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Is there a better article that explains what's going on here? What is (was) Fntastic? What is/was "The Day Before"? What makes this relevant to hacking/start

Is there a better article that explains what's going on here? What is (was) Fntastic? What is/was "The Day Before"? What makes this relevant to hacking/startups? This brief paragraph leaves me with no idea whether this was a documentary, a crypto product, a timepiece, a React framework, or what.

forbiddenvoid 3y ago
This is about a game and a gaming company. HackerNews is about sharing things that may be of interesting to software hackers and startups, not necessarily topics directly related to those two things. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
gafage 3y ago
The second paragraph clearly states that it is a game.
Ensorceled 3y ago
I was 100% sure it was a game just from the headline even though I have never heard of Fntastic or "The Day Before" before this headline. "The Day Before" is a really strong hint, the quotes indicate that it is a title; so book, movie, game, etc. You don't write "The React" or "The Bitcoin". So, could be a documentary.
neogodless 3y ago
Additional recent context: https://www.aroged.com/2023/12/09/the-day-before-is-sold-as-an-mmo-but-it-isnt-the-team-eliminates-references-to-the-genre/ https://www.aroged.com/2023/12/09/the-day-before-is-sold-as-... > The Day Before arrived on the market and turned out to be very different from what everyone expected. The game is not only full of bugs and assorted problems, but also has a different gameplay structure than promised. The team was in fact talking about an MMO, or a massively multiplayer online game. In reality, it is more of a draw game. https://www.polygon.com/23992623/the-day-before-steam-launch-zombie-mmo https://www.polygon.com/23992623/the-day-before-steam-launch... > Players and streamers who are playing the game say it’s more of an extraction shooter, à la Tom Clancy’s The Division, without the balance or depth of similar shooters.

forbiddenvoid 3y ago

This is about a game and a gaming company. HackerNews is about sharing things that may be of interesting to software hackers and startups, not necessarily topics directly related to those two things. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

gafage 3y ago

The second paragraph clearly states that it is a game.

Ensorceled 3y ago

I was 100% sure it was a game just from the headline even though I have never heard of Fntastic or "The Day Before" before this headline. "The Day Before" is a really strong hint, the quotes indicate that it is a title; so book, movie, game, etc. You don't write "The React" or "The Bitcoin". So, could be a documentary.

neogodless 3y ago

Additional recent context: https://www.aroged.com/2023/12/09/the-day-before-is-sold-as-an-mmo-but-it-isnt-the-team-eliminates-references-to-the-genre/ https://www.aroged.com/2023/12/09/the-day-before-is-sold-as-... > The Day Before arrived on the market and turned out to be very different from what everyone expected. The game is not only full of bugs and assorted problems, but also has a different gameplay structure than promised. The team was in fact talking about an MMO, or a massively multiplayer online game. In reality, it is more of a draw game. https://www.polygon.com/23992623/the-day-before-steam-launch-zombie-mmo https://www.polygon.com/23992623/the-day-before-steam-launch... > Players and streamers who are playing the game say it’s more of an extraction shooter, à la Tom Clancy’s The Division, without the balance or depth of similar shooters.