The Day Before Collapses, Dev Studio Shuts Down & No Longer Purchasable Just 4 Days After Launch
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@YongYea8 ай бұрын
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@tomatomaki
8 ай бұрын
Thank you Chong Yue for the awesome news.
@dyea_b_tis5319
8 ай бұрын
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@QuestionMarking
8 ай бұрын
This is like a publisher survivability speedrun, wonder if you could put that in Guinuess world records?
@paperstarbit
8 ай бұрын
The shutdown tweet was also AI generated BTW
@legendxcarisso
8 ай бұрын
It's funny, because this game almost had about the same level of non-existence as Skull and Bones. Yikes.
@at_las8 ай бұрын
The speed-runs of studio shutdowns is crazy this year
@bobjoe5937
8 ай бұрын
Let's hope they shut down Bethesda next.
@TheForever206
8 ай бұрын
@@bobjoe5937 Not happening anytime soon. Bethesda games makes to much money.
@bobjoe5937
8 ай бұрын
@@TheForever206 yea yea...i know. It's just they're one of the most scummiest gaming companies of all time.
@Steveo0547
8 ай бұрын
@@bobjoe5937agreed bro
@mistermistermr732
8 ай бұрын
@@bobjoe5937 bro i totally agree with you i would love for them to shut down too. right after they make elder scrolls 6
@AvocadoDesperado_8 ай бұрын
There were so many red flags and so many warnings from the community about this game. Yet they still sold so many copies! Also, how is this legal?!
@blackfacegaming191
8 ай бұрын
Because it’s not in USA maybe they could get sued in russia
@unironicallydel7527
8 ай бұрын
*was legal, until they charged for it. Legally, it wasnt a scam until now bc as they said they werent getting money for development, but now that theyve sold it for a profit, its definitely illegal.
@johnnyk3950
8 ай бұрын
As you would expect from Russians. cheaply made, lying and then blatantly ripping people off. didn't expect anything else
@phillipchappell6013
8 ай бұрын
Saw somewhere that steam may not being paying them. as it vallidated several of their rules. not to mention if refunding everybody money from what i hear
@thexmacx812
8 ай бұрын
Sue dammit let me get a few bucks of this lmaooo
@rafaelbordoni5168 ай бұрын
King Kong game came in clutch to save Gollum from the title of worst of the year, now in a never seen before move at the last second, The Day Before is coming in clutch to save King Kong from that title, what a year...
@karthiksubramanian2279
8 ай бұрын
Honestly i am not shocked or angry or sad...but i am just laughing hard at the situation....its totally hilarious..😂😂😂
@GreenKnight07
8 ай бұрын
Wait until that there Will be a game even worse than the day before
@jannovak6987
8 ай бұрын
Damn you're right lmao
@pikapat3218 ай бұрын
“This was our first big gaming project. Shit happens” You know how many studios first games aren’t a scam? Lmfao the fact they were making excuses on Twitter
@LoganHunter82
8 ай бұрын
Lmao the fact that they used Twitter at all
@mogscugg2639
8 ай бұрын
Obsidian's first game was KOTOR 2, which they rushed out in 13 months because of pressure from LucasArts And it was still great
@randomguy6679
8 ай бұрын
Team Cherry’s first game was Hollow Knight ffs
@StormsparkPegasus
5 ай бұрын
@@LoganHunter82 Merely using twitter these days makes someone suspect.
@happytimes86238 ай бұрын
“the day before” we shut down lol
@SevastovTv
8 ай бұрын
😂
@miguellilly8859
8 ай бұрын
Lol
@robertnapier624
8 ай бұрын
Ba dum tss!
@That_One_User_314
8 ай бұрын
(☞゚ヮ゚)☞
@redohealer2
8 ай бұрын
Memes
@BrenTenkage8 ай бұрын
quite a year for gaming. We have some of the best games around...and then also the worst games around, I'm kinda impressed
@InsidiiousLad
8 ай бұрын
This year will be really hard to top in the next year's lol
@biblicallyaccuratecockroach
8 ай бұрын
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
@lightingthief4482
8 ай бұрын
And the return of horrible licensed games. Never thought I'll see that
@oneandonlyJonnySad
8 ай бұрын
It’s the disappointment that comes with the ‘worst games’. Saints Row and Gotham Knights really hurt.
@unironicallydel7527
8 ай бұрын
@@oneandonlyJonnySad dont forget the absolute dumpsterfires that were Gollum and Kong. I dont even know HOW you make games that bad.
@arthurleggywulf8 ай бұрын
Took a gander on Steam when this first released as I couldn't believe it actually released. Saw one review saying something along the lines of "yeah it's buggy but what game nowadays doesn't have a rough release? It'll improve" and I suddenly remembered how these blatant scams make so much money. I love optimism, but there have to be limits here, come on.
@ZABORRA
8 ай бұрын
People's standards are so low, they don't even expect a finished game
@beetleprime5927
8 ай бұрын
@@ZABORRASo sad but unfortunately true.
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
@@ZABORRAYup, it's pathetic.
@Zack_Wester
8 ай бұрын
@@beetleprime5927 yep. EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Bathesta(that said not sure how much of that is there engine they really need to remake). CD Projekt RED. that said some bugs exist thats a fact and that was a a fact sins day 1 back in 1980. the question is how severe are the bugs, how easy are the bugs to find and what do I need to do to trigger them (aka that super wierd HL1 bug that I can´t wrap my head around on how it works vs press new game start fall throught world.).
@beetleprime5927
8 ай бұрын
@@Zack_Wester Yeah I'm honestly ok with some bugs as I think it's reasonable enough that at least some will sneak through at first, but here it's just like they know full well the bugs were here and just didn't try to do anything about it.
@danielturunen72378 ай бұрын
This is clearly an asset flip. There's no way a team of developers would spend 5 YEARS shitting out something like this. They took the money and ran.
@EskChan19
8 ай бұрын
Yep. The whole map is a single 300 dollar asset you can buy.
@irishijo1
8 ай бұрын
They couldnt even take the money, seeing as how they owed their investors *alot* of it for prior failures. Their least failure game was Propnight, which after some personal reaserch, had the exact same issues across the board. It was buggy, janky, full of hackers and cheaters, had nonsensical design choices, and the Developer (to my knowledge) did next to nothing about alot of those issues. To put the chery on top: Fntastic changed their name.
@PeculiarNotions
8 ай бұрын
It certainly looks that way.
@forslos8756
8 ай бұрын
The asset flip post someone put together show that they only start buying asset after the reveal trailer which is 2 year agos. This isn't 5 years long development, the development literally only start after reveal and is 2 year only.
@genlando327plays2
8 ай бұрын
They also won't have received any money from Steam yet, plus they have a publisher to pay. Honestly, if this WAS an asset flip, they 100% did it wrong. It's more likely just really THAT bad of development
@theevokeruser23568 ай бұрын
This games a real cherry on top for terrible games this year. Never seen a game and developer shut down so quickly before.
@CookyMonzta
8 ай бұрын
_Because there was never a game to begin with!_ It was a Ponzi scheme from start to finish! 💩🚽
@MeggaMann_theBlueLion
8 ай бұрын
Facts. But it was bound to happen. And one always wondered who someday would be the face of such things. And well, here it is folks. I love it. Games with no micro transactions becoming game of the year. Indies shining over Triple A’s, Game Awards mediocrity. I mean I really love it. Makes me wonder what’s gonna happwhen GTAVI comes out
@megarhombus7532
8 ай бұрын
Well some one manged to do WORSE than gollum. Not saying much.
@CookyMonzta
8 ай бұрын
@@MeggaMann_theBlueLion By the time GTA VI comes out, HADES II might be ready to throw a monkey wrench in their quest to become GOTY.
@michaellane5381
8 ай бұрын
@@megarhombus7532and Kong... We cannot forget Kong... Though we may want to...
@kingfreedom1608 ай бұрын
Developer: 'Four years of blood, sweat and tears to release this game to you' Translation: 'We pulled together a shit ton of unity assets and only made a couple areas by hand because we gave up right after the announcement but knew we had to release something or we would likely be sued.' Developer: 'The Day Before ended up not being financially high enough to continue production or keep our studio open. Translation: 'Too many people refunded the game after they saw what it was, so now instead of jumping ship next month when we get enough money for ourselves, we're leaving four days after release and making Steam pay you all back. See ya suckers!
@ShinKamaitachi
8 ай бұрын
The game was made in a few months and it was a cash grab that's all it is.
@crapshot321
8 ай бұрын
Yeah, pretty much. Good translation!
@Celphied13
8 ай бұрын
Don't forget "made by hand by our totally-not-exploited 'volunteers'"
@battlion507
8 ай бұрын
Wait, doesn't Steam hold that income for 30 days?
@crapshot321
8 ай бұрын
@@battlion507 I believe so. That's why another poster claimed that this company was too incompetent to even steal the money they've gotten.
@Olinser8 ай бұрын
The idea that a company can sell 'early access', then immediately close down and basically say 'screw you, no refunds', is utterly INSANE.
@RoyMatzem
8 ай бұрын
They cant. Everyone is getting their refunds. But Steam needs up the Standard, we cant have scam stealing people like that
@popereptillianlord6174
8 ай бұрын
they didnt get any money and all refunds are being accepted via steam. They screwed themselves bad
@tarille1043
8 ай бұрын
Not only can they NOT do that, since Steam controls refunds. But they also don't even get any money from sales until at least 30 days after release, until that point, Steam holds onto every single cent. Which is why this sort of thing isn't common. It just doesn't work because Steam actually has policies to combat this sort of thing. The worse thing are the ones who sell "Early access" and just don't do anything. Leaving the game in permenant half-baked "Early access" and letting it fester long enough that the 30 day hold on funds for newly released titles doesn't last long enough to cover any refunds. Meaning this company couldn't even do the Early Access scam correctly. Since Steam's just going to use every cent they would have made from sales to refund everyone.
@genlando327plays2
8 ай бұрын
To be fair, THEY'RE not the ones giving refunds. Given Steam's policies they probably haven't even been paid for the sales that aren't getting refunded. Steam is working with the PUBLISHER to do refunds
@rafaelbordoni516
8 ай бұрын
Half the reviews in this game had a "Game refunded" tag.
@TrashComments8 ай бұрын
A game that was in “development” for 5 years just for it to be taken off the Steam store 4 days after its Early Access launch has got to be the biggest failures in gaming history
@JuwanBuchanan
8 ай бұрын
Was a scam from the get go
@ItsAv3rageGamer
8 ай бұрын
The entire game is an asset flip. The big city the open world takes place in is $300 on the Unreal Engine store.
@Shinbu150
8 ай бұрын
ET for Atari says hi. That game most likely caused the home console gaming crash in the 80s. The entire stock of the game was dumped in a New Mexico landfill.
@TheManHimself0213
8 ай бұрын
@@Shinbu150good news is gaming wasn’t too big then. Now it’s higher than ever
@fuzzspanden
8 ай бұрын
@@Shinbu150 ET didnt cause the crash on its own, it was just a famously unpopular game at the time. Kinda gets scapegoated IMO. The whole market was full of shovelware for years, and it was hard to tell it from the good stuff. ET was just a major flop at the time that people remember now because it's easy. They buried other games in the desert with it, yknow.
@birdmanrising8 ай бұрын
I was looking forward to hearing you cover this :) sorry to hear you’re feeling under the weather. Feel better soon Yong!
@Davitron_878 ай бұрын
This has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in gaming. The deception campaign, all the delays and excuses. Then they finally release a completely different game,the studio closes a few days later, the CEO is MIA, his socials are nuked, all the marketing has been removed. Then finally all they can say is “shit happens.” You really can’t make this up 😂
@SoftisNelaris
8 ай бұрын
It's even funnier because this video is the first time I've heard anything at all about this game. This just popped up in my notifications, so I decided to check it out.
@tiaxanderson97258 ай бұрын
One more time; you could have 175 200 hours on a game from 20 years ago and you can still request a refund on steam. The two hours and 2 weeks own time is the *no questions asked* refund policy. Everything else is handled on a case by case basis like every other platform. If you give a valid reason and haven't refunded tons of games; it'll be considered.
@Mizufluffy
8 ай бұрын
I think 175200 hours from 20 years ago sounds a bit too much. That is basically playing the same game 24 hours per a day every day for the entire 20 years. If it was perhaps 58400 hours (8 hours per a day) or even 116800 hours (16 hours per a day) then I could believe it because you would still have 8 - 16 hours time each day for other things than gaming. Have you heard about sleeping? Eating? But yeah, I understand the point you are trying to make. I just thought the hours were a bit too much.
@DMBLaan8 ай бұрын
The bug where people are falling though the map, that's the very FIRST SCENE of the game after making a new character on a server!
@sfooshy4517
8 ай бұрын
When I saw that on twitch I assumed the devs only made that room, and the bug was an excuse for lack of game 🤣
@Reikuma-X8 ай бұрын
Definitely not “the greatest scam” anyone who followed this game knew it was going to go exactly like this. I’m even surprised the game released to begin with tbh. People who did/ still are defending this are actually delusional.
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
Straight up. People will defend anything to the ends of the Earth. And people wonder how predatory stuff like the NBA 2K series still makes so much money. It's depressing.
@Spike2276
8 ай бұрын
There's people defending this?
@SentiNel090
8 ай бұрын
True, the greatest scam is Star Citizen. But you can at least PLAY that game, or so I've heard...
@Spike2276
8 ай бұрын
@@SentiNel090 Star Citizen has evolved from a scam to a cult by now
@GholaTleilaxu
8 ай бұрын
Or perhaps you are all just being manipulated by the comments you are reading on your favourite social networks.
@Liberater45898 ай бұрын
its so hilariously obvious that they just shat something out as quick as they could so they could try to avoid a lawsuit by saying "its not a scam look we released it"
@KawaiiSoulB42
8 ай бұрын
Well, they cant be sued because it wasn't a scam. LOL They just couldn't afford a MMO. Shame if it had the current tags, U all would bitched anywhy.
@domanskikid
8 ай бұрын
@ KawaiiSoulB42 People would still “bitch” because it would still be a bad game. The tags wouldn’t change that, stupid. 🙄
@toblerone1729
8 ай бұрын
Looks like pulling the rug to me 🤷♂️ I'd immediately ask for a refund if I suddenly lost access to a game I bought yesterday if I didn't do anything wrong in the first place
@ry_an.
8 ай бұрын
@@KawaiiSoulB42definitely is a scam kid
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
Wasn't it released in early access, though?
@wolvie908 ай бұрын
I learned about this game yesterday. It never ceases to amaze me how gullible the gaming audience is.
@GDUBMX
8 ай бұрын
You learned about it the day before today?
@wolvie90
8 ай бұрын
@@GDUBMX Yes. Getting off the videogame hypetrain is the best decision you could ever make.
@StudlyFudd13
8 ай бұрын
@@GDUBMX I just learned about this game. Had no idea this was thing coming out, nor who this dev team was.
@AT7outof10
8 ай бұрын
the literal embodiment of that meme "Gamers want one thing and its disgusting."
@DeadKraken
8 ай бұрын
@@wolvie90 Gamers are almost at the same level of cryptobros credulity-wise. No Man's Sky's shitty launch happened almost 10 years ago, and these dumbasses still get swindled by the "huge game concept that costs minimum 50 millions from first time indie dev" thing, this time even without a known publisher behind it. They deserve all the scams and microtransactions and underdeveloped overpriced shite they get, I learned my lesson to never pre-order and never fall for hypetrains again when Dark Souls 2 came out, and I was a teenager back then lmao
@ryuuotaku358 ай бұрын
The people behind this scam should be prosecuted for this. This must not happen again.
@DZGenesiszero
8 ай бұрын
I'm sure the KGB knocked on their door demanding a refund.
@genlando327plays2
8 ай бұрын
I mean... considering Redfall, Gollum, and Skull Island, in a court of law, a case can be made that this falls below the burden of proof to LEGALLY be considered a scam. Honestly, even if the burden WAS met, at this point I feel like a judge would rule under caviat emptor given the obviously "accepted" trend by consumers in the industry
@mattcanich42878 ай бұрын
Steam should absolutely refund every purchase. But every refund should come with a mandatory "sucker" Steam badge so everyone knows that despite multiple years of obvious issues and tons of people pointing out that it was going to be terrible you still bought it.
@evandaymon8303
7 ай бұрын
That's not gonna happen. The badge part Refund part they are already doing regardless of how long you played even in the video he mentioned someone with 15 hrs getting their refund. As for badge they wont do it. It will be insulting there customers and they will get sued over it. Happened to xbox when they used to have a label where they call you a cheater and take all your achievements away because you cheated. Long story short the system fucked up and label a autistic kid a cheater (when he never did anything much to deserve it.) his mom made a fuss about it in court and they had to stop doing that
@madfox588 ай бұрын
We had Baldur's Gate, Alan Wake, RE4, Spiderman 2, Tears of the Kingdom, Mario Wonder... and then we also had Redfall, Gollum, Skull Island Kong, CoDMW3, Forspoken, the Switch port of MK1... PERFECTLY BALANCED. AS ALL THINGS SHOULD BE. All is well in the world.
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
Let's not forget Hi-Fi Rush as a highlight! That's the game that gave Forspoken the people's elbow.
@arnox4554
8 ай бұрын
RE4 had inexcusable after-launch microtransactions, so it goes in the shit tier now. (Why am I the only one that remembers they did this?) Have no mercy for this kind of behavior, for you will receive none.
@Dr.DisrespectFan918
8 ай бұрын
baldurs gate is worse than The Day Before
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
@@Dr.DisrespectFan918 Can't really make such a bold claim without explaining yourself.
@NeO_SaNdMaN4040
8 ай бұрын
@@arnox4554micro transactions in the way they handled it was absolutely an afterthought. And plenty of folks haven’t even touched the micro transaction bullshit, including me. RE4R and even Separate Ways’ DLC were fucking PHENOMENAL for being as faithful as it all was, while adding and subtracting great and less than good things. It is nowhere close to shit tier.
@nocaptainmatt37718 ай бұрын
This is an absolute concrete example of proof that most game developers overinflate their games, big or small and you should never ever believe them until they deliver what they promise
@dew_b_dew8 ай бұрын
What a crazy year for gaming. Record setting lows such as kong, gollum, and the day before to cap it off speed running bankruptcy. But then you have the pinacle of gaming with masterpieces such as Zelda TotK and BG3, which has more hours of dialoge than the amount of hours fntastic spent developing their game. Truly wild.
@300IQPrower8 ай бұрын
Honestly this was so predictable even calling it a scam seems generous.
@Real_Infinity958 ай бұрын
I knew they fucked up when they said “we miscalculated our capabilities”. This is truly pathetic.
@allthenamesiwantedweretaken8 ай бұрын
Every time we think "the worst game ever" is released, someone else always manages to steal the crown. "There's always a bigger fish"
@toastertastic50858 ай бұрын
There are simply no words to be said other than “I don’t know what else I was expecting”
@markmathisen3908
8 ай бұрын
Even worse is what the devs tweeted about people complaining (rightly, I might add) about how misleading and piss poor the game was: "This was our first big game project. Shit happens." I'm not kidding, that's what they said. 🤦 Edit: just saw that Yong did reference this tweet in the video.
@KXReaver8 ай бұрын
Everyone been getting sick. I guess it's the right time of year for it. I hope you feel better soon.
@hideshisface18868 ай бұрын
I'll be bloody honest. This game was one of the most obvious scams I have ever seen - they could hardly make it any more obvious if they wanted to without just spelling it out right there. And yet, people still fell for it - this is the terrifying part.
@niallreid7664
8 ай бұрын
Not terrifying, frustrating. And these dumbasses continue to defend the game or act like victims. I mean, honestly I don't feel pity for them. That kind of mindless buying is genuinely what's wrong with gaming.
@skyuru8 ай бұрын
This is what happen when people are jumping in to a game without taking any information and this is what happens with big corporates too, but modern audience will never learn the lesson lol
@SkylerHamm5878 ай бұрын
Not only that, it appears to have just changed their name so to scam more people again.
@terminatorxp20078 ай бұрын
i’m genuinely curious what their plan was with this? did they really expect to release this and not get destroyed by the gaming community?
@EskChan19
8 ай бұрын
Nah, fairly sure the plan was to create as much hype as possible, stretch the beginning to just above 2 hours so people couldn't refund, then run with the money.
@Peylix
8 ай бұрын
Obvious that it was an attempt at an early access scam. Build as much hype as possible to maximize day one FOMO buys, Then vomit out something barely coherent to be pass Steams requirements, and keep it viable just long enough (30-90 days) to get the payments from Steam's escrow, then dip. The best part is, they're too incompetent to even do that correctly. This is why they dipped just 48hrs after. It wasn't going to work, so they ran and are trying to vanish like this never happened. It's this part that shows what it was from the beginning and when you look at the entire shit show with this in full context. It's clear as day. lol
@Peylix
8 ай бұрын
@@EskChan19 Steam holds money for 30-90 days. You're right in theory, just not on the time frame. Rather than 2hrs, this scam needs to run for at least 30-90 days before Steam releases the profit from sales. Steam does this as a way to protect against these scams such as The Day Before. It's just that these devs were really bad at even doing that, which is why they dipped almost right away after it became apparent they'd never hit even the 30 day mark lol
@sytherwusky
8 ай бұрын
it may have either been a ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme?
@etienne8110
8 ай бұрын
They just planned to get away with the money while leaving behind something that was just enough to give plausible deniability against incoming lawsuits.
@zahreel31038 ай бұрын
The signs were all there. Did it matter? Nope. Plenty of people still wasted their money on this farce. Fanboys and people looking for clout represent one of the major problems in the gaming industry.
@jasonhannah7483
8 ай бұрын
And it's funny 😅
@KaiserMattTygore9278 ай бұрын
The Day Before is the perfect encapsulation of what gaming has become.
@Xyler94
8 ай бұрын
Not really. It's more of an indication how easily people are fooled by trailers. I've said it before, even trailers can deceive, so those who cry "I want gameplay trailers" are still idiots. And yes, I'll blame consumers here. The Outer Worlds 2's trailer really did encapsulate it, yet people just think it's a joke. It is satire, but satires have an air of truth to them... unfortunately.
@durenatu
8 ай бұрын
Seeing this kind of response in this trailer with the yakuza debacle is really funny
@thefiresworddragon927
8 ай бұрын
Not really; it's really this, minus the backlash because they hide the bad stuff behind a two hour window on PC, and kept alive with $50 mtx for 2 gold coins minimum
@TheConpletionist8 ай бұрын
Heard the sequel The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow is coming along nicely
@tyleroutland435
8 ай бұрын
No way it's getting a sequel 😂
@morty2630
8 ай бұрын
@@tyleroutland435♿️
@zachhawn8720
8 ай бұрын
"Why does it look like the Day Before the Day after Tomorrow was yesterday?"
@johnwright5179
8 ай бұрын
@@morty2630 😂
@sharpester72778 ай бұрын
I heard how much of a scam a lot of games are. But damn, the developers shutting down only a mere four days after the game released alongside the game, getting delisted, sure is something.
@jneff64568 ай бұрын
22:50 Asking for volunteers for a for-profit venture is not just questionable... under the Fair Labor Standards Act, its illegal.
@sierramike0913
8 ай бұрын
Not a US company so they wouldn't follow US law in that regard.
@urogoth8 ай бұрын
My favorite time, and the time that made me go "oh, this isn't gonna end well", was when they said they were switching to UE5 and we saw it look worse even though the touted features were meant to make a thing look better more easily.
@urogoth
8 ай бұрын
The 2023 footage just made it undeniable for me after that
@Boss_Fight_Index_muki8 ай бұрын
Those massive NPC heads makes it look like a horror game, it almost looks intentional
@xyavdast55548 ай бұрын
The real question is how they can just continue selling games on Steam by changing their company name. If their original "development studio" had to close down as a result of this "failure" (scam) --> for financial reasons then how can they start a new studio without money? If they got a new game developed as "Fntastic" then that game should also fall into the assets of the studio "Fntastic" and hence not be able to be sold under a different developer name. --> for reasons of bad reputation then why does Steam not automatically write the former developer name next to the new developer name on the game's store page? Like "Developer: Eight Points (formerly: Fntastic - changed due to negative reputation)". That way the people would be warned on the game's store page directly instead of needing to wait for reviews from others. After all reviews can only be written if you purchased a game. So even if they refund it after the review, people still need to buy that game first. And that should not be neccessary to call out scammers.
@KiuhKobold8 ай бұрын
The best part about these bad game releases is getting more content to watch about their failure. Who knows, maybe the next chapter for Fntastic is Chapter 11 bankruptcy? Can't wait to see these scammers dig themselves deeper. Also lets not forget, they basically had slave work with their "willing volunteers"
@marybdrake14728 ай бұрын
They didn't fool everyone, I was skeptical from the start. The false advertising was one of the least idiotic things they did. The most being that they thought they'd actually get away with it.
@sparky48788 ай бұрын
Game self destruction speed run. Sounds like something for a Karl Jobst video.
@samuellee2578 ай бұрын
At this point... I dont think Gollum can be the worst game of the year since so many games are trying to go even lower. It is insane!
@Adam-FR8 ай бұрын
I was just in shock it came out. 😂 But being the Yong Yea veteran I am, I learned about this dev enough to predict this was not going to make it one way or another. I didn't buy it. Thanks Yong! 👍
@Achillez0988 ай бұрын
Just when I thought the final contestants for Worst Game of 2023 had all arrived, The Day Before comes rushing to the finish line. Redfall, Forspoken, Gollum, King Kong, Day Before...what a year...
@joshc0078 ай бұрын
"The days after shit happens" should of been the name.
@jamesverner91328 ай бұрын
Yong thank you for not running away. Your a good guy and Yakuza is not going to stop you from giving us the news.
@CrowMercury8 ай бұрын
If this doesn't learn people to not buy Day 1, then they deserve every scam they get.
@gwp151
8 ай бұрын
That`s why you should always buy The Day After
@mememachine376
8 ай бұрын
Yes the people who are excited to buy a game the day it comes out are the problem, not the scummy devs who push them out
@rebelking_21
8 ай бұрын
@@mememachine376well we can't do shit about scummy devs. As consumers what we CAN do is not pre order and wait for reviews before the masses purchase it.
@rokkraljkolesa9317
8 ай бұрын
@@mememachine376 both are at fault
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
@@rebelking_21Reviews tend to be mixed in terms of credibility.
@starry8428 ай бұрын
Apologies that come with refunds are how this should ALWAYS go. I believe it's sincere when they give the money back. It may be a low bar, but I can list some studios that didn't clear it just this year.
@thefiresworddragon927
8 ай бұрын
Blizzard, Bethesda, Activision, EA…
@LongClawzHidden8 ай бұрын
The company tried changing their name to 'Eight Point' in order to avoid any retaliation. Disgusting!
@WolfsGamingBlog
8 ай бұрын
They didn't. Basically, to keep it short, Fntastic developed a game called The Wild Eight under publisher Hypetrain. The game hit early access and Fntastic decided to ditch it and move on to something else. Hypetrain bought the full rights to the game, and ceased all business with them in 2017. Hypetrain then decided to change the developer name from Fntastic to Eight Point the other day. Their reasoning, according to a statement given to Eurogamer, is that Hypetrain saw a wave of negative reviews for The Wild Eight that weren't about the game but rather about Fntastic. They made the call to change the developer name to curb the backlash. It was a dodgy decision because obviously from the outside it makes it look like Fntastic changed their name. However, it doesn't look like Fntastic had anything to do with the decision. Of course, doesn't mean they won't change their name or pop up again.
@charlesfuzak
8 ай бұрын
Why in the world would they change their name to distance themselves from TDB and then link it to a game people knew they were involved with? I swear people don't use common sense.
@Lenariet
8 ай бұрын
That's fake news. HypeTrain, the publisher of The Wild Eight, told Eurogamer that they changed the name of the dev on that game to distance themselves from Fntastic. The latter sold off the game to the former years ago, they aren't the dev for that game any longer and haven't suddenly gone back to it. Also take note that Radiant One and Propnight still list Fntastic as dev. Why would Fntastic only change the name on The Wild Eight if it were them? This is simply misinformation.
@doublinx2
8 ай бұрын
@@WolfsGamingBlog this really needs to be a top level comment and pinned
@grumpyoldwizard8 ай бұрын
"We took all your money and we're not giving it back", is what they meant.
@Doomerang018 ай бұрын
Just one correction: Hypetrain themselves changed the developer name for Wild 8 as they were sold the rights to the game by Fntastic in 2017. They did it to try and distance themselves from Fntastic who they had kept labeled as the devs for some reason, but in this one particular case it was NOT Fntastic who did a name change. That's why it only happened with Wild8 and not the other Fntastic games. It doesn't explain why they decided to use Fntastic's old developer name instead of put themselves as the developer though. This was confirmed in a Eurogamer article that was updated with the information. Hypetrain themselves are a legitimate company as they publish real games like Void Train. They were just idiotic and should have just changed the developer to themselves as soon as they acquired the game rights rather than not do anything about it for 6 years. Also, Fntastic implicitly lied about the money thing in their shutdown statement. They were clearly acting like they weren't a scam because they didn't take any money from anyone, but they DID take money from sponsors like Nvidia. It would still be a scam even if they refunded every single person who bought the game because of this.
@DarkstarArchangel8 ай бұрын
This game should be called 'The Day Before Cancellation'.
@toxicdermyillunary41038 ай бұрын
This game is so meta they call it The Day Before. Releasing the day before they died.
@CarlGonzaga8678 ай бұрын
The Day Before: We screwed all the players world wide Warcraft Reforged: Hold my beer
@osirisatot198 ай бұрын
Yeah I think they were counting on being able to rip people off with an asset flip game, and then them getting picked up and noticed was really bad for them because it got too many eyes on it. If no one noticed they could have snuck in under the radar and probably gotten away with it.
@markmathisen3908
8 ай бұрын
"If it hadn't been for you meddling kids I'd have gotten away with it, too!" 😂😅
@axllaw4278 ай бұрын
Gollum: "We thinks we are the worst game of 2023!" Skull Island Rise of Kong: "Hold my bananas!" Day Before: "Allow me to introduce myself..."
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
If we somehow manage one more just before the new year this might be the greatest worst year in gaming possibly ever. It'll be incredible.
@pastaplatoon61848 ай бұрын
"The day before" is when they made the game.
@Radman18898 ай бұрын
Literal last weeks of the year and companies and games are speedrunning to be worst game of the year. Quite a feat
@thefiresworddragon927
8 ай бұрын
Honestly, now I have the conspiracy theory thought in my mind that devs like that are doing this to try and ruin the thoughts of the majority of people in the world. I have so often seen people describe some years as "being horrible and terrible", whilst completely ignoring everything good in that year. Someone said in a video on a game released this year, and said a rough paraphrased quote "one of the few things good this year". One of the few? Where did Hi Fi Rush shadow releasing and becoming an instant competitor for GOTY, IN JANUARY, Armoured Core 6, Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Spider-Man 2, Pikmin 1, 2 and 4 coming to Switch, Super Mario RPG remaster, Metroid Prime Remastered, announcement of Paper Mario TTYD remaster (which if it's the classic combat, means Paper Mario is finally back after all these years since Sticker Shat), where did all those go? Last I checked, Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 failing was not a negative thing, it was a good thing because Blizzard got vibe checked (look up Overwatch 2 on Steam, it's rated worse than Flatout 3, which is… one of the games of all time). Two and a half horrible game releases (as I don't even consider The Day Before a video game), do not outweigh about a dozen or so positive things
@rud3b0ygaming8 ай бұрын
"I'm sorry we didn't meet your expectations" has got to be one of the worst apologies lmao 😂😂😂. They tried to pull the rug on people and they are still taking a victim stance. Thanks for the coverage as per Yong! 👊🏿
@Klishar1228 ай бұрын
Slight correction: when Yong says “copyright” at the beginning, what he should have said was “trademark issue.” Because the developers didn’t secure the trademark to “The Day Before” after they announced the game and it was picked up by a calendar app.
@chingchaching248 ай бұрын
As a kid I learned that when a game seems too good to be true , it's not going to live up to expectations. One of the first games I got hyped for long ago was APB (All Points Bulletin), which looked like an online GTA.
@TommiMakkinen8 ай бұрын
Wasn't so much as a "dumpster fire" but more of a "dumpster inferno"... Or a "dumpsterpocalypse"
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
I would say "dumpocalypse" but that sounds like a term for a sewage plant blowing up..
@distractedFreek8 ай бұрын
Years of blood, sweat, and tears...typing into the search bar of an asset store, and AI prompts. Clearly a difficult set of tasks.
@mediumvillain8 ай бұрын
When youre like "a cutscene, an in-game cutscene", no its not just an in-game cutscene, those are actually people spawning into the game's OPENING SCENE and falling through the floor or spawning behind the wall.
@ExUSSailor8 ай бұрын
It was a classic "pump & dump". Hype it up real big, sell it, then, close up shop real quick, and, disappear with the money.
@vallejomach6721
8 ай бұрын
Disappear with what money? Steam does not pay devs instantly...you get paid by Valve 30 days AFTER the end of a calendar month. So if your game releases on the first of the month you are basically two months until you see any money. They will receive almost nothing from Steam by the time all the refunds have been processed. The only money they are likely to have gained is from Nvidia who put the game straight onto their Geforece Now platforma nd presumably stumped up cash for that to happen...and most of that's probably already been spent on getting the game to market.
@ahmedisam25338 ай бұрын
Damn this is indeed the best and worst year in gaming
@0taku9128 ай бұрын
This year we got some crazy good games but at the same time we got some horrendously bad games. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
@rasmie88588 ай бұрын
The fact that gamers even fell for this sorry excuse of a scam should be studied The alarms were blaring but somehow gamers still chose to blindly believe
@karthiksubramanian2279
8 ай бұрын
Exactly...i am surprised there were some people who bought this and defending this...😂
@bobbenson68258 ай бұрын
Take care of yourself, I hope you feel better. I was looking forward to your take on this. I have a sick feeling there will be more con jobs in gaming going forward. I mean, Fyre Festival is becoming a role model, or so it seems.
@AndrewDavie-er3ug8 ай бұрын
Imagine that a game is so bad even the in game character become self aware and fall into nothing.
@PsyrenXY8 ай бұрын
"Its like a procedurally generated Starfield planet, except even worse somehow." Goddamn, the savagery
@ziljin8 ай бұрын
they are taking a note from Logan Paul. "I swear its not a scam, we are working on refunding the players, but rest assured this is a real game and its still being worked on."
@maccamachine8 ай бұрын
Well not surprising scammers at their finest
@buckn58 ай бұрын
I am surprised you never covered the completionist situation at least a single time in a video.
@rokkraljkolesa9317
8 ай бұрын
Yong's more of a gaming news guy, Jirard being tangentially related as someone who plays games on camera, really
@magma_fire_bagwan
8 ай бұрын
Wait what happened?
@NeoStorm247
8 ай бұрын
@@magma_fire_bagwan The charity he's been running and promoting for years was revealed to have never donated any of the money people gave them, they just sat on it all this time, lying all the while that it was being donated as people had intended.
@rokkraljkolesa9317
8 ай бұрын
@@magma_fire_bagwan tl;dw: his charity has not been sending money to charities as advertised, holding on to it instead Mutahar aka SomeOrdinaryGamer and Karl Jobst made several videos when they found that there was something fishy with them
@magma_fire_bagwan
8 ай бұрын
@@NeoStorm247 Yikes D:
@Derotrox8 ай бұрын
I wish someone would make video explaining how these fake trailers become reality. I mean someone is playing this, arent they? Assets (working cars), environments (mall), mechanics (vaulting) are there, yet somehow none of that makes it into the game? How come? I get visual downgrades, but how is it that entire gameplay elements ONLY appear in fake trailers? Its just baffling to me that such trailers seem to be an entire side project, that has nothing to do with the game and also takes years to prepare and finish. If someone could make an eductaional video on this topic, I think it would be a great public service for the future.
@TheWildManEnkidu8 ай бұрын
I thought he said 'I am currently fighting a cult' in the opening. I was like bruh! What? Who is after you?
@xblowsmokex8 ай бұрын
proud of you for fighting those cults
@novaboy11748 ай бұрын
I'm enjoying the drama more than the actual game. Keep the drama going!
@Paelmoon8 ай бұрын
People keep calling it a scam. How is it scam? They hyped a game = Every studio does this. They promoted it and the product that launched wasn't like the promotional materials = Every studio does this. They didn't offer pre-orders = Most studios do offer pre-orders. They are having everyone refunded, regardless of playtime = Many studios won't do that. It was a god awful game, but I'm failing to see the scam, or how they behaved any differently that even AAA companies do. I think most people are just angry they fell for the hype. AGAIN.
@InnerRise8 ай бұрын
15:28 CornField can't catch a break! I love what it's become! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Banguelas8 ай бұрын
This was a long time coming. Anybody paying attention could see it coming way before the “Day Before” (see what I did there?).
@gabrieloviedocasanas49778 ай бұрын
Apparently, most of the higher ups just rebranded the company from "Fantastic" to "8-balls" or something literally a day after their supposedly bankrupt, so is clear they regret nothing and will try to pull this shit again one day, and worse of all there are people defending this putrid mess after everything...
@Lenariet
8 ай бұрын
That's fake news. HypeTrain, the publisher of The Wild Eight, told Eurogamer that they changed the name of the dev on that game to distance themselves from Fntastic. The latter sold off the game to the former years ago, they aren't the devs for that game any longer and haven't suddenly gone back to it. Also take note that Radiant One and Propnight still list Fntastic as dev. Why would Fntastic only change the name on The Wild Eight if it were them? This is simply misinformation.
@Loalrikowki8 ай бұрын
Ngl, the shadow of your headset microphone makes it look like someone absolutely ruined your day with a right hook recently.
@kleberson7778 ай бұрын
I love this quote They Released "The Day Before" and Closed "The Day After"
@WH2503988 ай бұрын
Anyone remember "Abandoned" for Ps5? Lol
@franciscobutte8 ай бұрын
The Pay Before (the disaster)
@roydm1438 ай бұрын
First thing I got was: "I'm currently fighting a cult" and thats good, fighting the good fight.
@miraihibino12778 ай бұрын
What he said: "So I am currently fighting a cold" What I heard: "So I am currently fighting a cult" I was so confused for a moment XD
@emmastarr52428 ай бұрын
What I'm WAY more shocked about...is the fact that people even wanted this game? Even if they didn't copy a thing, and that these are all just very unfortunate comparisons...who even WANTS another game that looks like yet another RE-wannabe, anyway?!
@jackpijjin4088
8 ай бұрын
I genuinely want to know how people aren't sick of generic zombie apocalypse shit anyway. Even the good games look and feel like asset flips at this point.
@2greenify8 ай бұрын
I don't care if assets are bought or reused, as long the game is good.
@charalambakis678 ай бұрын
Big respect for people like you who dedicate so much of their time to calling out filthy greed and everything wrong in the gaming industry. It can’t be a pleasant thing to do day in, day out! But the gaming community sure needs channels like this one!
@Badly_Edited8 ай бұрын
"It didn't meet the expectations." And who set those expectations hmmm?...
@norbertbukki56208 ай бұрын
Don't get surprised if The Day Before gets the same "treatment" as The Wild Eight! That got it's owner switched from Fntastic to Eight Points. As far as I am aware, Eight Points WAS Fntastic's EARLY studio name! So get ready for a possible ROUND 2! 😂
@superpan2188 ай бұрын
Unbelievable. A game that was so horrible, it had been delisted four days later. Babylon's Fall went on much longer than this. Remember Babylon's Fall? Glad we could forget that game ever existed.
@four-en-tee8 ай бұрын
I hate to be That Guy, but lets be honest: most people arent going to learn shit. They're going to forget about this within a year. At most, its better to just remember the lessons from this incident and take them to heart going forward.
@ArcticVXR18 ай бұрын
They should so a sequel and call it "4 days after"
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@tomatomaki
8 ай бұрын
Thank you Chong Yue for the awesome news.
@dyea_b_tis5319
8 ай бұрын
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@QuestionMarking
8 ай бұрын
This is like a publisher survivability speedrun, wonder if you could put that in Guinuess world records?
@paperstarbit
8 ай бұрын
The shutdown tweet was also AI generated BTW
@legendxcarisso
8 ай бұрын
It's funny, because this game almost had about the same level of non-existence as Skull and Bones. Yikes.
The speed-runs of studio shutdowns is crazy this year
@bobjoe5937
8 ай бұрын
Let's hope they shut down Bethesda next.
@TheForever206
8 ай бұрын
@@bobjoe5937 Not happening anytime soon. Bethesda games makes to much money.
@bobjoe5937
8 ай бұрын
@@TheForever206 yea yea...i know. It's just they're one of the most scummiest gaming companies of all time.
@Steveo0547
8 ай бұрын
@@bobjoe5937agreed bro
@mistermistermr732
8 ай бұрын
@@bobjoe5937 bro i totally agree with you i would love for them to shut down too. right after they make elder scrolls 6
There were so many red flags and so many warnings from the community about this game. Yet they still sold so many copies! Also, how is this legal?!
@blackfacegaming191
8 ай бұрын
Because it’s not in USA maybe they could get sued in russia
@unironicallydel7527
8 ай бұрын
*was legal, until they charged for it. Legally, it wasnt a scam until now bc as they said they werent getting money for development, but now that theyve sold it for a profit, its definitely illegal.
@johnnyk3950
8 ай бұрын
As you would expect from Russians. cheaply made, lying and then blatantly ripping people off. didn't expect anything else
@phillipchappell6013
8 ай бұрын
Saw somewhere that steam may not being paying them. as it vallidated several of their rules. not to mention if refunding everybody money from what i hear
@thexmacx812
8 ай бұрын
Sue dammit let me get a few bucks of this lmaooo
King Kong game came in clutch to save Gollum from the title of worst of the year, now in a never seen before move at the last second, The Day Before is coming in clutch to save King Kong from that title, what a year...
@karthiksubramanian2279
8 ай бұрын
Honestly i am not shocked or angry or sad...but i am just laughing hard at the situation....its totally hilarious..😂😂😂
@GreenKnight07
8 ай бұрын
Wait until that there Will be a game even worse than the day before
@jannovak6987
8 ай бұрын
Damn you're right lmao
“This was our first big gaming project. Shit happens” You know how many studios first games aren’t a scam? Lmfao the fact they were making excuses on Twitter
@LoganHunter82
8 ай бұрын
Lmao the fact that they used Twitter at all
@mogscugg2639
8 ай бұрын
Obsidian's first game was KOTOR 2, which they rushed out in 13 months because of pressure from LucasArts And it was still great
@randomguy6679
8 ай бұрын
Team Cherry’s first game was Hollow Knight ffs
@StormsparkPegasus
5 ай бұрын
@@LoganHunter82 Merely using twitter these days makes someone suspect.
“the day before” we shut down lol
@SevastovTv
8 ай бұрын
😂
@miguellilly8859
8 ай бұрын
Lol
@robertnapier624
8 ай бұрын
Ba dum tss!
@That_One_User_314
8 ай бұрын
(☞゚ヮ゚)☞
@redohealer2
8 ай бұрын
Memes
quite a year for gaming. We have some of the best games around...and then also the worst games around, I'm kinda impressed
@InsidiiousLad
8 ай бұрын
This year will be really hard to top in the next year's lol
@biblicallyaccuratecockroach
8 ай бұрын
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
@lightingthief4482
8 ай бұрын
And the return of horrible licensed games. Never thought I'll see that
@oneandonlyJonnySad
8 ай бұрын
It’s the disappointment that comes with the ‘worst games’. Saints Row and Gotham Knights really hurt.
@unironicallydel7527
8 ай бұрын
@@oneandonlyJonnySad dont forget the absolute dumpsterfires that were Gollum and Kong. I dont even know HOW you make games that bad.
Took a gander on Steam when this first released as I couldn't believe it actually released. Saw one review saying something along the lines of "yeah it's buggy but what game nowadays doesn't have a rough release? It'll improve" and I suddenly remembered how these blatant scams make so much money. I love optimism, but there have to be limits here, come on.
@ZABORRA
8 ай бұрын
People's standards are so low, they don't even expect a finished game
@beetleprime5927
8 ай бұрын
@@ZABORRASo sad but unfortunately true.
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
@@ZABORRAYup, it's pathetic.
@Zack_Wester
8 ай бұрын
@@beetleprime5927 yep. EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Bathesta(that said not sure how much of that is there engine they really need to remake). CD Projekt RED. that said some bugs exist thats a fact and that was a a fact sins day 1 back in 1980. the question is how severe are the bugs, how easy are the bugs to find and what do I need to do to trigger them (aka that super wierd HL1 bug that I can´t wrap my head around on how it works vs press new game start fall throught world.).
@beetleprime5927
8 ай бұрын
@@Zack_Wester Yeah I'm honestly ok with some bugs as I think it's reasonable enough that at least some will sneak through at first, but here it's just like they know full well the bugs were here and just didn't try to do anything about it.
This is clearly an asset flip. There's no way a team of developers would spend 5 YEARS shitting out something like this. They took the money and ran.
@EskChan19
8 ай бұрын
Yep. The whole map is a single 300 dollar asset you can buy.
@irishijo1
8 ай бұрын
They couldnt even take the money, seeing as how they owed their investors *alot* of it for prior failures. Their least failure game was Propnight, which after some personal reaserch, had the exact same issues across the board. It was buggy, janky, full of hackers and cheaters, had nonsensical design choices, and the Developer (to my knowledge) did next to nothing about alot of those issues. To put the chery on top: Fntastic changed their name.
@PeculiarNotions
8 ай бұрын
It certainly looks that way.
@forslos8756
8 ай бұрын
The asset flip post someone put together show that they only start buying asset after the reveal trailer which is 2 year agos. This isn't 5 years long development, the development literally only start after reveal and is 2 year only.
@genlando327plays2
8 ай бұрын
They also won't have received any money from Steam yet, plus they have a publisher to pay. Honestly, if this WAS an asset flip, they 100% did it wrong. It's more likely just really THAT bad of development
This games a real cherry on top for terrible games this year. Never seen a game and developer shut down so quickly before.
@CookyMonzta
8 ай бұрын
_Because there was never a game to begin with!_ It was a Ponzi scheme from start to finish! 💩🚽
@MeggaMann_theBlueLion
8 ай бұрын
Facts. But it was bound to happen. And one always wondered who someday would be the face of such things. And well, here it is folks. I love it. Games with no micro transactions becoming game of the year. Indies shining over Triple A’s, Game Awards mediocrity. I mean I really love it. Makes me wonder what’s gonna happwhen GTAVI comes out
@megarhombus7532
8 ай бұрын
Well some one manged to do WORSE than gollum. Not saying much.
@CookyMonzta
8 ай бұрын
@@MeggaMann_theBlueLion By the time GTA VI comes out, HADES II might be ready to throw a monkey wrench in their quest to become GOTY.
@michaellane5381
8 ай бұрын
@@megarhombus7532and Kong... We cannot forget Kong... Though we may want to...
Developer: 'Four years of blood, sweat and tears to release this game to you' Translation: 'We pulled together a shit ton of unity assets and only made a couple areas by hand because we gave up right after the announcement but knew we had to release something or we would likely be sued.' Developer: 'The Day Before ended up not being financially high enough to continue production or keep our studio open. Translation: 'Too many people refunded the game after they saw what it was, so now instead of jumping ship next month when we get enough money for ourselves, we're leaving four days after release and making Steam pay you all back. See ya suckers!
@ShinKamaitachi
8 ай бұрын
The game was made in a few months and it was a cash grab that's all it is.
@crapshot321
8 ай бұрын
Yeah, pretty much. Good translation!
@Celphied13
8 ай бұрын
Don't forget "made by hand by our totally-not-exploited 'volunteers'"
@battlion507
8 ай бұрын
Wait, doesn't Steam hold that income for 30 days?
@crapshot321
8 ай бұрын
@@battlion507 I believe so. That's why another poster claimed that this company was too incompetent to even steal the money they've gotten.
The idea that a company can sell 'early access', then immediately close down and basically say 'screw you, no refunds', is utterly INSANE.
@RoyMatzem
8 ай бұрын
They cant. Everyone is getting their refunds. But Steam needs up the Standard, we cant have scam stealing people like that
@popereptillianlord6174
8 ай бұрын
they didnt get any money and all refunds are being accepted via steam. They screwed themselves bad
@tarille1043
8 ай бұрын
Not only can they NOT do that, since Steam controls refunds. But they also don't even get any money from sales until at least 30 days after release, until that point, Steam holds onto every single cent. Which is why this sort of thing isn't common. It just doesn't work because Steam actually has policies to combat this sort of thing. The worse thing are the ones who sell "Early access" and just don't do anything. Leaving the game in permenant half-baked "Early access" and letting it fester long enough that the 30 day hold on funds for newly released titles doesn't last long enough to cover any refunds. Meaning this company couldn't even do the Early Access scam correctly. Since Steam's just going to use every cent they would have made from sales to refund everyone.
@genlando327plays2
8 ай бұрын
To be fair, THEY'RE not the ones giving refunds. Given Steam's policies they probably haven't even been paid for the sales that aren't getting refunded. Steam is working with the PUBLISHER to do refunds
@rafaelbordoni516
8 ай бұрын
Half the reviews in this game had a "Game refunded" tag.
A game that was in “development” for 5 years just for it to be taken off the Steam store 4 days after its Early Access launch has got to be the biggest failures in gaming history
@JuwanBuchanan
8 ай бұрын
Was a scam from the get go
@ItsAv3rageGamer
8 ай бұрын
The entire game is an asset flip. The big city the open world takes place in is $300 on the Unreal Engine store.
@Shinbu150
8 ай бұрын
ET for Atari says hi. That game most likely caused the home console gaming crash in the 80s. The entire stock of the game was dumped in a New Mexico landfill.
@TheManHimself0213
8 ай бұрын
@@Shinbu150good news is gaming wasn’t too big then. Now it’s higher than ever
@fuzzspanden
8 ай бұрын
@@Shinbu150 ET didnt cause the crash on its own, it was just a famously unpopular game at the time. Kinda gets scapegoated IMO. The whole market was full of shovelware for years, and it was hard to tell it from the good stuff. ET was just a major flop at the time that people remember now because it's easy. They buried other games in the desert with it, yknow.
I was looking forward to hearing you cover this :) sorry to hear you’re feeling under the weather. Feel better soon Yong!
This has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in gaming. The deception campaign, all the delays and excuses. Then they finally release a completely different game,the studio closes a few days later, the CEO is MIA, his socials are nuked, all the marketing has been removed. Then finally all they can say is “shit happens.” You really can’t make this up 😂
@SoftisNelaris
8 ай бұрын
It's even funnier because this video is the first time I've heard anything at all about this game. This just popped up in my notifications, so I decided to check it out.
One more time; you could have 175 200 hours on a game from 20 years ago and you can still request a refund on steam. The two hours and 2 weeks own time is the *no questions asked* refund policy. Everything else is handled on a case by case basis like every other platform. If you give a valid reason and haven't refunded tons of games; it'll be considered.
@Mizufluffy
8 ай бұрын
I think 175200 hours from 20 years ago sounds a bit too much. That is basically playing the same game 24 hours per a day every day for the entire 20 years. If it was perhaps 58400 hours (8 hours per a day) or even 116800 hours (16 hours per a day) then I could believe it because you would still have 8 - 16 hours time each day for other things than gaming. Have you heard about sleeping? Eating? But yeah, I understand the point you are trying to make. I just thought the hours were a bit too much.
The bug where people are falling though the map, that's the very FIRST SCENE of the game after making a new character on a server!
@sfooshy4517
8 ай бұрын
When I saw that on twitch I assumed the devs only made that room, and the bug was an excuse for lack of game 🤣
Definitely not “the greatest scam” anyone who followed this game knew it was going to go exactly like this. I’m even surprised the game released to begin with tbh. People who did/ still are defending this are actually delusional.
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
Straight up. People will defend anything to the ends of the Earth. And people wonder how predatory stuff like the NBA 2K series still makes so much money. It's depressing.
@Spike2276
8 ай бұрын
There's people defending this?
@SentiNel090
8 ай бұрын
True, the greatest scam is Star Citizen. But you can at least PLAY that game, or so I've heard...
@Spike2276
8 ай бұрын
@@SentiNel090 Star Citizen has evolved from a scam to a cult by now
@GholaTleilaxu
8 ай бұрын
Or perhaps you are all just being manipulated by the comments you are reading on your favourite social networks.
its so hilariously obvious that they just shat something out as quick as they could so they could try to avoid a lawsuit by saying "its not a scam look we released it"
@KawaiiSoulB42
8 ай бұрын
Well, they cant be sued because it wasn't a scam. LOL They just couldn't afford a MMO. Shame if it had the current tags, U all would bitched anywhy.
@domanskikid
8 ай бұрын
@ KawaiiSoulB42 People would still “bitch” because it would still be a bad game. The tags wouldn’t change that, stupid. 🙄
@toblerone1729
8 ай бұрын
Looks like pulling the rug to me 🤷♂️ I'd immediately ask for a refund if I suddenly lost access to a game I bought yesterday if I didn't do anything wrong in the first place
@ry_an.
8 ай бұрын
@@KawaiiSoulB42definitely is a scam kid
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
Wasn't it released in early access, though?
I learned about this game yesterday. It never ceases to amaze me how gullible the gaming audience is.
@GDUBMX
8 ай бұрын
You learned about it the day before today?
@wolvie90
8 ай бұрын
@@GDUBMX Yes. Getting off the videogame hypetrain is the best decision you could ever make.
@StudlyFudd13
8 ай бұрын
@@GDUBMX I just learned about this game. Had no idea this was thing coming out, nor who this dev team was.
@AT7outof10
8 ай бұрын
the literal embodiment of that meme "Gamers want one thing and its disgusting."
@DeadKraken
8 ай бұрын
@@wolvie90 Gamers are almost at the same level of cryptobros credulity-wise. No Man's Sky's shitty launch happened almost 10 years ago, and these dumbasses still get swindled by the "huge game concept that costs minimum 50 millions from first time indie dev" thing, this time even without a known publisher behind it. They deserve all the scams and microtransactions and underdeveloped overpriced shite they get, I learned my lesson to never pre-order and never fall for hypetrains again when Dark Souls 2 came out, and I was a teenager back then lmao
The people behind this scam should be prosecuted for this. This must not happen again.
@DZGenesiszero
8 ай бұрын
I'm sure the KGB knocked on their door demanding a refund.
@genlando327plays2
8 ай бұрын
I mean... considering Redfall, Gollum, and Skull Island, in a court of law, a case can be made that this falls below the burden of proof to LEGALLY be considered a scam. Honestly, even if the burden WAS met, at this point I feel like a judge would rule under caviat emptor given the obviously "accepted" trend by consumers in the industry
Steam should absolutely refund every purchase. But every refund should come with a mandatory "sucker" Steam badge so everyone knows that despite multiple years of obvious issues and tons of people pointing out that it was going to be terrible you still bought it.
@evandaymon8303
7 ай бұрын
That's not gonna happen. The badge part Refund part they are already doing regardless of how long you played even in the video he mentioned someone with 15 hrs getting their refund. As for badge they wont do it. It will be insulting there customers and they will get sued over it. Happened to xbox when they used to have a label where they call you a cheater and take all your achievements away because you cheated. Long story short the system fucked up and label a autistic kid a cheater (when he never did anything much to deserve it.) his mom made a fuss about it in court and they had to stop doing that
We had Baldur's Gate, Alan Wake, RE4, Spiderman 2, Tears of the Kingdom, Mario Wonder... and then we also had Redfall, Gollum, Skull Island Kong, CoDMW3, Forspoken, the Switch port of MK1... PERFECTLY BALANCED. AS ALL THINGS SHOULD BE. All is well in the world.
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
Let's not forget Hi-Fi Rush as a highlight! That's the game that gave Forspoken the people's elbow.
@arnox4554
8 ай бұрын
RE4 had inexcusable after-launch microtransactions, so it goes in the shit tier now. (Why am I the only one that remembers they did this?) Have no mercy for this kind of behavior, for you will receive none.
@Dr.DisrespectFan918
8 ай бұрын
baldurs gate is worse than The Day Before
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
@@Dr.DisrespectFan918 Can't really make such a bold claim without explaining yourself.
@NeO_SaNdMaN4040
8 ай бұрын
@@arnox4554micro transactions in the way they handled it was absolutely an afterthought. And plenty of folks haven’t even touched the micro transaction bullshit, including me. RE4R and even Separate Ways’ DLC were fucking PHENOMENAL for being as faithful as it all was, while adding and subtracting great and less than good things. It is nowhere close to shit tier.
This is an absolute concrete example of proof that most game developers overinflate their games, big or small and you should never ever believe them until they deliver what they promise
What a crazy year for gaming. Record setting lows such as kong, gollum, and the day before to cap it off speed running bankruptcy. But then you have the pinacle of gaming with masterpieces such as Zelda TotK and BG3, which has more hours of dialoge than the amount of hours fntastic spent developing their game. Truly wild.
Honestly this was so predictable even calling it a scam seems generous.
I knew they fucked up when they said “we miscalculated our capabilities”. This is truly pathetic.
Every time we think "the worst game ever" is released, someone else always manages to steal the crown. "There's always a bigger fish"
There are simply no words to be said other than “I don’t know what else I was expecting”
@markmathisen3908
8 ай бұрын
Even worse is what the devs tweeted about people complaining (rightly, I might add) about how misleading and piss poor the game was: "This was our first big game project. Shit happens." I'm not kidding, that's what they said. 🤦 Edit: just saw that Yong did reference this tweet in the video.
Everyone been getting sick. I guess it's the right time of year for it. I hope you feel better soon.
I'll be bloody honest. This game was one of the most obvious scams I have ever seen - they could hardly make it any more obvious if they wanted to without just spelling it out right there. And yet, people still fell for it - this is the terrifying part.
@niallreid7664
8 ай бұрын
Not terrifying, frustrating. And these dumbasses continue to defend the game or act like victims. I mean, honestly I don't feel pity for them. That kind of mindless buying is genuinely what's wrong with gaming.
This is what happen when people are jumping in to a game without taking any information and this is what happens with big corporates too, but modern audience will never learn the lesson lol
Not only that, it appears to have just changed their name so to scam more people again.
i’m genuinely curious what their plan was with this? did they really expect to release this and not get destroyed by the gaming community?
@EskChan19
8 ай бұрын
Nah, fairly sure the plan was to create as much hype as possible, stretch the beginning to just above 2 hours so people couldn't refund, then run with the money.
@Peylix
8 ай бұрын
Obvious that it was an attempt at an early access scam. Build as much hype as possible to maximize day one FOMO buys, Then vomit out something barely coherent to be pass Steams requirements, and keep it viable just long enough (30-90 days) to get the payments from Steam's escrow, then dip. The best part is, they're too incompetent to even do that correctly. This is why they dipped just 48hrs after. It wasn't going to work, so they ran and are trying to vanish like this never happened. It's this part that shows what it was from the beginning and when you look at the entire shit show with this in full context. It's clear as day. lol
@Peylix
8 ай бұрын
@@EskChan19 Steam holds money for 30-90 days. You're right in theory, just not on the time frame. Rather than 2hrs, this scam needs to run for at least 30-90 days before Steam releases the profit from sales. Steam does this as a way to protect against these scams such as The Day Before. It's just that these devs were really bad at even doing that, which is why they dipped almost right away after it became apparent they'd never hit even the 30 day mark lol
@sytherwusky
8 ай бұрын
it may have either been a ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme?
@etienne8110
8 ай бұрын
They just planned to get away with the money while leaving behind something that was just enough to give plausible deniability against incoming lawsuits.
The signs were all there. Did it matter? Nope. Plenty of people still wasted their money on this farce. Fanboys and people looking for clout represent one of the major problems in the gaming industry.
@jasonhannah7483
8 ай бұрын
And it's funny 😅
The Day Before is the perfect encapsulation of what gaming has become.
@Xyler94
8 ай бұрын
Not really. It's more of an indication how easily people are fooled by trailers. I've said it before, even trailers can deceive, so those who cry "I want gameplay trailers" are still idiots. And yes, I'll blame consumers here. The Outer Worlds 2's trailer really did encapsulate it, yet people just think it's a joke. It is satire, but satires have an air of truth to them... unfortunately.
@durenatu
8 ай бұрын
Seeing this kind of response in this trailer with the yakuza debacle is really funny
@thefiresworddragon927
8 ай бұрын
Not really; it's really this, minus the backlash because they hide the bad stuff behind a two hour window on PC, and kept alive with $50 mtx for 2 gold coins minimum
Heard the sequel The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow is coming along nicely
@tyleroutland435
8 ай бұрын
No way it's getting a sequel 😂
@morty2630
8 ай бұрын
@@tyleroutland435♿️
@zachhawn8720
8 ай бұрын
"Why does it look like the Day Before the Day after Tomorrow was yesterday?"
@johnwright5179
8 ай бұрын
@@morty2630 😂
I heard how much of a scam a lot of games are. But damn, the developers shutting down only a mere four days after the game released alongside the game, getting delisted, sure is something.
22:50 Asking for volunteers for a for-profit venture is not just questionable... under the Fair Labor Standards Act, its illegal.
@sierramike0913
8 ай бұрын
Not a US company so they wouldn't follow US law in that regard.
My favorite time, and the time that made me go "oh, this isn't gonna end well", was when they said they were switching to UE5 and we saw it look worse even though the touted features were meant to make a thing look better more easily.
@urogoth
8 ай бұрын
The 2023 footage just made it undeniable for me after that
Those massive NPC heads makes it look like a horror game, it almost looks intentional
The real question is how they can just continue selling games on Steam by changing their company name. If their original "development studio" had to close down as a result of this "failure" (scam) --> for financial reasons then how can they start a new studio without money? If they got a new game developed as "Fntastic" then that game should also fall into the assets of the studio "Fntastic" and hence not be able to be sold under a different developer name. --> for reasons of bad reputation then why does Steam not automatically write the former developer name next to the new developer name on the game's store page? Like "Developer: Eight Points (formerly: Fntastic - changed due to negative reputation)". That way the people would be warned on the game's store page directly instead of needing to wait for reviews from others. After all reviews can only be written if you purchased a game. So even if they refund it after the review, people still need to buy that game first. And that should not be neccessary to call out scammers.
The best part about these bad game releases is getting more content to watch about their failure. Who knows, maybe the next chapter for Fntastic is Chapter 11 bankruptcy? Can't wait to see these scammers dig themselves deeper. Also lets not forget, they basically had slave work with their "willing volunteers"
They didn't fool everyone, I was skeptical from the start. The false advertising was one of the least idiotic things they did. The most being that they thought they'd actually get away with it.
Game self destruction speed run. Sounds like something for a Karl Jobst video.
At this point... I dont think Gollum can be the worst game of the year since so many games are trying to go even lower. It is insane!
I was just in shock it came out. 😂 But being the Yong Yea veteran I am, I learned about this dev enough to predict this was not going to make it one way or another. I didn't buy it. Thanks Yong! 👍
Just when I thought the final contestants for Worst Game of 2023 had all arrived, The Day Before comes rushing to the finish line. Redfall, Forspoken, Gollum, King Kong, Day Before...what a year...
"The days after shit happens" should of been the name.
Yong thank you for not running away. Your a good guy and Yakuza is not going to stop you from giving us the news.
If this doesn't learn people to not buy Day 1, then they deserve every scam they get.
@gwp151
8 ай бұрын
That`s why you should always buy The Day After
@mememachine376
8 ай бұрын
Yes the people who are excited to buy a game the day it comes out are the problem, not the scummy devs who push them out
@rebelking_21
8 ай бұрын
@@mememachine376well we can't do shit about scummy devs. As consumers what we CAN do is not pre order and wait for reviews before the masses purchase it.
@rokkraljkolesa9317
8 ай бұрын
@@mememachine376 both are at fault
@LloydTheZephyrian
8 ай бұрын
@@rebelking_21Reviews tend to be mixed in terms of credibility.
Apologies that come with refunds are how this should ALWAYS go. I believe it's sincere when they give the money back. It may be a low bar, but I can list some studios that didn't clear it just this year.
@thefiresworddragon927
8 ай бұрын
Blizzard, Bethesda, Activision, EA…
The company tried changing their name to 'Eight Point' in order to avoid any retaliation. Disgusting!
@WolfsGamingBlog
8 ай бұрын
They didn't. Basically, to keep it short, Fntastic developed a game called The Wild Eight under publisher Hypetrain. The game hit early access and Fntastic decided to ditch it and move on to something else. Hypetrain bought the full rights to the game, and ceased all business with them in 2017. Hypetrain then decided to change the developer name from Fntastic to Eight Point the other day. Their reasoning, according to a statement given to Eurogamer, is that Hypetrain saw a wave of negative reviews for The Wild Eight that weren't about the game but rather about Fntastic. They made the call to change the developer name to curb the backlash. It was a dodgy decision because obviously from the outside it makes it look like Fntastic changed their name. However, it doesn't look like Fntastic had anything to do with the decision. Of course, doesn't mean they won't change their name or pop up again.
@charlesfuzak
8 ай бұрын
Why in the world would they change their name to distance themselves from TDB and then link it to a game people knew they were involved with? I swear people don't use common sense.
@Lenariet
8 ай бұрын
That's fake news. HypeTrain, the publisher of The Wild Eight, told Eurogamer that they changed the name of the dev on that game to distance themselves from Fntastic. The latter sold off the game to the former years ago, they aren't the dev for that game any longer and haven't suddenly gone back to it. Also take note that Radiant One and Propnight still list Fntastic as dev. Why would Fntastic only change the name on The Wild Eight if it were them? This is simply misinformation.
@doublinx2
8 ай бұрын
@@WolfsGamingBlog this really needs to be a top level comment and pinned
"We took all your money and we're not giving it back", is what they meant.
Just one correction: Hypetrain themselves changed the developer name for Wild 8 as they were sold the rights to the game by Fntastic in 2017. They did it to try and distance themselves from Fntastic who they had kept labeled as the devs for some reason, but in this one particular case it was NOT Fntastic who did a name change. That's why it only happened with Wild8 and not the other Fntastic games. It doesn't explain why they decided to use Fntastic's old developer name instead of put themselves as the developer though. This was confirmed in a Eurogamer article that was updated with the information. Hypetrain themselves are a legitimate company as they publish real games like Void Train. They were just idiotic and should have just changed the developer to themselves as soon as they acquired the game rights rather than not do anything about it for 6 years. Also, Fntastic implicitly lied about the money thing in their shutdown statement. They were clearly acting like they weren't a scam because they didn't take any money from anyone, but they DID take money from sponsors like Nvidia. It would still be a scam even if they refunded every single person who bought the game because of this.
This game should be called 'The Day Before Cancellation'.
This game is so meta they call it The Day Before. Releasing the day before they died.
The Day Before: We screwed all the players world wide Warcraft Reforged: Hold my beer
Yeah I think they were counting on being able to rip people off with an asset flip game, and then them getting picked up and noticed was really bad for them because it got too many eyes on it. If no one noticed they could have snuck in under the radar and probably gotten away with it.
@markmathisen3908
8 ай бұрын
"If it hadn't been for you meddling kids I'd have gotten away with it, too!" 😂😅
Gollum: "We thinks we are the worst game of 2023!" Skull Island Rise of Kong: "Hold my bananas!" Day Before: "Allow me to introduce myself..."
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
If we somehow manage one more just before the new year this might be the greatest worst year in gaming possibly ever. It'll be incredible.
"The day before" is when they made the game.
Literal last weeks of the year and companies and games are speedrunning to be worst game of the year. Quite a feat
@thefiresworddragon927
8 ай бұрын
Honestly, now I have the conspiracy theory thought in my mind that devs like that are doing this to try and ruin the thoughts of the majority of people in the world. I have so often seen people describe some years as "being horrible and terrible", whilst completely ignoring everything good in that year. Someone said in a video on a game released this year, and said a rough paraphrased quote "one of the few things good this year". One of the few? Where did Hi Fi Rush shadow releasing and becoming an instant competitor for GOTY, IN JANUARY, Armoured Core 6, Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Spider-Man 2, Pikmin 1, 2 and 4 coming to Switch, Super Mario RPG remaster, Metroid Prime Remastered, announcement of Paper Mario TTYD remaster (which if it's the classic combat, means Paper Mario is finally back after all these years since Sticker Shat), where did all those go? Last I checked, Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 failing was not a negative thing, it was a good thing because Blizzard got vibe checked (look up Overwatch 2 on Steam, it's rated worse than Flatout 3, which is… one of the games of all time). Two and a half horrible game releases (as I don't even consider The Day Before a video game), do not outweigh about a dozen or so positive things
"I'm sorry we didn't meet your expectations" has got to be one of the worst apologies lmao 😂😂😂. They tried to pull the rug on people and they are still taking a victim stance. Thanks for the coverage as per Yong! 👊🏿
Slight correction: when Yong says “copyright” at the beginning, what he should have said was “trademark issue.” Because the developers didn’t secure the trademark to “The Day Before” after they announced the game and it was picked up by a calendar app.
As a kid I learned that when a game seems too good to be true , it's not going to live up to expectations. One of the first games I got hyped for long ago was APB (All Points Bulletin), which looked like an online GTA.
Wasn't so much as a "dumpster fire" but more of a "dumpster inferno"... Or a "dumpsterpocalypse"
@arthurleggywulf
8 ай бұрын
I would say "dumpocalypse" but that sounds like a term for a sewage plant blowing up..
Years of blood, sweat, and tears...typing into the search bar of an asset store, and AI prompts. Clearly a difficult set of tasks.
When youre like "a cutscene, an in-game cutscene", no its not just an in-game cutscene, those are actually people spawning into the game's OPENING SCENE and falling through the floor or spawning behind the wall.
It was a classic "pump & dump". Hype it up real big, sell it, then, close up shop real quick, and, disappear with the money.
@vallejomach6721
8 ай бұрын
Disappear with what money? Steam does not pay devs instantly...you get paid by Valve 30 days AFTER the end of a calendar month. So if your game releases on the first of the month you are basically two months until you see any money. They will receive almost nothing from Steam by the time all the refunds have been processed. The only money they are likely to have gained is from Nvidia who put the game straight onto their Geforece Now platforma nd presumably stumped up cash for that to happen...and most of that's probably already been spent on getting the game to market.
Damn this is indeed the best and worst year in gaming
This year we got some crazy good games but at the same time we got some horrendously bad games. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
The fact that gamers even fell for this sorry excuse of a scam should be studied The alarms were blaring but somehow gamers still chose to blindly believe
@karthiksubramanian2279
8 ай бұрын
Exactly...i am surprised there were some people who bought this and defending this...😂
Take care of yourself, I hope you feel better. I was looking forward to your take on this. I have a sick feeling there will be more con jobs in gaming going forward. I mean, Fyre Festival is becoming a role model, or so it seems.
Imagine that a game is so bad even the in game character become self aware and fall into nothing.
"Its like a procedurally generated Starfield planet, except even worse somehow." Goddamn, the savagery
they are taking a note from Logan Paul. "I swear its not a scam, we are working on refunding the players, but rest assured this is a real game and its still being worked on."
Well not surprising scammers at their finest
I am surprised you never covered the completionist situation at least a single time in a video.
@rokkraljkolesa9317
8 ай бұрын
Yong's more of a gaming news guy, Jirard being tangentially related as someone who plays games on camera, really
@magma_fire_bagwan
8 ай бұрын
Wait what happened?
@NeoStorm247
8 ай бұрын
@@magma_fire_bagwan The charity he's been running and promoting for years was revealed to have never donated any of the money people gave them, they just sat on it all this time, lying all the while that it was being donated as people had intended.
@rokkraljkolesa9317
8 ай бұрын
@@magma_fire_bagwan tl;dw: his charity has not been sending money to charities as advertised, holding on to it instead Mutahar aka SomeOrdinaryGamer and Karl Jobst made several videos when they found that there was something fishy with them
@magma_fire_bagwan
8 ай бұрын
@@NeoStorm247 Yikes D:
I wish someone would make video explaining how these fake trailers become reality. I mean someone is playing this, arent they? Assets (working cars), environments (mall), mechanics (vaulting) are there, yet somehow none of that makes it into the game? How come? I get visual downgrades, but how is it that entire gameplay elements ONLY appear in fake trailers? Its just baffling to me that such trailers seem to be an entire side project, that has nothing to do with the game and also takes years to prepare and finish. If someone could make an eductaional video on this topic, I think it would be a great public service for the future.
I thought he said 'I am currently fighting a cult' in the opening. I was like bruh! What? Who is after you?
proud of you for fighting those cults
I'm enjoying the drama more than the actual game. Keep the drama going!
People keep calling it a scam. How is it scam? They hyped a game = Every studio does this. They promoted it and the product that launched wasn't like the promotional materials = Every studio does this. They didn't offer pre-orders = Most studios do offer pre-orders. They are having everyone refunded, regardless of playtime = Many studios won't do that. It was a god awful game, but I'm failing to see the scam, or how they behaved any differently that even AAA companies do. I think most people are just angry they fell for the hype. AGAIN.
15:28 CornField can't catch a break! I love what it's become! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was a long time coming. Anybody paying attention could see it coming way before the “Day Before” (see what I did there?).
Apparently, most of the higher ups just rebranded the company from "Fantastic" to "8-balls" or something literally a day after their supposedly bankrupt, so is clear they regret nothing and will try to pull this shit again one day, and worse of all there are people defending this putrid mess after everything...
@Lenariet
8 ай бұрын
That's fake news. HypeTrain, the publisher of The Wild Eight, told Eurogamer that they changed the name of the dev on that game to distance themselves from Fntastic. The latter sold off the game to the former years ago, they aren't the devs for that game any longer and haven't suddenly gone back to it. Also take note that Radiant One and Propnight still list Fntastic as dev. Why would Fntastic only change the name on The Wild Eight if it were them? This is simply misinformation.
Ngl, the shadow of your headset microphone makes it look like someone absolutely ruined your day with a right hook recently.
I love this quote They Released "The Day Before" and Closed "The Day After"
Anyone remember "Abandoned" for Ps5? Lol
The Pay Before (the disaster)
First thing I got was: "I'm currently fighting a cult" and thats good, fighting the good fight.
What he said: "So I am currently fighting a cold" What I heard: "So I am currently fighting a cult" I was so confused for a moment XD
What I'm WAY more shocked about...is the fact that people even wanted this game? Even if they didn't copy a thing, and that these are all just very unfortunate comparisons...who even WANTS another game that looks like yet another RE-wannabe, anyway?!
@jackpijjin4088
8 ай бұрын
I genuinely want to know how people aren't sick of generic zombie apocalypse shit anyway. Even the good games look and feel like asset flips at this point.
I don't care if assets are bought or reused, as long the game is good.
Big respect for people like you who dedicate so much of their time to calling out filthy greed and everything wrong in the gaming industry. It can’t be a pleasant thing to do day in, day out! But the gaming community sure needs channels like this one!
"It didn't meet the expectations." And who set those expectations hmmm?...
Don't get surprised if The Day Before gets the same "treatment" as The Wild Eight! That got it's owner switched from Fntastic to Eight Points. As far as I am aware, Eight Points WAS Fntastic's EARLY studio name! So get ready for a possible ROUND 2! 😂
Unbelievable. A game that was so horrible, it had been delisted four days later. Babylon's Fall went on much longer than this. Remember Babylon's Fall? Glad we could forget that game ever existed.
I hate to be That Guy, but lets be honest: most people arent going to learn shit. They're going to forget about this within a year. At most, its better to just remember the lessons from this incident and take them to heart going forward.
They should so a sequel and call it "4 days after"