If it was an offline game that didn’t require a server connection, we would recommend piracy (because you can’t LEGALLY buy The Day Before!), but it’s an MMO, so it has an expiration date!

We also wrote about one of the disasters of the year. Fntastic’s game had a sh_ttastic journey: it was one of the most wishlisted games on Steam after its reveal video (and not only that, the font and artwork looked a lot like The Last of Us…), then a few days after its early access release, sales were stopped and the studio closed down because they underestimated how they underestimated themselves. Their community platforms have all been wiped, while the game’s servers will remain active for a while.

It’s often seen that after a major PC game launches, unused Steam codes start getting more and more expensive (especially if you can use them in multiplayer…), and The Day Before is no different. Kotaku has reported that GG Deals, an external third-party code-selling aggregator site, is charging as much as $200-400 for a code for the game. Resellers often get them from stolen credit cards or by posing as influencers, and such gray-market sales often hurt indie developers (they have to spend time and money investigating fake key requests and refunds). Now the studio is screwed, so they can’t really be hurt. If a AAA publisher had pulled their game (Electronic Arts, previous installments of the F1 series…), that’s just them being unfair.

One of the worst games of the year has become a collector’s item, but its value is reduced to dust the moment the servers are shut down. If the developers of Fntastic could manage to release the code that runs the servers, the game could at least survive the events, but there is no chance of that. The servers will be shut down, The Day Before will cease to exist, and its keys won’t be worth a damn.

Source: PCGamer