The Day Before Scam... Lies, Deceit, Fraud, Excuses, Shut Down, Mass Refunds & Devs Awful Response!
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2023
- ★ One of 2023's worst games The Day Before has been exposed for what it is, a massive scam that is now making pathetic excuses for its misleading gameplay trailers & ultimate failure! ★
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They looked at Gollum & Kong and thought, "2023 ain't over yet"
"I Didn't Hear No Bell"
When Redfall released I never thought it wouldnt be on the top worst games of 2032...
@@thedoomofsodan5163 it was more a good studio made a bad game due to higher ups wanting it
@@Chaos_SenpaiGollum didn’t seem any different. Deponia is a good series, Gollum is so out of left field it seems like an executive meddling. Their adventure/point and click style of game experience would actually fit Gollum as a character pretty well too.
You know it's bad when even IGN rates this scam of a game a 1/10.
You know it’s bad when walking dead destines has a better score
@@KelgorothTheFinalShape lol this is so true
@@KelgorothTheFinalShape and also gollum and skull island rise of kong lol
Didn't get paid enough for the lies.
@@KelgorothTheFinalShapewalking dead, Kong Skull Island and Gollum at least exists, you can play for the lols 😂 and make fun of uncanny facial expressions and still models.
The fact that the studio closed down not even after a week of the game’s release, has got to be the fastest failures in gaming history
@TheJeffI amen.
I think the Golum Studio closed within a week as well after their Disastrous game 😂
It was planned. You're one of the few surprised lol
Not a failure, it's a take the money, cashout and run. They just made MILLIONS!!!!
@@cmortonwvu Well it's only available on Steam, and Steam are refunding everyone (who requests a refund anyway) regardless of play time, so they ain't making much money from Steam.
They Released "The Day Before" and Closed "The Day After"
Next time a game company asks you to _PLEEEEEEZ_ not accuse them of running a scam, you can bet your ass that IT _IS_ A SCAM! 💩🚽
What makes it so funnier is that The Dayz developers mocked The Day Before’s Developers statement on closing down the entire studio.
Wait no way they did where can I find that?
I really never heard about this game so its "forgettable."
@@mightyraptor01 Could even call it... "abandoned"
@@DOOMStudios thx
DayZ sucks as well lmao 😂
EVERYONE should have seen this coming. THIS shouldn’t be a surprise to ANYONE. It was as CLEAR AS DAY.
Half of thos game was ideas they stole off of a mmo zombie flash game
OK
I don't see how you're surprised after the last 2 years. People give money to proven scammers (some even to the very people who scammed them) only to be scammed once again.
You can come up with the most obvious grift imaginable and there will be some morons out there ready to give you everything they have for it.
Unfortunately, some people (whales) have more money than sense and did actually buy the game.
@@crimson634 They just deserve getting scammed at this point honestly
It was a fraud? Really?
No, impossible
To be honest, I'm still impressed. This game actually had the audacity to be released. That in itself is impressive despite the obvious scam.
And never was because they never asked for pre orders or a go fund me. It was a scam if YOU bought it , which a lot of people did.
I bet they only released this to cover their asses legally. They technically made the game, it's terrible but it exists
STILL A BETTER GAME WHEN IT WAS FAKE.
Fallout 76 was equally as big a failure at launch
@@rikmik3046 they litterally tweeted that they had a major update and fixes incoming...that never came..they tried to make people wait over the 2 hour steam refund mark...and all the assets they used which is most of the game..is only about 4.5k...most of the assets were released just this year too. the game was annouced way before then. its a SCAM. stop going around saying its not.
Been noticing a lot of games lately have been using dialogue that no human would ever use. There’s another person I watch showcase games covering this alien invasion game that has such jilted dialogue that it had to be written by AI. He praised it.
Our devs these days can’t even be bothered to hire writers or try to write dialogue themselves. Gaming is going in the wrong direction.
Yep. Spend as less as they can, drop it for 60/70 and dip out. As with everything these days the cost of making games is just to High.
Absolutely agree with you !
But beware, if you criticize AI, you’ll soon have all the tech bros telling you that « you don’t understand how AI works » !
Alien invasion game? EDF? If so, it's corny on purpose, my favourite exclamation has to be "the bullets are stuck?!"
This is a new type of scam people need to be aware of, many game trailers these days are trailers of games that do not exist and they generate hype and ad revenue and then the developers will cobble something "releasable" at the very end. The unpaid volunteers should of been a huge red flag, they where never going to make a huge mmo for 5 years without pay. The developers made something much smaller and quicker and then took all those launch sales and ran, they stole millions of dollars and only half of it was refunded. They did it, they pulled the scam off.
Stop believing small studios with not many employees making these insanely impressive gameplay trailers.
gameplay trailers now arent even gameplay. all they show is the graphics
Asset flips have been happening for well over a decade.
@@emilfrederiksen.1622 people are gullible. Not all of us bought this crap. Some of us were smart about it. This was an obvious cashgrab at the very beginning.
this is essentially the entire industry ever since gmod and starcraft 2 that proved that it can be done why would you bother making anything new when you can just make/reuse the same thing over and over and people would still buy it every time just because you paid a random guy on the internet to play it 😂
Dropping money on a "game" without seeing actual gameplay and previews is just wild to me.
Theres a fool born every minute.
You'd be surprised to know that some people and by some I mean a very large percentage of people actually lack the most basic of brain functions.
I think the point is people bought into the faked gameplay trailers. I wonder why Steam doesn't verify those trailers.
Agreed, I always wondered why people just have to buy the game before the game even comes out? Or the exact second it releases.
The most wishlisted game on Steam. That blew my mind. Because it was so suspicious from the very beginning. And sure, being wishlisted doesn't mean they paid anything to these scumbags but it's shocking how many people legit thought it's gonna be something good. Red flags everywhere. There were so many of them, clear signs, something is off. But people jumped on the hype train (or train wreck) without thinking and looking up things. Because they are not a known company. Or barely.
How could anyone expect a company just suddenly capable of developing a revolutionary, next gen open world MNO experience?
The drama around this game was millions of times more entertaining than the game itself. I'm almost sad it's over. Seriously this is more like a crypto rug pull than a studio closure.
Pretty much how I viewed it from the start, an enormous, ambitious, larger than life project claiming to come in and change the landscape of gaming, all coming from a dev team nobody has even heard of, with almost no decent proof of progress that we could see...
Yup, sounds just like 'random nft game nr 58'
That glitched Kaiju sized NPC is actually pretty terrifying until you realize it's a glitch.
These people could easily work on EA
Or Activision. They did hire the guy behind Hunt Down the Freeman, after all.
Gollum Devs: We made the worst game of the year and it caused us to shut down the company in a month!
Fntastic: Hold our beers!
Never preorder, never believe promo material, never let the hype get you. That is all.
Its crazy to me that more people didn't see this coming lmao.
They did, people just enjoy chaos and have no impulse control
Why didn’t CD Projekt Red shut down with that disastrous launch of Cyberpunk 2077
kids aren't old enough to understand scams but old enough to put in credit card info from parents who don't spend the time, easy marks. and the fact these people knew this makes them criminal and should be in prison for stealing from kids.
@@ox_trueprotagonistchrisred9085because it wasn't a scam and it was a working game. Badly, but it worked. Here? There is no game and never was any.
@@ox_trueprotagonistchrisred9085 Because they are not some low life scam developers, yah they f up with cyberpunk but they updated, fixed lots of stuff and released free dlc, also they made a witcher franchise games, no man sky was also f up at launch but fixed everything and beyond, only scam devs release unfinished stuff and run away
I actually had this game on my wishlist for a long while. Glad I didn’t spend any money on it.
I feel sorry for your buddy. As for me when I saw the first trailer for that game. I burst out laughing and said this can't be real.
@@pegeta Heh, nothing wrong with having it on the wishlist. When I first learned of it, people were already talking about how it looked really bad, so I downright put it on my wishlist just to be sure I wouldn't forget it to see if it would be the clusterf*ck people thought it was going to be.
I must admit, my expectations have been exceeded.
They need to be jailed for this scam!
The thing is, if they had advertised the game as the Extraction Royale it ended up being, people wouldn't hate them so much for this.
Instead, they advertised it as a survival open-world MMO with extensive mechanics, and it ended up being NONE of those things.
What a scam of a company.
Back then this game made me say wow for about 15 seconds and shortly after my eyebrows raised upon tryna research more about the developers and I realized it was probably some bullshit
Hopefully people are punished for this; otherwise this will be replicated over and over
No punishment, no learning! 👍
Luckily, Steam holds onto funds for 30+ days. Considering the “devs” blatantly went against the ToS, there’s a chance they’ll never see a dime & people may get automatically refunded.
The person that was saying it wasn't an extraction game was one of their volunteers and a discord mod. They were only relaying the information the brothers told them. I think on launch day or the day after, the brothers went silent so that mod was one of the _only_ people anyone in the discord server could go to to report issues. That person was basically a human shield
And I genuinely don't think they worked on this game for long. A lot of the assets that they used came out in 2021. Looking at the list someone put together, one city pack they used is $300 and came out in August of 2021 and another came out just this July. They even got botted reviews on their other game, Propnight where they're all written in Russian saying the game could have been a bit better and all the "players" have 13.5 hours
How is it even legal for these people to look for "paid and free volunteers" then sell the game?
Who's going to sue them?
I don't pay much attention to the mainstream gaming press (I'm into simulators and cozy games nowadays as I get so old that next year I'll be the same age my grandmother was on the day I was born), but every so often the RUclips algorithm picks up a piece of gaming news that's blowing up the Internet and dumps it in my lap.
You've done an excellent job of answering the natural "what is this and why should I care?" questions I have of the algorithm. Great video, so here's a comment for engagement.
I agree with moist critikals theory that they showed those trailers in hopes that they would get investors and be able to actually make that game, but they never got said investors, thus was unable to make the game they were showing. They promptly just sharted out something just to avoid a lawsuit, took the money and ran
They sound like Cannon Studios in the 80’s
I don't know, that marketing is way too copypasta to only get investors involved. I think they just wanted to get as many sales as possible and bounce. It's way more likely that this was the strategy from the start.
@@zenkresnikif they wanted to do that why put a game together?
@@Chaos_Senpai uh...to get the money? I don't get the point of the question.
And as a bonus, let's say the skepticism wasn't there. They could sell the studio based on PERCEIVED brand value.
We can't make assumptions just because your mad...criticals opinion seems logical
I love how Ubisoft doesn't say anything about this,considering the fact that they do the same exact thing with their gameplay videos
Lmao true Ubisoft are just better at pulling off scams.
well in fact they realeased a statement a while ago concerning their Gameplay Videos
At least Ubisoft still managed to release a decent game, even at launch... despite it looking like a downgrade from the trailers. And the primary vision of the game was pretty on-point. Fntastic's game wasn't exactly what they'd been bragging about in their trailers, both graphically and gameplay-wise. Even then, I'd still probably give them the benefit of the doubt, since we've seen the likes of No Man's Sky manage to pull off the comeback of the century. But Fntastic dropping the game only a couple of days after its EA release... yikes.
They stopped doing this in like 2016
they used to, but they changed that strategy a while ago. I think that since 2016 we only saw authentic trailers.
"Shit happens." Is probably the most unprofessional thing any company can say lol
This is like the 5th time the scammers have done all this
I’m smelling a “fyre festival” Netflix type documentary cooking up about this. Going to be called “the day after”
When the day before began its marketing I started looking into it and the devs. Right out the gate they felt sketch. I wrote it off as a scam and would probs not become a reality. The red flags were there since day one and im surprised people are surprised this is how it all played out.
It's 2023 And we still have cyber scams like this. Which Really Sucks for the volunteering team working for the company and the prop night party game which looked kind of fun.
I played prop night. It was hard garbage. I stopped playing Within 3 days.
Volunteering is crazy 😂
Volunteering?
In the words of the Sole Survivor from Fallout 4, "I do a job, I expect to get paid."
@@SimuLordvolunteering, for many without experience or formal education, is a good way to enter the industry. If you were someone with ambitions to become a game developer or programmer and didn't have many opportunities, you'd be glad to volunteer at a studio (though probably not this one).
@@SimuLord You'd be surprised. What do you think internships are if nothing but free labor and the ability to pad one's resume. If the Day Before wasn't a complete scam, the volunteer developers would have likely had the opportunity to work for a major game studio based on their experience.
"Shit happens" is what you say when you leave your eggs on top of the car and drive off and now there's yolk all over the Walmart parking lot. This was a multi million dollar disaster lmfao.
Hot damn. I was actually looking forward to this game until all the shady stuff came to light. After a while, I forgot about it and now seeing it made me remember.
Ah, I remember. I found the game, watched the trailer, got mildly excited, and went to wishlist it on Steam the very day that the store page was pulled down. Went to their discord and figured out the deal. Glad it didn't get a moments more time out of me.
This whole thing was planned from the start, the only thing Fntastic didn't foresee was Valve stepping in and removing the refund time limit. If anything good comes out of this, I hope it makes Valve tighten up their QA on Early Access and Indy games in general because their lack of oversight has led to this being able to happen. On another note, I think this has also highlighted how there are gamers out there that will 'die on a hill' defending trash titles despite being proved wrong multiple times, they deserve to get scammed multiple times until they raise their standards and the industry becomes a place where quality far outshines some flash in the pan pipedream scam and people recognize it earlier, giving these chancers no way to exploit the consumer.
Most level headed gamers saw this for what it was from day one, none of this has really come as a surprise to anyone with a critical eye. Maybe, in their attempts to play the system, Fntastic have inadvertently set in motion a historical turnaround for the games industry where there's more scrutiny and less avenues to play a system designed to help fledging gaming studios. Let's hope so, only time will tell whether people learn the right lessons from this debacle.
They legitimately said "shit happens"?! The absolute balls on that dude lmfao
Good coverage, guv. People need to know about this mess. Unbelievable. Criminal.
To be fair if the day before was published by ea it would be a 7 out of 10 from ign
100%
Anthem was their worst release and that was wayyy better than this game
I love your videos, man! Thanks for the amazing "chat"
Been running some numbers, just from sales they made about 8M. With a refund of about 46% so far, these pople got away with about 4M. I may be wrong but if they did... there needs to be legal consequences. This is just insane!
Reminds me of the scam in that movie, The Producers. Release the worst play possible done as cheap as possible that fails on its first night and do a runner with the investment money.
This year I only played one new release game. The rest of the time I replayed games from 2015. Literally nothing new excites me enough to spend money on. The more I hear stories like this the sadder I feel about games.
Gaming industry sucks not a lot of good games coming out.
I've never seen a game crash n burn this quickly before. Hope people get their refunds. And I gotta wonder, did they think gamers were too stupid to see the false advertisement?
Apparently yes they're that stupid
I saw a chart that said 50% of players got a refund, so the devs still got away with about $100k.
@@MegamanXfan21xx100k? Wasn't the game like 40 dollars? You think only 2500 people bought it?
@Bunna3honxho Yep, that makes sense now, alot of money made from this scam
@Bunna3honxhotake out 30% for Valve’s cut. Plus publisher cut. If Valve turns over any money at all given the game broke the terms of Early Access so blatantly.
I´m not even mad about the scam. I´m mad about people taking the bait.
The fact that they BEGGED people to not hate on them should have been a red flag
The worst part imo is I don't think its fraud, I think its just incompetence, if it was fraud they would kept it on steam much longer, cashed in more with fake promise to fix it, but in reality its a mess, they know they can't fix it so they cut and run.
It was fraud dude. They're Chinese nationals living in Russia. Developing in Singapore. They're literally text book scam artists
They have been lying from the start so the accusation of fraud is applicable. Once they actually had to show their cards the public could see their bluff and they were out of options.
Nah it's still fraud. They couldn't deliver. They knew they couldn't deliver. So they launched the game anyway in an attempt to cash in on it and please the investors. It was a loss recoup attempt and unfortunately, they probably succeeded.
Scam would milked to for money for much longer, fact it shut down so fast will result in debt not profit, as by being delisted everyone who bought game can get refunded now
38,000 people were playing this. That's a lot of idiots who deserve to lose their money. A shame that Steam are giving refunds past 2 hours. That's 38,000 people who support and make these scams possible.
You realize most of those people are streamers, and people who don't live in front of their PC right?
No one deserved to be LIED to dude, grow up
@@DrMurdercock Did you buy it?
Those refunds mean the scammers don't get money, why is that bad?
they even stole the "lore" from The Walking Dead lmfao. "Woodbury" is a settlement ripped directly from Season 3 of The Walking Dead.
My rule of thumb before buying any new games are never pre-order wait until the game are in store shelves. Finally, wait until an in depth proper review before buying.
Anyone who paid for this deserves to lose their money lol
You mean the people who work jobs and don't live online researching shit? The people who just got fucked deserve it?
lol OOOKKKKK
Next time you buy something that sucks, you deserved it, don't forget
@@DrMurdercock Honestly they should get a refund so the developer gets none and it should serve as a lesson, but for real who actually buys a game without doing research on it?
I research games because I want to know if it suits me, I'm not gonna take a one second look at a game and decide to buy it.
Honestly your logic is flawed.
It is genre-defining.
They just didn't state that genre would be scam games.
I swear on everything I have the driving scenes look like MUDRUNNER 😂😂😂
Interesting, didn't know this game was ripping off other titles too! That sure does explain the intro I watched for it, felt exactly like the opening from Fallout New Vegas.
It’s just crazy that every year we get at least one game like this now, a game that is just broken at release and the developers lie for years, showing fake trailers, “features” completely removed by release, and you’re left with a beta test.
The biggest shock to me in all this is why did Steam list it in the first place? Don't they check the games before they put them up for sale?
Sucks because this “ company “ will rebrand itself and scam more people
"We miscalculated our capabilities"
No kidding.
13:31 Good to see Running With Scissors, the developers behind Postal, *refusing* to let this shit slide in the comments.
The first time I saw those creepy, shit-eating grins of the brothers, I knew immediately this was a scam in the making.
What I've learned to do is just look at the previous titles of said studio because that shows what has already been made. If all of a sudden that studio is changing the direction entirely of their next game to something completely different, it's probably not going to be a great game. It takes time and skill to learn what features and tools make a great gaming experience. Rushing it and switching directions every year will only hurt the next game.
I hope Ubisoft or someone saw the interest in this game though. The concept is great, and would be an amazing game if done right
Never buy Early Access Games , I always wait what happens when the game comes out ,best example was Star Wars Battlefront II, Cyberpunk 2077 .....lol
Ppl who fall for these obvious cash grabs deserve to have their money taken
For almost 2 hours, i spent it on the lobby screen trying to get in, i stopped to try again later but checked out some streams and vods of it and ran to the refund page.
This makes me think of the movie "The producers" written and directed by Mel Brooks. This theater producer oversells investments in a play and then he purposely puts on a piece of garbage that will go under in one night. He then tells all the investors they lost their money. But he keeps the leftover money. I half wonder if this kind of thing happened.
I'm curious on what happened to the build that looked good
"Eduard Gotovtsev" the CEO has a LinkedIn that says he's based in Singapore. A Russian based in Singapore, huh?
This game should be called 'The Day Before Cancellation'!
I'm not sure if it's related, but it probably is- Propnight, one of their other games, won't even run now. It hangs even before the title screen saying it's searching for servers
I wouldn't be surprised of that "publisher" was those scammers too. An investigation needs to be opened up.
The only game in history ive refunded in less than 30 minutes.... My biggest red flag was even after all of the delays it STILL RELEASED in early access.... 💀
They're not gone. They dipped and renamed themselves to Eight Points. They planned this out ahead of time.
Sad thing is this is going to encourage so many more scam projects
The Developer won't see a dime from the sales anyways. And everyone that bought it will be refunded if they ask for it, no matter how long they've played it.
Think it's also worth pointing out that the statement that Fntastic have on their homepage has the same feel to Daedelic's 'The Lord of Ring - Gollum' ChatGPT apology to it
When I got the notification that The Day Before had released my first thought was that I can't wait to get home and read all the negative reviews
Is there a website, or could one be made that keeps records of the names of people who work on scam games, and could flag upcoming or released titles that those people are associated with?
Where the hell is johnny with that nuke?
"cannot trust these companies"? Before the product is presented? Who would have thunk?
I'm so curious how much that Time Square ad cost.
I’m not super academically that brilliant. But I’m street smart and I could smell this scam from a mile away. Never got my money. The developers who are responsible for this scam bud be charge on fraud and thrown in jail for 20 years. Bet no one will ever do this again.
The core premise of the game does sound interesting and I would love to see a competent studio deliver what this game promised.
I have never, EVER, seen a year in the Gaming Industry like 2023. Insanity
This was fraud. They are criminals and should get punished. Why is the Gaming Industry such a Law Void?
I have been saying it for years. This was always intended as a scam. I even predicted EXACTLY what they would do: get the day one sales and then run.
As other comments have said the studio has not closed down but rebranded to a new name, 'eight points'. This more than anything sketches me out because this is a classic strategy used by shell companies to dodge or delay litigation. Tells you all that u need to know about if the devs are operating in good faith
people are so starved for a great survival loot pvp fps game like dayz - but in like good .. why isnt there any big developer giving it to us? no idea
not a lot of ppl know but the wild eight game was abandoned shortly after releasing and they sold it to the publisher
Damn i didn't realize how much they bit off other games!😂💀
Gotta suck being on that team. You bust your ass knowing the game isn't ready, knowing management are a bunch of muppets, then you loose your job...if you were even paid.
Looks like Fntastic is a “Day No More.”
I'm surprised how many people defended and bought the game despite the red flags. The company's shady history should have been enough to stay away.
At the same time the trailer for gta 6 released the gap between pros and amateurs is astonishing
When I saw the title font and format, I honestly thought it was a Last of Us spinoff
How do you upgrade your engine and end up with "worse" results..
if the devs/studio/marketing team doesn’t end up being blacklisted from the industry I’ll be shocked
Just add this to the list of game trailers for games we never got. Maybe just under Cyberpunk