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Publishers need to stop announcing games that are still years away from launch, gamers agree (www.gamingbible.com)

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Gamers are urging developers to stop the frustrating trend of announcing new games years before they’re scheduled for release.

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[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I honestly don't care if a publisher announces a game several years out. In some cases, such as game franchises, I see it fairly pertinent that they do announce them.

What would be a better trend is the gaming community embracing the practice of foregoing preorders. OR understanding what "buyer beware" means. Never trust a publisher to provide you the game they promise on Day 1. Never.

[–] Squid777@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I think people really just need to vet who they get their games from better. There are quite a few publishers/developers I can absolutely rely on to provide a great product on day 1, and saying never to trust them that puts them in the same category as the shitty ones which is wrong.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't really see what the big deal with "we plan to make another one" is. They didn't even give it a name, just said they planned to make it.

Starfield might have been unexpected, but the day you knew that was a thing best case for ES6 was 4-ish years later. That's what a Bethesda game takes.

[–] Hellsadvocate@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Well I'm sure they announce it early because it's not for us, it's for the investors. But I think there is a downside, announcing it too early with like a CGI trailer puts it in the news and gets it talked about, but gamers develop an "vision" of how the game might be and you end up with a product that will definitely disappoint a lot of people. I'd say cyberpunk was one, due to the announcement time and what they actually showed it was hyped to the moon and back (people talk about games so they just started assuming).

If you look back on it now, people's expectations and ideas of what the game was going to be were very different than what the product ended up being (besides the bugs). I would rather get the game announced with real fucking gameplay.