The Day Before launches to 'overwhelmingly negative' Steam reviews as players complain it's 'not an open world MMO'
pcgamer.comThe Day Before has a bit of a weird history. We recently summarized it here, but the gist is that it's an open-world survival MMO—or at least, that's how its combative and zealous developer describes it—that has attracted both hype and skepticism since it was announced, with some questioning whether it even existed at one point. After a fairly long delay apparently related to a trademark dispute, The Day Before proved them wrong and finally launched in early access on Steam today as promised.
As suggested by the «Overwhelmingly Negative» Steam reviews, however, that launch is not going great.
Like most online games, The Day Before's most pressing problem is getting people into its servers without errors. But some of those who have gotten into the post-apocalyptic world—The Day Before has 32,000 concurrents at the time of writing, and it's currently the most viewed game on Twitch—are saying in the Steam reviews that it's not what they expected. Rather than an «open-world MMO» as it's described on the Steam page, they say it's an extraction shooter like Escape From Tarkov, and not a good one.
«No open-world survival elements, it's just an extraction shooter, and a bad one at that,» wrote one Steam reviewer.
«This is not a Open World MMO, This Is a small area extraction shooter,» wrote another.
Genres are tricky, and mean different things to different people. Destiny 2 didn't fall into the traditional MMO box when it launched, for example, but over time people started referring to it as one. So with the caveat that there is no consensus on what an MMO is or isn't, judging by what we're seeing on Twitch, The Day Before doesn't look like what we'd normally refer to as an open world MMO.
The way players drop into the map,
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