A few years ago, it was normal for a study to say that it was developing a game, offer a couple or three tests to specialized media, and no one would ask any more questions. There were no social networks and the fake news and conspiracy they did not fly freely through the air like they do now. So if you win the lottery of that virality, you’re dead. Or so the creators think The Day Before.
Delays with the smell of scam?
The point is that The Day Before is having a somewhat complicated development process, with comings and goings in the final release dates and constant delays, which for many in these social networks it already means that everything is a bluff, that there is nothing behind it and that everything is a scam. As if there were no real cases equal to or greater than the one in the Fntastic title.
For example Ubisoft, with its Beyond God & Evil 2either Skull & Bones, which continue to go from one date to another aimlessly and without anyone at this point who can guarantee that they will really go on sale. Or Microsoft and Bethesda with Starfieldwhich has also had several delays in the last year and now they tell us that it will be in September when it really lands in stores and on Xbox Game Pass.
So it is normal that from Fntastic they have appeared in the media to say that everything is fine, what The Day Before It will be on sale again on Steam. after it was removed – and raised a lot MORE suspicions – and that players will have a chance to try it out before it’s even released. Through a beta process that will let us know when it will take place.
An MMO that looks like The Last of Us
The game looks really good and we can’t hide how, just at a glance and without going too deep, it reminds us and gives an air of The Last of Us. We do not intend to imagine that it is the same because it will be a massive online role-playing game -as was said before- but we do seems to revolve around an apocalyptic title archetype very much in that line.
Despite The Day Before was officially announced to be in development two years ago, and an initial release date was set for June 2022, it is very possible that its jump to Unreal Engine 5 has had to do with all this rosary of new delays. We cannot rule out that even that last date for the end of the present 2023 will also blow up… but this is what developing videogames far from the power of the greats has to do with it: that sometimes you have to deal with countless obstacles that arise and lead you to another scenario where the only way to fix them is to invest more time.
But from there to thinking that we are facing a scam… don’t you think that Fntastic would be spending too much effort in vain to simply take our money? Surely there are easier ways to do it without so much beta and gameplay published. And cases we have in the past.
