The Day Before studio claims it was the victim of a hate campaign by deceptive bloggers

videogameschronicle.com:

Fntastic has claimed that The Day Before was the victim of a “hate campaign” carried out by “certain bloggers” who profited from being deceptive.

The claims were made as part of a wider defence of its working practices and the controversial game, which had its servers closed this week less than two months after its release.

Fntastic said it wanted to release an official response addressing “a lot of misinformation” that has recently been spreading online.

The studio announced its closure in December, just four days after the release of The Day Before, saying the game had “failed financially” and it lacked the funds to continue.

Billed as a post-apocalyptic open-world MMO survival game set in the US following a deadly pandemic, the game was mired in controversy for much of its known development.

A perceived lack of transparency from Fntastic, which was seemingly hesitant to show off the game at length, along with the revelation that the title was being largely developed by volunteers, and accusations that promotional materials included “ripped assets” from several other games, led to scepticism that the product would live up to the hype generated by its initial reveal in 2021.

⚡Recently, a lot of misinformation has emerged on the Internet from supposedly anonymous sources. Fntastic provides an official response to these statements.<a target="_blank" rel=«noopener» class=«link-external» href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/fntastic?src=hash&ref_src=» https:>#fntastic

— Fntastic (@FntasticHQ) <a target="_blank" rel=«noopener» class=«link-external» href=«https://twitter.com/FntasticHQ/status/1750076648798785989?ref_src=» https:>January 24, 2024

Once the most wishlisted game on Steam, it suffered multiple delays, including a lengthy hold-up blamed on a trademark dispute, before finally releasing last month to