The Day Before, previously Steam's second most-wishlisted game, has been relatively quiet since it was brought low by a trademark dispute from a calendar app called, well, TheDayBefore. The dispute saw its Steam page delisted, its YouTube videos taken down, and its developer, Fntastic, put out a series of strange and ill-judged comments that had fans wondering if the entire game's development was some kind of elaborate hoax.
But Fntastic co-founders Eduard and Aisen Gotovtsev have now shed a bit more light on what's going in during an interview with WellPlayed, where they addressed the ongoing trademark problems, the studio's use of volunteer labour, and dropped a new trailer that once again succeeded in conveying very little information at all.
Asked about the game's legal situation and the status of its Steam release, Fntastic (or one of its co-founders, but which one is unclear) said that it believes that «power is in the truth,» and that it was an «indisputable fact» that the studio was «the first to start using this name related to the video game». I suspect TheDayBefore (the calendar app) might have something to say about that, though, given its maker's insistence that it has, in fact, been using the name since the app was first distributed in 2010.
The Gotovtsevs aren't letting that get to them, though. They went on to reassure everyone that The Day Before's «Steam page will be reinstated soon». «We’ll be back at the top of the wishlists,» they asserted. I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly encouraged. Fntastic's public communications have always felt like the studio is operating on some kind of separate plane of reality, and this doesn't seem any different.
Whatever the studio says, TheDayBefore (again,
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