Sometimes something seems to be a scam and, to the surprise of very few, it ends up being one. Common sense says that the people behind this kind of movement would no longer have a place in the industry where they have carried out these actions. That after selling smoke with a game that clearly never existed, the developers behind it could not try to make another game to see if it works again. But it seems that we don’t live in a world where common sense works that way.
The same week that The Day Before servers close their doors, a game whose lifespan has been exactly 45 days, it has been revealed that its developers have started working on a new game. Because, according to CD-Action, after speaking with a former employee of the studio, the founders of Fntastic, who were behind The Day Before, are already looking for staff for their new game.
More specifically, the brothers Eduard and Aisen Gotovstev would be developing a mobile game, for which they would be hiring new employees as if nothing had happened. They are even offering job positions to those members of the studio who were fired or left their position on bad terms.
If you don’t know the story, we extensively covered it on Softonic. But it can be summarized as the Fntastic studio claiming to be developing an open-world online game, inspired by The Last of Us, that promised to be a technological and mechanical revolution. The result was a game that didn’t even correspond to the genre they claimed it belonged to, with the studio quietly closing down, Steam having to refund all game buyers, and the game servers shutting down on January 22nd.
While we still don’t know more details about the new mobile game by Eduard and Aisen Gotovstev, it seems unlikely that it will be anything more than smoke. If not directly a new scam. That’s why we will keep an eye on all the news about it, not because it’s interesting what may come out of their efforts, but because of the more than likely fiasco that may come out of here. And the negative repercussions it may have on users who, unknowingly, may fall into the traps of a couple of brothers who have shown that they are only good at leaving everyone who trusts them in the lurch.
