The Day Earlier than has already seen an extremely steep drop off in participant numbers on Steam regardless of releasing earlier this week, because the Fntastic developed sport is rife with bugs, an absence of issues to do, and seems to be a really completely different sport from the one marketed by the event crew.
I attempted getting right into a sport of The Day Earlier than on launch night time, and whereas the overcrowded servers have been to be anticipated for a sport this excessive on Steam wishlists, the standard of the zombie sport left me gobsmacked. Not solely is it laggy and unpolished, there’s additionally simply subsequent to nothing to do.
You run round a metropolis, choose up scraps, combat off a handful of gamers and zombies, and rinse and repeat. I do know it’s in early entry, however compound this on to the very actual issues the sport has, as you’ll find yourself dropping your devoted playerbase. It’s a laggy and poorly optimized mess.
It’s solely been a few days, however the outcomes communicate for themselves. As of Thursday, December 7, the launch peak of The Day Earlier than was 38,104 on Steam, however as quickly as this quantity started to dip it in a short time dropped to concurrents of round 9-10,000 gamers, roughly a 75% lower.
This was going to occur, it virtually at all times does, however the detrimental reception and actuality of what the sport is have clearly modified folks’s minds. Is that this the tip? Effectively, no. The primary patch for The Day Earlier than is out, and the crew is clearly listening to suggestions because it provides extra zombies to the barren cityscapes. In reality, it appears like melee fight will likely be coming to The Day Earlier than, even when many suppose it ought to have been there at launch.
After what was promised, it’s going to be an extended highway for Fntastic’s sport. The numbers don’t lie, and it’s going to be a battle to win folks again after the damaged guarantees and mess. The Day Earlier than Steam score possible isn’t serving to with any of this both, with 15,000 critiques scoring the sport at a median of 18%, or Overwhelmingly Damaging, as of publication.
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