• Modders are working on an offline mod for troubled game The Day Before.

• Development studio Fntastic has closed its doors and the game’s servers will shut down in January.

• Luci0 and fskartd are working on a crack that would allow players to play the game offline.

  • Abucketofpuppies@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t understand why everyone is calling it a scam. Everyone got refunded, right? Seems like they just had a better marketing team than development team.

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      11 months ago

      The scam was likely on the investors who funded the game for 5 years.

      It was only sold, presumably, so they couldnt be taken to court for failing to deliver. Technically they did publish. It was just a flop

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      11 months ago

      Just because they started giving out refunds because of public outcry doesn’t mean it wasn’t a scam.

      There are some games which under deliver or are broken on release, but this was barely a game- yet they shipped it anyway.

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        11 months ago

        It’s not the studio that handles refunds, it’s Steam. They hold onto the money for a while after a sale is made, and didn’t even have a chance to hand it over before the studio died.