Death of a Game: The Day Before
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Let me think about it:
*_No._*
Yeah that's gonna be a hard *NO*
happy holidays nerd
Let me know when you make a death of a game on it.
1:57 “Recruit iconic characters… like Kirk, Spock, MICHAEL BURNHAM,…”. Stop trying to make Michael Burnham happen, Paramount. They’re the Wesley Crusher of Star Trek.
Kind of a misnomer to call this a Death Of A Game, considering this game didn't have a life to begin with. It speedran all the traits of this kind of failure
World record speed run 🙌🏻😂
Being alive for a couple of days is still considered being alive lol 🤣
Miscarriage of the game
Some might even say that it was dead, The Day Before it released
It died on the vine
I genuinely think anyone who thought this game wasn’t going to end in failure is dumb
Or young, never forget the naivety of youth.
@@Lakeside_Flower I try to remember that every new Ubisoft game is _someone's_ first. It's the only way I can understand why some people say the new one is the best, lol.
Probably say the same with Ubisoft and ea
You just describe 90% of the gamer base🤣
That's unfortunately a lot of people
A company “closing” immediately after releasing a hyped game is seemingly unique. I believe this is not the last we’ll hear of this story.
Not to mention no Investor is gonna call the books when the game is Trending on Streaming Platforms like "A Scam Before" was.....
@@Hellfire918 The insider from Fntastic said that the publisher (Mytona) got a bit worried that the game was getting delayed continuously, so they sent some of their own devs over to check the state of the game, once they found out how bad the situation was, they immediately called for a release and there really wasn't any hope left for Fntastic afterwards.
This game has only proven to me that people forget very easily. These types of games flooded steam when Dayz first became popular. Why everyone is acting like this is the first dev team to try and pull this is baffling to me. This game should've never gotten as popular as it did, people should've remembered. ALL OF THE FLAGS WERE RED!!!!!
Ignorance is a hell of a thing
Yup. For those of us who lived through Steam Greenlight and the golden age of Kickstarter, The Day Before wasn't so much showing red flags as it was just one big game shaped red flag.
Mate, it wasn’t a red flag, IT WAS A RED BANNER
Remember The War Z or whatever it was called? From the people who made that atrocious truck game.
Just play Project Zomboid if you want an actual zombie survival simulator. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think youth plays a factor in this, too. A lot of time has passed since DayZ, and a whole new age bracket of gamers emerge who don’t have the experience to recognize the red flags.
There’s a sucker born every second.
17:00 Every time I see this clip of Fntastic's CEO talking with his white shirt infront of a beach, he makes me think either of a tech guru or a cult leader that you have to assassinate in a Hitman game.
The day before was more of a social experiment than a game.
It all makes sense now.
@@leviticusprime4904 I thought the experiment was who would buy an obvious asset flip hame?
It was honestly an IQ test, anyone who bought that "game" must be dumber than they look. 😅
@@soraceant yep
A needless social experiment, too.
I like to think this was made super quickly because he knew the game was gonna die real quick and had begun production a year before it was out.
The game was supposedly in development for 5 years. But though a lot of mismanagement, restarts, and lack of direction, what finally launched was more like 5 months of work.
@@khandimahn9687I think they were referring to the video, not the game
It was never meant to succeed. It was created to siphon off funds to launder and pay for the brothers lifestyle. This is one of the most obvious and clear examples of fraud in the video game industry to date.
I think they started development the day before they launched it.
@@khandimahn9687 it was proven that they used market place assets throughout the whole game and even the map and UI were all assets as well. just market place bought and no effort was put into this heap of garbage lol.
Maybe it’s because I rarely play on PC, but I genuinely did not hear anything about this game until it was shut down. And talking to other people, it’s kinda crazy how the “most wishlisted game on Steam” was super obscure to everyone I know. I feel like I’m being gaslit into believing people were interested in this game.
I honestly still think there had to be bots or something similar behind the game getting wishlisted as much as it did. I have a hard time believing so many people genuinely fell for such an obvious scam.
@@BucklingSwashes Russians using bot farms to paint a false narrative? Impossible!
Same, the first I heard of it was a PC Gamer article like, six months ago asking if it was a scam.
I heard of it a while ago but never assumed it to be anything more than it turned out to be, a failure at best and a scam at worst. There was no indication that this developer could have pulled off what they promised.
It's bots, this shit used to happen in the greenlight days a lot too, probably 2/3 of those wishlists were bots then it gains traction and actual playerd start following it as that pushes it frontpage. To any dev looking at the game the day before was a clear cheap asset flip (from the later videos), and just flat out faked from the earlier videos. there's nothing in the game from the weapons, to the environments, and the gameplay systems themselves that's not just bought straight off the asset store and cobbled together, that's why they were using volunteers, they didn't need any real dev work so much as just enough to glue together all the assets they bought quickly.
This might be the quickest death in the series yet?
Death of a game any%
Death of a game? It wasn't even alive!
Hyenas, since that game didn't even make it to release. This one, at the very least, took a single, shuddering breath before dying.
This game was barely even born, it's like one of those homonculus experiments where everyone knows it's gonna end badly and when the creature comes out it's an abomination that dies in an hour.
The whole debacle surrounding this game was/is a good lesson in the power of false advertising, if nothing else.
It seems some people just really really want a zombie survival MMO and will ignore any number of red flags around a game that says it’ll give them what they want.
Tbf the amount of zombie survival MMO that are a complete scam on steam is jarring, i really don't get how people still fall for this stuff
to be fair the lesson didn't seem needed since almost everyone just branded this as a scam years before release
It seems like these lessons are entirely useless though, as this kind of thing seems to happen every two years or so. I'll never understand why "hype" is even considered a good thing anymore - why not just wait and see?
If Cyberjunk 2077 didn’t teach the gaming community a lesson then nothing will. Blizzard/Bethesda/EA/343 Industries spend more on advertising and hype than on the games themselves and it is working great since most games are shit but generate bajillions of dollars anyways.
people?
learn?
hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
next you'll say the sky is blue
People should go check the day before subreddit, if you're having a bad day, you'll surely get a chuckle and a sense of "thank god...i could have been like them"
I wonder how long it will take for the sub to get abandoned. Currently, sh!tting on this game is an ongoing trend, an once the trend loses its steam, people won't care about the sub anymore.
@@StanleyNumber427 It's not just shitting on the game anymore, they've moved on to post irrelevant memes on the sub, amingat the occasional "this game was an amazing experience" troll posts
This must be a new record for a death of a game, the minute this thing launched I immediately thought "can't wait for NerdSlayers video on this in a few months", didn't thing it would be in the same month the game launched 😂
I mean, he's gotta have been just making the file for this *long* before the eventual 'release' day.
Nah Hyenas came out before it even launched lmao
A moment of silence for everyone who never had a chance to get those sweet cowboy hats. Everything is not alright, alright, alright 😢
Honestly, the two guys at the head should have launched an NFT line instead. They would have been BILLIONAIRES, AND gotten away scot free!
I'm honestly shocked that so many people actually expected something from bunch of indie devs from Russia without massive funding behind and shady history.
What’s even sadder is that this is one of the only third person extraction shooters out there, people are crying out for a great one, on both console and PC.
@@RobsRemixes ı mean while not that good Hawked is trying something as a game ı guess ?
Ehhh Tarkov exists.
@@jordannoell4222Tarkov is not AAA MMO
@@Dat_Jonx Tarkov's scope and scale during the intial early acess release rivaled what most AAA games promise. Many of those promises where erased from existence once the dev realized the technical nightmare it would be to implement them. Thing like a consistent world and bridging all levels together.
I'm betting the brothers anticipated to make millions from sales but when they saw the astounding numbers of refunds and STEAM even going against their own TOS to refund users (with or without their consent even) outside of the 2hr mark, they saw their scheme falling apart. Just looking at old footage of them now, I could imagine the look on their faces going from glee with money signs in their eyes to sudden horror as everything starts to fall apart. Kind of like watching your bank account jump to 10 billion out of nowhere and then rappidly scrolling down back to 0. They probably saw this in real time, laughed at the people who purchased in droves and then saw refunds start coming in. They tried to cut tail and run but then were left even more shook as STEAM delisted and proceeded to award refunds to all players - even those who didn't request a refund.
Surprised to see their MS Teams clone didn't get mentioned, I feel like that is definitely part of the story as well.
Tbh from seeing other videos, there seems to be quite a lot missing from this video. For example the teams rip off thing and the fact that the beta was just an internal test and not public. I get that maybe it's intended to be a short video and covering everything would take like 40 mins but still.
And we thought Marvel's Avenger is a DOAG speedrun...
What’s crazy is that if the Multiverse theory is true in quantum physics, then there is a universe where we got the promised the day before game that was a perfect mix of dayz and the division.
this game might be the quickest i've ever seen a game die
I feel like it's important to note that there was no beta. They announced it, only to then say it was for volunteers only, and then we found out that the discord mods (who are considered volunteers) never got access to any kind of beta.
Oh wow
I remember people saying this game was fake and studio scamming investors on a fake product. Surprised it even released tbh.
"these DOAGs start earlier and earlier" we have a new record
You sure did get this one out fast lol
It's straight up insane just how fast this game was deemed a "financial failure", enough to cancel a studio.
I truly hope that this game teaches people to be smarter consumers
If Ride to Hell and Star Citizen didn't even do that, what makes you think THIS will make people learn?
@@dragonbornexpress5650 It’s a hope. I doubt it’ll stop entirely of course
This will probably be an unbeaten record for a longggg time for the fastest "Death of a game" 😂
Really good video, I just wish that a few more things were touched upon, such as that "public test" actually being a closed test only for the dev team to play (meaning it's not actually a beta, it's just an internal playtest), and the rampant plagiarism in all of their advertising (the font from The Last of Us, the screenshots and overall setting of The Division, trailer voice over ripping off RDR2's trailer lines, the overall shots in some trailers ripping off shots from COD: Cold War trailers).
Outside of that, I enjoyed this dive into a surprisingly quick death!
I was surprised that so many people was high on copium defending this game when there was no reason to. From the beginning of the announcement it all semed a bit suspicious, then it just got more suspicious with every update or news cycle-
So many people saw this scam since it was so obvious and yet gamers still fell for it.
Sure some TH-camrs like Dr. Disrespect and a few others were shilling for the game but it was so obviously a scam that if you fell for it then it is as much your fault as it is the shills. Most wish listed game, c'mon people.
This has to be the quickest death of a game of all time.
Thanks for posting this so soon. I had been wondering what the fuss about this game was about and your videos are as informative and digestible as ever thank you. Also, it’s a very welcome addition to this lonely afternoon.
It was only a matter of time before nerdSlayer got on the case.🕵
There are a few games out there being made to give the middle finger to devs who made a game that had great potential but fumbled the hell out of it. Like Worlds Adrift and Dream World. There is a dev team that is making a game like Worlds Adrift called Voids Adrift and while the marketing doesn't specifically say they are doing it as a F*** you to Worlds Adrift shutting down you can sense it from the trailers and stuff. And Then for Dream World I'm pretty sure its callum upton and a bunch of others who came right out and said "Yeah we're making this to show the devs of Dream World how actually dumb they are for trying to scam people out of their money with their broken mess of a game." (Paraphrasing of course but still)
But TLDR my point is I hope a dev team who actually wanted this game to succeed comes out and shows these assholes how its really done.
This was a "death of a game" any% speedrun wr
Love videos like your and KiraTVs coverage of this game. What a wild ride this story was. Predictable? Sure but still wild.
14:56 this is like how World of Tanks seems to think it’s an MMO
👏👏👏Thanks man! And Merry Christmas.
The funny thing about them saying about paying off the people they own money too , is the money from people buying the game on steam is in a holding account for the first month and does not get pay out till after that first month , so they got no ones money who buy the game .
The reminds of the no man’s sky hype. To hear people talk about what they believed to be in game pre launch vs what was actually there had very little overlap.
More than any other game you've ever covered, I feel like this one deserves what it got.
Happy Holidays Nerdslayer 🎄
Same to you!
I knew it was coming but damn what a fantastic Christmas gift. Thank you 🙏
Woahh, I did not expect that you'll cover The Sims Online on your next case;
When I saw this game for the first time I instantly knew “damn nerd slayers about to make a banger video”
I thought this was a making of mockumentary about how you make your vids and realized how much i want one
Ohoho, I’ve been waiting for this!!
Ah perfect thing to relax after a coming home after a long Christmas day haha.
It feels like every other month this year a game breaks the Death of a Game Record for fastest dead game.
Feels strange to hear how hyped this game was, as I've never heard of it.
The miscarriage of a game
The funny thing about this game is, I never heard of it till its release and eventual shutdown.
It's so funny seeing this video not too long after the game literally released lol
I cannot think of a more appropriate death of a game subject, not because of how quickly it failed but because it is a genuine mystery to me how the thing got so popular to begin with
I saw this for the scam it was when my friends showed me the 1st trailer....also notice how the owners always talked about the game from some ski lodge like location typically in expensive cold weather gear.... almost as if they were never in Singapore....I mean Singapore is a City State just south of Malaysia, it doesn't have a Mountain Range, it's a Tropical Island....
I had this game wish listed, waited for some play footage that never came, then took it off the list sometime during the spring. One of those feelings that it was a dud.. Quietly went back to a classic game of 7 Days to Die.
Thx for the video!
Why do these two brothers look like the world's first living NPCs?
"Death of a game"? That implies it was alive at a point to begin with and that's not the case at all, it came out of the womb not breathing
Closers RT shut down in a record two days in Korea, which though considering that gacha games are notorious for having very short lifespans, I doubt we'll see gacha games on this series.
Prior to that, it was Wave Naminori Boys which shut down in only three days excluding the prolonged maintenance.
I’ve been looking forward to this
This is probably the shortest Death of a Game video. That says it all.
I should gather the family around the fireplace to watch this video
hey i love your videos, i was wondering if youd ever do a video about Minimum, its a game i loved back in the day but it died out of nowhere.
i feel sorry for the people that actually did the work on the game. Hope they at least gained some experience they can use in future projects.
Honestly I didn't know anything about this game and glad I missed when it released. I had it wishlisted because of the tags and didn't look past that. Zombie MMO sounded interesting and I didn't know how they'd do it. I imagine at least some of the wishlists were just that, "This is neat and I'll see where this goes."
There's a market for this type of game. If Ubisoft added infected into The Division 2, that would be amazing.
It died the day before it was launched
Those two guys were involved in at least one other game funding scam I've seen but can't remember. If I caught that then someone else is going to put this together and I can't wait to see the whole story behind these creeps.
The game seems to be littered with references to real world companies (e. g., BVS Pharmacies/CVS Pharmacies).
If that game was delisted due to a copyright dispute, you’d think they would want to take steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again, but I guess they couldn’t be bothered to or were too busy.
Their plan was create hype, do as little development as possible, make you play past the 2 hour refund window and run off with the money. I said this game didn't exist and ultimately it doesn't as it's been wiped from existence.
it was deadborn, a hollow child who fucking rolled down the stair from the office thru' the window and hit the local taxi cab.
I've been following the drama since it was first announced, and I never once thought this game was going to be made. It seemed more like a demo reel or proof of concept rather than a real game, especially considering their pitch of the game.
This one gets so much deeper than the video goes into here though, between the actual origins of the studio using the Singapore address to sidestep the law (the studio is russian), the fact that the game itself is little more than a quick asset flip (literally everything from the gameplay, weapons, and city itself are bought), this was never meant to be an actual game beyond just enough to get onto steam, and did it fail? I think it did exactly what the studio wanted ,the studio might be "shut down" but the two owners walked away with millions total. There's some good videos out there breaking it down fully.
The things you mentioned are literally mentioned in the video, what a bizarre self important post that offered nothing of utility.
@@nerdSlayerstudioss ?? I watched through again but I don't see these in the video, you touch on the singapore address not being the actual studio and show a brief glimpse of their financial reports but there's no real dive into why any of that is important or how it fully discredits their claims when they shut down, and didn't see any mention of the asset flip nature, (or the plagiarism, as most of the trailers and dialog are directly lifted from other games) the whole fiasco with this game really feels like just a scaled up version of the scams from the steam greenlight days, bot something up in popularity and make some decent non-gameplay trailers until people start following it because it's popular, then drop something on the store that resembles a game enough to not get immediately taken down/auto-refunded, and rely on not everyone knowing they can refund. I think it's a disservice to look into why it failed without really touching on "was this ever a legitimate attempt to succeed"
The trailer bit is actually mentioned in the video, the only thing I didn't mention (because you are actually lying about it and others are too in random angsty rage) is the asset flip part...to be clear, that's not actually a crime, nor inherently wrong to use free assets...it's wrong to do it in the way they did it, which is something I mentioned during the volunteer segment.
"What bothers me isn't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked." - Mark Baum, "The Big Short"
2023 has certainly been a crazy year for video games
3:30 for the start of the video, past the ad that is almost 10% of the videos length.
13:05 It's probably worth clarifying that the dollar amounts onscreen are in Singapore Dollars, with the current exchange rate that's about US$150k salary and US$232k travel. Travel's still high but that's hardly an extravagant salary -- though it might go further in Singapore than in the US.
Fastest release, closure and death of a game train ever.
This wasn't a death of a game. It was scam by two brothers who were intending to scam people from the beginning. The number of people that fell for it even after plenty of people pointed out that it was a fake game other a year ago, is ridiculous.
I'm surprised by the fact you didn't mention all of the evidence that showed nearly every single asset from this game was bought from asset stores, and not actually created for the game itself.
Every video I've seen on this game mentions how hyped up it was, yet I have never even heard of the game until people started reporting on what a disaster and scam it was. The quietest hype I've ever seen in my life.
Stillborn of a Game
Amazing baseball analogy xD
When I first saw trailers of this game I called it “The Diversion” for both looking like the Division and a cover up. It reminded me of the pie crust Geralt mentioned in the show but the filling would be DLC. Crazy that No Man’s Sky/Cyberpunk/Baldur’s Gate have an opposite.
I've gotten to the point where I'm no longer sad when a game flops... "Can't wait for DoaG" I say to myself 😂❤
Don't think you can call it death of a game when it didn't have a pulse to begin with.
That was a disturbingly specific description of a baseball game tragedy.
TDB is holding speedrun WR
GOD DAYUM
@16:09 is that a Louis Vuitton apocalypse backpack ??
This was the fastest Death of a Game, props to the devs for achieving that!
About Fntastic as a company, it reminds me a lot of the Jedi Knight "KotF" fiasco (15-20 years ago). Even the dev videos with beautiful landscapes in the background adressed to the community.
Modders, asset flippers, abusing the work of other people, just for an absolute immoral desire to get all the money they can before going "wellp, we can't continue this project, thanks for the money, bye bye!".
One of the most hyped games I've never heard of apparently.
Wishlisted it when i first heard about it, the premise seemed interesting, then it was just a question of time, a wait that ended up into nothing, something screamed vaporware a la "Routine" (2012), but at the time i couldnt quite put my finger on what it was, then that first gameplay trailer came out and it was such an obvious asset flip that it instantly made me go "there it is".
All they needed to do was to make a game, or at the very least a proof of concept demo, to get people to talk about it and maybe attract funding.
Instead they went with "we are not a scam" - scammers.
I see what you did here "The Day Before" 🎅
I would like to see the slayer take on the case of Mythgard.
The lighting in the game actually looks pretty decent. I guess they could scrap that into something good.
Most I think comes with unreal engine 5
No way that many people wishlisted it. It had to bots or something. Loading screes have more appeal than anything shown prior release
I've said typed this in the comments of other videos, but I never for a second thought this was a real game. The fakeness of the initial trailer was so blatant it would make Killzone 2 and Ubisoft blush.
I followed the story from almost the beginning, but not because I was interested in playing it - to me, it had the same allure as I guess ARGs have for the horror crowd. It was a horrific, evolving disaster and a mystery to see how bad things get. Every time you thought we found the bottom, a new twist came about. I saw most of them coming, but the genre switcheroo wasn't on my Bingo card, so I give the scam brothers that.
As a game, "SCAM / 10". As an ARG, "10 / 10".
I remember reading somewhere that The Sims Online would be a subscription based service. This was before WoW.