Early today, Fntastic announced surprisingly that it will close after #TheDayBefore early access was considered a financial failure & studio's unable to mitigate loss just days after launch.

The game has been controversial since day one of being announced after it was discovered, that many of the assets were based on a kit purchasable withing the Unreal Engine 5 market and despite changes, the game launches with many technical issue in-game and in-server.

Fntastic never addresses openly about their development methods of the game aside that claiming that The Day Before was a product of 5 year developments cycle.

While the studio signaled that it might need on the poor sales to pay back debts, it remains to see how Steam will enforce the refunds policies at the end.

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More chances on going big with your Stadia refunds!

In a follow-up on the aftermath of Google announcing the wind-down and cancellation of Stadia:

*Ubisoft confirmed to The Verge, that all game invested on the Cloud Gaming platform, will be given to players via the Ubisoft Connect and those who started an Ubisoft+ via Stadia will be getting news soon.
*IO Interactive, the developers of the HITMAN latest game series, will be given news soon too.
*Splash Damage, developers for the Stadia-exclusive Outcasters, are sorting out how they can port the game elsewhere (it is rumored that Google still holds the rights and they were also blindsided of Stadia EOL announcement without even let them know before hand as the rest of devs that ported and/or developed games for Stadia).
*Google probably will refund devs that ported games at Stadia & if it happens, Bryant Chappel of The Nerf Report, estimates that the sum of the refunds can go almost $1 billion.

And adding the consumer's refund, End Of Fiscal Year 2023 for Alphabet "Other bets" section will be a hot topic all right.

Try this Bullfrog class out in Cold War.

You will love it. If you don’t all refunds are given at 5pm on a Sunday 😂