The Day Before - What Happened?

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[deathsyth]

Is this the record for fastest 'What Happened' ever from the game's release to actual episode?

[arcanesilence]

Fntastic invited us to take part in a test task of writing a soundtrack for their game. The task was formulated as poorly as possible and with contradictions, and they gave 2 references, each of which is different from the other and not similar to what was in the task text. As a result, we were not hired, and, of course, the task was not paid for; they chose a person who did not even try to somehow fulfill the points written in the task, but did something completely different: an ordinary trailer track.

[ThusSpokeFlexo]

The head devs giving an address while petting a dog should have been an obvious red flag for anyone who's seen any kind of apology video

[Pantsmode]

Me having a hangover: "the day before - what happened?"

[BenetteG]

I remember someone commented that "Matt McMuscle will make a 'What happened' episode of this game", during the release night of Day Before. Well here it is, he got his wish.

[Damian_]

The fact that they deployed a Doggo Of Distraction in one of their videos was a huge red flag. Reeks of the "your employer telling you *we're a family"* kinda stuff.

[definer]

To be fair, making your game unavailable a few days after release is very innovative

[chinadth]

Anyone who has ever worked in the industry knew it would be a scam.

All of these stupid phrases like "haters will see the truth", "this game is our dream come true", "please don't call it a scam" made it obvious.

I still don't know how it was the most wishlisted game, though. No idea if it's possible, but I wouldnt be surprised if they used bots for that.

[Antroid]

There is an investigative video I watched that used admissions from former workers, and basically the last part from this video is key. The bros pretty much hired inexperienced developers and put them through hell. They would constantly demand new things inspired by popular games. It didn't even start as multiplayer - they just "suggested" (mandated) it later. Huge amounts of work would constantly get scrapped. Basically the brothers were some of the most incompetent, insane bosses imaginable, and they kept luring inexperienced people to work on their game with promises of working on an AAA product.

[ItsJustTrevor]

Their Discord server was also OBLITERATED by people that played the game. It got so bad, that they DELETED THE SERVER IN ITS ENTIRETY

[GulfCoastNihilist]

For a game that was supposedly hyped to the moon, I never heard of it until after it came out.

[LN_]

It's still nuts to see The Day Before become a literal non-entity within the span of a week.

Like, no other video game has genuinely come close.

[visitingforgefather]

Boy, I kind of wonder how all those people who kept insulting everybody who were sceptical about this scam are coping.

[Shadowslash]

The fact they start 'defending' using asking for Volunteers for their 'childhood dream' by giving a definition of the word Volunteer tells me what they REALLY thought of their audience. Thinking about it now, adding that to opening where they get financial assistance delayed repeatedly and had volunteers work on it, people were right to be cautious, it sounds like the plan from the start was to cut and run.

[BlackEagleUSA]

The worst part about this whole thing is that the game they promised is absolutely possible to build if they really wanted to.

[TehNoobiness]

Pulling an engine switch the month before original release date is _insane._ That should have been the first and most immediate sign that this project was dead in the water.

[williek]

Despite being so wishlisted, I had no idea that this game even existed until it shambled into Early Access and unceremoniously died

[fantisu]

4:27 This moment in the video perfectly demonstrates the brothers' personality, two guys trying to appear friendly and sympathetic, when in fact they are nothing more than egocentric bosses who disrespect anyone they consider inferior, and do not accept that their work method is stupid and ineffective.

[JordiAran]

If you ever feel like doing a movie again, "The Emperor's New Groove" would be great for What Happened. It has it all: complete last minute redos, unreasonable fixed deadlines, tons of content left on the cutting room floor. And to top it all off, the final script was only sent for revisions 2 weeks after the movie released!

[Jean_Pierre_Wehry]

Oh gosh. It's like Aliens: Colonial Marines all over again. Showing a high end demo at reveal, and releasing a less than acceptable product. Unbelievable.