The more I see Avowed the, I can't help but get hyped for it. It looks so fun to play.

Lmao, I think I lost all my Microsoft Reward points because it auto set it to donate all my points to the charity I was giving points to, I'm 99% sure I never set it to give them all my points and it was only points from search. Oh well, I don't really care as it's for a good cause, it just made me laugh, back down to 0 points. 🫡

I completely forgot the S Controller got the Hyperskin treatment!!. Should be here in time for a replay of Fable TLC, that’s gonna be a 20yr nostalgia slap.

Google nowadays

Plus their AI slop.

🥸 On today’s episode of crime watch: TES6 still MIA after 6yrs since it was announced. Obsidian creates and releases (12 days time for EA) Avowed before we’ve even heard …anything on TES6 since.

Seriously though, what's the deal with Avowed? Have MS lost interest in marketing it?

That's what I've been asking. I went looking for their videos on it and thinking, "there's no way the last video of this game uploaded on their official YouTube channel was a random podcast clip from over 2 months ago."

It's less than 2 weeks from release. They delayed it from November because supposedly they didn't want too many games (lmao) or wanted to avoid the supposed onslaught of games in that window (almost all sucked, except the JRPG that confused too many people with it's name to get the attention it deserved), meanwhile they've done heck all nothing to promote or get people ready for it. No demo, no breakdown or special direct, no energy whatsover.

You were that worried about The Veilguard but don't mind launching within the same window as Kingdom Come II. Incredible foresight and planning, as per usual.

This is MS. They don’t have a marketing department.

The official reason was that it was too crowded, which was a fair reason to make, it is only stupid now because we have hindsight to see that the projects that released around it either flopped or were also delayed, it is easy with hindsight to mock, but there was a reasonable fear that Avowed would become the next Titanfall 2 before events changed as they did.

The February date was an unfortunate backfire, was Kingdom Come even dated when Avowed was delayed? Then there was also Assassin's Creed, they got a bit lucky that Assassin's Creed was then delayed another time. I do think Avowed and Kingdoms Come are far enough apart and different enough to not doom Avowed, personally, I love RPGs but have zero interest in realistic RPGs like Kingdom Come.

They did have previews but due to the delay there's been a big gap between them and the release date, the previews were even more positive than Indiana Jones ones as well, Lol. They've shown us a quest walkthrough and quite a bit of combat but those were also a while ago. They're doing those World of Eora lore videos narrated by Matthew Mercer which are pretty cool but not mainstream.

I wonder if they're going to try to rely on word of mouth and long legs. Josh Sawyer did a video recently where he said most RPGs don't tend to sell huge at the start but do have very good legs and sell well over time, I assume he is speaking from personal experience. Obsidian didn't even market much even pre-Microsoft, now Microsoft doesn't really bother with marketing until a couple weeks before release for anything, Lol.

Maybe we'll see stuff this upcoming week since review codes went out last week.

Oh all those recent Gifs and shit came from the Steam page being updated too.

But yeah, Microsoft barely does what would be described as mainstream marketing anymore, I don't think we're going to see Avowed ads plastered over buses and TV. But I personally saw a lot of Indiana Jones Reddit ads and such near launch so we'll probably get those, Lol. Microsoft marketing overall is very anaemic and they seem to rely now on Game Pass/WoM to sell their games.

Anyway...

nice banner 👀 @xbox.com

— Obsidian (@obsidian.net) 31 January 2025 at 21:38