The Day Before was once the most wanted game on Steam, but development has been overshadowed by disagreements and legal disputes. A month after the game’s demise and the studio’s closure, the developers released a statement blaming Twitch streamers for the failure.
What is the current situation with The Day Before? On January 22, the lights were turned off in the scandal game: The servers were shut down less than one and a half months after release – certainly a sad news for the one remaining active player.
But now, more than a month after the disastrous launch and the studio’s closure, the developers of The Day Before suddenly speak up again. In a statement published on January 24 on the official X account of Fntastic, they blame content creators for the game’s failure (via 3D Juegos).
The colleagues from GameStar have extensively discussed The Day Before in a talk and even spoke with a lawyer about the alleged “scam of the year”.
The promised features were all there, you just don’t remember
What do the developers say? In their statement, the creators of the scandal game once again insist that they have been working “hard and honestly” on The Day Before for 5 years. The team has given “100% of themselves” to make the game a success.
Allegations that the finished game did not match the trailers and was more of a kind of extraction shooter than a survival MMO are denied by the studio. “We’ve included everything shown in the trailers, from house furnishings to a detailed world to off-road vehicles.”
Only some “minor features” were removed at launch due to bugs, according to Fntastic. However, the missing features should be included in the full release.
Why then did the game fail? The developers have a clear answer: It is the mean content creators from Twitch and YouTube who are to blame. Some “bloggers” earned a lot of money by spreading untruths about the game with sensationalist titles from the beginning, according to the statement.
Due to the original popularity of “The Day Before”, this led to a veritable gold rush among content creators, who misled potential players, according to Fntastic.
You played the game yourself and can hardly remember all the great features? Well, it’s also the fault of the numerous Twitch streamers and YouTubers who spoke negatively about The Day Before. They caused negative prejudices among players and shifted their focus.
In fact, the reviews had already improved over the first weekend after launch, after fixing some bugs, according to Fntastic. The developers also claim to have received messages from players who felt betrayed by the “bloggers” and rated the game positively.
They thank these players for their support – perhaps this will also help with the new project that the studio founders are allegedly already planning.
