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Ryuu96 said:
Machiavellian said:

Really does not matter what they say, the concept is flawed.  Listening to a developer jaw on for a while then showing some footage or even gameplay is a waste of time for this type of event.  Keep it short impactful and moving.  They can have some QA afterwards for people who want to go deeper but these type of events that will get a bigger audience will lose a lot of them after the first developer drone on about their game.  

Showcases should be events where you put the best gameplay forward and while I love a good Developer deep dive, I do not believe it should be this event.  Either way, after seeing enough of these, I am pretty sure its going to be boring for the majority of the audience.

Don't watch it then, Lol.

They've been very clear what kind of event this is from the start, if it isn't for you then you can dip out now and no harm done, you'll only have yourself to blame if you didn't listen to them and come out complaining that it was a lot of gameplay. Some livestreams are catered to different needs and not every one is the same.

Sony/Nintendo regularly do "Direct" style events which are focused entirely on a single thianng for over 20 minutes and they're generally well received, this is just four of those put together, I don't see any harm in doing that when they make very clear beforehand what it is. I for one am looking forward to it. They're going to do one entirely dedicated to Starfield too, why is that good but this is bad? Lol.

This has nothing to do with me, I am speaking about the event itself and the audience that will be watching it.  The funny part is that I have read countless complaining on here about how MS has delivered nothing, shown nothing and need to impress this year with their games and then we get an event that doesn't cater to exactly the audience MS is trying to impress.  

As I stated, it really does not matter how clear MS is on what the event is, its not what the audience want.  This is the time to set the stage for the first half of the year.  If this event is not regulated by someone who specialize in presentations it's going to be a pain to watch.  I have been on way to many of these developers presentations to understand that how developers see express their content and how the gamer does is 2 different things.  Either way lets come back to this discussion after the event.

MS are not in the same position as Sony and Nintendo.  That is the problem, MS does not command the same attention, expectation or direction between Sony and Nintendo and trying to just do what they do, is not enough, they need to exceed expectations when you are in last place that you cannot even see the other 2.