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[Draugoth]

Controversial, PC-only shooter The Day Before is officially dead, barely a month and a half after its launch. Steam’s much-hyped zombie game, which saw developer Fntastic shutter its doors almost immediately after release, is now totally unplayable. For a few weeks following its disastrous debut, it existed in a state of limbo, but on January 22, The Day Before’s servers were switched off and various other aspects connected to the game, such as its official website, no longer function. RIP.

The Day Before was one of Steam’s most wishlisted titles of 2023, while courting controversy amongst gamers and industry members. The dev team incentivized volunteers to work on the project by offering “free codes” and “participation certificates” and in January of 2023, the game was pulled from Valve’s game distribution platform over supposed trademark issues that resulted in a nine-month delay. To put it bluntly, Fntastic’s zombie survival MMO has faced a litany of problems on the road to—and after—its early access launch on December 7, 2023. It was a dramatic saga that ended in flames as The Day Before had ceased operations mere days after its massive launch on Steam.

Now, as reported by IGN, the game’s servers are officially dead and buried. We already knew that The Day Before’s servers would shut down today; Fntastic said as much on X/Twitter on December 22. Well, the time has come. Pour one out for The Day Before, y’all.

 

[SJRB]

F in the chat

 

[Kupfer]

F in the chat

no.

 

[Lupin3]

 

[Guilty_AI]

They were still up?

 

[sendit]

The Last of Us killer.

 

[LordCBH]

Never should have released to begin with.

 

[stn]

So you can't play it at all anymore? This shit folded faster than even Babylon's Fall. Geez.

 

[Topher]

 

[MarkMe2525]

Fear breeds more fear, this isn't good for the industry as a whole. Nothing about this situation, in its entirety, is good. It sucks the game sucked, it sucks the game flopped, it sucks that the dev team wasted years of their life, it sucks that the few who liked it can't play it anymore.

 

[newtypepilot]

 

[GHG]

Fear breeds more fear, this isn't good for the industry as a whole. Nothing about this situation, in its entirety, is good. It sucks the game sucked, it sucks the game flopped, it sucks that the dev team wasted years of their life, it sucks that the few who liked it can't play it anymore.

What are you talking about? The whole thing was a shady scam.

 

[skyfall]

F in the chat

More like S to spit

 

[SJRB]

Fear breeds more fear, this isn't good for the industry as a whole. Nothing about this situation, in its entirety, is good. It sucks the game sucked, it sucks the game flopped, it sucks that the dev team wasted years of their life, it sucks that the few who liked it can't play it anymore.

This game was a scam from start to finish. Devs getting rekt for releasing a dogshit game is actually really great for the industry. It's a good thing these devs closed studios, and it would be a good thing if they never do anything related to videogames again.

It's quite well documented how shady this whole thing was.

 

[Dr_Ifto]

Not even 2 months?

F

 

[MarkMe2525]

This game was a scam from start to finish. Devs getting rekt for releasing a dogshit game is actually really great for the industry. It's a good thing these devs closed studios, and it would be a good thing if they never do anything related to videogames again.

It's quite well documented how shady this whole thing was.

In no scenario is it good for the industry to see a company squander an investment. I'm not claiming some significant impact, but undoubtedly investors take notice when other investors lose big in the gaming space.

 

[Fake]

A scam game with a scam server.

 

[GHG]

In no scenario is it good for the industry to see a company squander an investment. I'm not claiming some significant impact, but undoubtedly investors take notice when other investors lose big in the gaming space.

No. It's good for the industry that scams fail.

The lesson to investors is to be more thorough in their due diligence.

Sometimes people need to lose money in order to learn valuable lessons.

 

[FeralEcho]

And nothing of value was lost

 

[ThaMonkeyClaw]

 

[diffusionx]

All the pent up demand for a temporary FOTM survival game that was going to go to this one went to Palworld.