Fntastic, the company that reportedly shut down the developer of The Day Before, claimed in a bizarre statement posted online that the controversial and devastating game was influenced by a hate campaign.
Fntastic, which reportedly closed just days after The Day Before was released on December 7, 2023, took to X/Twitter to address “misinformation” published online regarding the game’s development. .
In response to their own question, “Why did they say the released game was not the same as the one in the trailer, and why was the game closed?”, Fntastic said, “We have implemented everything shown in the trailer. ” and admitted that it had not actually been implemented. “Minor features” such as parkour are not included.
The newspaper went on to liken The Day Before to “an experiment in which you are asked to count pink objects in a room and remember the blue ones,” and added, “This is a demonstration of the negativity planted by certain bloggers who make money off hate.” “The prejudices influenced people’s perceptions of the game.”
The Day Before, long promised to be an open-world survival massively multiplayer online game, arrived as a problematic extraction shooter. “This totally disappointing online zombie survival shooter contains essentially nothing that was originally promised all those years leading up to its disastrous early access release,” IGN wrote in his rare 1/10 I mentioned it in the review.
Fntastic claimed that while reviews improved over launch weekend as early bugs were addressed, “hate campaigns had already done significant damage.” But in reality, The Day Before’s numbers continued to drop, and by December 11th, it was on Steam’s list of 10 worst-reviewed games of all time.
“By the way,” the developer added, “after the sale ended, many people wrote to us saying that they were fooled by bloggers, loved the game, and asked for access. I also heard that a petition was created asking for it. The game cost over $200 on the black market, and some people even started creating their own mods.”
Fntastic then called on fans of the game to follow the game on social media to “find out what happens next,” adding further confusion to the supposedly defunct developer’s position. Questions had already been raised after its launch following what appeared to be an attempt to change the company’s name, but Fntastic denied the change and insisted it was indeed shut down.There is also report The company’s CEO is already working on a new game.
⚡Recently, a lot of false information has appeared on the Internet from supposedly anonymous sources. Fntastic provides official responses to these statements.#fantastic #The day before pic.twitter.com/zRKWQ1nfmr
— Fntastic (@FntasticHQ) January 24, 2024
The Day Before was once the most wishlisted game on Steam, before a series of strange events caused fans to become increasingly suspicious and concerned. For example, Fntastic has been accused of copying other games such as The Division, Call of Duty, The Last of Us, Cyberpunk 2077, and Grand Theft Auto 5 on other occasions. The situation is complicated by trademark disputes.
In November 2023, seven months after promising no further delays, Fntastic postponed The Day Before again. This time it will be available indefinitely, but the PC version was scheduled to be offered early access a month later. Obviously that launch didn’t go well, but all customers were forced to refund their money as Fntastic was allegedly shut down. “That’s not going to happen,” the developer said at the time.
Ryan Dinsdale is a freelance reporter for IGN. He will talk about The Witcher all day long.