Forgiving Gamers Are Contributing to The Day Before Devs' New Kickstarter

PS5 stretch goal, anyone?

by · Push Square

Having disappeared into the darkness after dropping a digital smoke bomb, developer Fntastic, infamous for its high-profile scam, The Day Before, is back with a fresh new Kickstarter project. Its new game, Escape Factory, looks like a harmless enough physics-based co-op title, and in a truly incredible display of forgiveness, kind-hearted gamers are actually contributing. With a modest ask of just USD $20,000, Fntastic has managed to part 36 backers with almost $3,000 already, which boggles the mind.

The pitch for the project is unreal in its brazenness, and repeatedly throughout, the Singapore-based developers promise that significant personal and professional growth has taken place since a "gold rush" of negative takes ruined its last game, never mind that it barely existed in the first place.

Incredibly, under the heading "Everyone Deserves a Second Chance", the studio has included a short document titled "Fntastic 2.0: The Plan for Recovery", and the very first line reads: "From now on, our development and marketing will be based on the principle of honesty."

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Are you ready to give Fnastic another chance? How about that PS5 console port, a stretch goal at just 100k? Dispose of your hard-earned money responsibly in the comments section below.

[source kickstarter.com]

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Some ppl just got money to burn. To trust this developers again is wild.

Forgot where I saw it, but this new project has already been revealed to be an asset flip.

Oooh! We're going to get a sequel to one of the worst gaming scams of the last decade!? Exciting!

If you're dumb enough to donate this, you deserve to have your money stolen. Lolz

Only 36 donors with all the publicity this Kickstarter has gotten is laughably low. Wouldn't be surprised a good portion of that money was "donated" by themselves.

A fool and their money are soon parted.

Forgiving gamers? Sorry but those people donating are suckers. Id love to be proven wrong but that is very unlikely. This is the company that released an unfinished game and tweeted sh*t happens.

nice screenshot

Why this scammer doesn't get jailed?

Never heard about that to be honest. Maybe it’s other blissfully unaware people donating. But if it’s people who donated before to this company, then wow are they stupid.

I tried reading about this to ketchup with what’s goin on. Not even halfway done reading and can already tell these guys deserve jail.

How many of these people do you think called the PS5 Pro a scam?

I'm sure everything will be different this time!

For reals this time guys, I promise.

@Enuo I dunno, the sort of people who’d buy a Pro are absolutely the sort of people who’d give money to these idiots. Money to burn after all, if you’re concerned about the financial implications of the Pro then you’re bound to be less likely to dump money on a random Kickstarter.

@nessisonett I bought the pro I would never donate to any kickstarter 🤣 the pro I know what I’m getting. Kickstarter you don’t get a guarantee of anything

@IamJT That’s fine. The point was more that thinking the Pro isn’t worth the money doesn’t line up with people who donate to these things.

Please don’t do that

Doesn't boggle the mind as much as when gamers giving money to Sony for a PS 5 Pro. Or a grey plastic version 😄(Also isn't as bad or dangerous)

I'm glad they've decided to start being honest. It's a breath of fresh air after they ripped off hundreds of thousands of people.

@Bentleyma exactly those hundreds of thousands ! 😀

Man, just with the Kickstarter these guys made more money than Sony with Concord. 😭

Jokes aside, people are crazy, man.

@Frmknst Boggles the mind how preoccupied you are with the Pro that u even talk about it in articles that have nothing to do with it

@Lup Concord’s estimated revenue was $1,000,000. That is an absolutely devastating number for a game that size. Worst investment since those VC guys bought an NFT of Dune thinking it gave them the rights to make a movie.

Sorry but I won't feel a shred of sympathy towards all people who are aware of this company's past actions and yet still naive enough to donate to this.

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