2y ago

Zombie MMO The Day Before's player count drops 75% despite a day one patch

www.eurogamer.net

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It's hard to patch out boring, ask Bethesda
- Wow, you stirred up some kind of hornets nest. I, for one, don't see anything wrong with any of your comments. They were perhaps blunt at times, but never derisive or derogatory, just thought I should put it out there.
- Studio or Publisher? Because Wolfenstein and Doom are not boring *EDIT hmm down votes without comments why...I sense redditors. *EDIT sorry if I offended anyone.
  
  Pretty sure the downvotes are because you're behaving like an asshat.
  
  Publisher means that all thwy did is narketting the game ofc they mean Studio
  
  You need to go check out this game. It's like the No Man's Sky situation all over again but on a MUCH, WORSE scale. To put it into context, imagine Bethesda promised Starfield, and delivered Asteroids, but it only sometimes worked.
  What Fntastic put out is borderline criminal for the price they asked you to pay.
  
  Why people care about votes?? I don't get it.
  
  People disliking your post doesn't mean you're entitled to an explanation each time.
  
  Neither is Starfield.
Its not a zombie mmo tho
- lol it's funny, all of the articles I see about this game mention that it's a "Zombie MMO" in the title. Like, I get that it was suggested that it would be, but it's objectively not.
  
  It still calls itself an MMO in its Steam description:
  The Day Before offers players a uniquely reimagined journey into post-apocalyptic open-world MMO survival set in the present day on the US East Coast following a deadly pandemic.
  
  In this particular instance the journalists are doing their job. It was advertised as an MMO. They could change it to "so-called zombie MMO" or something, but that wouldn't be as neutral as the current title.
- It's not an anything anymore. Devs just went under and the servers will be down once they don't get paid. What a farce!!
And the dev has officially declared to be closing it's doors.
https://fxtwitter.com/FntasticHQ/status/1734265789237338453
- Reads list of games they published "Hmm never heard of any of them".
I was thinking maybe it’s time to try it out but… You have to buy it?!! I was certain this would be free 2 play.
- It'd be tough to scam people if it was f2p
  
  how do you scam people when it was not possible to preorder this game due to steams early access rules?
  And after launch you still have the two hour window for refund and the game has no own launcher, so it's pretty easy to get rid of this game and get your money back after trying out this mess. So if you loose money it would be at least partly on yourself, right?
  Don't get me wrong this game had "I suck" on the forefront since it's announcement and it had some really shady marketing, but I wouldn't call it a scam, since you can very easy avoid to loose money on it.
Zombies and MMOs, two concepts that were outdated at least 10 years ago.
- Disagree. People are still clamoring for such a game hence the crazy popularity of the day after. There has yet been a game that had done it better than dayz stand alone. Which took nearly a decade to actually get good. If a triple a studio actually did a zombie mmo right it would be hella popular. Shit if the day after devs could pivot their game to be what they said it would be people would come flocking back.
  
  Im with you on this, the issue I see is that to get a really big number of zombies, like for a proper "horde" to behave correctly would be a hell of a computing task. Especially when 20 players start throwing grenades into the middle.
  
  What decade? It'll probably be 2030 before it's playable no less "good" DayZ is a joke since the mod was abandoned for SA.
- I can't name any zombie mmos, nevermind a well made one.
  
  And with this game, you still can't!
  
  Doesn't mean that zombies aren't overdone AF.
- Wrong, there are several popular MMO and Zombie games today. I would argue MMOs are due a for a comeback
- Wait until you learn about MMOs and medieval fantasy…

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