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curl-6 on 19 March 2015
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bunchanumbers said:
curl-6 said:

What is it with companies these days announcing a game, then going into radio silence for months and months on end, letting the hype die away instead of maintaining it, all the while assuring us that it's "coming along well" but showing nothing to substantiate such claims?

Look at Nintendo; we have seen absolutely nothing of Yoshi's Woolly World, Devil's Third, or Starfox since E3... 9 months ago. They tell us Devil's Third looks "so much better now", yet provide not so much as a screenshot to prove it. Is it really so hard to just take a sceen or two and post them to twitter, just to throw us a bone?

Then there's The Last Guardian, which Sony tells us every year is still in the works, yet hasn't actually been seen in nearly six years. It's become a running joke.

And don't even get me started on FAST Racing Neo. First they tell us the first media is coming in "early 2014"; what we got was three measly screenshots, in September. They said the game itself was "coming 2014", yet here we are, 3 months into 2015, and we still don't have so much as a trailer. Then, a few weeks ago, they said new media was "being prepared". Guess what? It hasn't arrived, and last night when asked about it, they say they have "nothing to announce yet". Of course, this hasn't stopped them making grandiose promises and hyping the game to the moon and back.

Let's not even discuss Shin Megami Tensai x Fire Emblem; over 2 years since announcement, and not a single shred of material to show for itself.

Bottom line: don't tell, show.


hype trains are the worst thing possible for a game. Look at what happened with Watchdogs and Destiny and many other games. People were bottle fed everything about the game before it even showed up and when launch happened nobody even liked what they saw. Because the hype train made them believe that the games would be the greatest thing in the history of humanity.

It doesn't have to be a hype train, just a decent feed of info instead of starving us, or over-promising without backing up their claims with evidence.