Here is a small overview of our work environment. The Day After : Origins www.thedayaftergame.com Steam Early Access September 20th Early Access
A week after The Day Before left the Steam marketplace, a new announcement from developer Fntastic means you should hold off on that grey market purchase.
Isn't MOST Kickstarter projects scams, I haven't seen many actually release or turn out any good.
As others have said this wasn't a Kickstarter. But still, I rarely support Kickstarter anymore. Of the many projects I've backed none release on time, many take multiple extra years or never release, and what does release is rarely ever good or what was promised. Kickstarter had real potential but the platform offers zero protection for the backers, so it's become a paradise for scams and over promising but under delivering.
I can't think of any kickstarters that actually came out or at least what they were supposed of been or anything other than 5/10 shite.
Well steam is retroactively refunding people whether they want or not so there's really no reason at this point. I could see maybe people connecting to private servers but who knows.
I'm still confused by this game. This wasn't the studios first game on steam so they know they werent getting paid upfront so why try to scam people knowing the refund policy. 🤔
they scammed the investors / publishers not gamers valve customers perse…
they will be back with another developer name blahblahnlah
The Day After: Origins is an open-world action and story-driven game, where the player's decisions influence the storylines.
Played this a bit on Steam Early Access, looked promising for its early stage.
Why is most of this article enticement information on a game that doesn't exist anymore?
I've been in this situation before as a developer. It's difficult to put in words how much this effects you mentally/emotionally. Obviously, not everything is going to a be success, but when you dedicate thousands of hours into the development of a game, only to have it ripped from your grasp and thrown away in front of your very eyes, it hits hard man.
I'm sure it's not fun at all, but the least a dev could do is put up a message on their website/twitter or something. Coconut Games just shut everything down and removed the game from Steam without as much as a peep.
And the producer had already left in January, so this didn't "just" happen.
This kind of thing may not 'just happen' but there's certainly usually a passionate refusal to quit till the bitter end—even if that end is a single day. Last minute saves, rare as they are, do happen.
Many times a producer or high level manager will cut out before any official closure happens to avoid having it on their resume. You see this alot—especially in the tech industry. Or, they might go in order to cut spending from below-the-line to give the company longer to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
So basically it was a poor version of State of Decay with Aliens(Mutants?) instead of Zombies.
The one thing that caught my attention about Ion Maiden was the use of that same Build engine, the jumping-off point for so many titles, not to mention the genre. While Build may be decades old, Ion Maiden draws from this early design system and creates a nostalgia-fueled modern title.
