Huhun mukaan venäläiset Gotovtsevin veljekset langettivat henkilökunnalleen sakkoja huonosta työstä The Day Beforen parissa

Vuoden 2023 iso pelialan skandaali oli The Day Before, joka onkin jo poistettu ja lakannut olemasta. Muisto vain se on enää, mutta jälkipyykkiä pestään vielä pitkään.

Huhujen mukaan The Day Beforen parissa työskennelleet eivät tienneet, että tulossa oli MMO-peli ennen kuin traileri oli maailmalle laskettu. Traileri oli tilattu studion ulkopuoliselta toimijalta. Edelleen huhun mukaan yksi työntekijä joutui maksamaan 1930 dollarin sakon, koska hänen työnsä ei ollut tyydyttävällä tasolla.

Melkoista menoa kulisseissa, jos huhu paikkansa pitää.

Kiitokset, Gamestar

"Sources allege that the game's character creator had to be overhauled multiple times to keep up with GTA Online, then Hogwarts Legacy, then Baldur's Gate 3. While the game's setting, a smoky, oppressive city, had to be dramatically altered to become brighter and friendlier after one of the brothers played Spider-Man 2. One former dev said they only learned the game was supposed to be an MMO when they saw a trailer for it. One claim, backed up by several of Game Two's sources, says that employees were made to pay fines to the company for turning in substandard work, with some reportedly forced to pay $1,930 for poor-quality voice recordings. Others were kept on their toes by a company policy of spontaneous termination: one of The Day Before's five testers was apparently fired from the company just before release after one of the Gotovtsevs encountered a bug.

As for the Gotovstevs themselves, it seems no one quite knows where they've ended up in the aftermath of Fntastic's closure. The pair went AWOL around the game's launch—a fact that several staff attribute to foreknowledge that the game was in a dire state—and only reappeared to shutter the studio via Microsoft Teams. Several of Game Two's sources believe the pair have started from scratch at a new studio making mobile games, but it remains unclear which one, if that's even the case."