TVexperto
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"The Day Before" Developer Fntastic Shuts Down (Game released Dec 7th 2023)
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ultrazilla
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I do hope people get their money back. They dumped this fucking game as is, closed the studio and left the piece of shit asset flip in the hands of
people that will never be able to update it(all ten of them that actually thought it "showed promise").
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ssringo
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The refunded money will wind up in their pockets anyway...
ultrazilla
Gold Member
Valve needs to remove the option to purchase this scam immediately and allow refunds for ALL purchases.
Mortisfacio
Member
Star Citizen is a different kind of scam, though. It's an on-going scam, but more and more content keeps coming out. More crowd funding, but in turn provides more content. So at least there's been content as a result of the "scam". The Day Before, though... just promised, broke all the promises and pulled the plug 4 days after launch.
Brigandier
Member
It's a scam.
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CliffyB's Cock Holster
I'm not privy to how Steam hand out payments, but I'm willing to bet there's a significant delay between funds being generated on the store and being relayed back to the IP owner. I mean, Valve have to calculate their cut and subtract it first from anything they pay out, otherwise they'd be putting themselves at financial risk constantly chasing people who owe them money.
Sojiro
Member
Absolutely. It looks like it is still listed on their store which is a big WTF steam? I have seen a good number of people saying they have been able to get their refunds approved even after the 2 hour mark, but there have been some that haven't so it still is up to chance on getting your money back. Hopefully steam allows them all to with this obvious scam.
On another note, just how the fuck do 200k people buy into this game? It looks like shit from videos and screenshots, especially at a 40 dollar price tag. Even if servers stayed up, this would have been a garbage game and that was very apparent before purchasing. I just don't know how the fuck people couldn't smell the shit this was before buying.
KormaChameleon
Member
"Please don't call our game a scam!"
The lion, witch and the audacity of this bitch!
The lion, witch and the audacity of this bitch!
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Someone needs to grab what's left and give it life.
KormaChameleon
Member
Bohemia Interactive! 
Gambit2483
Member
They completely scammed Steam users. At $40 a pop They sold at least 100,000 copies based on Steam numbers...that's at least 4 million dollars.
Coupled with the fact they didn't have employees to pay b/c they had "volunteers", they made out like bandits. Wouldn't be surprised if they are in Barbados or Cancun right now just waiting for things to blow over in a few months.
Coupled with the fact they didn't have employees to pay b/c they had "volunteers", they made out like bandits. Wouldn't be surprised if they are in Barbados or Cancun right now just waiting for things to blow over in a few months.
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KormaChameleon
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You can still search for it but can't buy the game.
Red5
Member
Valve stopped sales and is offering full refunds.
Devs who publish on Steam only get paid after 30 days of every purchase, they won't see a dime.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
The day before was delisted the day after.
Quantum253
Gold Member
I just watched a video about this. Not 100% but heard Steam took it down, holding funds for 30 days, and processing returns over the 2 hour time limit. So they might not be getting all that cash. It also has pt be a record from game release to closing of a studio.
Guess is the new generation of asset flipping scams that will be showing up in the near future (Sans those horrible marketplace mobile games)
Guess is the new generation of asset flipping scams that will be showing up in the near future (Sans those horrible marketplace mobile games)
Barakov
Gold Member
JFC. Those forced smiles say it all.If you trusted those two AI generated creepy ass faces then that's on you.
Damn I can't even find a picture of the founders anymore. Those Asian bros. Such a shitty thing to do. Con men.
Nvm found one. You cannot tell me these guys are not AI generated
TheHellenicGuy
Member
I'm curious too. Scammers or not, they did put out legit games.
However, one thing is true: They all got abandoned at some point, likely when they stopped being profitable.
Disciple of MSSP
Gold Member
Can we hire the GTA VI leaker to fuck with them? Lol
Disciple of MSSP
Gold Member
"It's a Fntastic game"
demigod
Member
This right here folks. They got 0 money from Steam. Valve must be pissed with all the refunds.
I'm surprised 200k idiots bought the game even if its early access.
Quantum253
Gold Member
It's like their teeth and mouths are fake or the teeth were photoshopped into the mouth and it looks off....If you trusted those two AI generated creepy ass faces then that's on you.
Damn I can't even find a picture of the founders anymore. Those Asian bros. Such a shitty thing to do. Con men.
Nvm found one. You cannot tell me these guys are not AI generated
Ribi
Member
Well it's not a scam it's just your typical asset flip. The difference here was that people got way too hyped for it for no reason.
newtypepilot
Member
Scam Citizen: noobs, you are doing it wrong!! You gotta overpromise and make it as ambitious as humanly possible so you'll have all sorts of excuse to never finish your "game", and then overpromise even further and use that as an excuse to keep delaying it. That's when sunk cost fallacy sets in.
StreetsofBeige
Member
Thank god Steam offers refunds. Imagine if this was the disc days buying a game from a store. Buyer Beware x10.
Mythoclast
Member
It seems that the devs and CEOs Twitter is already nuked??
Never paid attention to this game but it did really look like a scam from the moment they decided to use the exact same Last of Us font for the game title. They couldn't even fake it a little bit.
Never paid attention to this game but it did really look like a scam from the moment they decided to use the exact same Last of Us font for the game title. They couldn't even fake it a little bit.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Portugeezer
Member
They keep adding ideas which means they'll never finish development.
It is an indefinite gofundme for the devs.
Must be nice, why would RSI ever bother finishing the game?
RickSanchez
Member
Why ? i am unaware of any deeper Nvidia connection apart from the fact that they once used Day Before's trailer to show off RTX
Avid Reading Horse
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RickSanchez
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It's a weird situation, The Day Before cycle has been nothing but a shitshow, but these Fntastic guys have out actual games before, and both The Wild Eight and Radiant One have actual good reviews. (I also actually kinda liked their hide-and-seek game Propnight where you play as physical objects, but the servers were I guess always empty.)
They made every bad move possible in Days Before and burned trust long, long before the game even came out, but the fact that they made some legit games makes it hard to understand what they were thinking with this cynical and deceptive product cycle and empty release. None of their other games did well, so Day Before must have been a wild hail-mary effort to make a hit at all costs (if not an outright scam, but I try not to go that far with "legit" developers who have put product out before... yes, this was full of marketplace assets, but that's the future of games, folks, and as you can tell by the reviews here, assets don't make the game,) and sometimes developers use that fake-it-til-you-make-it approach of going big or failing hard, but man did these guys ever fail hard.
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(*Day Before has been deleted from Steam, BTW.)
thanks for giving some additional nuance in a thread full of reactionary takes. i was wondering the same thing. If this really was intended as scam, then it was so poorly thought out and unprepared. But if it wasn't an outright scam, what was their endgame here ?
CamHostage
Member
Developers sometimes get into boondoggle situations where every move they makes digs them deeper and the only way up is another bad-leaning, hellaciously stupid big play which may just work but will murder you if all goes well, as it likely will. Rare is the public flaming tailspin like this though, where people caught on and liked the project and so somehow goodwill (or greed) pushes you onward in the hopes that somehow a miracle will come through in the end and the damn thing will work like you though it possibly might back when you still had some handle on what you were doing.
...Or, they just said, "Fuck it" and burned their whole company when they realized the only money to be made here was not on making a game, but on selling a game. Except they must have known this would probably be the end result and it'd be hard to cash in enough quickly to make all this worth it. Also, they knew that there's no coming back when you torch the house for the money. So yeah, why go to all this trouble?
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Mobilemofo
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Another quality pc release. 
Mr Wonderstuff
Banned
Well they actively promoted it in that trailer without actually doing any due diligence. Many people, myself included, thought it was a strange promotion when all the signs were this was a dodgy project. You would think Nvidia's marketing and PR department would be aware of this and not used it to promote RTX. Yes, it was only one promotion but it suggested Nvidia was unaware. Using it as a poster child for RTX it gave the game legitimacy in people's minds. If I were their PR team I'd be embarrassed.
TVexperto
Member
If Star Citizen isn't a scam, then why is it still in alpha after 10 years?
Gideon
Member
Just because it takes long doesn't mean it's a scam, it will become a scam once they give up and run with the money or release the official product with lots of missing features.
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nowhat
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I thought that it was going to be an absolute trainwreck and tons of meme material, but that it would actually be a good game, fuck no. You could smell the bullshit kilometers (or miles, if you prefer) away.
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