The Day Before developer Fntastic shuts down - Gematsu
The Day Before developer Fntastic shuts down - Gematsu
The Day Before developer Fntastic has shut down one week after the game’s Early Access launch, the company announced, citing the game’s financial failure as reason for the closure.
This is actually hilarious. Never trusted them for a minute, but didn’t expect the rugpull to happen after just a few days. Wonder if Steam will refund everyone.
I think they will. Steam keeps the money for something like 30 days before taking its cut, taxes etc and pays the devs.
So normally they still have all the not yet refunded money, they won’t lose anything except time and work force (so money yeah ok…)
Why would it be Steam's responsibility?
Not saying it is, but they have done so before for games with particularly bad launches.
because they are the vendor and not fntastic
It wouldn’t be, but it would be nice if they did it for everyone that requested
In what world is it a financial failure? Didn't they just make an asset flip and potentially made millions of dollars based on player figures? Hard to imagine 100% of people refunded...
The game is a financial failure... after a week of early access? And it was supposed to stay in early access for at least 6 months?
What did they expect exactly?
They had expectations like Square Enix for their western titles. Anything below 10 million sales or something is a flop.
Not terribly surprised they are shutting down, but I am a little shocked that it is happening less than a week after the game released. I kind of expected them to at least attempt the old "we're sorry you are disappointed and are working to fix the game" routine before bolting. Then again judging from all the articles and videos it doesn't really look like there was any way to fix it or even really bring it close to the game they promised they were going to release.
That was fast!
The Day Before developer Fntastic shuts down
So they are shutting down tomorrow?
Ooohh yeah take the money and ruuuun
Very expected that they'd shut down soon after launch, after all the coverup they tried (and failed at) to perform. I just didn't expect that it would be that soon after launch.