The Day Before is dead, but people are still selling its Steam keys for $300
Dec. 20, 2023A week after being pulled from Steam, The Day Before is selling for hundreds of dollars on gray market websites
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A little more than a week after it was pulled from Steam,The Day Beforeis selling for hundreds of dollars on the seedy gray market.
In case you missed the whole kerfuffle around the zombie extraction shooter’s launch, suffice it to say,itreallydidn’t go well. We put together a comprehensive account ofthe disastrous outcome for what was once Steam’s most Wishlisted game, but the long and short of it is: the game released to trulyabysmal reviewsfrom players and critics alike, four days laterdeveloper Fntastic announced its closure due to The Day Before’s financial failure, and right after thatit apologized for the whole mess and offered refunds for all players regardless of playtime.
Needless to say, The Day Before is deader than dead, and yet, it lives on artificially due to the often-shady video game key aftermarket. As spotted byKotaku, you can still buy The Day Before from unauthorized sites, although you can never be quite confident in the means by which the keys are obtained, or whether those keys actually work.
Again, I can’t put a big enough red flag here. Even if you have an insatiable appetite for bad zombie games, there’s no telling how long you’ll have to even play the game before the inevitable server shutdown. And as I touched on before, it’s not uncommon for unauthorized key resellers to sell dubiously obtained codes in the best of cases, and straight up illegally obtained ones in the worst instances. In the case of the Day Before’s post-Steam delisting gray market, you reallydon’tget what you pay for.
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