The Day Before is out on PC tomorrow, 7th December, and is supposed to be coming to PS5 at some point in the future. We noted back in February and again after the survival MMO's indefinite PS5 delay that something seemed slightly strange about this story, and developer Fntastic has released another statement, apologising for the lack of marketing and pushing back on allegations of "scamming".
On Twitter, Fntastic posted what it called "revelations", but it reads more like a preemptive counterargument to potential criticism. The developers asked forgiveness for "not doing the best marketing or teasers", explaining that they endeavour to "learn something new and improve ourselves every single day”.
The studio asked those sceptical of the project not to accuse them of "scamming", claiming it "didn't take a penny from anyone" or that The Day Before was an asset flip. Fntastic maintains that: "Our team worked day and night for five years to make our dream game a reality."
Headquartered in Singapore, Fntastic definitely turned some heads when it defended the use of unpaid volunteers working on the game. According to the developer's website, more than 200 committed time and effort to the survival MMO with minimal compensation, alongside 120 presumably paid employees.
How high are your hopes for The Day Before? Do you think a PS5 port will eventually see the light of day? Patiently wait a bit longer in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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I was today years old when I found out this game existed.
This sounds very fishy.
First trailer looked incredible. Everything I have seen and read since then makes me think this will be a gigantic flop.
I mean, what did they think? Right from that first reveal trailer, people were skeptical. A no name studio who had never done anything even remotely close to this scale, suddenly dropping the most ridiculously insane looking trailer. Since then, they've shown zero evidence of that game actually existing.
A bunch of shady stories later, and eventually a gameplay demo that looked nothing like the reveal trailer, and they're talking about injustice? Maybe don't blatantly lie to your potential customers?
Also, just look at the state of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKaBaspMbdA
@dskatter
"today years old"
I rofled hard Thanks.
Did they copy the homework of Abandoned's devs how not to publicise a game?!😋
If one brave PC player could just buy this and then let everyone else know 👍 Then no one gets hurt (on the consumer end, anyway)
But I'm reading this as a preemptive "it's not a scam, it is just really, really, really s***. We tried to make it good, honest... Please don't report us to any official bodies when you realise it is worse than King Kong and Gollum combined, because we did try to make it to the standard we initially advertised. Pinky swear"
Um yeah bad marketing definitely 😅
I thought this picture was showing an XBOX 360 with a towel around it reminding me of the red-ring-o-death methods people used to do to save their failing consoles.
What it actually is ... less interesting
Lol with all the free labour they got. Super dodgy devs.
@Robocod
Speaking of Abandoned has there been any news about that?
@NightshadeNL Good question for Push Square! Slipped off everyone's radars with all the broken promises! Can't say I've heard anything.🤔
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