way I can't seem to manage much sympathy for any involved.
@UltimateOtaku91 people just want to jump on the hate bandwagon, on YouTube I'm just seeing non stop videos labelling it a scam recommended to me, bottom tier content.
DayZ devs mocking these devs when they themselves have released a game which i consider a scam at least if you purchase it on console.
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