Fntastic, the allegedly shut down developer of The Day Before, has claimed its controversial and catastrophic sport suffered from a hate marketing campaign in a weird assertion revealed on-line.
Fntastic, which supposedly closed its doorways just some days after The Day Before launched on December 7, 2023, took to X/Twitter to handle “misinformation” revealed on-line surrounding the sport’s growth.
Answering its personal query of, “Why do they are saying that the launched sport will not be the identical as that in the trailers, and why was the sport closed?”, Fntastic claimed it “applied every thing proven in the trailers” earlier than admitting it did not embrace some “minor options” like parkour.
It then likened The Day Before to “the experiment the place you are requested to rely pink objects in a room after which recall the blue ones”, saying “the detrimental bias instilled by sure bloggers making a living on hate affected perceptions of the sport”.
The Day Before, which was promised for years to be an open-world, survival massively multiplayer on-line sport, emerged as an extraction shooter riddled with points. “This wholly disappointing on-line zombie survival shooter accommodates basically nothing of what was initially promised over time main as much as its disastrous Early Entry launch,” IGN mentioned in a uncommon 1/10 assessment.
Fntastic claimed opinions improved over launch weekend because it addressed preliminary bugs, however “the hate marketing campaign had already inflicted important harm”. In actuality, nevertheless, The Day Before’s numbers dipped daily and by December 11 it had entered Steam’s 10 worst reviewed video games of all time checklist.