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Fntastic Studio Shuts Down - The Day Before Had Over 50% Refunds, Devs Can't Afford Servers | MMORP
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Fntastic Studio Shuts Down - The Day Before Had Over 50% Refunds, Devs Can't Afford Servers | MMORPG.com
The saga of The Day Before has been put to rest? New developments have been speeding by at a mile a minute, and the developers at Fntastic have shut down the studio.
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Steam's Most Anticipated Game for Some Reason: Hold my beer.
The rest of the game doesn't exist. It's just an empty walking simulator with literally nothing to do other than shooting a stupid zombie here and there.
TheRadBrad, Youtube's most positive gamer, who has given plenty terrible games a fair chance and tried to play through them. Even he gave up after less than an hour and refunded the game. For the first time ever. Even he couldn't stomach playing the game any further.
If 40-60 dollars is a drop in the hat, it doesn't even matter to you to begin with. So who cares. For everyone else, oh well.
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2024: 47 years on the Net.
Anyone who paid money for that doesn't deserve a refund, solely as a life lesson.
The screenshot in question was taken at 11:35 CST today. For a short while TDB was rising in positive reviews, likely due to pushback from players that expected the development team to fix the game and wanted to encourage them. (Though if you look at the Steam comments many players have suspicions of bots).
At this point, with refunds rolling in and the news of the studio shutting down it stands to reason that all of that good will players attempted to provide to the team has been completely lost.
As you could imagine, Fntastic wasn't very forthcoming with review keys nor were they willing to speak with us directly - despite our efforts. We purchased a game code to review the title (or preview the title as we sometimes do in situations such as this). Luckily, we too were able to obtain a refund and recommend it for any players that have still yet to do so.
Having that said though, I do have about an hour of gameplay available, if anyone is interested in seeing my experience firsthand. I'd be happy to post it, but I think the video I've already posted of me dying during the intro cutscene, and failing to progress further because of that, speaks volumes as to where my impressions were headed anyways.
Happy posting!
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HAHA, I typically hate to relish in others misery, but the entire staff of this game top to bottom (minus the volunteers I'd never be mad at people being not being paid) deserves to rot in hell. I've previously talked about suing and/or prosecuting crap companies doing crap like this, but frankly when you shut down and run less than 4 days after launch, there is nothing to sue for. I do hope someday companies like this, that do similar things, can actually be criminally prosecuted for this. The lied repeatedly, tried to cover it up by deleting videos with supposed features, listed features in the game that were definitely not, told the public it was X type of game (survival mmo) when in fact it was an extraction shooter, and the list goes on. Textbook scam and bait and switch.
I'm happy for everyone that got a refund but question why anyone bought this steaming pile when pretty much everyone knew it was all smoke and mirrors before launch. What I find most funny is that it's overwhelmingly negative on steam with 16k negative reviews and 3900 positive. At first the my mind was blown how 3900 people could give it a good review, only to read them, and they're all people posting I GOT A REFUND!.http://twitch.tv/woetothevanquished
This isn't the first crappy game to get people to part with their money, and it won't be the last. And it isn't like that is something tied solely to video games either. I just saved a friend at work from buying one of those $600 craptastic computers off of Amazon because he wasn't aware of just how crappy it was. He isn't stupid, just not tech-savvy. Have some compassion for the uninformed, no matter if it's their own fault or not. You'll feel good inside, I promise.
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Imo we've seen pretty broken games release in pretty bad states. Maybe if they released into a proper early access when they first planned their release and let testers in they wouldn't be in this situation.
4 days of operating capital is the best they could do. They weren't prepared at all.