Idk, I don't like comapnies announcing a game that's 4+ years away. Especially with a generic CGI trailer that doesn't tell you much about the game. That said, I can see WHY comapnies do this (recruiting as an example). With that said, many franchises early announcements aren't even really necessary. A new mainline TES was always going to happen so Bethesda didn't really need to announce TESVI. GTA VI we all know was going to happen, so Rockstar didn't really NEED to announce it coming in 2025. Something like Perfect Dark I think was warranted because nobody knew for sure if we were ever going to get a new game in that franchise so I enjoy knowing that it's being worked on at this moment in time.

This, really

Gamers get upset over issues that aren't really issues

Obviously that does sometimes happen.

But not always and not intentionally.

Everwild and Metroid Prime 4 got internally restarted after their announcements for instance.

Right, I'm not saying that it always happens. However, you said you don't think ANY developer/publisher does this. I'm saying that I do think that a few do. That's all. 

I mean, it's always ok. Whether it's a good idea is a different question.

Take for instance Mass Effect. It was a series that was beloved, but the ending to the third and Andromeda left a bad taste in people's mouths. So EA needed to kind of respark the series. A big part of that was the Legendary Edition rerelease. But... the fanbase may not be too excited to replay Shepard's adventure knowing it was going to have a crap ending and no future.

So, before that was released, they showed a trailer for a new Mass Effect game that implied that the story would in some sense be continued. They let people know it wasn't a dead story/franchise. And, I wound up buying the LE, which I think I may not have done if I didn't have some hope for Mass Effect 4 eventually coming out and being decent. 

With that being said, I kind of assumed that when they showed the trailer, it would be out by now. The initial excitement I felt had kind of subsided. If they said it would be out within a year of the trailer, I'd probably have preordered right away. At this point, the excitement is died down, so I'm probably going to wait for some reviews and maybe even an eventual price drop before playing it.

So, there's a balance there. I think it's best to be up front and clear. Preferably give a projected release year, or at least make it clear from the beginning that something is not coming out for a long time.

I said "intentionally".

But maybe it's the Australian English... Where Yeah Nah means yes and Nah yeah means no.

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No, and it's stupid. It just makes the waiting longer and more painful. You don't see movies being advertised as coming in a few years time. The best thing is to show it off 1 year max,not longer.

Movies are often announced half a decade ahead. Sometimes even before the movie starts its pre-production stage. The Jungle Book 2 was announced in 2016 and we still have nothing about it

It's just that nobody really cares. Again, gamers really complain about everything 

I really don't care either way. I get why it studios do it and I can't knock them for it. I would probably do the same thing if I was in their shoes.