The Day Before Was Never Tested, Employees Worked For Free, One Found Out it Was an MMO From a Trail

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The Day Before came, failed, and is now dead. A new report details the mishandling of the game's development, from repeated, erratic overhauls, the infamous volunteer labor, fining employees for mistakes, and learning the game was an MMO from the trailers.

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Tiller

Sad part is with a world full of dumb people they will still find some suckers for their next game.

Hengist

Tiller said:

Sad part is with a world full of dumb people they will still find some suckers for their next game.

Agreed, what's scary though is I suspect they'll find investors for it as well. In my industry, I'm constantly amazed to see businesses that I know aren't run well raise absurd amounts of money because they pitch it to the right people with the right buzzwords.

Scot

Hengist said:

Tiller said:

Sad part is with a world full of dumb people they will still find some suckers for their next game.

Agreed, what's scary though is I suspect they'll find investors for it as well. In my industry, I'm constantly amazed to see businesses that I know aren't run well raise absurd amounts of money because they pitch it to the right people with the right buzzwords.

Todays buzzwords are Survival and Cozy, it can't be long before we have our first Survival Cozy Sandbox on the way.

Mallyx

Scot said:

Hengist said:

Tiller said:

Sad part is with a world full of dumb people they will still find some suckers for their next game.

Agreed, what's scary though is I suspect they'll find investors for it as well. In my industry, I'm constantly amazed to see businesses that I know aren't run well raise absurd amounts of money because they pitch it to the right people with the right buzzwords.

Todays buzzwords are Survival and Cozy, it can't be long before we have our first Survival Cozy Sandbox on the way.

It's called Palworld

KroxMalon

They should be sanctioned against creating a new business and IP for some years. Disgusting behaviour which only goes against gaming and it's craft.

Scot

Mallyx said:

Scot said:

Hengist said:

Tiller said:

Sad part is with a world full of dumb people they will still find some suckers for their next game.

Agreed, what's scary though is I suspect they'll find investors for it as well. In my industry, I'm constantly amazed to see businesses that I know aren't run well raise absurd amounts of money because they pitch it to the right people with the right buzzwords.

Todays buzzwords are Survival and Cozy, it can't be long before we have our first Survival Cozy Sandbox on the way.

It's called Palworld

Is there enough survival in it for that? Maybe, but my impression was cozy sandbox with combat.

Ryukan

And these two a$$hat brothers have the gall to announce they are going to make another game. They need to be tarred and feathered and carried out of the gaming industry on logs.

Tiller

Scot said:

Hengist said:

Tiller said:

Sad part is with a world full of dumb people they will still find some suckers for their next game.

Agreed, what's scary though is I suspect they'll find investors for it as well. In my industry, I'm constantly amazed to see businesses that I know aren't run well raise absurd amounts of money because they pitch it to the right people with the right buzzwords.

Todays buzzwords are Survival and Cozy, it can't be long before we have our first Survival Cozy Sandbox on the way.

Tags already been used

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658040/I_Am_Future_Cozy_Apocalypse_Survival/

olepi

We'll see if they learn anything from this mistake. If the "third time is a charm" rule holds, they will come out with a very ambitious huge game, thinking they know what they are doing now. And fail again.

If they come out with a scaled down basic game plan, it might indicate they know enough to try to do the bare minimum and might actually succeed.

Angrakhan

Wow! Well, thank God for my development career (not gaming) because if you told me I was going to work for free I'd tell you that you could pound sand. In my 25+ year career as a developer I've been involuntarily out of work for 2 weeks in that period. If you're even decent at that line of work you can find a decent paying and often very well paying job. I haven't worked "crunch time" in years. Sure there's the occasional midnight deployment that goes sideways, but I don't put in more than 40-45 hours per week on any sort of regular basis. Why people bend over backwards to work in the video game industry is truly beyond me. Do they think they'll end up being some kind of rock star with fans lining up at conventions to bow down before them? Trust me when I say whatever 'fame' is available isn't worth it. Building software for business for sure isn't sexy. Building data entry screens, running business logic, and generating reports isn't exactly something you use as your opener with some girl you want to meet unless maybe she's in the same industry. However, the pay is solid, the jobs steady, and the work/life balance very reasonable.

Play games, don't build them.

(Yes, I realize someone has to build the games if we're going to play them, but YOU don't have to build them.)

Anyway, I wouldn't get involved with either of these jokers professionally or otherwise.

Sovrath

Angrakhan said:

Wow! Well, thank God for my development career (not gaming) because if you told me I was going to work for free I'd tell you that you could pound sand. In my 25+ year career as a developer I've been involuntarily out of work for 2 weeks in that period. If you're even decent at that line of work you can find a decent paying and often very well paying job. I haven't worked "crunch time" in years. Sure there's the occasional midnight deployment that goes sideways, but I don't put in more than 40-45 hours per week on any sort of regular basis. Why people bend over backwards to work in the video game industry is truly beyond me. Do they think they'll end up being some kind of rock star with fans lining up at conventions to bow down before them? Trust me when I say whatever 'fame' is available isn't worth it. Building software for business for sure isn't sexy. Building data entry screens, running business logic, and generating reports isn't exactly something you use as your opener with some girl you want to meet unless maybe she's in the same industry. However, the pay is solid, the jobs steady, and the work/life balance very reasonable.

Play games, don't build them.

(Yes, I realize someone has to build the games if we're going to play them, but YOU don't have to build them.)

Anyway, I wouldn't get involved with either of these jokers professionally or otherwise.

I suppose it's sort of like certain careers in the arts. Actors, Singers, etc will oftentimes do work for far less if nothing in order to build up a resume, experience, get noticed, etc.

Visual artists will sometimes do the same thing.

usually it's because there is so much competition that to get anything is a "thing." I imagine in some cases the same can be said of game developers.

Scot

Tiller said:

Scot said:

Hengist said:

Tiller said:

Sad part is with a world full of dumb people they will still find some suckers for their next game.

Agreed, what's scary though is I suspect they'll find investors for it as well. In my industry, I'm constantly amazed to see businesses that I know aren't run well raise absurd amounts of money because they pitch it to the right people with the right buzzwords.

Todays buzzwords are Survival and Cozy, it can't be long before we have our first Survival Cozy Sandbox on the way.

Tags already been used

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658040/I_Am_Future_Cozy_Apocalypse_Survival/

Should I be surprised? It had to happen, what I am waiting for now then is a "survival cozy World of" game. Who says those tanks and battleships can't be cozy?

Quizzical

Well of course it was tested.  Perhaps not tested nearly enough, but it takes a lot of testing just to get a program to build.  Even if you have a game that reliably crashes within five seconds of launching it, it took a lot of testing to get it to that point.

Scot

Quizzical said:

Well of course it was tested.  Perhaps not tested nearly enough, but it takes a lot of testing just to get a program to build.  Even if you have a game that reliably crashes within five seconds of launching it, it took a lot of testing to get it to that point.

Stop being reasonable about this, people are venting!

Neoyoshi

Shocking.

The fact that people keep having to make pseudo-investigational pieces just to explain what was pretty damn obvious from the jump(least to me it was), shows how many people either convinced themselves to live in this illusionary world created by amateurs pretending to be game devs, or people just not give enough of a shit because ...desperation motivates fraud and ill intentions.