"Creating games is an incredibly challenging endeavor" Did they think the game was going to make itself?💀

I like how they spent 5 years developing the game but only when they release it do they realise it’s not financially possible anymore lmao

Makes you really appreciate how Hello Games handled the disastrous launch of No Man's Sky. They made a fat bag from that game and could've taken the money and run. But instead, they went radio silent, buckled in, and made the game an absolute banger -- everything it promised, and so much more. Obviously it'd be so much more preferable if it was like that at launch, but at least they showed integrity and an actual desire to make a game and not just a quick buck.

The audacity for the company to literally say shit happens is insane lmaoo

Today's Fact: The oldest known musical instrument is a bone flute dating back to the Upper Paleolithic period, over 40,000 years ago.

It's important to remember not just the name of the failed studio Fntastic, but the names of the people who conducted the failures. Eduard and Aisen Gotovtsev are the founders of Fntastic, and it would be a disservice to all if public knowledge forgot that a company is run by people.

Hearing this makes me appreciate the no mans sky devs more, we thought they were a scam for not having the features they mentioned in their interview but they kept their promises in the end.

The fact I have had white bread last longer than this studio had is insane to me

Turned out to be a vampire game. The light of day killed it

The craziest thing is that they actually charged money to play the game. I was expecting it to be free to play considering it had no actual direction.

Damn. I respected Sean Murray a lot more now. Kudos to him and Hello Games for enduring lots of criticism and being able to flourish.

The worst part is that theyre still walking away with millions of dollars. They sold 200k copies and only 92k people refunded last i saw. So just multiply the remaining by $40

Dude I feel like someone with no game development experience could with 5 years of actual hard work learn to make a game much better than this one! 😂

"Please do not underestimate our work." Brother, we overestimated it. I thought it would at least outlive a carton of unrefrigerated milk.

The fact they shut down to avoid a law suit I’m guessing. I really hope the lawsuit still goes through and these people get there money back. This sets a dangerous precedent for gaming

I’d highly recommend KiraTV’s videos on this “company” and their shady dealings. There’s so much more they tried to get away with that he constantly sheds light on. This conclusion is almost foretold given their past.

This game was meant to show you what a video game would look like if it was made in a post-apocalyptic environment.

I saw this theory on Twitter: "Thanks solely to the hype generated by its (plagiarized) dream trailers, in just 4 days the game sold over 200,000 units, including only 90,000 refunds. At $39.99 a game, this represents sales of around $4.4 million. That's $3.5 million pocketed in 4 days, even after Steam's 20% commission. Even though everyone had warned the public from the start that this was a Scam."

0:25 it is not a editing mistake its charlie giving us time to self reflect by surprising us with our own reflection through a black screen. so poetic.

Charlie citing Merriam-Webster is exactly like the scene in Avengers: Endgame where all The Avengers return to fight Thanos and his army.

It blows my mind how companies think they can just delete/private everything and pretend like nothing ever happened, this has never worked, ever.

Fnatics' other game "Propnight" is actually dead. You launch the game and it never connects and there is no way to play offline. Perfect example of what we need offline versions of games so when the Devs vanish overnight we can still play the games we PAID for.

I wish someone makes a game similar to the trailers and says something like “this isn’t just fantastic, this is real” in the actual gameplay trailer.

Everyone gon be searching like guard dogs for em 💀

The fact that so many people actually bought this shovelware is proof this will keep happening. The consumers won’t learn

This is the literal definition of bankruptcy speedrun any% WR

It's called "theft by deception". When you lie and mislead someone in order to get money or items from them. This is exactly what they did. They'll be sued into oblivion.

With games like we have now coming out made by single devs with passion, that are way better than AAA companies are pushing out the door these days, there should be absolutely no reason a game should come out like this of there's at least 2 people behind it

The only conclusion I can draw is that they did originally set out to make an MMO, but then early on in development they started realizing how monumentally challenging an MMO actually is to create, so they pivoted to an extraction shooter without telling anyone and hoped nobody would care.

The fact they even threw something together in such a short period of time makes me think they had this planned out from the very beginning

Yeah, it was a surprise that we got a game after all, but as Charlie said, we weren't expecting for them to release new patches. Fun fact, they are using the "we didn't do crowdfundings, or took money from players" card because that's what they did with their first game, it was crowdfunded. And yes, only a couple of months after the early access release they abandoned the game.

I feel like not only they didn’t get a ton of big investors, they also had a decent bit of skeptics when the first trailer dropped and the longer the time went on more skeptics kept growing. That definitely I feel added to the money issue.

I don’t really play it but No Man Sky Developers deserve huge respect they actually apologised and made the game they promised a few years later rather than shutting their entire studios down and they were looking the other way and it payed off. :)

Someone on the steam comments had posted all the unreal asset packs that made up the game either hardly or not changed at all. It was a quick asset flip thrown together.

Just want to say Charlie thank you for being a epic dude and reporting on these situations i just want to say thanks man love to see a new vid from you always makes my day love you bro keep doing what your doing

This is the perfect opportunity for some studio to make an ACTUAL open world zombie game and call it “The Day After”

They were probably betting it would sell at least half as many copies in their wishlist but its so odd they pulled the plug so fast, you'd think they would at least wait a month to ensure at least a few thousand more sales, maybe sales fell like 99% by the 3rd day so they thought it was time to jump ship?

They used the fake trailers to generate excitement knowing that a large portion of people would buy the game with the actual real gameplay sight unseen regardless. And it was a genius scumbag tactic that worked all the way to the bank

"I have never seen a company give up this quickly" Ever heard of The Culling 2? Barely lasted a single day.

This game has to live. It has to live as a reminder of this situation. Crack it, pirate it and keep it around, to not let any company to get away with this again.

Who would've thought that the company with an extensive history of abandoning games has, yet again, abandoned a game. Like people had a whole YEAR of everyone warning them "do not buy this game, it is a scam" and yet they still bought into it. I do not feel bad for them.

I've been watching TheRadBrad for about 11 years now, and this is the first time I remember him refunding a game.

"We didn't take any money BEFORE we sold you the faulty product therefore we are not a scam"

Releases game, generates millions of dollars, "Ohhhh we ran out of money in 4 days... bye!", proceeds to wipe existence from the internet.

they really saw mobile games ads and said "hey let's do that with a real game"

When I hear the word "fantastic" I think of the character named Fantastic from Fallout New Vegas. Just like Fntastic, he is a scammer that pretends to be competent in order to get trusted enough to be put in charge of something he has no right touching. The developers of The Day Before definitely also have a theoretical degree in physics

I remember reading that only about 1 in 30 people leave a review on steam. That means Scam Game potentially sold 633k copies. Thats a lot of money to cut and run with

I like that you bought a cameo for your sponsor xD most people that get sponsored only use words and editing. This shows you quiet like sponsors and you're serious about them! well done.

Nobody caught this 1:32 What said depressed the heck outta me, "We really wanted to release new patches to reveal the full potential of the game, but unfortunately, we don't have the funding to continue the work" Direct quote from Fantastic. Horrifying yet common place, game incomplete at launch and AAA game studios unwilling or unable to promise anyone a full game on release, and expect people to buy a broken game only to fund them further so they actually feel like finishing it. This is not ok, anyone who doesn't care about this doesn't care about video games.

You know what's crazy? The completionist threatening to sue two other youtubers because they found out his team was holding charity funds

Even the early screenshots were stolen right off of The Division in terms of shots😂

Reminds me of that South Park episode when Kyle puts his money in a bank "and it's gone." 😂

Without the title, I already know what game they are talking about 💀

Unbelievable how fast they turn ship and hide their tails once they come under fire.

The intro of this video was pure, scathing poetry

“A day before” yup definitely made the day before the release date

Now, I'm no game publisher, but I've heard that getting money from Steam sales isn't instant. On top of that, Steam was extremely generous and letting everyone who had the game refund it as the thing was an obvious cash grab and was a very public disaster... I think they always intended to take the money and bounce, but something behind the scenes has happened with Steam and they aren't likely to cash out. So that's something at least.

The game was truly made the Day Before...

It doesn’t even deserve to be called its name, just Scam Game

All I can hope for this game is somebody manages to crack it, share it across the internet, an independent studio flips it, and turns it into a masterpiece somehow Which will probably never happen

there needs to be something put in place for companies that are just lying in trailers before release even if its to do with how it looks graphics while then downgrading on release.

It would be funny if the source code leaks, and a bunch of people fix the entire game and easily make it look like the fake trailers and end up being really good

The most unwanted collector's item ever

The company is actually pronounced 'Funtastic,' btw, and their game Prop Night was actually something of a junior juggernaut in its niche area of horror asym for a time, largely because of the work put in to reinvent the game when it got stale and keep it alive on the part of their dev team. Not sure where the ball was dropped with The Day Before

Shoutout to that 1 person who didn’t believe in them. That person is the real MVP. They called it.

I will say Propnight was super fun when it first came out. It's still enjoyable now. Coming from Propnight the writing was on the wall that they could never do what they promised in The Day Before.

"the day before" sums up the amount of effort that went into it

The fact that they didn't just wait until the holidays means sales must have REALLY plummeted

This whole video is a scam without Charlie’s beautiful smile

Just wanna drop this here, they have gone through some of their old games and changed the dev name from FNTASTIC to Eight Points, so they're trying to slip away under a new name.

This is the kind of thing that makes words change definitions

This makes me wonder how Star Citizen will go...

God I look forward to this every time I get off

My bf was pissed. He told me to smack him the next time he even utters the word "pre-order". Luckily, the game crashed when he attempted to change the resolution- He took that as a sign before the 2 hour window expired.

lol they tweeted back to someone "this is our first big experience. shit happens" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love Opera GX, even when Eric Andre pops up and scares the living sh*t out of me

But at least we got to meet the legend known as Jeff thanks to this game!

i bet some freelancers signed that contract and now will have to willfully disengage that memory from their minds. i feel you, godspeed friends

If Charlie had a documentary show, I would watch every single episode of it.

If you ever played the “The Wild Eight”, you would of seen this coming from 2017.

This is like the Fyre Festival of gaming, just a perfect storm of ridiculousness and hilarity.

You can also count on game companies being greedy piles of slop, these companies that dont actually care about games need to go out of business.

Been waiting for this

I watched a yt video explaining that this studio is actually a group of ppl that have done this a couple time with different games. They hype a game up drop it being halfway done then they dip. Then go again with the same scheme.

"Please do not call us scammers" -The scammers

been waiting all day for this vid man

They shut down before anyone could make it to the courthouse😂😂😂

Eric Andre in the Opera ad, GG.

You know you're in for a certified banger when a video starts with a definition by Mirriam Webster. It feels like I'm just sitting in for a Community College freshman debate panel.

I’ve been waiting for this since I heard the news

The insane thing was Propnight was a bit unfinished on release, but it was a decent game.

Speedrun how to make a game somehow worse than King Kong and Gollum before 2023 ends

Charlie should've visited the discord last night when it was announced the company was shutting down. Thr majority of moderators left very quickly, people pinging the last dev in the server, trolling him. Hell there were 200+ people in the discord voice chat and it was insane

I can’t for “what went wrong with day before ?”

I think hamburgers and cheeseburgers work well with fries.

I could see this video coming miles away.

Dude I had a dream that Charlie knew ASL and signed while talking in all of his videos 😭 it was really cool

there seriously need to be a class action lawsuit against them over this scam, they need to be hit *HARD*

It's gaming's Fyre festival. Can't wait for the documentary

When he's serious, he's serious look at him