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

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    1 year ago

    Two words “_________ Citizen” (choose your first word from the options below)

    Option 1 for Scam
    Option 2 for Star

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    I guess I’m in the minority that are glad that Bethesda is being open about their development for ES6. If they hadn’t told us it is in the works but on hold until Starfield is finished then we would be seeing constant speculation about a new Elder Scrolls game followed by inevitable disappointment when they don’t say anything.

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      I think Elder Scrolls 6 will be worse in the end. Announced 2019 and they’ve probably not even started yet beyond maybe writing the story.