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The Day Before developer resurfaces to blame failure on "hate campaign"


You might have thought the The Day Before's sorry saga had ended last year when developer Fntastic, amid claims of misl…

Watch on YouTube Refunds followed and The Day Before's servers officially went offline forever earlier this week, on 22nd January - but Fntastic clearly isn't ready to end the story there. Its newly published social media post takes aim at accusations it deceived players ("We worked hard and honestly on the game for five years"), that it deceived and investors ("We still have a great relationship with our publisher"), at critical reports from alleged former employees ("Our low churn rate and the fact that half of those who left returned to the company demonstrate our positive work environment"), and it even attempts to claim there was no discrepancy between The Day Before's trailers and the final release product. It also insists the "negative bias instilled by certain bloggers making money on hate affected perceptions of the game", and that it was this, not the quality of The Day Before's release, that lead to the studio's closure.

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