‘Marketing’s dead, and I can back this s**t up’: Baldur’s Gate 3 publishing director says players ‘just want to be spoken to, and they don’t want to be bamboozled’

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Helldivers 2 had zero advertising that I saw and it slaps.

Cyberpunk might have actually delivered on its promises if they spent half of their advertising budget on the dev team instead of billboards.

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It was showcased in Sony State of Plays (what felt like) most of last year but it didn’t really wow anyone from them other then existing Helldivers fans. Even if a game is what people want, someone has to play it first to spread the word. Among Us is a great example of that.

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And there’s so much people in Reddit that defend cp2077 going “B-But le 2.0 fixed le game, it delivers everything!!!111!1”

https://youtu.be/omyoJ7onNrg

sp3ctr4l

I posted on Reddit after CP77 launched that it would take them at least a year to fix the game up to actually working with what it launched with, and longer than that to get to everything that was promised.

Now… it has been a good number of years, and with everything other than multiplayer?

Theyve done it. It is an incredible game now.

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pancakes

I wouldn’t defend cdpr’s shit but cyberpunk has been an objectively good game for years. No amount of hating the launch, company, or external factor will change that.

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I will never play helldivers, not my style, but god damn i read the news rabidly lol

andrew_bidlaw

It has a seemingly active community on Lemmy of all places, their posts frequently show up in my feed. What triple A game has this? Although I’m not interested in it too and they banned my country for a reason, I’m guilty in looking how to buy it.

sp3ctr4l

No current AAA games have this on lemmy because of late they are all one or more of:

-Massively Overhyped Flop

-No Lasting/Enduring Replayability

-Insufferable Gacha/Microtransactions

-Hugely Popular, But Basically Only Played By Rabid Children/ManChildren w/ Multiple Psychological Disorders

andrew_bidlaw

BG3? But it’s an exclusion in many, many ways.

sp3ctr4l

Yeah, it is a rare exception, though I would argue it is not really a AAA game, more AA.

True, it did have a huge budget and a large staff, but AAA games have even larger budgets, even larger staffs, and often shorter development times.

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Most of my exposure to HD2 before picking it up was either streamers playing it or people complaining they couldn’t play it because the servers were well over capacity.

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‘Marketing’s dead, and I can back this s**t up’: Baldur’s Gate 3 publishing director says players ‘just want to be spoken to, and they don’t want to be bamboozled’

‘Marketing’s dead, and I can back this s**t up’: Baldur’s Gate 3 publishing director says players ‘just want to be spoken to, and they don’t want to be bamboozled’