The Day Before - A Scam To Remember
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Here's how The Day Before became the Fyre Festival of videogames.
00:00 Intro
01:21 Announcement
05:30 The Delay and the 'volunteers'
09:52 Going Intercontinental
12:12 The Name
16:14 The Gameplay (and the plagiarism)
20:19 The days before The Day Before
24:17 The Day Of
28:30 I played it (so you don't have to)
33:18 The Day After
36:01 The Rug Pull
40:47 The Last Of It
Video written and voiced by Ralph P, edited by Austin B.
#Review #TheDayBefore #Scam
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@8butsideways295 5 ай бұрын
Shit post up is so nostalgic i love it Don't really want games to fail but love to see scams fail
@noheartfourteeneightyeight 5 ай бұрын
i think you meant to title the video, "The Completionist, a scam to remember"
@SecularTranshumanist 5 ай бұрын
I don't think that Shadow Gambit developer Mimimi closed because of poor sales, as I understood, they just wanted to move on to other things. I bought Shadow Gambit full price btw and didn't regret it...everything Pirate themed I am always down for...except for Skull & Bones...if it were FTP I would take a look at it, but I don't pay full price for a DOA GAAS.
@stevenpaniagua8463 5 ай бұрын
You know who I feel sorry for.. Undead Lab making State of Decay 3 cause the original promise of The Day Before was basically what they were building and it makes me wonder if the reason we haven't seen it recently was because they saw the original promises of The Day Before and went back to the drawing board. Thinking they would have to at least meet the same level of standard that The Day Before was promising to even be able to compete.
@dianaberlin4767 5 ай бұрын
Why not play a little more avatar since you love it so much 😂😂😂 🤡🤑
@H-ME2003 5 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Players were forming search parties for zombies because there were just so few of them on the map.
@faizalf119 5 ай бұрын
Imagine a zombie movie like that. Just a bunch of people collecting the small remaining zombies left and display them like a zoo
@faizalf119 5 ай бұрын
Imagine a zombie movie like that. Just a bunch of people collecting the small remaining zombies left and display them like a zoo
@Jinisinsane 5 ай бұрын
Edgy dramatic husky male voice: Maybe we are the real monsters.
@scottjones845 5 ай бұрын
For real??? Wow. That's like the opposite of Days Gone. We're gonna find out in like 6 months that this was a cover up money laundering scheme organized and executed by the Paul brothers. Lol bet
@poopsymcloopsy 5 ай бұрын
@@Jinisinsaneslap a blue and orange poster with the male leading actor holding a gun and staring blankly into the distance with a faded out profile of the leading woman's face in the background looking like she's about to either sneeze or cum on that and you've got yourself a bargain bin Netflix original on your hands. Just remember to start the movie with a text crawl making the text crawl noise letting us know the name, location and time of some burning city in the bottom right hand corner with the male lead talking like he just gargled lactic acid saying something like "it wasn't always like this..."/"nobody could have seen this coming...". Without these vital setting setter lines I would have no idea that I'm looking at New York City Time Square (an obscure location) and that it wasn't built with massive fire filled holes in every building and that there isn't a professional corpse spreader spreading corpses professionally, rather it was dying hobiests dying amateurishly wherever they so happen to cease living. Edit: I forgot to add that the opening lore dump should end with the male lead saying "So after all that, what do we do? Well, there's only one thing we can do... Fight back!" Then imagine dragons starts playing over slow motion opening credits that show people fighting zombies with like crowbars and glass shivs because in the US there is certainly no better kind of weapon to use scattered around in an abundance that outmatches our population. Nope. Nothing. Zombies come and everyone just starts making leather wrap handles for railroad spikes. Only option. Only one.
@REfan001 5 ай бұрын
"shit happens" is absolutely going to become an iconic line from gaming history
@puchingd5007 5 ай бұрын
it already was iconic since appeared in forest gump hahaha its just so way out of place for a game developer to say that like if it was something casual
@CommissarMitch 5 ай бұрын
Up there with EA with their Player Choice rant or what it was.
@jamesridge7982 5 ай бұрын
It just works
@no_opinion1065 5 ай бұрын
Do you guys not have phones?
@KingofAwesomness14 5 ай бұрын
@@no_opinion1065 oh that bullshit was so stupid.
@5PctJuice 5 ай бұрын
One of the easiest ways to spot a lie is if someone tries to answer a random question you never asked and gives way too many specific details no one cared about.
@xaixn. 5 ай бұрын
the politician special
@HowToChangeName 5 ай бұрын
The art of bullshit
@AlexMourning5635 5 ай бұрын
I'm autistic so I just do that accidentally lmao
@5PctJuice 5 ай бұрын
@@AlexMourning5635 Same, it's a struggle lol
@artos9406 5 ай бұрын
the easiest way to spot a lie is to check if someone is russian
@Avgsharkenjoyer 5 ай бұрын
"most wishlisted game on steam" i didnt realize i lived under a rock, i never even heard of this game
@JBrander 5 ай бұрын
for real. I only heard about it AFTER it launched all the people started saying it was a huge scam
@NoobPCGamer1267 3 ай бұрын
I just know this game existed today, how dare i call myself a steam user
@drakeredgrave6747 3 ай бұрын
Same
@williek08472 3 ай бұрын
I only heard about it when it launched
@just_tired701 2 ай бұрын
Same.
@mkiller1001 5 ай бұрын
I feel like I was the only person who never heard about this game before this whole drama started.
@BungieStudios 5 ай бұрын
Same. It’s not that bad. I bought it before it gets delisted.
@WinterisCruel 5 ай бұрын
@@BungieStudiosIf by “not that bad” you mean the game I feel bad for your standards.
@fuckinliveinsin 5 ай бұрын
@@BungieStudios you are a.... you know what you're really are... and you're proud about it SMH
@generalalduin9548 5 ай бұрын
I swear thus always happens to me. Im always missing the drama until its right at the end
@15thCrypt 5 ай бұрын
@@generalalduin9548You probably just saw stuff in passing. I had no idea what this game was then I saw some footage from videos like this and was like "oh I think I saw some of this a year ago". So I basically saw a game, didnt feel interested in it I guess, and it never really hit my radar. All these people talk about how obvious red flags are and Im thinking "I didnt see half of these videos or developer statements" If I was interested I wouldve done research (I always wanna make sure something is worth the money first, never been one to buy on impulse) and probably figure it out but as it stands this is a massive news story I had to be told about by a friend first before deciding to look up articles about the disaster
@shifterzx 5 ай бұрын
The most bizarre thing is seeing people actually paid money despite all the red flags and obvious scam that it was.
@KABLAMMATS 5 ай бұрын
You underestimate the average gamer's intelligence
@Naz-xk6hq 5 ай бұрын
@@KABLAMMATSdon’t you mean overestimate.
@TheCrewExpendable 5 ай бұрын
Three possibilities: 1.) Gen Z and Alpha are soft and never had the experience of wasting all their birthday/Christmas/holiday money on a bad game as a kid and just having to deal with it. This will be that experience for them. For me it was Superman 64. 2.) Some gamers are just that dumb and get what they deserve (you know the type. They are the ones who always have the most ignorant, obnoxious takes). 3.) It became a meme game and people were buying for the lols/to make content about.
@jam8539 5 ай бұрын
@@TheCrewExpendable 4) most people dont look at news lol
@seanplaysgames2551 5 ай бұрын
i saw this a mile away all the way back when ppl thought this game isnt real
@TheSurgePhoenix 5 ай бұрын
You know, at the end of this video it makes me appreciate what No Man's Sky became. It is literally the antithesis of The Day Before in pretty much every way
@Julian-rt9qs 5 ай бұрын
that was one that had huge hype, fell well short early on, and has since been revamped and buffed up big time right?
@TheSurgePhoenix 5 ай бұрын
@@Julian-rt9qs That's right. It started off huge and empty with pretty much no substance but has since grown into a respectable space sandbox game
@captain_awesome2134 5 ай бұрын
Exactly Hello Games could've been like the Day Before devs and just took the money and ran. But no, they hunkered down and got to work making the game better, and they're still working
@mrziiz6893 5 ай бұрын
@@captain_awesome2134It proves that passion is what makes good games, see Bethesda for an example of the opposite end of the spectrum. Basically infinite time and money yet a critical lack of passion that shows through on most of their products
@Zodroo_Tint 5 ай бұрын
The reason there are scammers in the industry is because of the success of games like no mans sky, the only difference is these guys gave up. But both developer team was dishonest.
@prestiboi 4 ай бұрын
The craziest part for me was the Discord. It was a literal NUCLEAR meltdown of their discord. Staff were quiting on the spot, switching teams and calling the game out, till the point they created there own voice channels and text channels to keep 'elections for the best mod' because he switched sides, was so so so funny.
@merucrypoison296 4 ай бұрын
ratio + yb better + cringe
@mysanity_islow 3 ай бұрын
@@merucrypoison296I mean really does anyone care about a heluva boss wannabe on the internet with a typo on his name? I think not.
@merucrypoison296 3 ай бұрын
@@mysanity_islow you fell off
@mysanity_islow 3 ай бұрын
@@merucrypoison296 cool I'd love that
@timberwolfmountaineer873 2 ай бұрын
Literal NUCLEAR meltdown, huh? I hope everyone was stacked on their anti-rad pills.
@LarryLovesTech 5 ай бұрын
I was dying at the part where the developer was asked if they were going to add melee and they said "we're considering it" LMAO!!
@vitoc8454 5 ай бұрын
It's not even a joke that a game starring Mahatma Gandhi has more violence than The Day Before
@theunknowman12 5 ай бұрын
@@vitoc8454usually its Gandhi who use extreme violence on those games
@zyriantel9601 4 ай бұрын
@@vitoc8454 Mahatma Gandhi the nuke-spamming warmonger, yes, I know him well
@avgredditmod Ай бұрын
@@zyriantel9601hello fellow civs player
@Meddio2 26 күн бұрын
Lmao made me laugh 😂😂@@zyriantel9601
@QuarterDollarKing 5 ай бұрын
I still can't believe that this was the most wish listed game. I never heard of this thing until an offhand mention in another video like a few days before release.
@bryanribey 5 ай бұрын
Yeah I don’t understand it either, I hadn’t heard of the game until I watched this video, and I play games and watch KZfaq quite a lot. The Day Before is just proof that many steam users are pretty young people and people that don’t really pay attention. They just saw a zombie survival shooter and they got excited.
@lasarousi 5 ай бұрын
I remember watching a "most anticipated games" video about it and immediately disregarding it because it looked like derivative garbage. Even if everything they promised was in the game, it's still just dayz. And dayz is already a garbage game for obsessive compulsive "gamers", like rust and all those copy paste shit. Not surprised that same public took the bait.
@forgotultag1543 5 ай бұрын
one alternative argument: if I had known of this turds existence, I would wishlist just to keep an eye on how its price is changing, anticipating the eventual rug-pull and delisting
@sholva6809 5 ай бұрын
@@bryanribey No obviously didn't go on many gaming websites because they had gameplay videos that made the game look better. I'm starting to think you are a young person since why would you insult them and be condescending because they thought the game was gonna be good from the videos.
@sholva6809 5 ай бұрын
@@lasarousi Such irony as you play Mario Kart and that's copy past shit 🤣🤣
@arcanesilence 5 ай бұрын
Fntastic invited us to take part in a test task of writing a soundtrack for their game. The task was formulated as poorly as possible and with contradictions, and they gave 2 references, each of which is different from the other and not similar to what was in the task text. As a result, we were not hired, and, of course, the task was not paid for; they chose a person who did not even try to somehow fulfill the points written in the task, but did something completely different: an ordinary trailer track.
@user-mn3um5vx6m 5 ай бұрын
И это, на самом деле, полностью описывает процесс производства игры. Крайне рекомендую посмотреть хотя бы на перемотке пару роликов от IXBT. Поскольку, ну вы знаете, русским игровым журналистам несколько проще добыть информацию по русским по большей части разработчикам среднего звена.
@redrix1787 5 ай бұрын
@@user-mn3um5vx6m...what
@mackenziewoloschuk7375 4 ай бұрын
Oh jeez... They doing all the hallmarks of scummy game dev work, huh?
@astronautninjatoxic 4 ай бұрын
So I just saw you guys make this exact same comment on a different video (Matt McMuscles). Copied and pasted. I suppose it's not the biggest deal ever, but I would recommend wording some stuff differently in one of the comments.
@arcanesilence 4 ай бұрын
@@astronautninjatoxic yeah, so ? We commented this on few related videos at the same time. Is there a problem with that ?
@WORLDCRUSHER9000 5 ай бұрын
I love how after the apocalypse all of the lights are still working in the trailer
@user-mn3um5vx6m 5 ай бұрын
Ну, _это_ они исправили к релизу 😂
@NickInTheField 25 күн бұрын
Right? “Whole world’s gone but come on y’all it’s Christmas gotta string up the lights!”
@benschlaff9203 5 ай бұрын
This whole saga has the energy of a child trying to convince their parents that they totally did their homework
@Greippi10 5 ай бұрын
This was exactly what I was thinking! Thank you for putting it into words! There's something about the brothers behind all this that makes me think they kiiiind of intended to make a game at one point but then the game making part is hard so they dropped the toy and went to party in Thailand for 2 weeks on company (probably started with their parents' money) expense.
@flamingfleets 5 ай бұрын
History teacher here - can confirm this is 1:1 the exact same vibe.
@consolas8549 5 ай бұрын
At least a child wouldn't ask people to work for him for nothing in the name of volunteering
@alalalus7692 5 ай бұрын
@@consolas8549Some do ask their friends to do the homework for them
@nathanwatkins1005 5 ай бұрын
@@consolas8549with the potential of one day becoming a full-time volunteer. That kind of makes it better, right?
@marktwain7339 5 ай бұрын
If this marks Ralph's slow descent into his manic video essay phase I'm all for it.
@mafata4200 5 ай бұрын
Give him a few years and maybe he will start dropping 4 hour essays once in a few months.
@0uttaS1TE 5 ай бұрын
@@mafata4200Ralph cuts through a wall with a fireaxe just to give you a lecture about freighters
@AC-hj9tv 5 ай бұрын
@@mafata4200plix
@garethjones4611 5 ай бұрын
Have you not seen his division 2 and monster hunter world reviews that are like an hour long. Masterclass
@riffgroove 5 ай бұрын
This is like the "Fyre Festival" of video games.
@willropa4226 4 ай бұрын
And now all I can imagine is The Internet Historian, wearing nothing but his underwear and a military helmet, slowly waving his hands in front of my face as he regales the era that was The Day Before.
@pumkin610 4 ай бұрын
Organizing events is hard and way more expensive than they thought it would be clearly, shoulda canceled that whole thing.
@noah-lf2mt 3 ай бұрын
exactly what i was thinking
@NickInTheField 25 күн бұрын
That is a remarkably apt simile
@watermelon5896 5 ай бұрын
Ive been a fan of Dayz and the devs for years and to see their response to this mess and their for no apparent reason celebration got me clapping my knees and rising my respect for them ten fold, loved to see that shit.
@hyuichi5918 5 ай бұрын
how do you clap your knees
@rudeelk7042 5 ай бұрын
Slap your knees@@hyuichi5918
@Ilmatorjuntapanssarivaunu_90 5 ай бұрын
Definitely meant to say "slapping"@@hyuichi5918
@Artemi22 5 ай бұрын
@@hyuichi5918I'd guess he meant slap
@nathanwatkins1005 5 ай бұрын
...but he edited it to clapping?@@Artemi22
@SoWhack 5 ай бұрын
The Day Before was available to purchase for almost as long as Christopher Judge's speech last year, damn.
@PoulAnteMadsen 5 ай бұрын
That long?
@joelhess1436 5 ай бұрын
Longer than mw3's campaign.
@CallMeVanEl 5 ай бұрын
Still longer than mw3 then
@owensmith6297 5 ай бұрын
Please Wrap it up
@njsteere 5 ай бұрын
People dunk on MW3’s campaign but it’s longer than some Open World Zombie Survival MMOs entire roadmap.
@Ealsante 5 ай бұрын
Regarding the Continent thing - I think you hit it on the head, because that story is exactly how Slack became a thing. A company called Tiny Speck used something like Slack as a tool when working on a game, and when the game (Giltch) turned out meh, they pivoted to selling the collab tool and became really successful.
@inxiveneoy 5 ай бұрын
Glitch was a pretty promising game though. I don't remember much about Slack when I played it though.
@zzBaBzz 5 ай бұрын
slack sux tho
@johnmartinez7440 4 ай бұрын
Slack is one of those things, like Zoom, that I've never really understood why it took off.
@inxiveneoy 4 ай бұрын
@@johnmartinez7440 it was pretty good when it came out, there was no other equivalent as far as I know.
@fullbinky 4 ай бұрын
@@zzBaBzz Slack is a lot lot better than the alternatives like Team
@duskdev 5 ай бұрын
One thing that is worth mentioning though is that it's almost impossible to calculate a developer's net profits from these sort of public facing numbers when a publisher is involved. It's entirely possible that all profits from The Day Before went toward the publisher's recoup, and I've known of contracts where the developer received only 50% or less of the net in royalties even after recoup (and that's before taxes). Which isn't to defend Fntastic at all, mind you, it's just to point out that if this were some alternate reality where they weren't dragging entire carts of red flags behind them, the claim that they haven't seen any money from TDB isn't at all unbelievable. And while in this case I have no doubt that Fntastic made off with a large sum of money in some form, you unfortunately can't assume that a dev sees 70% of whatever their games make on Steam, unless they've self-published and have no overhead to speak of. Again though, this isn't to absolve Fnatical because likely most of whatever the publisher invested was pocketed anyway, given the state of the game.
@Aetharn 4 ай бұрын
Hey, its duskdev! Me and my friends absolutely love your games! Thanks for actually providing amazing games, unlike the clowns mentioned in the video!
@RipRLeeErmey 4 ай бұрын
Oh shit it's David Syzmanski himself! I loved Dusk bro!!!!
@Caffeine_Addict_2020 9 күн бұрын
Maybe the company hasn't seen any "profit" but the brothers paid themselves 200k salaries + 300k "travel expenses". So yea maybe there was no solid profit, because the leaders pocketed all of it. And there's no way they paid that money back
@firstlast-wm3li 5 ай бұрын
There has to be criminal charges to indict this disgraceful company, wow. This is shameful!
@41rmartin 5 ай бұрын
I'm sure the super legit Russian judicial system will get right on that lmao
@insomnia32 5 ай бұрын
If you bought this pos game i really think its your own fault ,like how dumb are people man
@inxiveneoy 5 ай бұрын
@@41rmartin aren't they registered in Singapore?
@41rmartin 5 ай бұрын
@@inxiveneoy for tax purposes, yeah. But any money that they didn't move into Singapore will be fine
@clockworkNate 5 ай бұрын
@41rmartin Maybe they'll "accidentally" fall out of a window in Russia but that usually if you're just saying something against the shady shit Putin does like those doctors did with covid. All that education and they didn't know to be safe around open windows....
@brektheogre1183 5 ай бұрын
You gotta give them credit. The day before release was the last day anyone believed the hype
@vladherasymenko543 5 ай бұрын
Pretty sure that was not at all the case: people are just fucking stupid and have the memory of a goldfish, particularly when it comes to scams.
@fdmugen4724 5 ай бұрын
You made my Christmas
@2Siders 5 ай бұрын
Too bad it wasn’t the last day gamers believed a hype
@snikrepak 5 ай бұрын
Hyping up over a twobit scam family, kinda like hyping up over new cod games lmao
@NetSraC1306 5 ай бұрын
@@2Siders Can't wait for the next huge disappointment that gets preordered like hell
@mehabox 5 ай бұрын
The thing that speaks to me personally is that I was an acquaintance of a guy who worked at Mytona, Sergei Gres. He worked as a narrative designer. He basically told the world about their questionable and dictatorship-like work ethics and was fired, which worsened his depression and led to him taking his own life. He also exposed that this game was underdeveloped and lied about to stakeholders' faces.
@Azuria969 5 ай бұрын
uhhh Im sorry for that... I hope he rests in peace now
@mehabox 5 ай бұрын
@@Azuria969I hope so too, always looked up to him cause of his enormous productivity and striving to succeed. He even had time to mentor wannabe game designers to get their first jobs. His passing was a great shocker to us in his extended circle of friends. Mytona and Fntastic deserve what is coming to them.
@DeathKid1000 5 ай бұрын
I am very sorry for your loss. I pray that God helps you find peace and comfort in this hard time.
@Br1anwastaken 5 ай бұрын
Im Sorry for your loss, May he rest in peace
@mackenziewoloschuk7375 4 ай бұрын
Your friend was a brave man. It's a shame it went the way it did... May he rest in peace, and is making awesome games in heaven.
@WhatEvenIsAGoodName 5 ай бұрын
I remember seeing the devs put a little snippet of the jeep getting stuck in the mud on Reddit, and I immediately knew it was never going anywhere. Promised way too much
@n00dl3gal 5 ай бұрын
It's like a metaphor. The jeep got stuck and so did the game. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
@boyboilNEO9055 4 ай бұрын
Hyper-realistic=possible??? Open world=possible??? Jeep in mud=complete scam
@pumkin610 4 ай бұрын
Realistic mud/vehicle interaction is a very important feature!
@fightshyper 5 ай бұрын
Just like the engine they were suppose to use, turns out everything was actually UNREAL 😂
@gregdawson228 3 ай бұрын
YEAHHHHHH!!!!
@NickInTheField 25 күн бұрын
I see what ya did there
@Shay-li3zv 5 ай бұрын
As a tank nut, something that is ultimately extraneous but still amusing is that at one point in one of the trailers, a Warrior IFV (infantry fighting vehicle) is shown, which is British and has never been used by the US army.
@karhu07 5 ай бұрын
The brits even invaded post-apocalyptic NY😂
@kassar7146 5 ай бұрын
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd!
@Shay-li3zv 5 ай бұрын
@@kassar7146 Yes.
@daehnihc 5 ай бұрын
Are you autistic by any chance
@RMD94 5 ай бұрын
BAE makes a lot of stuff for the USA so it's not entirely unrealistic
@abhijeetpoudel5919 5 ай бұрын
The Day Before made me realize that people work extremely hard to develop great games
@Elite02k 5 ай бұрын
Meh. Small dev teams have produced AAA level games with almost double the time. The problem with gaming is when the studio developers, the financial backers, and owners of the studio all have conflicting interests. There has been 2 or three fntastic developers that have spoken out about how every time something was added to the game that the developing artists did, the owners wanted it changed or removed. It probably would've been a better game had the owners gotten out of the way and allowed a team moderator to do their job and lead the game without restraint. We seen this with irongate and valheim, how they let their team do whatever they want with a team leader to oversee the projects, and they are constantly checking their forums and reddit pages for player opinions to make the game better. 7 days to die has the opposite problem where the fun pimps actively dismiss player concerns like lack of base building varieties because tfp don't want to you be able to play but a few certain ways. When a game fails, it's very rarely the development teams and more of the owners/financial backers picking fights with the dev teams.
@nailinthefashion 5 ай бұрын
@@Elite02koverwatch is the ultimate example. Project titan was supposed to be an mmo, Blizzard didn't think it was profitable enough. They make OW1, and realize they can still make PVE hero missions and continue their dream. Thst got shut down because it was taking too long and too much money, but it was the one thing the audience wanted most. We waited almost a decade just for the higher ups to FORCE THE DEV TEAM to say "oh sorry we ran out of time I guess..." like.. it's horrific how much power people who have never played a video game have over them and i think it should be illegal for a CEO to be an out of touch, greedy old straight white guy anymore lol
@rexthewolf3149 5 ай бұрын
@@nailinthefashionblack man complaining about white people, classic. Go home brother.
@whatdatdogdo 5 ай бұрын
@@rexthewolf3149nah he's right
@kjj26k 5 ай бұрын
@@rexthewolf3149 White guy complaining about black man, classic. Go home brother.
@theGhostWolfe 5 ай бұрын
They really played the long con. People are going to be less wary of buying an early access game than they are of paying for a Kickstarter that might not produce anything. These guys fully played into the “it’s real, you just have to buy it” to generate a false sense of trust, and I almost admire their willingness to wait three years before sticking their hands out for their payday.
@An_Average_Arsonist 4 ай бұрын
One can respect their crafty and clever execution, I still hate scammers with every fiber of my being, but they do indeed know how to play the manipulation game.
@cantprocess 27 күн бұрын
People bought bs before this, people will buy bs after. Did you forget about fyre festival, dashcon, fallout 76, suicide squad, the list could go on. Edit: I also forgot to mention just the mass amounts of crypto currency scams even big KZfaqrs are apart of.
@prodbySpoonful 4 ай бұрын
That wall of “We’re sorry” apology letters at 36:23 perfectly summarizes modern gaming and I just wonder how many more of these we’re gonna see before something is done about how this stuff gets released nowadays.
@Arcturus_Reaper 5 ай бұрын
I'm just happy that there will always be devs like Larian studios that just have passion for making games. And indie devs like the solo dev of Lethal Company, out selling and out performing COD MW3 on steam. These devs and studios will continue to show that just making a good game will fly further than any good trailer can when it comes down to it.
@simonaspalovis1204 5 ай бұрын
I think this case was never about the brothers even wanting to make a good game. Just about earning money the fastest possible way. And “making” a “video game” simply being their chosen method to achieve that goal. The fact that they also tried to promote a remote collaboration software in addition to their game seems to indicate that these brothers have an amoral entrepreneurial mindset. Meaning this was probably not their first, nor last scammy business venture.
@biggiecheese2004 5 ай бұрын
It’s actually insane how good indie games are to almost all triple A titles these days, BG3 being a rare and beautiful exception
@hiimjustin8826 5 ай бұрын
The way you talk about Larian is the same energy people spoke about CDPR before Cyberpunk lol
@Arcturus_Reaper 5 ай бұрын
@@hiimjustin8826 I mean, why not? And to play a bit of devil's advocate, the mess that was Cyberpunks launch was just due to upper management being stupid. The devs thought they were in for a 2023-2024 release date. The updates and Phantom Liberty prove the devs at CDPR haven't lost their touch, they just needed the time to do what they do best.
@hiimjustin8826 5 ай бұрын
@@Arcturus_Reaper Sorry I just thought the hero worship with CDPR was gross and I'm not LF to that again with Larian
@Ashtarte3D 5 ай бұрын
That final bit about the losses of outstanding games this year hit close to my heart. Shadow Gambit is probably the best game Mimimi has ever made, and they had made some absolute bangers, but it collapsed the studio. I'm very sad to see them go.
@alexsawicki 5 ай бұрын
Wow. That game has been on my wishlist... I just haven't had time to get around to actually buying/playing it. And a large part of that is simply the number of absolute masterpiece games that have been released this year. Crazy how release timing really matters.
@user-lc7md4zt7j 5 ай бұрын
Yea I hadn't actually heard about Mimimi closing until watching this video and it sucks to hear. Their games weren't my speed unfortunately(bought Shadow tactics, couldn't get into it) but I respected them for keeping that genre alive. It's a real shame to hear they went under.
@themagictoaster2472 5 ай бұрын
The gaming market is so oversaturated nowadays, especially the indie and small developer scene. They used to be a novelty before, something to check out in between AAA releases. Now it feels like your Steam page is bombarded with them. I have so many games that I have bought but just haven't got around to playing. Even hardcore gamers are feeling fatigued because it feels impossible to keep up with every single new title. So even if a game is an amazing, GOTY contender it's almost impossible to stand out without a AAA marketing team. It'll just get lost in the sea of games on the Steam storefront.
@alexsawicki 5 ай бұрын
@@themagictoaster2472 And that doesn't even cover this fact: This year has been, I think, the best year of my entire life for new video game releases. The fact that games like Tears of the Kingdom or Baulder's Gate 3 might not win game of the year, because they're competing with each other that year... That is a rare occurrence. And that doesn't even cover the games that I haven't played (yet). I look back over my steam history... And it's insane how good the games this year have been.
@purvdragon-sensei 5 ай бұрын
Maybe next time, you don’t consult with Sweet Baby for your games. A shame too, they had real promise and vision as a studio.
@KiTho06 5 ай бұрын
i honestly respect the Fact you put your Sponsor at the end so much, that i actually watched the entire thing. Normally i skip Sponsors when i haven't watched the KZfaqr yet. But your Video was really great :D
@error-try-again-later 4 ай бұрын
A moment of silence for all those characters who got stuck in eternally falling purgatory 😔
@NickInTheField 25 күн бұрын
“I have been FALLING for 30 minutes!”
@AsuraComplains 5 ай бұрын
Important note is Fntastic already changed their name to Eight Points, as confirmed by their previous game The Wild Eight.
@dillbourne 5 ай бұрын
Man I really liked listening to Skillup use his speech organs to explain why this game is hysterical.
@BrandonGavin_EDC 5 ай бұрын
Speech organs shall live in infamy.
@starslayer8390 5 ай бұрын
I too am a human who very much enjoyed listening to the human known as "Skill Up" engage their speech organs.
@lordfreezer9550 5 ай бұрын
@@starslayer8390with you fellow human friend, we are three human beings who enjoyed the sounds produced by skillup speech organs, let us wave our prehensile appendages in the air
@Brindlebrother 5 ай бұрын
His speech organs satisfied our aural organs
@LieutenantAlaki 5 ай бұрын
Personally, I prefer speech pianos to speech organs.
@bryanchristianabrigo 5 ай бұрын
I didn't knew The Day Before until I remembered their trailer was shown an event ( I forgot what was it) where people commented, "Wow! So much gameplay. Just a race car in an post apocalyptic-world. Nothing more."
@ReelMuzikFein 5 ай бұрын
I remember seeing the trailer and I was thinking “this game is going to be unbelievable. “ well I guess I was right 😂
@nightbear2096 5 ай бұрын
The amount of smugness that the DayZ team unleashed on The Day Before's grave is so fucking amazing.
@BungieStudios 5 ай бұрын
I don’t know why they’re bragging when their own game is more broken and still unfinished.
@WestGarbage6 5 ай бұрын
@@BungieStudios At least it's a playable game, though 💀
@daxpwnsyouall 5 ай бұрын
@@WestGarbage6 Not because of Bohemia though, as always it relies on its community to fix their broken garbage just enough to keep life in it.
@HowToChangeName 5 ай бұрын
They should make that meme of guy taking selfie on grave
@MegaKrinkle 5 ай бұрын
As much as I love the weekly news roundup, it is really nice to see some more in-depth content from Shillup! Strongly encourage more content like this, of whatever subject matter you feel like tbh
@MegaKrinkle 5 ай бұрын
@@stardustdragonx3612 who asked?
@Phantom-kc9ly 5 ай бұрын
@@MegaKrinklenobody asked you for your input
@nicolasmunoz1847 5 ай бұрын
@@Phantom-kc9lyThats the whole point of the coment section, give feedback on the content. And I also would love to see skill up do some in depth "special", besides his reviews and weekly news videos.
@Twelvelevens 5 ай бұрын
I am an artist in russian game dev industry and I regret to report that things got progressively worse with sanctions. Big game dev is essentially non-existent in present-day Russia and I myself worked for an indie dev company that shut down for similar reasons. I remember being excited about The Day Before and even considered trying to apply for a job at Fntastic… Boy what an ending… I’m extremely disappointed.
@vitek245 5 ай бұрын
Enjoy your sanctious its your fault
@Twelvelevens 5 ай бұрын
@@vitek245 yeah its my fault i wasn’t old enough to vote 😊😊😊 i got you i hate this war as much as anyone else and as you see sanctions failed miserably in trying to put an end to it it’s only regular people being affected by them
@Assassins-RP 4 ай бұрын
@@vitek245You’re not very smart are you
@vitek245 4 ай бұрын
@@Assassins-RP your family and you are safe, arent they? Or you are just ruzzian
@aregulargenericname8794 4 ай бұрын
@@vitek245your type of guy who would condone genocide against the russian people
@vpaul4374 5 ай бұрын
Fun fact: If you pay close attention to all the notices released by the company developing the game you will notice that their choice of words and way phrases are made pretty much feels like it was written by AI instead of actual humans. Even if the founders of the company may not be fluent in english any translator app would not mess that up.
@ZeroPlayerGame 3 ай бұрын
nah man, the slavic-romanic automatic translation is atrocious, trust me, and the languages are structured differently enough that even relatively fluent people constantly use the oddest turns of phrase.
@NosferatuWickedTTRPG 5 ай бұрын
The funniest part of The Day Before is that all of the things that were supposed to be the selling point are done better somewhere else. Hell, get the right mods on a multiplayer server and you can have Project Zomboid do all that and more.
@eye_balling 5 ай бұрын
every modern survival PvPvE game wishes it was DayZ and falls short every time
@amentalio011 5 ай бұрын
I love Project Zomboid, but one of the reasons I love it is because it's a potato version of DayZ. If I had DayZ, I would probably play that more than Zomboid
@dominickmaddox9576 5 ай бұрын
@amentalio011 bro i love DayZ but if you want a zombie experience project zomboid is far superior.
@MyHentaiGirl 5 ай бұрын
@@dominickmaddox9576dayz is more about the human d!ckheads than anything zombie i can't even recall a single zombie manage to dmg me in that game
@dotdot5906 5 ай бұрын
@@dominickmaddox9576I also recently found something that seems to be a parent of some kind for project zomboid, it's called Cataclysm: Dark Days ahead. It seems to be some weird big thing and is actually considered an open world rougelike
@teh1archon 5 ай бұрын
One of the best gaming dramas of the year. Only Jirad gives it a run for the money (pun intended) coming in in the twilight of the year.
@sammybowker7823 5 ай бұрын
seriously and here I was thinking it couldn't get worse after redfall or gollum LMAO
@baconatorrodriguez4651 5 ай бұрын
*Jirard
@onionheadguy7094 5 ай бұрын
Yeah I wonder what's going on behind the scenes at the fps podcast in regards to this.
@Independenceday95 5 ай бұрын
@onionheadguy7094 didn't you hear? He got removed from the podcast
@onionheadguy7094 5 ай бұрын
@@Independenceday95 I didn't hear, thank you for telling me
@kasdanasal 5 ай бұрын
As someone in the legal profession, I can shed a bit of light on the trademark issue. While every jurisdiction is different, in the United States, generally speaking, one can send a cease and desist for any reason. It's not a legally binding document and merely serves as a notification that one party believes they have cause to sue another party. It is not uncommon for companies to send cease and desist letters, without any actual intention of pursuing litigation, as the mere threat is sometimes sufficient to get what they want. It's not clear to me in which jurisdiction the lawsuit of the calendar app took place, but I can say with some certainty that it would likely have played out that way in most U.S. jurisdictions as well. There are various different tests that different courts apply to trademark disputes, but a core element of all of them is the likelihood of confusion between two products. If they are substantially different products, the chance of confusion is low, and it is unlikely for a court to find trademark infringement is occurring.
@bishopundead5478 4 ай бұрын
I respect so much putting the AD at the end. Wish more content creators did this. Let me enjoy the content first. Good stuff
@5hane9ro 5 ай бұрын
Moral of the story, every game should have a playable demo before launch
@AC-hj9tv 5 ай бұрын
The good old days
@marvinsteven3874 5 ай бұрын
And a playable beta a year before launch
@MrMoofisAwesome 5 ай бұрын
Ouya mindset.
@julianojosoa2145 5 ай бұрын
All Capcom games have demos x) That's why I like Capcom!
@Relixification 5 ай бұрын
Baldurs Gate 3 was early access.
@supernatural802 5 ай бұрын
That was like listening to a murder mystery. A fantastic tale of mystery and intrigue. Twists and turns. Ups and downs. All of it coming together in a head on collision of a finale 😮 I really enjoyed my bucket of popcorn with this one.
@nathanwatkins1005 5 ай бұрын
Tune in next year for the conpletionist teardown
@sphingxx 5 ай бұрын
Don't you mean fntastic xd
@Anomalyas 5 ай бұрын
xD lolling ROFL@@sphingxx
@Clonekiller66 5 ай бұрын
I only know this game exists because a youtuber/streamer i watch regularly was excited for this game and it wasn't anything like his usual content (he really only plays RTS games) And during the entire stream of the game on day 1 release, he was getting progressively more and more disappointed. 2 days later he'd upload a video venting about he felt scammed. So this game will eternally be remembered to me as "That Scam Game that made Dominator very sad"
@CrasherX2000 5 ай бұрын
I’m not the biggest fan of DayZ, but those Twitter posts were absolute comedic genius
@eglewether5523 5 ай бұрын
Star Citizen players be like "Damn I am glad I didnt fall for this scam"
@NikFlyer 5 ай бұрын
The day before dreams to be on the same level as Star Citizen. SC is actually kind of massive.
@dbfzato-1327 5 ай бұрын
M8 digital items ant real....... get help, no one impressed its like nfts @NikFlyer
@Alas7eR 5 ай бұрын
@@NikFlyer Still a scam.
@sneezingmango 5 ай бұрын
@@Alas7eR facts
@NikFlyer 5 ай бұрын
@@Alas7eR eh, not really, you have to be blind to say that lol
@theinkslicer 5 ай бұрын
I remember seeing the announcement trailer for this and thought "This looks too good to be true I know theres going to be video essays on how this became dogshit, I just know it"
@purplehaze2358 4 ай бұрын
This is probably the fastest post-release nuclear meltdown of a game I've ever seen. It's almost impressive, frankly.
@FunkyMunkey00_ 4 ай бұрын
Love the vid. Way better than most other youtubers, no annoying narration, unbiased, use different sources, not too many cuts.
@slambaz2 5 ай бұрын
Having completely missed this saga due to falling into the warhammer hole for the last 2 years, this video was an amazing look over this game and stuido. Thank you for making this.
@reddeath707 5 ай бұрын
Total war? Or something else?
@kaisarfaust5625 5 ай бұрын
@@reddeath707 or the plastic/ lore addiction?
@sarnicholas4053 5 ай бұрын
Well, to be fair The Emperor Expects.
@slambaz2 5 ай бұрын
@@reddeath707 both AOS and 40k minis and games
@reddeath707 5 ай бұрын
@@slambaz2 Godspeed, you magnificent bastard.
@DanHammonds 5 ай бұрын
Scamming has become so commonplace in today's world. In my naivety, I used to think that scamming, false advertising and misleading consumers was illegal, but clearly not.
@_holy__ghost 5 ай бұрын
it is illegal, but if a punishment for a crime is not enforced the act itself becomes basically legal. it makes me sad that everyone's laughing and joking about how this game 'failed'. are we forgetting that the two brothers pocketed 3 million bucks and disappeared? they deserve jail time but they apparently got away with everything
@yoga5631 5 ай бұрын
Its because most of these things comes from different countries with different laws, something illegal in the US might have a loophole/ not illegal in other countries.... Meaning arresting them is very difficult
@via_negativa6183 5 ай бұрын
It's illegal but that doesn't mean theres any consequences to it your government and media scam you every day and get away with it.
@nailinthefashion 5 ай бұрын
@@_holy__ghostno, don't just jail em, force em to pay everyone back. That would teach em sumn better, then jail as dessert
@tweda4 5 ай бұрын
@@yoga5631you're correct, but Christ. Scams, false advertisement, and just being generally misleading about products and services is so common nowadays. I think this is something that countries internationally need to look at working on, because it's endemic.
@Snow-sx5ev 4 ай бұрын
I was just thinking after you said the word plagiarism I was like "oh haha I've seen plagiarism a lot more since the James Somerton video dropped" and then you directly referenced him lol
@antheajohnson4234 5 ай бұрын
Gee, that gameplay looks so exciting! 18:44
@user-mn3um5vx6m 5 ай бұрын
😪💤
@Adam-zc3of 5 ай бұрын
I really think there needs to be an even harder look at FNTASTICs financials around this whole shitshow. With the amount of refunds not taken, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone dug deep enough to find out that this had been a money laundering scam too. I can also almost guarantee you that the brothers will be back again under a different name and brand.
@Avantime 2 ай бұрын
The whole thing seems linked to organized crime (or that it turned into one after the ultra quality trailers) involving much larger levels of money laundering. The two brothers cannot possibly justify their travel lifestyle from the milestone proceeds from their publisher. Saw plenty of those wannabe tech bros during the crypto craze.
@joob4324 5 ай бұрын
I would absolutely love to see more of these types of videos on this channel. As much as I love the reviews and round ups your story telling ability is amazing and shouldn't be put on the side.
@BooserBoi 5 ай бұрын
I agree!
@sno_au 4 ай бұрын
19:51 i laughed a lot at this even though I love Division, your script writing is by far the best and most consistent over the years. thanks mr up
@mrseryous8122 Ай бұрын
The weirdest thing to me is that I keep returning to this video just to have it play in the background when doing chores. I don't know why, but this video feels so timeless to me.
@HunchbackOfNotreJon 5 ай бұрын
37:56 "This manager told them there had never been any fantastic staff there" Brutal.
@InsertBuffSoundingNameHere 5 ай бұрын
This teardown is completely brilliant. The delivery of the narration - the incredulity, the stunned shock, the air quotes, the excellent recap of the crazy story changing and covering up after themselves that all true scammers/plagiarists do. Another in a long line of asset flip scam games, but hey, at least this and other videos about it are way more entertaining than the "games" they are based on.
@mohammadmoinghorbanzadeh588 4 ай бұрын
your narrative is so great. no lie if i tell you i watch your video because of way you narrate it
@Paradis.32767 4 ай бұрын
I got that calendar app on my phone🤣 It was so funny when I see the announcement cause I was like “Hey that’s my calendar app!”
@dudimis 5 ай бұрын
The shame is that their scam was partially successful. Yeah, Steam de-listed it once they realized it was a scam. Yes, you can request a refund. But not all users will request a refund which means some money will go to these scammers and some already has. I wish Steam took the measures to reverse every cent away from these scammers back to the customers. To see the wish-list numbers, purchases, and player count numbers that they saw, receive all the attention that they got with all the red flags being discovered, and STILL pull it off is troubling. The size and scale of this scam made me wonder if this was not some money laundering scheme.
@WestGarbage6 5 ай бұрын
Actually, that's a whole new discussion brought to the table that I think should be brought up. Nostalgia-based, immersive, difficult, overall really fun games, with good gameplay and way better actual graphics than this shitshow of a game somehow couldn't even get within a few THOUSAND players of this game, the game that everybody ALREADY suspected was a scam, and KNEW wouldn't live up to the hype, because of what had been shown. It IS kind of suspicious that some game that had been DEBUNKED to have had fake reveal trailers, and boring ass gameplay to the highest degree, somehow became the most wishlisted game on Steam, and then have the most purchases out of most of the big games of the recent few years. It's very plausible that the whole thing could've just been a money laundering scheme, but that all depends on the refund numbers, really, if over half the people who bought the game originally refunded it, I'd say no, but otherwise it's very possible.
@elbolainas4174 5 ай бұрын
@@WestGarbage6To add to the conspiracy theory, it's really really strange and suspicious that they closed the studio just days after the game flopped. Not even hello games gave up after the no man's sky disaster.
@Echoe-14 7 күн бұрын
@@elbolainas4174I’m glad hello games didn’t give up, no man’s sky is actually decent now. They had a real comeback story with that game
@dblundz 5 ай бұрын
If a game promises to be everything…. It’s a scam, there’s a reason why it hasn’t been done before. Especially from a small unknown studio.
@georgen5882 5 ай бұрын
This was always one of my sticking points. When a AAA studio struggles with games promising less in scope, how is this small dev with volunteers going to do it? Even if they got the basics in, I foresaw a mess of bugs and weird interactions with all those systems colliding. It was never going to work no matter what.
@kjj26k 5 ай бұрын
The Gaming population was supposed to have learned the lesson once and for all when No Man's Sky released ffs. This is why it is abhorrent what The Game Awards did this year. Devs NEED to be given a voice, because no one knows how videogames, and games development, and the games industry actually works!
@Baobao-qf3wv 5 ай бұрын
Starfield be like
@InsertBuffSoundingNameHere 5 ай бұрын
Yet conversely you've got Lies Of P which is from a mostly unknown studio that made one of the best Soulsborne style games I've ever played, and it's flown under a lot of people's radars. Which released in a highly playable state with very few technical errors, fewer than Starfield I find.
@Murdstone12 5 ай бұрын
To be fair, Marvel's spiderman held that promise. Not all games are scams. This one on the other hand is a massive shit show 😂
@Bighippi Ай бұрын
Wouldn't be surprised if a bigger company such as Rockstar actually makes a successful game on what this scam game could've given players and it turns out to be a real deal
@PersimmonHurmo 4 ай бұрын
The fact that someone even left a positive review... Shows you there are always sycophants willing to defend anything for the sake of defending. It gives them a special feeling of fulfillment.
@LieutenantAlaki 3 ай бұрын
Nah, probably just a joke review. I see those all the time.
@shgds 3 ай бұрын
sometimes people just like shit or feel that things don't deserve all the negative reactions they get for whatever reason, man
@nooneinparticular9868 5 ай бұрын
Ralph. I had an old division video of yours pop up the other day... it reminded me I have been watching you for 7 years. And I still love your content as much as day 1. Thanks dude. Good work.
@EvolutionIX219 5 ай бұрын
I remember those days
@NoddyBangZ1 5 ай бұрын
This is just 10/10 peak Skill Up content right here
@SeymourClevage 5 ай бұрын
All right. Enough of the blow jobs already.
@lymb3914 5 ай бұрын
Not only a comprehensive look at a topic I didn't fully understand, but a solid dunk on gaming's _original_ conman, good ol' Molyneux! Maybe they consulted him on how to make semi-convincing promises you know you'll never deliver on
@SirWinnigton 4 ай бұрын
Unbeleiveable that people have any fuckin faith in any "zombie crafting survival mmo" game, those 4 words are all red flags.
@matthewhilliker 5 ай бұрын
This video really highlights some of the red flags that many other creators missed about this "game". I would love more content like this in the future!
@KeytarArgonian 5 ай бұрын
I heard this game was a scam all the way back when they were sharing fakes screen shots. It was painfully obvious it was a scam, it’s amazing so many people still fell for it.
@joedotphp 5 ай бұрын
I called out red flags from Cyberpunk for about a year and a half, and man... The hate I got was quite something.
@jeremycorbin2178 5 ай бұрын
I remember wishlisting this game purely to keep an eye on how far off the promised product it would be on release and gawk, provided that ever would happen (which I was 75% sure it wouldn't, I've played too may early access survival games; I can't not know better). I feel like most people wishlisting it were in the same boat, I refuse to believe most gamers aren't jaded enough to look at this and think "zero shot this is happening"
@wirbelchen5379 5 ай бұрын
Maybe same were hoping for a cyberpunk Situation too
@ShootingStar1313 5 ай бұрын
“There’s a sucker born every minute” - P.T. Barnum
@Argentium1 3 ай бұрын
Watching this 2+ months later and the story is still just as funny. Can't believe it was real and wrapped itself up so nicely for audiences.
@TheRudolph92 5 ай бұрын
You made a video that takes 47min. feel like 15! Completely entertained from start to finish. Awesome work! :D
@KingSolidTails 5 ай бұрын
Bruh I'm 24 minutes in and didn't even realize it's been that long. Especially didn't know it's supposed to be 47 minutes lmfao. That's wild.
@lrkouzelis 5 ай бұрын
i put it on as background for my shower and ended up wrapped in my towel for 40 minutes holy shit
@KingSolidTails 5 ай бұрын
@@lrkouzelis MOOD
@billyjacobs190 5 ай бұрын
No...the most amazing part of all this is people actually stood up for these people and their weird actions.
@bonko86 5 ай бұрын
Who did?
@caliginousmoira8565 5 ай бұрын
@@bonko86 too many.... so many 'argument's' in streams trying to explain to people why the game was getting hate... and they just could not grasp what so many were telling them. too many people thinking that every one is brain dead and just hopping on the 'hate train'...
@adangomez5072 5 ай бұрын
@bonko86 Dude everyone like even my good friend was like yeah I was hoping it would become something someday like bro come on
@brucewig22 5 ай бұрын
Most people don't like admitting they've been scammed, so a lot of them will double down and defend the scammer and go down with the ship.
@Rossa_AU 5 ай бұрын
Crazy to think this game had that many sales and that may concurrent players with all the red flags. I look forward to a similar video when ever "Abandoned" comes out.
@An_Cummanach 4 ай бұрын
Best part about this game was seeing that one guy on the games subreddit fight tooth and nail to defend it. It was revealed, by himself, that he had never even played the game and his defence of it came from eatching clips released by the devs.
@boredguy2935 12 күн бұрын
Redditors will defend just about ANY game.
@DoctyrEvil 5 ай бұрын
This game has the greatest spoon-strapped-to-a-backpack animation of all time. 10/10
@MorriganJade 5 ай бұрын
I love that you go with the "but wait, there's more" route and let us enjoy the trainwreck when it hits 😂
@damngamgee3739 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, love hearing that phrase/ meme for the 657,2648,4628,182,618th time.
@stmsin 5 ай бұрын
@@damngamgee3739lol do you watch billy mays oxiclean commercials on repeat or something
@kingnull2697 5 ай бұрын
@@damngamgee3739 plug your ears
@StarOfDuty 2 ай бұрын
Most of the community was seen this coming, Russian devs... not even surprised
@DunkdaHunk Ай бұрын
Remember the people who fell for this scam can vote or will be old enough to one day.
@reeppergames 5 ай бұрын
I literally never heard of this game until this past week and I am genuinely mind boggled at how deep this goes, like this has been good ng on forever and I never knew lmao
@j-frost 5 ай бұрын
Yes, please join the fold of video essayists. I for one was thoroughly entertained and I think you ought to do this stuff more often. Can't have too many excellent video creators 👍
@TheSergio1021 5 ай бұрын
Arent like, all of his reviews video essays?...
@j-frost 5 ай бұрын
@@TheSergio1021 I don't think so. I think reviews are helpful in order for consumers to make informed decisions. Essays are a lot more free form, and while they often have something to say, the message is rarely, "buy (or don't buy) this product".
@MeMelon 5 ай бұрын
I think it was just the way it was edited, he doesnt seem to do any editing so I'd give props to whoever put this vid together
@TheSergio1021 5 ай бұрын
@@j-frost freeform in what way? He still followed the basic structure only he talked less about gameplay and more about the company because there was literally no gameplay to speak of.
@CaptnKrksNippls 5 ай бұрын
Nah this wasn't pretentious enough to be a game essay
@slavengineering8344 2 ай бұрын
The fact this video starts with a suitcase advert, and I clicked to it from the recommended section of a video where someone was murdered by being locked up in a suitcase is 10/10
@quinny98 5 ай бұрын
This was a hilarious video loved it! ❤
@LordHollow 5 ай бұрын
Wouldn't it be insane of both brothers turned out to be AI constructs?
@PeskyTheWabbit 5 ай бұрын
The only reason that would be insane is because they would have started a few years before AI got to where it is now. If they had started now, I wouldn't be surprised one bit in the slightest
@ashb7 5 ай бұрын
The dudes are AI, but the dog in that one video was real and also the mastermind behind the scam
@LordHollow 5 ай бұрын
@@ashb7 legit.
@ctdaniels7049 5 ай бұрын
Yes, but only if it means the company was run by the dog, who was the ringleader all along!
@snailthelostcow63 5 ай бұрын
@@ctdaniels7049 Silent Hill ass plot lmao
@userunknownxx1 5 ай бұрын
The Day Before really made me realize that we as gamers really deserve for game companies to take advantage of us because how could there be so many people that thought to give that game a try after seeing everything that was being presented.
@HeadshotyTSW 5 ай бұрын
Nah it is merely a point of perspective. You as a person watching this video is already more engaged in video games than probably 95% of the total demographic that is actively playing video games. Yes this does of course include mobile accounts etc., but it would be silly to assume that mobile players could never grow in their interest and swap to a more core platofrm and video games. Therefore you can compare this to, really any other product which runs on quality and not quantity (...usually), like computers, audio equipment, cars, smart phones etc... For some people this game might have been the only one they got algorithmed by and were like "wow, this looks awesome!" without having any idea that of course games are just "another" industry in the current day and age and might just feel too innocent about it because they got really sucked into gaming as a hobby more and more. Maybe you see where I am coming from? I agree with your statement fully on pre-orders and just being fine with a lot of bullshit microtransaction bc people can't regulate their dopamine hits, a lot of people deserve to be ripped off in those cases imo as well.
@muckdriver 5 ай бұрын
It's wild because this is a PC only game most people on PC should at least be have someone they know in the loop talking about this shit. Like "hey did you hear about this wild scam videogame".
@userunknownxx1 5 ай бұрын
@@muckdriver Yeah and if you wishlist the game then that means that you would be following updates on it.
@landob3302 5 ай бұрын
@@HeadshotyTSWthis is exactly what i’ve been saying, most ppl are “casual” gamers nd just take things at face value
@funx24X7 5 ай бұрын
You speak like they didn’t have polished trailers that even IGN believed were real enough to publish on their channel. They lied to their publishers too, it’s not the consumers fault for the deception.
@nemus00 2 ай бұрын
Jesus, I remember seeing this trailer back in 2022 and being so hyped about it. I put it on my wishlist and went on with my life and after I got the money to buy it it wasn't there, but my dumbass forgot the title of the game and so it never returned to my wishlist, but I didn't give up searching for it. I've watched countless BEST ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GAMES trailers and I just couldn't find it and just forgot about it. Now I know exactly what happened xD
@DemiFairy 15 күн бұрын
I come back to this video once in a while, this story is really crazy
@Norightnowrong1 5 ай бұрын
Hell yeah, almost an hour of SkillUp dunking on The Day Before, sign me in
@Biofan813 5 ай бұрын
More video essays please. This was incredible! Great job Skillup crew!
@casey_sux 5 ай бұрын
this is not a video essay lol
@antivist1481 5 ай бұрын
yeah i was like "wtf is he on about?!"@@casey_sux
@BoisegangGaming 3 күн бұрын
I remember seeing this, thinking "oh hey that looks like the division survival mode" but then didn't pay much attention to it until after it just explosively self-destructed.
@idontevenknow9758 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for doing such an in-depth video on what happened. I didn't even know about this game until that gameplay trailer dropped and some youtubers who I follow talked about it. All I can think of is, why?? Why make a fake trailer with no plans to deliver but even more so why keep bringing it up. If this was truly a method to get people to check out this app, here is a smarter way to do it. Make the trailer and put it out there with maybe a few promotional items sprinkled in. Go silent and then make a big statement on how the game has to be cancelled and make it dramatic if you can. Get reporters to come in and ask what happened, make up garbage and say oh this this and this but we are going to sell what we already did to someone else and blah, blah. Then pitch how we are now working on some brand-new app/software and show it off. Reporters will mostly like be kind and promote the app in the stories on what happened as a "hey they cancelled it but are working on other projects outside of games." Just like that you got easy advertising for your app and gamers are bummed but will forget as soon enough Balders Gate 3 and a Zelda will be out shortly after so no one cares. Why they didn't do that I have no idea.
@cceffect 5 ай бұрын
Can I just say that *THIS* is game Journalism. Thank you SkillUp!
@daganbanks 5 ай бұрын
For his sacrifice
@ekwensu8797 5 ай бұрын
@jezushchrist We promise we won't let this transgression go to waist!
@justinmills1721 5 ай бұрын
What a saga! Masterfully researched, organized and told - this was a really fun watch.
@justteathankyou 5 ай бұрын
I think the lesson I've learnt in all of this is that you can get incredibly far these days with store assets. When I still used to try to make games (15 years ago) you spent all your time on gameplay and your graphics was a bunch of squares (side note: this is why Thomas Was Alone looks like it does: Bithell was building the game with dev art and realised there was a cool story to be had in leaving it in that style). Now though, that relationship has completely flipped: there is so much high quality assets out there you can get something that to the eye looks like a professional game, without a shred of game design required.
@VictorMarin8 5 ай бұрын
This is GOLD right here.
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