Bevab
Staff Member
From Wealey’s perspective he’s seen this for perhaps the last 3-4 BA releases in increasingly worse fashion on this forum and has also received some shtick from unsavoury parts of this forum because he was on the beta testing team (which also means he’s worked with the devs before and the ones he worked with were passionate about the sport). I do get why he feels the way he does from his PoV.
You’ve pretty much said what I left out in my previous posts too. There’s plenty of ways to showcase the game without official national licenses which may be the issue. Even then there’s plenty of domestic sides they can show, I’m struggling to see why it‘s impossible to show teams from the Hundred, CPL, IPL or PSL all of which have been finished. You could have just released random screenshots from those leagues when they were being conducted, surely that leaves the game’s name out there in those audiences? Making an adequate video is also a single day’s job for an intern at worst. Are you really gaining something big from that single day of a single dev time compared to the reach a video could have done?
I don’t even get the “too similar to C22“ issue as most sports games generically look similar every year unless the generation has jumped to a new console. The only plausible thing I can think of is the game either not being ready to be shown till now (which is a worrying thing) or they’re deliberately sitting on a functional product and focusing on dev time only because that one hour of grabbing and uploading screenshots per week is detrimental to the game’s development.
It’s bizarre because I genuinely can’t think of any game that has had such minimal exposure or marketing with a week to go for release when they‘ve arguably had the most reasons to market the most out of this one with so much official content and apparently extra months of dev time to polish things. Just for comparison’s sake, the last Age of Empires 2 DLC was extremely poorly marketed compared to the usual ones and it was one of the main reasons that contributed to it’s lack of success compared to the previous ones despite it literally porting over an entire game to it’s engine (so you got AoE1 in AoE2 practically). SI who have been infamous for dropping the ball in recent years for their lack of transparency and innovation with how they approach announcements have also got on the train and have been doing fantastic work in the prelude to this year’s FM despite it being nothing more than a polished version of FM23 practically because they‘ve gone in detail over what specific changes they’ve made and how much they’ve focused on polishing. Their latest blog post has multiple small clips showing the match engine improvements that had nothing fancy, just a few video captures in-game that were uploaded to YouTube and yet the reaction to it on their forums has been hugely positive because it’s something that people wanted from them. You really don’t need to go over the top to appease your audience.
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If the game doesn’t have a Tiefling Barb and a Half-Elf Goth Girl we riot.
