The Day Before: Steam blocks survival MMO, fat shift as a result

Actually, The Day Before should start on March 1st, 2023 on the PC. However, nothing will come of it. However, the reason is not the polishing that is often cited, instead legal problems are causing the postponement. The developers of Fntastic cite the name of the game of all things. Steam took direct action and threw The Day Before out of the store.

Legal battles are neither rare nor nice in the world of video games. Now it hits the developers of Fntastic with their survival MMO The Day Before. As they announced via Twitter, Valve decided to kick the game from Steam. The reason is the complaint of a private person. This means that the planned release on March 1, 2023 cannot be kept either, but the postponement has come to pass: According to current planning, The Day Before should not come until November 10, 2023. Thank you very much.

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But what is it actually about? According to the developer’s statement, a private individual has secured the naming rights to The Day Before at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Particularly unpleasant: That happened shortly after the announcement in January 2021. However, Fntastic emphasizes that the name was still available when the title was presented.

The studio did not even own some of the trademark rights that have already been granted until January 19, 2023. On that day, the rights holder made a complaint to the developers and asked them to contact them quickly. Fntastic is currently working on clarifying the situation so that The Day Before can at least appear reliably on the new date.

Of course, the publication of the planned gameplay trailer is also affected by this problem. A longer video with tons of game scenes was supposed to be released shortly, but this has now been postponed. An ugly situation, so it’s to be hoped that the developers can resolve it quickly. The console versions are not explicitly mentioned, but should also be affected.