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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The funny thing about this game, is that it has a higher Steam rating than Overwatch 2:

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That goes to show how hard Blizzard shit the bed.
 
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These kinds of studios never resurge into anything good. If they don’t just go away, they’ll release it almost exactly the same under a new title.

Two Days Before
One Friday Night
A Week Last Tuesday
 
East_Clintwood said:
So even though the studio is shut down, and even though the game is officially dead (servers shut down a couple of days ago), for some reason they still felt the need to go on Twitter and sneed at the people reporting on their shitty "game"

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The absolute audacity to claim that the game was actually good and bloggers just gaslit people into believing it was terrible. :story:
 
Big talk from a game studio that threw in the towel from one bad game launch after "5 years" of "hard work". Any studio worth their salt would get on that grind and prove the haters wrong by fixing their shit.

People love to shit on bad games, for sure, but you know what the public also loves? A redemption arc.

Not that it matters. Seethe about the "haters" and your "real fans" all you want. That isn't the real story. You guys got caught peddling lies to an audience that was substantially bigger than what you're used to, and had to run with your tail tucked between your legs when you couldn't get away with it long enough to make your bag, dump the project, and move onto the next.

Take the L. Make a new studio, keep your names out of it as much as possible, and repeat the cycle like every other scammer in this field.
 
East_Clintwood said:
So even though the studio is shut down, and even though the game is officially dead (servers shut down a couple of days ago), for some reason they still felt the need to go on Twitter and sneed at the people reporting on their shitty "game"

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"If we made this just to scam some money, how come we gave players refunds when we were forced to do so by the retailers? By the way our investors who we scammed the money from is still with us."

"To everyone who said this was bad, you should know that a ton of anonymous people said the game was good and now we're only letting them get to have fun with it."

"How can these anonymous ex-workers be telling the truth about their personal experiences with us? We gave them basic workplace benefits."

At least the Game Mill apology for the LoTR game being written by A.I was stunning for its laziness. This is just shocking for how stupid and childish it is. Assuming this is real, it's at least too dumb to have been written by some chatbot.
 
Apologies for the double post, but it appears that after getting community noted and generally roasted by the exact same people they were crying about, Fntastic have deleted the tweet:

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KiraTV has posted a comprehensive video detailing all that went down. I remember him covering the game back in 2021 and he was religious about giving updates for it as news was coming out.

 
Guess who's back, back again. Fntastic's back (and suing a random Siberian news website) tell a friend.

Original report in Russian: https://archive.is/Pc9jp
English language coverage: https://archive.is/joNHk
After the fiasco of what was once Steam's most wishlisted game, The Day Before, development studio Fntastic – responsible for what many consider the worst video game of 2023 – is now seemingly exploring new ways to make money. Recently, they filed a lawsuit against a media outlet for labeling their failed game a "scam" and accusing them of "borrowing gameplay mechanics from other games" – a description Fntastic claims had damaged their reputation.

You might be wondering, "A media outlet? Is it IGN? PC Gamer? Or one of the countless others that labeled The Day Before a 'scam'?" Unsurprisingly, no, the outlet in question is much smaller and less likely to have an army of lawyers on the payroll – an incredibly obscure news website called Yakutia.Info, based in the Russian region of Yakutsk – the home region of Fntastic founders, brothers Eduard and Aisen Gotovtsev.
As reported by Yakutia.Info itself, the studio sued the website for publishing two articles – one that referred to TDB as a "scam" and another that quoted a third-party YouTube video claiming that some of TDB's gameplay mechanics were "borrowed" from other video games.
After the outlet amended its articles by replacing the word "scam" with a word that in English means "embarrassment" or "blunder" and making the quote about borrowing mechanics more complete, Fntastic still wasn't happy and demanded that the articles be deleted and the editorial team apologize – something Yakutia.Info views as an infringement on its right to free speech and has no intention of doing, preferring to settle the matter in court.


"It is worth noting that, despite the appearance of similar articles worldwide, it was the Yakut journalists that Fntastic decided to sue," the outlet writes. "At least, there has been no news of them suing, for example, the reputable portal IXBT.com, which initially monitored the Gotovtsev brothers' activities and steamrolled their reputation, speaking emotionally about them in their video blogs. It is possible that the Gotovtsev brothers are not ready for larger projects and therefore focus only on what is within their reach."


The outlet also claims that, prior to relocating to Kazakhstan – the new headquarters country of Fntastic according to Yakutia.Info – the studio "enjoyed the support of the Yakutia authorities and the IT-park, where it had an entire wing of a floor, for many years."


"It seems that despite the colossal support from their home republic and gaming giants like Mytona, the brothers have remained at an amateur level, trying to 'put on a brave face in a losing game'," says the original report.


Considering that The Day Before is not a local game but rather a title with infamy spanning the entire globe, Fntastic's decision to focus on one unknown outlet from somewhere in Siberia is nothing short of amusing. As I alluded to above, news websites, YouTubers, streamers, gaming influencers, and commenters beyond count have dubbed The Day Before a "scam" and used even more colorful descriptions, yet, out of all of them, the team claimed it was Yakutia.Info that damaged their reputation.
Ironically, the simple act of a company waging lawfare – likely to be unsuccessful, but nonetheless – tends to be seen by the gaming community as distasteful and harms one's reputation, creating a never-ending cycle where Fntastic tarnishes its image by accusing others of tarnishing its image. Say what you will about their games, there's no denying they are capable of providing entertainment.
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I genuinely don't understand why these retards won't just fuck off and stay gone, literally nothing good is coming from them constantly coming back and reminding everyone of their shitty game.
 
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