The Day Before: The Saga

[Jan]

Studio rakes in R240 million launching most-wishlisted game on Steam — shuts down four days later

Fntastic, the developer of highly-anticipated zombie survival shooter The Day Before, has announced that it is shutting down — four days after launching its game.

The abrupt announcement — followed by Fntastic scrubbing its Discord server, deleting old videos and trailers, and nuking its LinkedIn profile — has fuelled allegations that the game was a scam from the beginning.

 

[WAslayer]

Money grab...

 

[lkpat]

Marketing vs reality

 

[FaSMaN]

Rug pull steam edition ....

 

[mpdjhb]

 

[AlphaJohn]

Not to be funny was expecting a scam the moment they pulled that "delay cause of name change cause trademark" crap.

 

[gregmcc]

Saw this coming a mile away. What a scam....well played Fntastic.

 

[Datura]

 

[PsyWulf]

There's still some people saying "Why doesn't anybody buy this and fix it,it'll be a hit"
No

No it won't

 

[PsyWulf]

It really takes stones to make a more memorably bad game than King Kong and Gollum...*slow claps*

 

[HartsockZA]

Lol steam should be slapped with a massive fine. But knowing us gamers we'll not do say anything to hurt old Gabe's feelings

 

[AlphaJohn]

Lol steam should be slapped with a massive fine. But knowing us gamers we'll not do say anything to hurt old Gabe's feelings

Why? Please explain to me how they are responsible esp seeing that they honor refunds.

 

[HartsockZA]

Why? Please explain to me how they are responsible esp seeing that they honor refunds.

Allowing such a title and many before it onto their platform. But sadly I think this sort of convo will irk your feelings.

 

[Fulcrum29]

The developer is one thing, but I would keep my eye on their publisher. Just see what happened to their other game, Propnight. I am quite sure that the publisher was well aware, being involved and all.

 

[lkpat]

It really takes stones to make a more memorably bad game than King Kong and Gollum...*slow claps*

Atari: Hold my beer

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[HartsockZA]

The developer is one thing, but I would keep my eye on their publisher. Just see what happened to their other game, Propnight. I am quite sure that the publisher was well aware, being involved and all.

It was exactly the same people, who put a bad name on all the real indie devs that self-publish but they had a lovely plan and the gamers just lapped it all up. Absolutely beautiful

 

[AlphaJohn]

Allowing such a title and many before it onto their platform. But sadly I think this sort of convo will irk your feelings.

Free market - Wikipedia

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[UrBaN963]

Lol steam should be slapped with a massive fine. But knowing us gamers we'll not do say anything to hurt old Gabe's feelings

Nah, Steam is in the right on this one. They're honouring all refund requests, whether you surpassed the 2 hour limit or not. Can't fault them for a game being ****.

 

[My_King]

DayZ and No man sky taught me well.

2 developers taught me if not Nintendo, wait a few months then maybe buy.

Hence did not buy.

 

[HartsockZA]

Free market - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I cringe when people use a wiki as a source code to their arguments. Just talk, give me your opinion man/women, whatever you are on the other side of the screen. All I am saying is the entire gaming industry is unregulated and we as gamers know how to do this all to well (well some) cause if the government or some private watchdog does it, what a **** fest.

Nah, Steam is in the right on this one. They're honouring all refund requests, whether you surpassed the 2 hour limit or not. Can't fault them for a game being ****.

I am not blaming Steam, I merely suggesting that they could be the ones that say enough is enough and made a **** ton more money buy vetting things better. Or else your marketplace is just slowly going to become worth junk.

DayZ and No man sky taught me well.

2 developers taught me if not Nintendo, wait a few months then maybe buy.

Hence did not buy.

Gamers never learn...
Last edit I swear... Steam/Valve is legally compelled to offer a full refund, Cause if they didn't I am sure there would be someone asking a senitor to investigate and then all we need is some sort of governmental intervention and la bla la turning that beautiful free market you quoted in response there, turning that into a monitored (government) private institution of some crap and forcing the ISP's to conform and man you know how wack the government is so it's pretty simple. Steam had to give a refund, no questions about it. I think what old Penguinz0 had to say about the whole situation really does sum it up. But meh, I learned my lesson also DayZ Star Citizen, the lot. just promises and just lack lust (we keep it in Alpha for 20 plus years, no biggy)