In the short time since Fntastic announced the studio's closure, most of The Day Before's official Discord server has evaporated.
Predictably, users on The Day Before Discord server are once again enthusiastically venting their frustrations, accusing Fntastic of perpetrating a scam right from the start, and this time there's no mod team to put a stop to it. There was a presumption that patches would be forthcoming to smooth out at least some of the roughest bits, but that's apparently now off the table. The Steam rating crashed to 'mostly negative' and the official Day Before Discord was temporarily locked down as moderators struggled to keep a lid on the upset.
Instead, it bore a number of characteristics of an extraction shooter, similar to Escape From Tarkov except not very good. Server issues were widespread, but players were also surprised to discover that it wasn't quite the zombie-infested survival MMO they were expecting. After an extended period of hype, controversy, and deep skepticism surrounding The Day Before that saw it temporarily removed from Steam over a trademark dispute, it finally launched on Steam on December 7 and immediately ran into trouble.
