While The Day Before is now unavailable and unplayable, the developers have reversed their failure. Far from taking responsibility for their errors, they accuse “bloggers” of having multiplied fake news about them.
The end of 2023 was marked by the debacle of a game: The Day Before. The hype born from beautiful trailers and false promises has turned into disappointment and deception. When it was announced, everything happened very quickly: withdrawal of sales in a few days, closure of the development studio, exceptional reimbursement campaign and disappearance of the servers (January 22). With the game now unavailable, unplayable and buried, the developers have spoken out to defend the indefensible.
In a press release published on January 24Fntastic speaks out about the “fake news” that allegedly interfered with the launch of The Day Before and influenced public perception. He cites “bloggers”, who, being opportunists, would have enriched themselves by multiplying hateful publications about the game. The studio also recalls that it has never made money on the backs of players, and that He worked hard for five years.
The audacity of the developers of The Day Before
With a certain sass, Fntastic therefore attributes the failure of The Day Before to a media noise which is not of its making, in no case to the doubtful quality of the experience – very documented and also denounced by developers. “ We implemented everything shown in the trailers, from base upgrades to detailed world and off-road vehicles. We simply disabled some elements, like parkour, due to bugs, but it was planned to put them back in the final version. »
Fntastic is so cheeky that they initially deleted this release due toa rating from the community The Day Before of “scam”. The company republished it thinking it would avoid the patrol. Lost: under his beautiful words, we can read: “ This tweet was reposted to avoid a community note. Claiming that there are minor changes from the trailer is false, as demonstrated in this video. There is also evidence to suggest that this game may be an investor scam. » In short, Internet users are not fooled.
The worst ? Fntastic tries to make us believe that there is a demand for its game now in limbo: “ After sales closed, several people wrote to us saying they were disappointed with the bloggers and that they had liked the game, pleading for its availability. We also learned of the existence of petitions to continue development and, on the gray market, the price of the game exceeds $200. Some have even created their own mods. »
The price argument on gray markets really makes no sense: it’s the rarity, not the popularity, of The Day Before who fueled this shameful speculation. Finally, Fntastic tries to keep up appearances and invites “its fans” to follow it on social networks, in case the game rises from its ashes. It’s hard not to see it as a way of extracting some semblance of glory from a historic failure, by pretending to be a victim.
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