#mytona

[theniftycat]

So, there's this newest, freshest scandal in Yakutsk. Fntastic, the company that recently released The Day Before, the most wish-listed game on Steam, declared that they're stopping their operation.

Fntastic is a game developer company created and based in Yakutsk. A couple of years ago they were backed by Mytona, a mobile game dev company that was also established here.

In 2022, Mytona almost completely left Yakutsk, along with InDrive, they did it in order to keep being able to work internationally and not depend on Russian politics. That made Fntastic the biggest and best known software developer in Yakutsk. I even considered joining them after being let go from Mytona, but I knew better. Mytona laid off hundreds of people in the past 18 months, I'm sure some of them got to Fntastic.

One of my cousins worked at Fntastic about three years ago. He was making video game levels. He worked for 12 hours a day without being compensated for his extra hours, he said his bosses (the Gotovtsev brothers) would randomly ask him to redo everything just based on the vibes. He was paid enough money by local standards, but nowhere near what a triple A dev should get (about $800/mo).

He burnt out and left. It was his first job in game dev.

As far as I understood, they barely had managers because the Gotovtsevs were controlling everything. I know that just maintaining a mobile game needs a ton of management, discussions, feedback, approvals etc. They had none of that.

The Day Before is built from newly purchased assets and has very little gameplay. It seems like the production process never changed, they kept remaking the game from scratch, only knowing that it should be whatever the latest definition of "cool" is.

Mytona is their publisher and they've already lost a lot of money, first by developing too many new projects at the same time and then none of them making it, then by having to move the entire business abroad, and now by backing Fntastic.

I think I'd call the Gotovtsevs scammers. They lied to everyone, including themselves.

The video below explains how suspicious it was from the very start.

[gebo4482]

The Day Before — Official Gameplay Trailer

Website / Steam

[wolfleblack]

The Day Before developer shoots back against "deceptive bloggers"

Despite announcing its closure in December just days after the hugely controversial The Day Before released, developer Fntastic has re-emerged on X to defend itself against what it has called a “hate campaign.” Fntastic posted the image below which attempts to address various items, including reports from websites that managed to speak to developers from within the team who wished to remain…

[leam1983]

The Definition of Insanity

Vaas Montenegro memes notwithstanding, I think it also applies to Russian developer Fntastic, and its much-beleagered last release, The Day Before.

These are devs who first released janky, bargain-bin App Store cruft and then abandoned weeks to months later, and who then maintained the same formula for a handful of PC releases. All of them tended to lean on asymmetrical co-op as a means of perhaps leveraging a lighter design concept, and also depended strongly on asset flips. Only Propnight, a game that serves as the basically cleaned-up version of the Prop Hunt formula that's been a staple of CS:GO, had any semblance of success.

And now, after years of delays, teasing, exxageration and outright fabrication and just four days after releasing a product that cratered to Steam's worst reviewed games in 72 hours - they've thrown in the towel.

I'd normally give them a golf clap, at least, or some sort of kudos for at least trying - but The Day Before was almost entirely built off of volunteer work.

Not paid employees. Volunteers, which also tied into Fntastic and Mytona's coworking application.

So a 40$ game crashes and burns, and all those people who were more or less coerced into developing it won't see a cent of the game's meagre proceeds - at about 49% refunds on Steam.

That's... not something I'd put on my resume, if I'm honest. I'd instead lie and say I spent the last six months on a voyage of self-discovery.

[awakeningbd]

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[elmundotech]

The Day Before se retrasa hasta noviembre de 2023 debido a una disputa de marca registrada

#TheDayBefore se retrasó hasta noviembre de 2023 debido a una disputa de marca registrada - #Fntastic #videojuegos #elmundotech

El desarrollador de juegos Fntastic anunció el retraso de su título de zombies postapocalípticos The Day Before debido a una disputa de marca registrada. Se suponía que el título desarrollado por Fntastic y publicado por Mytona debutaría en marzo de 2023. Sin embargo, el desarrollador del juego dijo a través de Twitter que “Steam bloqueó nuestra página del juego a pedido de un particular, debido…

[lazyajju]

The Day Before - Coming to PC in March 1, 2023 - Wishlist on Steam.

ABOUT GAME:- The Day Before is an open-world MMO survival set in a deadly, post-pandemic America overrun by flesh-hungry infected and survivors killing each other for food, weapons, and cars.

[cup-of-tea848]

I recently found out that Mytona has another game about cooking and Chefs, I really liked it, so I decided to make a bot of the one character who reminds me very much of Creighton. (by the way, the characters "Chef & friend" and "Cooking Diary" take place in the same universe)

Maybe someone would like to chat with him :D

[4gspeed]

Theo Engadget, tựa game The Day Before từng gây náo loạn vì sự hoành tráng nay đã chính thức đi vào dĩ vãng khi đã ngừng hoạt động. Chỉ 46 ngày sau khi ra mắt, trò chơi này đã bị tắt server vĩnh viễn vào ngày thứ Hai vừa qua. Thậm chí, nhà phát hành Mytona còn xóa sạch mọi dấu vết của trò chơi từng được mong đợi khỏi trang web của họ.Trò chơi trị giá 40 USD này được phát hành vào ngày 7.12. Chỉ 4 ngày sau đó, nhà phát triển Fntastic bất ngờ tuyên bố ngừng hoạt động. Cuối cùng, vào ngày 22.1, nhà phát hành Mytona chính thức ngừng hoạt động trò chơi. Sau khi Fntastic đóng cửa, một tuyên bố chính thức cho biết: "Điều đáng buồn là The Day Before đã thất bại về mặt tài chính và chúng tôi không đủ tiền để duy trì".The Day Before đóng cửa chỉ sau 46 ngày ra mắtTuy nhiên, có một tin đồn lan truyền trên các kênh mạng xã hội của Nga cho biết CEO Eduard Gotovstev của Fntastic đã tuyên bố trò chơi đã bán được hơn 200.000 bản. Vào thời điểm đó, tựa game này nhận được 81% đánh giá tiêu cực trên Steam và gần một nửa người mua đã yêu cầu hoàn tiền.Về trải nghiệm chơi, người dùng đã phàn nàn về "lỗi, thiếu tính độc đáo và tốc độ tiến trình trong game chậm một cách cố ý". Các video gameplay được chia sẻ trên mạng cũng cho thấy người chơi phải đi bộ lê thê xung quanh một thành phố trống rỗng và hầu như có rất ít nhiệm vụ để làm.Trong khi đó, nhà báo Gabriel Moss của IGN đã trải nghiệm và cho The Day Before 1/10 điểm. Moss viết: "The Day Before không phải là một trò chơi MMO hay thế giới mở, như tuyên bố của nhà phát triển rằng nó sẽ có cả hai yếu tố". Về cơ bản, đây là một game bắn súng nhàm chán với lối chơi đơn điệu và thiếu chiều sâu.The Day Before là một ví dụ điển hình cho những trò chơi có xu hướng ‘hứa hẹn hão huyền’ và nhanh chóng rơi vào quên lãng. Fntastic cho biết vào tháng 12 rằng họ đang hợp tác với Valve để cho phép hoàn tiền cho bất kỳ ai yêu cầu, ngay cả khi họ đã chơi quá 2 giờ.

[theniftycat]

This shit is wild. This video retells an interview of an Fntastic employee who worked on The Day Before.

It repeats what my cousin (an ex-employee of the company) said about his time working there. The Gotovtsev brothers made all the decisions, often on a whim. The workers had to remake the same things multiple times and keeping their mouths shut, or else they'd get fired.

Also, apparently, it was Mytona (their publisher) that forced Fntastic to close a couple of days ago. Makes sense, they lost a lot of money on that game.

Fntastic changed their name on Steam to Eight Points (their original name), so they can sell their older games without using their tarnished title.

Honestly, just wow.

[gebo4482]

The Day Before | Exclusive 4K RTX ON Gameplay Reveal

Website / Steam

[wolfleblack]

The Day Before dev Fntastic announces server closure & automatic refunds

The Day Before developer Fntastic has made what may very well be its final official statement before completely shutting down. In it, they reveal when the servers will be shutting down and provide an update in regard to refunds. The story of The Day Before and Fntastic has, of course, been one of chaos, lying and stupidity that culminated in Fntastic announcing it had run out of money just four…

[summary-q]

トレンドまとめ #0027

[elmundotech]

The Day Before delayed until November 2023 due to trademark dispute

#TheDayBefore delayed until November 2023 due to trademark dispute - #Fntastic #videogames #elmundotech

Game developer Fntastic announced the delay of its post-apocalyptic zombie title The Day Before due to a trademark dispute. The title developed by Fntastic and published by Mytona was supposed to make its debut in March 2023. However, the game developer said via Twitter that “Steam blocked our game page at the request of a private individual, because of the name The Day…

[trend-q]

The Day Before (Fntastic)

2023年12月15日 "The Day Before" は、Fntasticによって開発され、Mytonaによって公開されたマルチプレイヤーサバイバルホラーシューティングゲームです。 このゲームは、2023年12月にリリースされましたが、リリース後間もなくFntasticは経済的に失敗したと発表しました[3]。 ゲームは、ポストアポカリプスの世界でプレイヤーが生き残ることを目指すオープンワールドのMMOサバイバルゲームです[2]。 しかし、ゲームのリリース後、Fntasticは経済的な失敗を認め、ゲームに対する期待に応えられなかったことを謝罪しました[3]。 December 15, 2023 "The Day Before" is a Multiplayer Survival Horror Shooting game developed by Fntastic and published by Mytona. The game was released in December 2023, but shortly after its release, Fntastic announced that it was a financial failure.[3] The game is an open-world MMO survival game where players aim to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.[2] However, after the game's release, Fntastic admitted to financial failure and apologized for not meeting expectations for the game.[3] Citations: [1] https://www.daybeforegame.com [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before_(video_game) [3] https://www.polygon.com/23997116/the-day-before-fntastic-twitter-steam-reviews-canceled [4] https://youtube.com/watch?v=HoDs3W_eroY [5] https://youtube.com/watch?v=YtFnMmxYwnI