The day before is already dead. This time it’s no joke, the studio has just made a shocking announcement that no one expected. The players are angry.
“The Day Before” may or may not have made us laugh, it depends. After the so-called survival MMO game, which is often compared to The Division or The Last of Us because of its atmosphere, caused completely crazy hype when it was announced, it quickly lost its luster. The Fntastic studio then started, as they say, to go into trouble. Bad advertising, very strange management of the studio including volunteer work and then problems with the rights to the game’s name… a real circus.
We will never know anything about the day before the game
And the act took quite a while. The reports, like the trailers, followed one another, revealing a game that was ultimately slimmer than advertised. Players were quick to call it a scam, even though they thought the game simply didn’t exist. The studio then rushed to prove otherwise, again with major gameplay support. It never really convinced the public and the ridicule went in all directions. We know that the Internet is a jungle, sometimes even a zoo. Suffice it to say the studio was very expensive.
Less than a week ago the big day finally arrived. And then there is a cold shower. The Day Before is clearly not up to par. Empty map, missing content, not technically up to date, disappointing gameplay… nothing or almost nothing seems to hold up in the eyes of players. Given these disastrous results and the apparent lack of enthusiasm for releasing what has been THE most anticipated game on Steam in a long time (yes, yes, the wishlist even mentioned uex at one point), the studio has faced a monumental challenge. A seemingly insurmountable wall, because contrary to all expectations, Fntastic announced the complete closure of the company.
Today we announce the closure of the Fntastic studio. Unfortunately, The Day Before failed financially and we lacked the resources to continue. All revenue received will be used to repay debts to our partners.
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Everything is already ready for the game and the studio is closing its doors
Yes, you read that right, the Fntastic studio no longer exists. The problem is that The Day Before was only released recently and there are still a few brave people on the servers, but at first glance it’s the end. The developers claim that the servers will remain active for a while, without really going into details. They don’t know what will happen to the game, or even to Propnight, a kind of “Dead by Daylight” in which survivors can assume the appearance of objects in the environment in order to hide. We don’t know and the studio’s press release doesn’t tell us more.
Founded in 2015, the studio has developed some games like Dead dozen, a multiplayer horror game, or Radiant One, a small narrative game. Then Propnight, which followed the trend of “prop games,” and finally The Day Before, which, according to the studio, took five years to develop. It’s not nothing. Studio executives say they are sad and clearly have no other choice. So it’s sad news, even if we don’t know what will happen to the employees and employees. On the player side, it seems pointless to hope for a refund. Oddly enough, the game is still available on Steam. In short, it’s once again quite vague and completely surreal. There is already a flood on Discord and social networks. Obviously, despite the disappointment and regardless of the behavior of the developers, harassment is absolutely not justified or justifiable.
