"The Day Before" makers Fntastic are shutting down.

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• ComputerSagtNein@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are scammers and nobody should feel sorry for them.

  I bet even this was planned from the beginning. Get some money out of the “game” and then just disappear.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The amount of people who don’t understand how this is a scam is sad. It’s not about the pocket change from steam sales (which they may get or may not at all), it’s about living for a few years on investor money and doing nothing (or working your own business). And they did release a game at the end, so the investors cannot easily sue them for fraud, as they csn just put their hands up and say they tried, it just didn’t work out.

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  • avater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Get some money out of the “game” and then just disappear.

    Is this even possible with the way steam handles the payment of developers? If I remember correctly you get the money at the end of the month and they are also saving a certain part for possible refunds.

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    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The few people at the top of the studio paid themselves a juicy salary from investors’ money for 5 years, then released a Unity asset pack they bought for a few hundred bucks as finished end product.

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Everyone knew it would be a pump and dump

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• Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That was fast. Their claim of 5 years in development is histerical.

  The city map is a bought asset for a few hundred bucks. The survival mechanics were a bought kit too.

  If you cut out marketing you could build that type of asset flip in weeks to months.

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  • Rose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not even sure they paid for those assets. Asset piracy is a thing.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ruthless update from Day-Z devs: Image

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  • illi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funilly enough I had no idea DayZ is still around and also actually launched at one point?

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    • GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Standalone is still a bit janky, but provides a fun experience on console

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  • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    dead game

    damn that is brutal

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    • Talaraine@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      you can say that again

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  • Zellith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TIL Dayz isn't in early access any more.

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow, that was fast. Usually you’d get an apology post and a promise things would get better before a studio admits it failed.

  From the post it sounds like they could’ve been swimming in debt and can’t pay for any more development.

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  • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apparently they were going to make an attempt, but life comes at you fast

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We have known for 2 years that it was going to be like this, the surprising part is that it was actually launched.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YFJEMyPyHA

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• Uninformed_Tyler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Under promise, over deliver. The other way around only works if you’re trying to capitalize on hype.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, just promote what you have. You don’t have to ‘over deliver’, for some reason hiding away the great stuff you made. Just don’t over hype.

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    • Uninformed_Tyler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is not a story about a company failing because they hid product capabilities from their customers and were underappreciated because people didn’t realize how good their product was. This is a story of a company over promising in their marketing and failing to deliver.

      I stand by what I said in the context of this story, which is what we are discussing. if you don’t know if you can deliver a feature don’t put it out there that you’re trying to make the feature. If customers know you’re working on something and then you can’t deliver they feel like they lost that thing. If they don’t know that you’re working on it and you pull it out of the hat before lunch or even in a post launch update everyone is excited because they feel like they got something extra for free. Obviously on launch you should explain the full capabilities of your product. But again that is not the context of this story.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You do realize this was a scam?

    With some different outcome scenarios for sure, but all of the included some dudes living on salaries payed by investors for a few years, then fucking off into the sunset with a variable amount of pocket change from the day 1 sales.

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    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is there a source for any of this? Speculation is one thing, but Ive seen people claiming this was made in both unity and unreal, and that some assets are bought, then all assets were bought, that they were only working for 2 years not 5, etc etc etc

      Like I know it looks scammy, but whats the hard line people used to actually determine that?

      And theres got to be some hard line, since the dayZ team mocked them for this. I dont expect another company to mock a fellow game maker shuttering unless there was harder evidence that they were scammers beyond internet guesswork.

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• Lanusensei87@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a disaster.

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• Lunar@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That sucks, but the studio was very misleading about The Day Before.

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• Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sad to see another dev forced to close.

  I admit I had never heard of them nor their games.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really not upset about it at all. They’ve lied to people, mislead everyone, gave false or incomplete descriptions of the product, and then released a horribly buggy asset dump, that doesn’t look anything like the pre-rendered clip they’ve shown forever ago

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    • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, I see. As I said, I had never heard of them or their games before today, so I was missing the context.

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• mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The game blows but this review has a lot of replay value if you haven’t seen it already

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=qMh7lv8wmHs

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  • Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s crazy to me is that the game looks as good as it does on a surface level. It doesn’t immediately stand out as a “This is a garbage game that is going to lead to a studio closure”, at least until you see the person actually play the game.

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    • cradac@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think we’re going to see a lot more of those types of games in the future. It’s pretty easy to make a decent looking game with UE 5 - still doesn’t give it any soul though.

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be fair, it seems like they've made 5 games and 4/5 weren't very good.

  Attachment: media.kbin.social ↗

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• GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe they should’ve crowdfunded and did preorders

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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man who could have seen this coming.

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