The Day Before servers shutdown in January, Steam providing refunds | TheSixthAxis

randomaside , 6 months ago

All these bad games as a service need to keep failing.

wildcardology , 6 months ago

Where they really expecting a positive experience for gamers when they released the game? Did they really think that players will stick with the game that has so many bugs and lacking a lot of features?

Hawk , 6 months ago

No, they expected people to buy it at launch and then run off with the money

RightHandOfIkaros , 6 months ago

I am shocked. Not that the servers are shutting down, but that the servers even existed in the first place.

From the moment I saw the first trailer I thought a few things:

First, the concept seemed cool. I don’t like zombies and find them to be very uncompelling as an enemy type for various reasons, but to me the trailer seemed to show a game that was like if Project Zomboid played a bit like The Division or Ghost Recon. I never played The Division, but I have put a lot of time into Zomboid and many Ghost Recon games over the years. So the concept was incredibly appealing.

Second, the trailer looked 100% fake. That’s not to say that the assets didnt exist or anything, but rather it felt like a mobile game ad, where the trailer “gameplay” is way better than and completely different from the actual gameplay.

All in all, its impressive that the game actually existed, but it would have been better if the developers delayed the game (again) to keep working on actually making it function decently. And maybe making some original assets for it instead of purchased ones being used almost directly out of the box with minimal if any modification.

WindowsEnjoyer , 6 months ago

Yeah, animations in trailer, especially getting in and out of car looked like straight from the mobile game ad. 😅

AnneBonny , 6 months ago

Second, the trailer looked 100% fake.

The AR-15 bolt carrier cycling made me suspicious.

JCreazy , 6 months ago

Just a friendly reminder to not buy games on release and wait till other idiots buy games first before spending your hard-earned money

KeenSnappersDontCome , 6 months ago

While I generally agree with this it feels wrong in this case since everyone who bought it can get a refund.

RightHandOfIkaros , 6 months ago

If everyone did what you say then no companies would make video games, because nobody would buy them.

Evotech , 6 months ago

The idiots would still but them

sheogorath , 6 months ago

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

• George Carlin

seliaste , 6 months ago

Except this quote is incorrect because average is not always median

jmcs , 6 months ago

IQ and other intelligence measurements usually follow a normal distribution though.

seliaste , 6 months ago

They do indeed, so it might be close actually

sheogorath , 6 months ago

So there’s a probability that there are much more stupid people than previously thought‽

seliaste , 6 months ago

Or less

skittlebrau , 6 months ago

Fewer.

seliaste , 6 months ago

Yeah sorry english aint my native language

BruceTwarzen , 6 months ago

People still pre-order games.

MonkderZweite , 6 months ago

About one or two years, until the community has fixed those games.

JCreazy , 6 months ago

Yeah one to two years is a pretty good time frame, maybe longer. Wait until the price hits the lowest it’s ever been before you buy.

Jax , 6 months ago

I remember first seeing about this and thinking two things. 1 - this concept looks awesome. 2 - this trailer looks 100% staged.

This was at least a year, maybe 2 years ago? God it might be longer than that tbh.

I feel bad for anyone that was really excited for this, genuinely. I almost shared that excitement, were it not for being burned by other games in the past.

c0mbatbag3l , 6 months ago

All I could think was “Is this a direct ripoff of the Division’s trailer, on purpose?”

acastcandream , 6 months ago

Good on valve. What a shitshow.