Well, you gotta love this. Last week, Fntastic released The Day Before on PC via Steam Early Access. And, earlier today, the publisher announced its closure. Yeap, in less than a week, Fntastic announced its closure.
Official statement. #fntastic #thedaybefore #propnight pic.twitter.com/AKcRHeIaIW
— Fntastic (@FntasticHQ) December 11, 2023
Fntastic claimed in its official statement that The Day Before was a commercial failure. As a result of that, the team is unable to continue working on it. Fntastic also stated that all the amount of money it has raised will be used to pay off debts to its partners.
The Day Before was advertised as an MMO but it played more like an Extraction Shooter. In its Early Access phase, the game was rough. And, as we specifically noted in our article, PC gamers should have stayed away from it.
What’s really funny here is that the game won’t even receive a single patch to at least address some of its issues. Fntastic simply released the game and called it a day. Ironically, the game was also a Top Seller when it came out. So, I don’t really buy that “commercial failure” statement.
I also don’t know how on Earth Fntastic tricked NVIDIA into supporting them. In January 2022, NVIDIA released an RTX trailer for The Day Before. The game was meant to have Ray Tracing on PC. And, as you may have guessed, its Early Access version did not feature any of them.
Anyway, the development and release of The Day Before was a rollercoaster. And hey, compared to Abandoned, this time we did get a game. So, that’s at least something, right?
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hope microsoft fund them
And one more reason to not buy games around release until they get patched and polished.
Less stupid when it’s an actual game, but still stupid.
In this case, however…
“remember no Russian”
Isnt shutting down and vanishing like the classic last element of a scam?
Exit scam. Happens in crypto all the time.
Lol, John kept covering this generic game for months just because it’s a UE5 title that has no pop-ins, tells a lot about priorities, rather play a trash game with RT than a good game that has horrible pop-ins
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I don’t know what you’re talking about. The game has pop-in issues and it doesn’t use Nanite 😛
In their Discord server rules it says:
“No homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, misogyny [etc.]” Huh?! Well deserved closure! These groomer “developers” not only deserve to close, they deserve to end up living on the streets, feeding on trash cans.
Eh, that’s pretty much every discord server rules when i bother to read.
those are discord rules though.
Fun Fact: Idiots are STILL DEFENDING THIS SCAM.
Idiots for a reason.
No wonder we are in the worst gaming timeline for this reason.
Well, if nothing else, it’s a good lesson for everyone dumb enough to buy this pile of feces.
As if moröns could see through these things.
If the same studio announces another “awesome nex-next-next-next-gen game” the idiots would buy again.
You’ve angered Arma community, they’re going to find you and assault you with their watergun.
Honestly, I think this is sad. Not a bad idea for a game. But why patch a failed game if you could just steal the money and run.
Anyone who falls for games like this is a low IQ rytarded f4ggot and must be r4ped then removed from gene pool.
If you want to keep them out of the gene pool then raping them is the last thing you should be doing …… That’s the problem with knee jerk reactions like yours, they aren’t very well thought out logically because you are just too overemotional …….
I didn’t say anything about how they should be r4ped. That’s the problem with knee jerk reactions like yours, they aren’t very well thought out, and it comes from lack of brain capacity and over enthusiasm of a gotcha moment.
Stay in your lane, you’re not built for it.
Get woke, go broke?
They didn’t get to the woke part since it wasn’t available in the UE asset store.
no they were not woke just scammers.
Precisely why gamers are so jaded these days.
this is why i am so jaded because i predict that sht and you downvote my points out of denial
Yeah this feels very scammy, when you know you’ve got a huge pool of “new shiny” addicts and can afford the marketing to program them with that, give a nice cut to some gpu hw makers and have the “journalism” salespeople who spread your press releases it’s a great way to score some early retirement for the top people then on to the next scam. And Steam is in on it as well, look the other way, take the cut. The tribester system of “fEin” print is there for all that.
We all painfully know the “muh UE5” -ism here, for pay most likely, so they used the engine being pushed hard that has the payment only if you sell enough(FeiN print says bankruptcy or similar is the exception probabaly, get out before payment/cut is due next quarter). Soo army of contractor temps, marketing firm razzmatazz, rentals all around, LLC, cut in the big mafia nvidia and do a bust out. And also remember that money laundering is BIG business, especially drug money so look in very unexpected places for that going on, charities, games, art, anything.
good riddance.. although i do think they’re just gonna keep the money for themselves, I highly doubt they have to pay people off.. they had volunteers working for them… so these guys sold a scam, cashed in, probably will set up a new studio eventually or something.
Get rekt, losers!
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Tax evasion/laundering scheme if I ever saw one.
must be, there is no other explanation
Your first scam-warning should have been that the company had 2 Russian CEO.
Your second scam-warning should have been that it was a Steam-only release, and not on Playstation or Xbox. These scams always happen on Steam, since Steam does didly squat in terms of curation.
Wow!
So an asset flip scam ended up just confirming what every person with half a brain could see from miles away?
I’m shocked!
Feel sorry for those who paid for this.
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I didnt care about this game since the start, i thought “another zombie game” also it looked so fake, i told people not to get excited. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA how the fck did these people even dared to make a project like that, are they serious? Was this a giant troll?
Studio closure speedrun any %
Star Citizen looking down on them: hah tiny, you tried.
Order early access is like Russian roulette… just a varied number of bullets in the chamber… hope some m00rons learn – But who am I kidding – I have to wonder how deeply brainwashed some of the money piñata’s really are to keep throwing money left and right on hopes and dreams that way too often turn sour!
every one at 1st said it was a scam then people were shocked in awe when they finally scammed them, now every one is laughing like the justice is served yet fntastic ( the Russian Chinese guy with the most punchable face and his brother) took atleast 17m $ and changed its name to “eight point” and is getting ready for what comes next.
This is going to hurt every single early access game going forward. People are always going to remember this and think twice about buying any early access game.