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You won’t believe what people are paying for a copy of The Day Before

The Day Before has been the scam of the year, and now there are people paying outrageous amounts for a game key… that won’t work in days

The amount of senseless dramas in the video game industry is endless. For every game that is released smoothly and with a normal reception, there are twenty that have behind them stories of horror, madness, or a reception that makes you question the sanity of a certain sector of the gaming community. But among the dramas of this 2023, few have had as much impact as that of The Day Before.

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To summarize everything that has happened, The Day Before is a game that has been in development for years and when it arrived on Steam just two weeks ago, it turned out to be nothing like what they promised. It was neither the genre they claimed it was nor did it have the graphics or gameplay they promised. This led to thousands of critical reviews and subsequent thousands of requests for refunds. All this considering that The Day Before became the most anticipated game in the history of the platform. A truly remarkable milestone.

After that, things have only gotten worse. The studio changed its name, removed the game from stores and we said that the drama was hardly over there. And indeed, the drama continues.

There are people who, for some reason that we fail to understand, are willing to pay to play The Day Before. And not just a small amount of money. According to the price tracker GG.deals, there are people who are paying between 215 and 485 dollars for a key of The Day Before. An absolute outrage, as well as something completely incomprehensible, for a game that is not only broken, but also dependent on an online server maintained by a company, to say the least, of questionable reputation.

In fact, those who are buying those keys are better off wanting to speculate with other speculators, because soon they will not serve any server. Today, the official game account has announced that after the closure of the developing company, Fntastic, the game servers will be shut down on January 22nd.

If The Day Before wasn’t a scam, it certainly seems like one. In any case, if you have been affected by it, Mytona, the investor in the project, along with Steam, have committed to refunding the money to all those who purchased the game at the time. A demonstration of good faith that, however, we are sure will not be the end of this story. Because yes: we are still convinced that there is more behind The Day Before. And that sooner or later we will find out.

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The drama of The Day Before continues: now you can no longer buy the game

The Day Before drama continues: now you can no longer buy the game and the company seems to have changed its name for some reason?

There isn’t a week without drama in the world of video games. It’s something we’re already used to. We don’t even bother trying to predict what the next drama will be – it’s basically impossible. Usually, multiple things happen at once. When a company isn’t laying off dozens of employees, E3 gets canceled. And when that’s not the case, a game that seems like a scam stops being sold on Steam.

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It’s no longer possible to buy The Day Before. After the game received an alarming amount of negative reviews because what was promised and what was delivered didn’t resemble each other at all, and following their developers, Fntastic, deciding to shut down in response, now comes their next move. Not only have they purged their YouTube channel and had their CEO, Eduard Gotovtsev, erase all of his digital footprint, but they’ve also removed the game from Steam.

The Day Before, which was still being sold for €39.99 even after the abandonment of its development was announced, is now officially a dead game. Nonetheless, it’s unclear which of the involved parties pulled the trigger. Whether it was Fntastic, the game’s developer; Mytona, its distributor; or Valve itself, the owner of Steam.

In any case, this isn’t the end of The Day Before’s drama. Even after delisting their game, the people behind Fntastic have continued making moves behind the scenes. In another one of their games, The Wild Eight, they’ve changed the developer’s name from Fntastic to Eight Points. This has only raised suspicions that all of this was a pre-planned scam, given the speed at which these changes were made.

While it’s entirely possible that we may never hear anything more about The Day Before or Fntastic, it’s quite probable that this is just another chapter in the story. Having sold at least 201,076 units on Steam, this won’t be over, at least not until every person who paid for the game gets their money back. That’s why we fear this story will continue to linger for a long, long time.

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