The Day Before is now useless, its servers closed to gamers from as we speak, January 22.
Servers for The Day Before, some of the controversial and catastrophic video games in current reminiscence, shut down simply 45 days after the sport launched in Early Entry.
Writer Mytona had signalled the tip of The Day Before, with developer Fntastic allegedly closed down.
Final month, The Day Before grew to become not purchasable. Now, whereas these with The Day Before nonetheless clinging on to their hard-drives can launch the sport and create a personality, IGN has verified that no servers seem upon search in any area.
Final month, Mytona mentioned all Steam gamers could be refunded mechanically. “We remorse to tell you that the event firm Fntastic has formally ceased operations, and because of this The Day Before shall be retired and the servers shall be turned off on January 22, 2024,” the assertion learn.
“As beforehand communicated, Mytona, because the investor, has been working in collaboration with Steam to facilitate refunds for all recreation purchasers. For any gamers that haven’t already had their buy refunded, Steam wil now proactively refund all remaining gamers.”
The Day Before was as soon as Steam’s most wishlisted recreation earlier than an odd collection of occasions prompted followers to develop extra and extra suspicious and involved. Fntastic was accused of ripping off different video games like The Division, Name of Responsibility, The Final of Us, Cyberpunk 2077, Grand Theft Auto 5, and extra, on separate events, for instance, and a trademark dispute difficult issues too.
In November 2023, seven months after it promised no extra delays, Fntastic delayed The Day Before once more, this time indefinitely although its PC model would arrive in Early Entry a month later. This launch didn’t go nicely, as gamers flagged that basically nothing Fntastic promised was truly within the recreation.
And at last, simply 4 days after launch, when the participant depend had dropped 90% and The Day Before entered Steam’s worst 10 video games of all time record, Fntastic introduced it was closing down.
In a uncommon IGN 1/10 evaluate, we mentioned: “The Day Before is definitely one of many worst video games I’ve ever performed, to the purpose the place I’m afraid to proceed operating it on my PC — and when you didn’t handle to strive it, you’ll be able to depend your self as one of many fortunate ones.”
The Day Before goes down in historical past as a high-profile “rip-off” online game. It prompted such a distrust with Steam customers that Palworld developer Pocketpair felt compelled to insist its new recreation wasn’t a rip-off.
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