The Day Before - Official Trailer Hype Thread - A "totally real" trailer that totally isn't CGI that totally isn't ripping off The Division

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GradeAGobbleDeeGook said:
new Upper Echelon video out on the fallout
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12345 said:
They've started nuking social media; their Linkedin page is gone.
Got it from the latest Upper Escalon video but I can't get the embed to work right now.
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Legit companies don't DFE, even when they're going bankrupt. Everything has to be accounted for.

Someone's ass is getting sued.
 
The Early 2000s said:
This is fucking catastrophic. I have NEVER heard of a game company collapsing 2 4 DAYS after release, BECAUSE of the release! This is the new low for Early Access, and it may very well be a catalyst for change on how Steam handles their Early Access titles. Do the people who bought this shit have legal grounds to sue the higher-ups of FNTASTIC?
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This is honestly as much of a mess as when 38 Studios closed down a few months after releasing their only game Kingdoms of Amalur. Because that studio was financed by $75million in taxpayer loans from Rhode Island. After the bankruptcy the state was unable to get back $30million and on top of that lost out on the future taxes and benefits of having a large gaming company in its footprint.
 
The Early 2000s said:
Do the people who bought this shit have legal grounds to sue the higher-ups of FNTASTIC?
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Meat Target said:
Legit companies don't DFE, even when they're going bankrupt. Everything has to be accounted for.
Someone's ass is getting sued.
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The legal grounds, oh definitely, because even the Steam page misrepresented the genre which much more difficult to get away with than trailers.
But the Devs are based in Russia, so my bet is they'll get away with it.
EDIT: Also the game is no longer purchasable from Steam. Don't know if this was on the part of the devs (for some reason) or from Valve, but my money is on Valve and on getting a statement of some kind that allows everyone to get a refund, some easy good PR.
 
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TheHarbinger said:
This is honestly as much of a mess as when 38 Studios closed down a few months after releasing their only game Kingdoms of Amalur. Because that studio was financed by $75million in taxpayer loans from Rhode Island. After the bankruptcy the state was unable to get back $30million and on top of that lost out on the future taxes and benefits of having a large gaming company in its footprint.
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I remember it being that 38 Studios was making decent money from the game, but Rhode Island swapped parties in government and the new one wanted the money back NOW. Which 38 Studios wasn't able to do and as far as I know didn't expect to have to pay it off that soon. So Curt had to auction his own private memorabilia and such along with everything in the office to try to pay off the loan. The bankruptcy came because of the state, they basically shot themselves in the foot.

My memory isn't exactly as it used to be, but that's how I remember it as I was a big supporter of 38 Studios at the time and thought Amalur was a decent entry into the industry. I found it incredibly frustrating that the state could just change its mind like that so suddenly when it was clearly something that was expected to be paid off over many years. I could be wrong, but that's what I remember.
 
Congratulations to the devs for pulling off a zombie MMO game scam a decade after it was popular.
Even after a bunch of youtubers immediately pounced on the first bullshot trailers, they still found retarded simps that defended them.
A fool and his money are soon parted.

Edit: The subreddit has a fresh look
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Wonder how much money they managed to scam out of people.
 
Corn Syrup Connoisseur said:
Edit: The subreddit has a fresh look
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thats actually the unofficial subreddit, and i remember some great lore on them
when everybody started calling this game a scam over a year ago, Fntastic tried to seize control of that sub due to the amount of scam claims coming from it, whilst having their full official name as their sub
their requests were denied because they did have moderation active on the sub, and mods posted their attempts to seize the sub on reddit
people ran to that sub because it was the only place they could speak freely about this game, everywhere else was heavily moderated by do-it-for-free jannies
this is their official reddit, but theyve turned it to private lol
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Wonder how much money they managed to scam out of people.
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Since they pulled the game so fast, doesn't the distributor (Steam) still have all the money?
I don't know how the business model works exactly, but I'd guess they distribute the money to developers monthly or bi-weekly (reducing their cut, taxes, refunds and such)? I wonder if the devs have seen any of the money yet.
 
There apparently was also a Low Sodium subreddit for The Day Before, which went private after today's announcements:

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I wondered why a couple Youtubers I follow that don't cover gaming stuff were suddenly talking about it. This is probably more spectacular than Tale of Tales's implosion.
 
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Corn Syrup Connoisseur said:
Since they pulled the game so fast, doesn't the distributor (Steam) still have all the money?
I don't know how the business model works exactly, but I'd guess they distribute the money to developers monthly or bi-weekly (reducing their cut, taxes, refunds and such)? I wonder if the devs have seen any of the money yet.
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I've seen many claim that unless you're a big trusted developer/publisher Steam won't pay out your earnings until the end of the next month, though I don't know how true or accurate that is. It's entirely possible that they haven't seen any money from Steam yet and chose to cut and run now instead of waiting for a check since Steam won't be letting them keep any of it due to an impending mass refund.
 
GradeAGobbleDeeGook said:
content creators such as Asmongold defended this game, trying to be a fair-fag when it was very clearly fishy as all fucking hell, saying
"how do you know its a scam? whats it a scam for? that doesnt make sense, once this comes out ill buy it and if its bad then its bad, how is it a scam?"
everybody wanted to be fair with these scum fucks who admitted to not paying their worker-bees whilst also overworking the same slaves
this was one of those moments where before anything started, you could see the clown makeup on everybody
it was clearly very suspect, at every stage, yet they still clung to the "no proof of scam" position until now
they re-used assets, they copied other trailers almost 1 for 1, the graphics changed every single time there was a new trailer, they copied the style of graphics and even font of other games, as well as delivering vertical slices and pretending they were gameplay
and yet they clung to "theres no proof its a scam", and here we are
edit: to be clear, once the game was PLAYED and certain to be the worst, everybody turned on it
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Maybe he said that, but he also said Steam not only should provide refunds for the game but also extend the date to when people can/can't get a refund.
 
Back me up! said:
How is it that a Russian investment company are the good guys here?

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The funding company is offering a refund for all steam sales.
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I don't think this Mytona is much of a legit publisher. It has only officially published 2 games from Fntastic(The day before and propnight) and 3 shovelware mobile games with no name developers. Fntastic was opened exact same year as Mytona's first mobile shovelware hidden object game was released in 2015.

Both entities are most likely controlled by the same entity and this is just a non-statement.

I searched a bit more:
Their wikipedia said that the HQ is in New Zealand and look they registered in New Zealand in 2018:
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Why does Mytona Fntastic exist if it's a separate studio?
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Oh it's the same people
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I thought Fntastic was a Singaporean company and ran by two brothers or something.
These guys:
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Seems so: https://www.companies.sg/business/202137788M/FNTASTIC-PTE-LTD-

Wonder if they got subsidies from Singaporean government, similar to Ubisoft with Skull and bones. I wouldn't think those Russian investors were only one putting money into this.

The quick shutdown sounds weird too. I wouldn't think the investor made that call. The money from steam doesn't instantly go to the company. has to get processed and steam taking their 30% before it finally goes into their bank accounts. Also if that investor tweet is legit, it sounds like they're in talk with Fntastic and probably going to push the IP to someone else to finish the abomination.

The one million dollar one year contract for servers sounds weird too. I can see 400-600k for servers, but 1 million for a one year contract?
 
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BibiLivesMatter said:
I thought Fntastic was a Singaporean company and ran by two brothers or something.
These guys:
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It seems so https://www.companies.sg/business/202137788M/FNTASTIC-PTE-LTD-

Wonder if they got subsidies from Singaporean government, similar to Ubisoft with Skull and bones. I wouldn't think those Russian investors were only one putting money into this.

It also seems fishy for the quick shutdown. I wouldn't think the investor made that call. The money from steam doesn't instantly go to the company. has to get processed and steam taking their 30% before it finally goes into their bank accounts. Also if that investor tweet is legit, it sounds like they're in talk with Fntastic and probably going to push the IP to someone else to finish the abomination.

Also the one million dollar cost for server contact sounds a little weird too. I can see 400-600k for servers, but 1 million for a one year contract?
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Fntastic and Mytona seem to be in the same ownership and claim to have a HQ in New Zealand(I posted the registry in earlier post) along with claiming to have offices in Singapore, Khazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia and Serbia.

I have no fucking Idea what this business scheme is. It just being former Soviet satellites would have been somewhat sensible, but with Singapore and New Zealand thrown into the mix nothing makes much sense.

One wild dart I could throw is that this is orchestrated by those two Singaporeans and they are using those Russians/mystery Slavs living in New Zealand registered as directors as middlemen. Or this is just a scheme by those same Slavs.
 
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