Now that the controversial survival game has disappeared on Steam, the trailer on YouTube is also taking a dive. The developers speak out about the removal of the video.
There’s no end to the headlines surrounding The Day Before. After the Steam disappearance and the release postponement, a real gameplay trailer finally arrived, but it only caused more discussion. Now YouTube has kicked the video off the platform as well.
Survival game or calendar app?
The developers are also speaking out on Twitter. The reason is the name dispute about the title of the game. That is why the game disappeared from Steam. Even though the name The Day Before
fits perfectly for a survival zombie game, it has already been given to a calendar app. Fntastic cites three facts
about this case on Twitter:
- The so-called
owner
of the title rights is the developer of the calendar app, which has nothing to do with the game category. - After we announced the 2021 game, he also wanted to take the title and applied for trademark rights before we did
- He ambiguously offers to contact him to discuss something, but what?
We will fight. The power is in the truth.
fantastic via twitter ~
thedaybefore pic.twitter.com/2q98hE1i9f
– Fntastic (@FntasticHQ) February 12, 2023
RedBeardMortis jokes that the next post will surely announce a release delay after 2024.
JakeLuiz has clear words for the post: let me sum it up: You never registered a trademark, ignored it, then were asked to stop using the trademark you never registered and thus didn’t own, and then say “power lies in the truth”? More like “power lies in hiring or consulting the right trademark attorneys”. But okay …
