The Day After The Scam | Castle Super Beast 247 Clips 

"Woolie nowadays half of these kids can barely read" God damn becoming a dad really hit Pat hard and fast.

The fact Woolie thinks average social media users have any idea about fonts or what they mean is cute. The level of thinking went as such: "Hey this reminds me of last of us" End thought

Shocker: game I’m convinced people only heard of from videos saying “this is probably a scam” was a scam.

I never heard of the game before the news broke out. Damn.

Couldn't just make a honest bad game like Gollum or Kong.

I think the craziest part is that The Day Before isn't even the first scam game of it's type. Every year or some game comes along on kickstarter saying: "We're making a game that allows you to go where ever you want, do whatever you want, and interact with players all over the world. You'll have so much freedom and choice!" And every single time they get funded 2000% over the initial kickstarter. Then when you finally see gameplay after 4 trailer delays, it looks like a shitty unity asset flip and the dev runs with the money.

The company didn't disband, it just changed name to keep on scamming

We failed to pass on the knowledge of "A game isn't real until you see gameplay", "Know the difference between a concept trailer and a real game", and "Learn to tell actual gameplay apart from a mockup trailer", and unfortunately the new generation must learn the hard way.

The Ryu/Ryo thing at SNK is hilarious, but at least in that case both characters were made by the same dude. So it was less copying someone else's homework and more quickly rewriting a few paragraphs on an old essay and then trying to turn it in again later in the year.

Somewhere, TotalBiscuit is smiling. This one's for you, man.

As I've gotten older, I've become less in touch with the latest gaming news and the hottest upcoming game releases. However, I still consider myself enough in touch to at least have some knowledge about the most hyped games coming out. So imagine my surprise when, during the last few days, I've started hearing about "The Day After", a game which was supposedly one of the most wish-listed games on Steam turning out to be a massive scam. What is this game? Where did it come from? Why the hell were people so hyped for it? I still don't know the answer to these questions, but by God, I'm enjoying the content.

I wouldnt be surprised if the "most wishlisted game on Steam" did so with bots

On a related note: the intro to the Ed, Edd, N Eddy movie is some of the greatest cinema of all time.

This is probably the most obvious scam I've seen on the internet so far. Hope people who got roped into it got their money back.

The weirdos going wild over GOTY winner being BG3 really needs to take a step back and realize, they are upset over a shiny award from the Doritos Pope who runs a 3 hours commercial who doesn't have an ounce of respect for the people he ends up handing it to, outside of Kojima that is.

Love the guy on Twitter that posted that Spider-Man cutscene as proof of quality. FF16's Bahamut and Titan fights lets you play the cutscene.

I remember watching the initial trailer and thinking "oh great another zombie game /s" followed by "oh its DURING the fall that sounds int- oh its an mmo nevermind thats not real."

The day before the day before... delight, absolute delight.

I won't take this Jak X erasure THAT was a good racing spin-off

distinctly remember when the original trailer came out Pat actually calling it that it'd be a fake game

The sooner the lowest common denominator realizes that multiplayer zombie games peaked at Left 4 Dead 2 the better off we as a society will be.

There’s one thing about this game that isn’t brought up in this video that’s actually kind of important to the whole scam thing. If the game was advertised correctly and it was just a shit game the devs could’ve gotten away with it. The important part though is that they literally lied about the genre of the game. It was advertised and shown in trailers to be an open world survival zombie mmo like dayz. They literally had the open world mmo and survival tags on steam before release. Turns out that it’s just a shitty asset flip extraction shooter with no open world or survival elements. They literally removed every piece of marketing that showed any open world survival gameplay after the release.

10:23 CAUSE SPI- CAUSE SP- BR- CAUSE SPIDERMAN The mic clips were amazing

Matt mentioned!

Bloodborne kart mentioned.

its important to know that the scam went on for 5 years and people are still CLAMMERING for a DayZ successor. Not sure how I feel about treating the people who fell for it idiots when its more on the scammers in this case.

To everyone asking “how could anyone fall for this?” please remember 2 things: 1. Hindsight is 2020. 2. Video games are a huge part of your life. Many people who play video games think about them a lot less than you do.

The entire debacle around The Day Before has got me sitting here with the biggest shit eating grin imaginable. There were SO SO SO many people coping on Twitter and in their RU-vid comments that the game is totally 100% legit guys and that it's going to be game of the year. Now I can look at these people and scream "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO" once again.

Digital Homicide never dies

I'm torn between "scammers are bad" and "idiots deserve to be parted with their money, its the only way they learn." E: wait I remember reading that email scams are intentionally bad to weed out the people that might see through it partway through the scam. Could this be a similar thing?

The funny thing is, I heard about this game long before the news broke. And on top of that, what I heard was that it was likely a scam (and maybe not to put any money in to it). Which is why I was mildly surprised to find out that so many people were shocked to discover that it *was* indeed a scam, and that people had put money in to it.

The same thing happened when woolie saw that one mech game at the game awards. It looked really uninspired but Woolie is truly a sucker for giant robots.

I remember a story back when the "you're using unpaid volunteers" first showed up, and an article was like WTF, immediate the response was "Well Webster's defines volunteering as" and I went "K, I"m done."

The first time I saw anything of The Day Before, I legitimately thought it was a The Last of Us spinoff or something.

I did NOT know that the company was Russian. Now everything makes sense.

Woolie underestimates the stupidity of the average human

SRB2 Kart is a great entry into the kart racer genre

because Pat mentioned the old Killzone 2 slander, my ancient rage has awakened. That trailer was never meant to be shown to the public, and Guerilla never said it was gameplay, it was an intermal thing to demonstrate what they were aiming to turn KZ2 into, and Sony decided to take the footage amd claim it was real gameplay.

"They're McDonald's. I'm McDowell's. They have the golden arches, mines is the golden arcs"

It’s not that they were trying to run off with Players money. I am positive it was to scam investors who invested in the studio and game

For anyone curious KiraTV has covered The Day Before extensively in the past year chronicling this shit saga of a game development.

I just never even look at trailers for anything anymore. I'll just wait for it to come out,.

There's two of what Pat? TWO OF WHAT!?

You better believe that "game" is cobbled together almost entirely from pre-made assets from the devstore.

Can someone tell them to update the description? Stitcher is 3 months dead.

We were all there once, for you it was Anthem, for others, like myself, it was No Mans Sky (though they saved it), and now for them it's The Day After. Some ppl see zombies and they get hype like some ppl see mecha and get hype. It's not how could the consumer fall for it, it's how could the company think they'd get away with it is the better question LOL

My favorite part of this whole thing is they got pulled from Steam and youtube because there had been a "trademark issues" with their name all while saying they are not a scam.

Pat was asking about the paperwork. Pretty sure the only paperwork was draft letters for all the devs.

Woolie the moment Anthem came to the discussion you should´ve been like "i understand what those people went through" just because you don´t like the genre and see it as generic doesn't mean everyone should look at it the same, the people like their DayZ experiences of running around a desolate wasteland exploring whatever they come across and the human factor these types of mmo´s offer

I feel like we've entered a post-rational-thought age, where people are so desperate for The Next Big Thing to identify with and be hyped about that the "Shut Up And Take My Money" meme has stopped being a meme.

I've never heard of this game until today, my phone served me a google story about "more than half of The Day After players refund game" or something like that, and now I see this.

Did not take a genius to see this coming a mile away and yet so many people got owned, what is wrong with gamers?

16:07 Bad poets borrow; good poets steal.

The shit came and went like a bad faith boomerang 😂

Honestly, I have little to no sympathy for all those who got scammed on this one. People from day 1 were screaming from the rafters that this was a scam, yet the true believers became insular and resistant to anyone criticizing the game. I remember months ago being called an idiot on one of their dev "updates" for not believing this project was real. At a certain point, if people are telling you not to jump off the cliff and you call them stupid and do it anyway, then honestly, you get what you deserve.

"The Day Before is a Terrible Bore." - Oboeshoes, 2023

Woolie asking "who buys this?!" In a world where Assassins Creed and Call of Duty are still making sequels. 😒

Wait there are people who are saying spiderman 2 should've beaten Baulders Gate? I have to find these videos now

It's kind of funny how much overlap there is in creating good horror and getting people to fall for these game scams. You give just enough information to raise interest in what is happening then withhold information and induce the viewer to fill in the gaps. Raise the expectations of the game and then they will buy, no matter how credible it may be. The biggest difference being the former induces dread while the latter entices one to buy something; though they will likely feel financial dread later.

The first time I saw the trailer, I assumed it was a standalone prequel to The Last of Us, focusing on different characters. Jeez, even the synopsis I just described is better than what the game was, if it was a game.

Yakuza 7s dragon kart

It got a 1 from IGN, but truthfully it never should have been reviewed at all. Even if it is the lowest possible score, it shouldn't have been given the treatment of actual, real, non-scam games. Nobody should have fallen for this.

Did you guys hear about hackers hacking into insomniac games and threatening them to give 2 million dollars to them or they will release information they obtained?

Literally every ad I got on this video was for a scam. I can only assume Crazy Talk is involved somehow

16:09 Crazy Talk is alive and well... 20 Minutes Until Dawn endered early access 6 months BEFORE Vampire Survivors.

yeah I never trust books that have somebody's quote instead of description the back but these guys shot themselves in the foot by shutting down instead of doing a no man's sky or even cyberpunk

sounds like someone saw The War Z and was like this gives me an idea

Spider-Man 2 could have won at least 1 award

They forgot to bleep a "fucking" lolol

MMO people are the punching bags of these scams and every time it works.

When they mentioned fake cg trailers I thought the video was about that dragon riding game showed during the vgas

Just a reminder that the same kind of people who bought: The Day Before.... VOTE!

At least Gollum or Kong were released games, which devs were victims of greedy producers / executives.

I've become ever so more cautious about Early Access games now, or at least ones that are from companies that I don't know. I had one roguelike game that seemed super interesting. Left it uninstalled for awhile because I figured I'd pick it back up when it releases. Game got flat out cancelled, and hadn't received any updates in a year. Just a "Yeah uh so we're delisting. Bye!"

The real tragedy? It's instant gratification has spoiled us all. Like, never buy a game on release! NEVER EVER pre-order a game! Wait for like three days for everyone to go either "it's a masterpiece" or "it's dog shit" and save yourself like, eighty bucks! So what if you're not like, the VERY FIRST HUMAN to experience some shit? Is the feeling of being right at the bleeding edge really worth such a sink of both time and money?

I eagerly await follow-up lawsuit news from Organized Crime the Country.

The sheer stupidity in some people who just wanna throw money at something for no reason.

Of all the fighting game examples, and there were definitely games that existed purely because Street Fighter 2 was the biggest thing in the world for a while, Fatal Fury is a weird one to go with. You can’t be a knockoff when you’re made by the original Street Fighter team and in development at the same time. Tekken is like that too. You can’t be a Virtua Fighter ripoff if you’re created by the lead designer of Virtua Fighter.

I have 0 interests in Baldurs Gate and will never go near it, but i understand why it swept everything.

Not only has the game been shut down and the devs took the money and ran the bow on top is, before shutting down all socials the devs posted "Shit happens" and poof. Remember though, wasn't a scam guys.

Pat is mostly right about zombies fans having low standards but he doesn’t seem to know that VERY SPECIFICALLY people have been trying to recreate the lightning in the bottle that was dayz. They want open world zombie survival milsim. Third person Project zomboid. And The Day Before is literally attempt number 100+.

Disbanded, or ✨REBRANDED✨? 😉

I do want a tactical zombie mmo

7:35 - As the dumbest person who listens to this show, I can confirm that what Pat says here is accurate.

Premature cut?

Imagine playing another game with the exact same MJ stealth sections and thinking that game should sweep the game awards

I wonder how exactly the scamming works, since you can refund games on Steam. What were they even trying to pull...

247 clips but it's not a livestream of clips forever...

Personally, I never really got into the cycle of Hype for a game, then Disappointment as it fails. Partly because I rarely buy day 1 unless it's something I'm certain will be good. Hell, in some cases, I benefit from the failure. Shit like Anthem and Cyberpunk I just waited until the price dropped to almost nothing, got it, and took what enjoyment I wanted without forking over the extra cash. It really is almost worrying how "Gamers" never learn the lesson of not overhyping a game and always waiting to buy something. Especially with AAA games that are almost always broken on launch and take some time to be put into working order. Indie titles I can understand a little, they do need that early support and people can accept jank and flaws if it's still a good product. So it can be easy to fall victim to the scams or fund a project that quickly falls apart. But at the same time, it's up to the Dev's to try and prove that they are more than capable of making the finished product if they do get that support.

i havent been keeping up with the podcast or pat's streams because i am too busy. but does he hate Spiderman 2?

Damn, what a perfect name to fit the topic. "The Day After The Scam" = day after the scam takes place everything goes down. "The Day After. The Scam" = name of the game, the scam game. Just thought that was fun

When they were jumping from UE4 to UE5, I knew they were absolutely full of shit. Accepting the trailers as vertical slices like the Anthem video, I knew this was never gonna come out.

I'm still bummed that Anthem 2.0 got canned. That game could've gone far if it was given the chance it needed.

If you are watching this and want a really good Zombie game I implore you to check out Project Zomboid. Is it a massive MMO? No. Can you and your friends have fun with it? Yes. Can you join a server and have factions and shit? Yes.

I cant believe people still get excited for fucking zombie games in 2023.

Tiktok has decided that I care about those guys who're pissed off about Spidey not winning GOTY, and it's so depressing. It's like the worst dregs of the console wars all over again, the copium dosage is SO HEAVY. Imagine having so much of your personality wrapped up in the game you love that it viscerally upsets you to see people -not -*-disliking-*- it- but liking it LESS than some other game in an entirely different genre.

i won't dunk too much on people that bought this game, i would pre order anything that looks like God Hand with asset flip stuff and trailers that clearly can't be true... i just need it 😫(bad)

"Scam is fraud is crime. *Allegedly.* " Oh. Oh boy. Ohhhhhhhhhh boy. Even if they don't cover it, I know what he was referring to.

I gotta be the guy in the room: I honestly do not see any fun in extraction shooters or looter shooters.

I mean, the fact that they issued their apology and disbanded before any money actually reached them seems to indicate a sincere desire to be transparent and not rob anyone. Like, if it would be so easy to drag out the grift long enough to actually run off with the money and they didn't, why call them scammers and thieves? On Woolie's point about fonts, people were clowning all over Lies of P for it seeming like a direct ripoff of Bloodborne, but now all I'm hearing is "no, forget APAB, fuck it, it's a direct improvement on bloodborne".