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Is Concord the biggest live service failure of all time? Here's how it stacks up next to other major flops

The live service graveyard got another headstone this week, and it's starting to feel awfully big.

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The Day Before studio is up to its old tricks, asking people to design maps for free in a contest whose lucky winner will get their work in a game, a free copy, and no money whatsoever

What an offer.

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The Day Before developer cancels second Kickstarter after it whimpers out with $2,200 of funding, immediately goes all-in on a third game in the same announcement

Third time's the charm?

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The Day Before studio falters once more as it delays a new co-op game after a failed Kickstarter to work on a prop hunt game that "many of you have been waiting for"

It will "require significant resources" to develop

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9 months after their not-MMO died and tanked their studio, The Day Before devs are "asking for a second chance" with a new crowdfunded game that's "free from embellishments"

Fntastic 2.0 is "the same people" who made The Day Before, and yes, it sounds like it still has volunteer employees

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The Day Before studio returns from the dead and asks for a 'second chance': 'From now on, our development and marketing will be based on the principle of honesty'

The studio whose highly-anticipated survival game flopped last year is now asking gamers to fund its next project on Kickstarter.

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The Day Before fallout continues as former devs allege awful working conditions and management so bad that some staff didn't know they were supposed to make an MMO

The Day Before's design goals reportedly changed almost daily

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The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one's sure where the bosses are

Less than Fntastic.

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The Day Before developer claims a ‘hate campaign’ towards the game ‘inflicted significant damage’

The Day Before developer Fntastic has released a new statement addressing what it called "misinformation."

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The Day Before studio asks whether you're going to believe it or your own lying eyes as it attributes the game's catastrophic performance to a 'hate campaign' by 'bloggers'

Fntastic shut its doors in December, but it's still making statements.

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The Day Before developer threatens its return, blaming "the hate campaign" for the failure of its ill-fated 'survival MMO'

Fntastic wants you to keep in touch

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In the same week that their catastrophic MMO's servers shut down, The Day Before CEOs are reportedly starting work on a new game

Several sources claim the Gotovtstev brothers are not done developing games

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All the big games that shut down in 2023

Several live service and online games had to close their doors this year.

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Disastrous survival shooter The Day Before to be extracted from existence, shutting down its servers just one month after launch

Walking dead.

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The Day Before servers will shut down next month - Steam to ‘proactively refund all remaining players’

The Day Before's servers will shut down on January 22, 2024, following developer Fntastic's closure.

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Once Steam's most wishlisted game, The Day Before goes offline for good next month after just 45 days

You've got precisely one month to play The Day Before

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After an unbelievably bad launch, The Day Before developer tells disgruntled players that "sh*t happens"

That isn't quite what players wanted to hear

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The Day Before studio seemingly attempts to scrub itself from Steam by changing back to its 2017 name, amid review-bombing campaign of its entire catalog

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'This was our first big experience, sh*t happens': The Day Before's CEO is MIA, its Discord server has disintegrated, and its YouTube Channel has gone dark

Aaaaand it's gone.

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The Day Before developers respond to fans demanding an explanation, ‘s**t happens’

The developers of The Day Before have been responding to disappointed fans on social media.

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The Day Before publisher offers refunds for everyone regardless of playtime

Publisher Mytona has also apologized for the disappointment

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The Day Before saga, explained: From Steam's most wishlisted game to the end of a studio

Catching you up on The Day Before's disastrous journey to launch.

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The bizarre history of The Day Before: From Steam's most-anticipated MMO to a bland survival game that killed a studio

The many, many, many problems and promises since The Day Before's reveal

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The Day Before review: "It has no redeeming qualities, and under no circumstances should you buy it"

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Refund 'The Day Before.' The studio is closing in what might be the biggest video game scam in recent memory.

Only four days after release, Fntastic, the developer of The Day Before, is closing their doors forever.

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