It hasn’t even been a week between the early access release of The Day Before and today, but supposedly the game’s launch has been bad enough that developer Fntastic has announced its closure, claiming the once-survival MMO “failed financially” and that the studio lacks the funds to continue.
“We have invested all our efforts, resources, and man-hours into the development of The Day Before,” the announcement claims. “We really wanted to release new patches to reveal the full potential of the game, but unfortunately, we don’t have the funding to continue the work.” What’s more, the studio says that all income that it received from sales of the shooter is “being used to pay off debts to [the studio’s] partners.”
The announcement is the final piece of an unsurprising but still depressing series of events that led from the game’s initial announcement to now, with multiple red flags flying in the wind over the course of 2023 for the game and Fntastic; we’ve assembled it all in the post list after the break. For now, the game’s servers will continue to stay online for the immediate future, but it looks as if that’s all she wrote.
• The Day Before studio Fntastic is back on Kickstarter to try to fund a multiplayer obstacle course platformer
• Former devs of The Day Before recount a workplace of employee fines, shifting whims, and ‘pure megalomaniacal chaos’
• The Day Before studio claims to be the target of misinformation and a hate campaign
• The Day Before has officially sunsetted, bringing its early access drama to a final ending
• The Day Before Steam keys go for three figures on the grey market as Fntastic announces server closures
• ‘Shit happens,’ The Day Before devs tell disgruntled players as mass-refunds continue
• The Day Before dev studio announces its closure, claims the game ‘failed financially’
• The Day Before devs downplay original massively multiplayer pitch as playerbase and reviews plummet
• The Day Before actually launched – and it’s already being savaged in reviews
• Ahead of launch, Fntastic tells players The Day Before is not a scam or an asset flip
• Survival shooter The Day Before shows off Times Square ad space ahead of December 7 early access
• The Day Before just delayed to December with its post-trademark-dispute early access
• Survival MMO The Day Before heralds news of Steam page return, release timing, and ‘final trailer’ November 1
• The Day Before talks player housing, lifeskilling, volunteer workers, and the ongoing trademark dispute
• The Day Before studio still claims it’s working on beta and Steam reinstatement
• Worried about The Day Before? Its sauna will melt your cares away!
• Survival MMO The Day Before struggles to secure trademark as YouTube bans its videos
• Survival MMO The Day Before is abruptly delayed to November over an apparent trademark dispute
• Post-apoc survival shooter The Day Before promises raw gameplay footage sometime in January
• GeForce CES showcase offers extra gameplay footage from Throne and Liberty, The Day Before, and Party Animals
• The Day Before is an open-world survival MMO set in a post-zombie pandemic apocalypse
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