IcaroRibeiro said:
This, really Gamers get upset over issues that aren't really issues |
This, Lol. So many other actual issues to care about than when a developer decides to announce their videogame.
And honestly, in many cases there's little difference if a game is unannounced or announced, let me use an example, Rockstar with GTA 6, everyone knows Rockstar is making GTA 6, I know Rockstar is making GTA 6, it makes absolutely zero difference to me whether they make a trailer now, a year ago or a year from now, the game is still releasing when it's releasing and the trailer makes no change to that.
Another example would be the countless of games leaked, anyone who follows Xbox news knew that Fable was in development, makes no difference when they decide to put together a trailer as we already knew it was in development. Most people will think "cool trailer" then move on and forget about it as we're swamped with dozens of games actually releasing.
Then when the game in close to release, the marketing cycle will kick up again and the excitement will build, I do not buy the theory that early announcements hurt a games sales that some people say, countless of games announced years in advance, only to go quiet, then to massively kick up the marketing campaign and build excitement again because...that's marketing, Lol.
The film/tv industry announce projects years in advance, many times without even a trailer, they'll just say "so and so is working on this" but it feels like only the gaming industry has people who get weirdly angry about early announcements. To me, they are either "whatever" or they build excitement as I can see what I have to look forward to in the future, especially if it's an IP I love.
And it's also weird too because people will complain about early announcements but at the same time they'll be like "WHERE IS THIS GAME? WHY ISN'T IT ANNOUNCED YET? WHY AREN'T THEY DOING A SEQUEL?" Lol. The early announcements at least can ease those concerns which will become more relevant as videogames take longer and longer to develop (like 4-6 year average now).
Plus it's a hiring tool, which as far as I'm concerned is more important than gamers moaning.
I think what would be cool though is if developers showed more behind the scenes or work in progress stuff over the course of development but I don't know if gamers would be ready for that, they'll lose their shit when a concept art revealed by a developer isn't in the final product or lose their shit at clearly labelled "WORK IN PROGRESS/ALPHA" footage not being pretty enough...
