The Day Before - What Happened?
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Intro By: 2Snacks / 2manysnacks and Little V Mills / littlevmills
Written Sources:
Interview with Ex-Fntastic Developer via DualShockers - www.dualshockers.com/the-day-...
Singapore Game Development Assistance Programs via IGEA - igea.net/wp-content/uploads/2...
The Day Before Announcement via IGN - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
The Day Before Delayed via IGN - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
The Day Before Trademark Dispute via IGN - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
The Day Before Metrics via SteamDB - steamdb.info/app/1372880/info/
Fntastic Defends volunteers via Eurogamer - www.eurogamer.net/delayed-ste...
The Day Before Delayed due to switch to Unreal 5 via GamesRadar - www.gamesradar.com/open-world...
The Day Before Trademark Dispute via Kotaku - www.kotaku.com.au/2023/01/the...
Messy Friday The 13th lawsuit via Collider - collider.com/friday-the-13th-...
The Day Before Delayed due to a calendar app via GamesRadar - www.gamesradar.com/the-day-be...
The Day Before delayed a week before launch via gamesindustry.biz - www.gamesindustry.biz/the-day...
The Day Before shuts down via Dexerto - www.dexerto.com/gaming/day-be...
The Day Before Servers shutting down - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
Video Sources:
The Day Before - Official Gameplay Overview & Release Date Trailer - IGN • The Day Before - Offic...
The Day Before - Official Trailer - IGN - • The Day Before - Offic...
The Day Before - Exclusive Official Gameplay Trailer - IGN - • The Day Before - Exclu...
The Day Before Early Access Video Review - IGN - • The Day Before Early A...
The Day Before Official Gameplay Overview and Early Access - Gamespot- • The Day Before Officia...
Propnight: 16 Minutes of Gameplay - IGN - • Propnight: 16 Minutes ...
The Day Before copying other game trailers - Randomly - • The Day Before copying...
The Day Before - Official Release Date Trailer - IGN - • The Day Before - Offic...
The Day Before IGN Fan Fest - www.ign.com/videos/the-day-be...
BACK 4 BLOOD Official Trailer (2021) Zombie Game HD - ONE Media - • BACK 4 BLOOD Official ...
Dead Island: Official Announcement Trailer - IGN - • Dead Island: Official ...
Life at Fntastic - Louwhay - • Life at Fntastic
One HUGE Lie - Confirms The Day Before Developer... - LtBuzzLitebeer - • One HUGE Lie - Confirm...
The Wild Eight - Gameplay - SergiuHellDragoonHQ - • The Wild Eight - Gamep...
Travel Singapore in a Minute - Aerial Drone Video | Expedia - expediasea - • Travel Singapore in a ...
The Day Before is AMAZING... - DirtyDanGaming - • The Day Before is AMAZ...
The Day Before vs The Day After - Details and Physics Comparison - GameLight • The Day Before vs The ...
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@deathsyth8888 5 ай бұрын
Is this the record for fastest 'What Happened' ever from the game's release to actual episode?
@Xolnyxia 5 ай бұрын
I think cookstar was faster
@lisgod3 5 ай бұрын
WWE 2K20 came close.
@That-Other-Dan 5 ай бұрын
@@Xolnyxia My problem with the Cooking Mama Cookstar video was that details were still breaking when the video was produced, making the video obsolete before it was even uploaded.
@foxclub49er 5 ай бұрын
the wha happun equivalent of spawn camping
@omegaXjammur 5 ай бұрын
Yes I believe so
@Pantsmode 5 ай бұрын
Me having a hangover: "the day before - what happened?"
@jrob4795 5 ай бұрын
What happened to “what happun” ?
@DigitalMorph07 5 ай бұрын
Great comment 👍👍
@Koalalover70 5 ай бұрын
Based dad joke
@RobVespa 5 ай бұрын
@@DigitalMorph07- It's not.
@UltimateInkling 5 ай бұрын
What happened the day before?
@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.
@onionheadguy7094 5 ай бұрын
Good luck in your scoring endeavors!
@kaydwessie296 5 ай бұрын
Not surprising
@Greybell 5 ай бұрын
So I guess it's a blessing in disguise that they didn't hire you guys?
@arcanesilence 5 ай бұрын
@@onionheadguy7094 thanks
@arcanesilence 5 ай бұрын
@@Greybell Yes, it seems so
@ThusSpokeFlexo 5 ай бұрын
The head devs giving an address while petting a dog should have been an obvious red flag for anyone who's seen any kind of apology video
@nessamillikan6247 5 ай бұрын
Honestly, those two just looked like they didn't have any idea about games. Maybe they did, but who knows how active they were as devs in their 8 years at the company. They seemed more to have that starry-eyed, eternal optimists vibe that young and impressionable startup entrepreneurs have rather than devs with years of experience. It didn't matter what they didn't know, they had an opportunity, and they would learn the ropes once they became an outstanding success.
@luxferreomega3843 5 ай бұрын
@@nessamillikan6247They weren't devs at all with any meaningful "optimistic" startup dreams or goals. They are scam artists, it has been proven already. Singaporean journalists visited their two "listed" offices in Singapore and found they were just virtual office spaces that Fntastic merely used as addresses to route their online traffic through. There were no staff from them there at all, and both brothers have disappeared from the face of the internet. This is basically a trademark ponzi-scheme where they thought they could get away with it. I highly recommend watching Skill Up's video on it that has tons of information on the behind the scenes, as well as exposing the literal ponzi scheme Fntastic and Mytona did around their "game" where he reveals Fntastic was working on a weird MS Teams work-from-home office ripoff app that they wanted to advertise but then it suddenly evaporated randomly... sounds familiar.
@ranonadg 5 ай бұрын
@@nessamillikan6247 On today's Very Special Episode of Devil's Advocates...
@djpegao 5 ай бұрын
_all it was missing was an Ukulele...._
@christraven 5 ай бұрын
@@nessamillikan6247 Agreed. I had never heard of this game until all of the pushback started, and I'd never seen a picture of either of the brothers until watching this video, and the very first thing that popped into my head when I saw them was "venture capitalists with no clue".
@GulfCoastNihilist 5 ай бұрын
For a game that was supposedly hyped to the moon, I never heard of it until after it came out.
@kaijionline 5 ай бұрын
Yea I heard about it once about a year ago and never again until it released
@MarcusFigueras 5 ай бұрын
I heard a ton about it, but mostly bjust "its a shady scam"
@nman551 5 ай бұрын
I heard about it from friends and then immediately looked into and went “Nah that’s a scam.”
@u235-guzzler 5 ай бұрын
Oh yeah, I'm just genuinely confused that people were hyped for a scam 🤔
@Rymdpandan 5 ай бұрын
I only heard about it because multiple KZfaqrs made videos about how it seemed like it was a scam before it launched. Seems like all the red flags were there in advance, I'm surprised so many people were surprised that it turned out this way.
@definer0 5 ай бұрын
To be fair, making your game unavailable a few days after release is very innovative
@thientuongnguyen2564 5 ай бұрын
Pretty sure EA, Activision and Ubisoft are taking notes now.
@gargoyled_drake 3 ай бұрын
@@thientuongnguyen2564 Waiting for Ubisofts S&B to do the same vanishing act after selling at overprice for a month.
@AeonPhoenix Ай бұрын
@@thientuongnguyen2564 Well, Ubisoft made that nightmare come true for owners of the Crew 2.
@BenetteG 5 ай бұрын
I remember someone commented that "Matt McMuscle will make a 'What happened' episode of this game", during the release night of Day Before. Well here it is, he got his wish.
@B-DShaheed 5 ай бұрын
I saw that comment too lmaoo
@HikariVictor 5 ай бұрын
@@@B-DShaheedsmol world, I saw it too!
@LN_1995 5 ай бұрын
It's still nuts to see The Day Before become a literal non-entity within the span of a week. Like, no other video game has genuinely come close.
@Drakith90 5 ай бұрын
Closest I've seen was Cliffy B's Radical Heights.
@Earthboundmike 5 ай бұрын
@@Drakith90 Oooo I forgot about that one
@bearerofbadnews1375 5 ай бұрын
Maybe those Kickstarter disasters like mighty number 9, drift stage racing, and Jack and Casie. Edit: update on Jack and Casie the developer of that game, Shoutscion unfortunately passed away from cancer this January.
@timothykessler5029 5 ай бұрын
Brink
@kR-qj7rw 5 ай бұрын
Not even forespoken mediocrity got Thanos snapped that fast
@Damian_1989 5 ай бұрын
The fact that they deployed a Doggo Of Distraction in one of their videos was a huge red flag. Reeks of the "your employer telling you *we're a family"* kinda stuff.
@ItsJustTrevor 5 ай бұрын
Their Discord server was also OBLITERATED by people that played the game. It got so bad, that they DELETED THE SERVER IN ITS ENTIRETY
@thientuongnguyen2564 5 ай бұрын
Spicy stuff. Too bad Kira won't be able to extract more info from that former trash heap within a giant dumpster fire of a platform.
@IAmDaDumb1 5 ай бұрын
I remember a moderator was hosting a launch day stream (note: this mod had also never played the game prior to its launch) that he literally shut down after like an hour because it was so bad and the chat was blowing up 😂
@iwakeupandboomimarat 4 ай бұрын
i wish that discord got archived bc id love to see what happened there lol
@chinad34th 5 ай бұрын
Anyone who has ever worked in the industry knew it would be a scam. All of these stupid phrases like "haters will see the truth", "this game is our dream come true", "please don't call it a scam" made it obvious. I still don't know how it was the most wishlisted game, though. No idea if it's possible, but I wouldnt be surprised if they used bots for that.
@IAmDaDumb1 5 ай бұрын
They had to have used bots. Most wishlisted game on steam yet hardly anybody actually seemed to know about it let alone care?
@aryabratsahoo7474 5 ай бұрын
You'd be surprised how many people simply fall for this instead of seeing the signs.
@user-xd5qg3go7y 5 ай бұрын
They probably use volunteers.
@ilhamadigunawan5264 4 ай бұрын
This is literally those mobile game ads where the ads is much more interesting than the actual game, but times 1000 and with money involved
@Kerim9991 4 ай бұрын
Even a periphery interest in gaming should give you all the tools to sniff out a flop this blatant. Zombie, multiplayer, open world, looting and crafting game? Come the fuck on.
@visitingforgefather5997 5 ай бұрын
Boy, I kind of wonder how all those people who kept insulting everybody who were sceptical about this scam are coping.
@nadtz 5 ай бұрын
By saying all the negativity 'ruined the game' and 'didn't give the dev's time, they could have fixed it'. And I'm not kidding, I've seen comments along these lines on various videos about how badly this game failed, completely ignoring that even if the game could be fixed it still wouldn't have been the game that was advertised.
@Tama_51 5 ай бұрын
I literally never heard of this until they abandoned the game, was there drama relating to people calling it a scam and 'fans'?
@Joe90h 5 ай бұрын
Stop spreading FUD, I'm sure Fntastic are going to merge with Gamestop and Bed Bath And Beyond any day now and you'll see!
@visitingforgefather5997 5 ай бұрын
@@Tama_51 Primarily the typical critical youtubers trying to warn people, pointing out many red flags around this scam, being insulted repeatable or having their credibility questioned by 'fans'. The absurdity was simply how when evidence started piling up and these 'fans' doubled down. All for a game from a practically nobody studio with a history of abandoned projects.
@plastique45 5 ай бұрын
@@Tama_51 Oh my god, yes. Find old forum threads just for fun and enjoy 😛
@Antroid 5 ай бұрын
There is an investigative video I watched that used admissions from former workers, and basically the last part from this video is key. The bros pretty much hired inexperienced developers and put them through hell. They would constantly demand new things inspired by popular games. It didn't even start as multiplayer - they just "suggested" (mandated) it later. Huge amounts of work would constantly get scrapped. Basically the brothers were some of the most incompetent, insane bosses imaginable, and they kept luring inexperienced people to work on their game with promises of working on an AAA product.
@kukuhimanputraraharja8084 5 ай бұрын
this is why people should be more wary of scammers in this age of information/misinformation.
@gammerguy1995 5 ай бұрын
Imagine finally getting hired for only to be scammed by your bosses. I hope they get sued to hell.
@blunteastwood 5 ай бұрын
How did they make those fake trailers?
@Antroid 5 ай бұрын
@@blunteastwood iirc those were outsourced or something. They were all "cinematic" anyway, as you said - fake.
@SoulBlazer08 5 ай бұрын
@@Antroid Most trailers are outsourced, from what I understand. And this is hardly the only game to use 'fake' trailers.
@TehNoobiness 5 ай бұрын
Pulling an engine switch the month before original release date is _insane._ That should have been the first and most immediate sign that this project was dead in the water.
@chrisbrasel8060 4 ай бұрын
The day before had many of these but the engine switch was a major one.
@Cronosonic 3 ай бұрын
Eh, as someone who has used both engines and upgraded projects from one to the other, going from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5 is actually relatively painless (in general Unreal is pretty good about being able to upgrade projects to a new version with minimal things breaking, _unlike_ Unity), UE5 is really just UE4 with new features and a revamped interface for the most part. Definitely not a good idea at the tail end of a project unless you _really_ want to dedicate the requisite extra time and effort for it, but 6+ months just for the engine upgrade is probably the part that was the red flag, upgrading to UE5 doesn't need a _year's delay_ to upgrade to.
@TehNoobiness 3 ай бұрын
@@Cronosonic Even for a relatively painless engine switch, doing it a month before the original release date is a terrible idea. At that point you should be finalizing everything, especially if you're deploying to console--IIRC the approval process for releasing a game on console can take weeks or even over a month. At that point, if you have a _finished_ game, you should be focused on making sure the launch goes smoothly, especially if players are depending on servers that you own. You should have declared 'feature lock' (i.e., no more new features) a while before that, too, so that your team can focus on fixing bugs without having to worry about new content being added while they test old content.
@Shadowslash1 5 ай бұрын
The fact they start 'defending' using asking for Volunteers for their 'childhood dream' by giving a definition of the word Volunteer tells me what they REALLY thought of their audience. Thinking about it now, adding that to opening where they get financial assistance delayed repeatedly and had volunteers work on it, people were right to be cautious, it sounds like the plan from the start was to cut and run.
@BlackEagleUSA 5 ай бұрын
The worst part about this whole thing is that the game they promised is absolutely possible to build if they really wanted to.
@thientuongnguyen2564 5 ай бұрын
Oh really, then why no one has picked up this "game" to, I dunno, fix it?
@defectiveindustries 5 ай бұрын
@@thientuongnguyen2564 Probably something to do with "Input X, Output Y" When X is larger than Y at start point, why would you bother?
@ceres_lang 5 ай бұрын
@@thientuongnguyen2564...why ... Would they?
@thientuongnguyen2564 5 ай бұрын
@@ceres_lang I was mocking the delusional "gamers" that not only bought this game but defended it with all their teeth and nails proclaiming "another studio will pick it up and make the promised game". Wish I was joking but people are that stupid.
@arvinjay336 5 ай бұрын
The worst part? GAMERS who could not tell that it was all B.S. from the very beginning 🤣🤣
@williek08472 5 ай бұрын
Despite being so wishlisted, I had no idea that this game even existed until it shambled into Early Access and unceremoniously died
@Benefits 5 ай бұрын
So these brothers behind the Fntastic studio basically scammed the Singapore government out of grant money that would've otherwise gone to a legit game development studio.
@TheKaizokuman 5 ай бұрын
”Yeah, we struck it big with this!" "Hey, according to this we actually have to put out a game." "OH SHIT!!!"
@ethanhayes7038 5 ай бұрын
Of all the countries to pull that shit on Singapore might be the worst choice. Their penal system does NOT fuck around.
@thegrayyernaut 5 ай бұрын
@@ethanhayes7038 Yeah, even Ubisoft has to be stuck with Skulls and Bones because they made a deal with the Singaporean government :v
@Toonrick12 5 ай бұрын
That's probably why they nuked their online profiles, they're most likely on the run. Probably in Taiwan or something.
@battlion507 4 ай бұрын
Awww, Uwe Boll would be proud...
@JordiAran 5 ай бұрын
If you ever feel like doing a movie again, "The Emperor's New Groove" would be great for What Happened. It has it all: complete last minute redos, unreasonable fixed deadlines, tons of content left on the cutting room floor. And to top it all off, the final script was only sent for revisions 2 weeks after the movie released!
@NothingOfNoteToSeeHere 4 ай бұрын
And yet, it resulted in a good movie!
@legbert123 4 ай бұрын
Isnt that most Hollywood stuff?
@claytonrios1 5 ай бұрын
In terms of a total and absolute scam, what didn't happen with The Day Before?!
@do3807 5 ай бұрын
Well... Uh... I guess a kickstarter or crowdfunding would've made it hit 100% on the scam bingo card lmao
@claytonrios1 5 ай бұрын
@@do3807 There's still plenty of bingos with what actually happened of course.
@champs_idgaf 5 ай бұрын
It didn't succeed
@claytonrios1 5 ай бұрын
@@champs_idgaf Which is an ending that I'm fine with.
@MyT1m3 5 ай бұрын
All its missing is the surprise inclusion of nfts
@stefanradebach2889 5 ай бұрын
This game is what would happen if Ed Edd N Eddy decided to be game developers.
@horribleIRUKANDJI 5 ай бұрын
Everything about these two guys screams "I've finished a get-rich-quick course, here's my certificate"
@martineastman9855 5 ай бұрын
When you question someone about some sketchy behavior and they respond with the "technical definition" of a word-- there's some serious bullshit afoot.
@Xylophytae 5 ай бұрын
I don't remember the word but it's a type of fallacy where you claim that the oldest meaning of the word is the correct meaning in order to undermine an opponents argument
@martineastman9855 5 ай бұрын
@Xylophytae yes! I believe it's the etymological fallacy?
@princesshannah7 4 ай бұрын
My god. When someone opens their counterargument to accusations of using volunteers to avoid paid labor with breaking down the etymology of the word "volunteer", you know Some Shit is up 😬
@Jean_Pierre_Wehry 5 ай бұрын
Oh gosh. It's like Aliens: Colonial Marines all over again. Showing a high end demo at reveal, and releasing a less than acceptable product. Unbelievable.
@ThonyHedgehog 5 ай бұрын
I still feel that any video update where you see the owner petting a dog is a huge red flag (unless it's a dog food company or something related to animals). It's like saying, "hey look, we like dogs, so we're clearly good human beings".
@DerGeraet205 5 ай бұрын
I'm not really into zombies or extraction-shooters (or many of the AAA release of the last few years), but I have genuinely no clue how those trailers and marketing material made over a million people add it to their wishlists. It's just grey ambience, post-apocalypse setting and occasional zombies
@Marksman3434 5 ай бұрын
For real, don’t get why anyone got hyped for yet another generic-looking zombie apocalypse game set in modern day. Like, nothing about that idea is either innovative nor sound fun
@DerGeraet205 5 ай бұрын
@@Marksman3434 the actual USP of this game was that it was all a scam lol
@Moji55a 5 ай бұрын
GamersTM love realistic, gritty color palette.
@IAmDaDumb1 5 ай бұрын
I think people wanted dayz but with modern graphics
@therapymutt1468 5 ай бұрын
Good god. The "It comes from the *Latin*, y'see" moment is just. Other than that being something literally everyone needs to jam in their heads as a scam alert when it comes in response to a question, I took 2 fucking years of Latin, and everything I learned about the Romans points to someone getting a group nut stomping, high class and low, if they went "Well y'know, fish means thing from water, so that's why I'm giving you these sponges. Cuz you wanted fish- this is a fish, what"
@larrywalsh9939 5 ай бұрын
I've worked in the video game industry a few times - once I even worked for EA Games, my apologies to everyone. What I can tell you is that the notion of working on a development team as a "volunteer" is appalling. You're going to work for someone and not get paid, to help them put out a multi-million dollar project that is (theoretically) going to make them rich? Then why work for free?
@Endriu192 4 күн бұрын
You know - Earn much,pay less. This is capitalism
@XD0002 5 ай бұрын
"I already wish I could go back to The Day Before I played this game."
@emilysong2000 5 ай бұрын
You know The Day Before is royally screwed up when it gets its own What Happened episode less than a month after its release!
@DirgeTV 5 ай бұрын
Not even the Saints Row Reboot saw this fast of a fall.
@chrisbrasel8060 4 ай бұрын
@@DirgeTV Even Gollum had time to be talked about. The day before was such a dud this episode was created in a record time.
@ratchetxtreme6591 5 ай бұрын
I love how this game basically speed run in not only coming out of nowhere, not only did it become unplayable, but also destroying the company that distributed it, now that’s impressive.
@fruitjuice225 5 ай бұрын
Thats got to be some sort of new record right there.
@jic1 5 ай бұрын
It destroyed the developer, the distributer seems to still be in business. For now.
@snil4 5 ай бұрын
2 words: Engine switch. If you hear these words you can say your prayers on said project
@DirgeTV 5 ай бұрын
@@snil4 I can't think of any games that ever did well when an engine switch happened at such a crucial time in development.
@alekslic3385 5 ай бұрын
@@DirgeTV watch some older episodes of "what happened?", you'll see how often this hapens.
@LKOnyx 5 ай бұрын
Literally the Fyre Festival in video game form. All that's missing is a famous rapper like Ja Rule backing it the entire time
@AeonPhoenix 3 ай бұрын
At least the studio didn't try to set up shop in the Bahamas.
@moonjelly5 Ай бұрын
@@AeonPhoenixThey picked a different island nation (Singapore).
@AeonPhoenix Ай бұрын
@@moonjelly5 Shouldn't Singapore have much tougher laws against financial scammers? Especially if they aren't hesitant on whipping you if you drop gum or giving you the death penalty for smuggling heroin?
@k_kubes 5 ай бұрын
I think that's the fastest "What happened?" video after game release, just tells you everything about the quality of this game
@TheBoardGarage 5 ай бұрын
I’m so proud that Tommy Tallarico single-handedly created this amazing MMORPG.
@TriforceWisdom64 5 ай бұрын
You know who else is very proud? His mom.
@Rammsoldat 5 ай бұрын
Id never heard of this game until after it launched and there were a spate of videos like this. Looking at the story of its development im shocked anyone bought it at all.
@joser1853 4 ай бұрын
So The Day After.
@allegedlyfalse6779 5 ай бұрын
On one hand, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt... On the other hand, this was a scam. Plain and simple, they made off with money meant to go into the game and are now living on a beach somewhere.
@TetsuDeinonychus 5 ай бұрын
This! Everything about this game was such obvious bullshit the actual game should have just been a screen saying "Ha-Ha-Ha Sucker! You just got scammed!" (which would have even been a more fun game!)
@ranonadg 5 ай бұрын
On the plus side, 200k units sold is very little in terms of profit even if they were all in USD and received in Taiwan. Yeah, they probably got the dev funds as well due to those grants, but the kinds of losers who would pull this kind of thing are also the kinds of losers who would blow through that money in less than a year. Even better, they made themselves exceptionally public, the faces of the game and the company. No one in the industry is going to be willing to work with them again, so the likelyhood is that they'll end up hugely in debt, being relieved all their expensive toys and property, and stuck begging what few fans they might still have for handouts.
@gtsgreatteacherscathach5550 5 ай бұрын
Must be a new record to have a game shut down in a mere 4 days.
@ox_trueprotagonistchrisred9085 5 ай бұрын
When developers get lazy, this is the result of a game
@ziryo8859 5 ай бұрын
There was a game called The Culling II that shutdown after about a week, so, yes, I guess this is the new speedrun any% shutdown game champion
@cowboyquebecanimations3068 5 ай бұрын
Oh trust me, as a wrestling fan The World Wildlife Fund sued the World Wrestling Federation for using the same initials and won, even though you couldn't confuse the two so when it comes to similar names thing it can go wrong so quick
@ranonadg 5 ай бұрын
Yeah, that has more to do with what judge you get than anything else, especially given how there's no enforceable ethics rules regarding 'gifts' from 'anonymous parties'.
@cowboyquebecanimations3068 5 ай бұрын
@@emperormegaman3856 but the point I made was it was obvious that you couldn't confuse the two as one was essentially an international known sports company with every bit of merchandise constantly on tv and print
@WitchLunaEstrella 5 ай бұрын
I think it was referred to as an MMO purely because the CEOs didn't actually know that much about what an MMO is (or video games in general tbh) but they thought it sounded cool in the marketing.
@zanethezaniest274 5 ай бұрын
Wow 24 days since the launch of this game to getting a What Happened. That might be a new record by McMuscles entertainment.
@jasonofa3633 5 ай бұрын
Oooh, boy. This is going to be Fntastic.
@kR-qj7rw 5 ай бұрын
Fan4tastic
@jic1 5 ай бұрын
7:36 Their definition of "volunteer" seems to be 'anybody who works for us who isn't a literal slave'.
@neliaironwood7573 5 ай бұрын
If you take in mind gacha games, which, unsurprisingly are incredibly notorious for having very short lifespans, with 2023 being no stranger to gachas shutting down in less than a year, Closers RT shut down in a record 2 days, and Wave Naminori Boys shut down in three days straight following a prolonged month-long maintenance.
@NewMateo 5 ай бұрын
Honestly the day before just proves that there is a huge market / want for a new proper open world zombie survival mmo. It just a shame how this one ended up but I hope it spurs actual legit devs to explore this type of game.
@suedenim 5 ай бұрын
I just kind of assumed such a thing would have already existed and been released ages ago.
@Mariodash23 5 ай бұрын
@@suedenim There is, but I don't think there are any zombie survival shooters in big cities like New York.
@lumirairazbyte9697 5 ай бұрын
That’s the hype Fortnite was built for in the first place. Paradoxically the gig worked successfully.
@invalid_420 5 ай бұрын
@@lumirairazbyte9697 fortnite was originally a PvE tower defense game, never an MMO
@ranonadg 5 ай бұрын
@@suedenim The problem is that the logistics of a zombie apocalypse game on that scale make it unfeasible. To be exciting, zombie games require a large number of undead, many more than enemies in a lot of games, and often need a large variety of models instead of like, four or five for a given faction rank. The main ways to make this sort of processing requirement not require the top 1% of uber-computers is to either severely limit the scope of the world itself (and thus remove the whole point of being an open world in the first place) or deliberately make the game's graphics and programming "retro", which would never fly in a game that was AAA (or masquerading as such). We're talking behavior, pathfinding, location information, spawning controls, and dozens of other variables for what could be millions of entities all at once, in real time. Most games that feature that level of entity control are things like FFXIV and WoW, which aren't open world and are further segmented into server shards. You just can't accomplish an open world zombie survival game while also having AAA levels of fidelity and polish in the industry as it stands today.
@luigi364 5 ай бұрын
The day before has gotta be one of the most interesting cases because of how fast things went when the game actually came out. One game that I'm interested in knowing more about it's development would be Indivisible by the late Lab Zero.
@Mrnotpib 5 ай бұрын
Thank you Matt McMuscles, who has muscles despite being a skeleton. Thank you. Keep fighting. I don’t care what Grunkle Derrick says.
@GiggaGMikeE 5 ай бұрын
Ummm you are a skeleton with muscles. Most living skeletons are...
@jic1 5 ай бұрын
@@GiggaGMikeE Most don't have a bare skull for a head, though.
@Ekraelum 5 ай бұрын
If you think well about it, your body is a skeleton riding a flesh mecha
@JackFoxtrotEDM Ай бұрын
Skeletor is a skeleton with muscles and he's one of my favorite villains of all time, so I mean...
@BackdoorBarnyard 2 ай бұрын
The first time I had heard of the Day Before was when Steam sent me an email saying the game was on my wishlist, and was now for sale. I have no idea how that happened.
@VersaceJesus 5 ай бұрын
0:32 "I did nothing wrong. I did everything correct." - Gotosvev brothers
@banditbringer881 5 ай бұрын
For a game that supposedly hype up so much. I've never heard a damn thing about this game untill release.
@notyoursavior78 5 ай бұрын
Same I don't get it? I'm on Steam, I am on the internet. I never heard of this game one time until it actually came out. Sure I don't go to IGN anymore but I would have thought I saw it mentioned somewhere.
@aelfwynn94 5 ай бұрын
@@notyoursavior78 same, its not scam its just trash game :D
@galadriusthemighty 5 ай бұрын
I really didn't think we'd get a Day Before episode so soon. Bravo!
@Esitaro3670 5 ай бұрын
No better way to end the year with a Wha Happun about a scam
@fantisu 4 ай бұрын
4:27 This moment in the video perfectly demonstrates the brothers' personality, two guys trying to appear friendly and sympathetic, when in fact they are nothing more than egocentric bosses who disrespect anyone they consider inferior, and do not accept that their work method is stupid and ineffective.
@fluffskunk 3 ай бұрын
Their faces scream "well-practiced liars"
@spas9001 5 ай бұрын
I and the other 10 people who still remember D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die appreciate the heavy usage of its soundtrack on this episode
@inteligentidiot7233 5 ай бұрын
I would like to congratulate The Day Before on unseating Duke Nukem Forever on becoming the greatest vaporware ever.
@Cosmic-Bear. 5 ай бұрын
But Duke Nukem Forever eventually came out, it's not really vaporware...
@inteligentidiot7233 5 ай бұрын
@@Cosmic-Bear. I was in middle school when it was announced and going through a second divorce when it was released. It counts.
@Cosmic-Bear. 3 ай бұрын
@@inteligentidiot7233 No, it doesn't lol The definition of vaporware isn't software that took a long time to come out, it's software that straight up never did. If it comes out it's not vaporware.
@Vulkans 5 ай бұрын
Oh my lord thank you for mentioning Abandoned. As the entire The Day Before dumpster fire was unfolding before my eyes, I could not help but be reminded of it.
@XDarkEnigmaX 5 ай бұрын
I want that Harry Potter Sonic Obama backpack.
@TheLegoMaster261 5 ай бұрын
I’ve always seen the day before on my KZfaq subscriptions and on news articles but I ever actually knew the full details of the fiasco. So I really appreciate you making this well-researched and concise video on the matter, thanks.
@Vaennylla 5 ай бұрын
I've been waiting for this! Glad you could make it before the end of the year.
@ZachGatesHere 5 ай бұрын
There have been so many videos on this topic but I was really looking forward to this one.
@D3D3D 5 ай бұрын
Can't imagine a better video to finish the year. Thanks a lot!
@Xello-qy6li 5 ай бұрын
I was litterally waiting for this topic to be covered by you in the last couple of days.
@Aki_Lesbrinco 5 ай бұрын
Like always, awesome video. I've been hooked on this channel for a couple of months, I can't believe I hadn't subscribed until today.
@Boss_Fight_Wiki_muki_twitch 5 ай бұрын
i want a "What Happened?" on Starfield
@AlexZenigata 5 ай бұрын
People getting hyped for this type of game should leave Earth altogether. How did you not see the blatant signs of "Hmm this is suspicious, better wait than to buy in the hype"?
@worldofthought8352 5 ай бұрын
Well of course. Any news when Bisontopia will be released?
@platypuspracticus2 5 ай бұрын
Out of curiosity: did that de-listing nuke all the wishlisting? Because that'd be really useful if that wishlisting number was a fraud.
@LaztstaNd 5 ай бұрын
I'm 100% sure it was botted out the ass, but I blame IGN and Nvidia for helping this obvious scam, get some legit wishlistings along the way. Their discord and subreddit were barren, certainly nowhere near "most wishlisted game on Steam" vibes at all.
@BricksOfSteel 5 ай бұрын
The game doesn't usually get removed from wishlists even after delisting, I believe. I think I still have some delisted games on mine...
@Nobody-ud6ou 5 ай бұрын
I love how they respond to accusations of asking for unpaid labor to work on their game by stating the definition of the word "volunteer."
@periodvicky 5 ай бұрын
woke up in the middle of the night and i can’t sleep this video is exactly what i needed thank you ❤
@melvinshine9841 5 ай бұрын
This might be the most "What Happened?" story I've ever seen. It takes a special kind of failure for a game and the company that made it to cease to exist barely a month after the game's release.
@Mattriix 4 ай бұрын
The "Fake it till you make it" brothers didn't realize their game can get refunded and basically went off the grid
@MrBeardsley 5 ай бұрын
The voice work on that Lionel Hutz gag was just 😙🤌
@MitoNova583 5 ай бұрын
I remember keeping up with this mess back when they only had the scam trailers Like, there's no possible way they could've ever made something so competent with that much scope
@mekman4 5 ай бұрын
Great coverage as always, and Happy New Year!
@mekman4 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the Heart! Please take care of yourself, you have a lot, a whole lot to look forward especially in the New Year!
@eljuanoreviews7841 5 ай бұрын
Reading comments like this idk man just warms my heart a little @@mekman4
@joekirby9482 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the laughs. Wishing you a happy new year Matt!
@user-oi7hq4gu2n 5 ай бұрын
I think the cute Doggo was the main culprit in this tumultuous string of lies, scams and BS'ery! Kinda like the Shiba Inu Doggo in Silent Hill 2, in the secret ending at least! Nice touch with the "Where in the World" segment that ultimately answered nothing and was made even greater with the big band Sonic Unleashed Werehog Music! I literally played that one minute part five times before completing the video, cause Matty McMuscles confused stuttering was so damned funny!!!!
@mkcstealth7624 5 ай бұрын
I knew nothing of this game yet this is one of the most batshit and hilariously fascinating dumpster fires ive seen, and considering its the video game industry, thats saying something
@josealvelo3348 5 ай бұрын
You’re the only skeleton I don’t want to stop from fighting, for the fight you fight is necessary.
@ninja1man4u 5 ай бұрын
Yes been looking forward to this
@Setsuzoku 5 ай бұрын
Been waiting for this one!
@EastyyBlogspot 5 ай бұрын
Fntastic could now even afford another vowel
@jamest1513 5 ай бұрын
Ahhh, "volunteer.". From the Latin "volunteer," which means to volunteer.
@StellarGryphon 5 ай бұрын
Oh yeah, was absolutely waiting for this one
@captainoftheneverdie21 5 ай бұрын
Been looking forward to this the minute I learned anything about this topic
@Totavier 5 ай бұрын
22:28 I liked that new segment, hope to see again in future episodes. Even if the mistery last 15 seconds, lol!. 😂
@goodshotcam 5 ай бұрын
Every statement from Faketastic made me actually laugh out loud.
@FatalFist 4 ай бұрын
STEAM's role in this was awesome. They even issued refunds to players who didn't even request them just to affect Fntastic.
@Likaboss480 5 ай бұрын
ive been waiting for this one
@u235-guzzler 5 ай бұрын
I'm still insanely confused that people genuinely fell for a scam like this-
@LemonTheKing900 5 ай бұрын
Yeah lmao when I see the first gameplay trailer I think to myself no way this games is real it look like one of those fake Anthem trailer all over again.
@hamidahrashid4503 5 ай бұрын
Eh , two thing are infinite:😒 1)The universe 2)Human's stupidity
@RedneckOgre9000 5 ай бұрын
It was never anything more than a scam.
@chaosprune 5 ай бұрын
very meaningful and curated content
@Fang.1 5 ай бұрын
Ohh yeah been lookin' forward to this one
@ThePlatinumangel 5 ай бұрын
Knowing (most of) the ending in advance, this was like watching a train build steam as it runs toward an oil tanker.
@rayanderson5797 5 ай бұрын
I really like The Day Before. I didn't play it, mind, but I've really enjoyed the news circuit on it.
@PocokPresents 5 ай бұрын
I know you know all about meaningful curated-style content! :D Love these sneak disses.
@datemasamune2904 5 ай бұрын
People always talking about the day before, but never the day after.
@mattr75 5 ай бұрын
This has to be a record for the quickest amount of time from a game's release to a What Happened episode
@Mene0 5 ай бұрын
I never heard about this before launch either. Hard to believe it actually garnered so much attention
@ExExister 5 ай бұрын
Banger to end the year, very nice 😊
@evan258 5 ай бұрын
I already knew the story to this game but I was so excited to see a What Happened? video from Matt too!
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