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 recreation is rife with bugs, an absence of issues to do, and seems to be a really completely different recreation from the one marketed by the event group.
I attempted getting right into a recreation of The Day Earlier than on launch evening, and whereas the overcrowded servers had been to be anticipated for a recreation this excessive on Steam wishlists, the standard of the zombie recreation left me gobsmacked. Not solely is it laggy and unpolished, there’s additionally simply subsequent to nothing to do.
You run round a metropolis, decide up scraps, battle 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 shedding your trustworthy playerbase. It’s a laggy and poorly optimized mess.
It’s solely been a few days, however the outcomes converse 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 nearly all the time does, however the unfavorable reception and actuality of what the sport is have clearly modified folks’s minds. Is that this the tip? Nicely, no. The primary patch for The Day Earlier than is out, and the group is clearly listening to suggestions because it provides extra zombies to the barren cityscapes. In reality, it appears to be like like melee fight can be coming to The Day Earlier than, even when many assume it ought to have been there at launch.
After what was promised, it’s going to be an extended street for Fntastic’s recreation. 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 evaluations scoring the sport at a mean of 18%, or Overwhelmingly Unfavourable, as of publication.
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