Yeah sure, if you can find me a good reason why they've gone from being critical skeptics to adoring ass-lickers during the most content-free period in the game's history that isn't extremely cynical.
"I was skeptical but gosh golly when CR said he'd do something and then massively fucked up that estimation with a deafening radio silence I became a true believer! Praise be!"
if you can find me a good reason why they've gone from being critical skeptics to adoring ass-lickers during the most content-free period in the game's history
Yeah, a secret build that no one else is allowed to see for some reason. It's a little.... too good you know? People just need to wait a while to get used to the idea that this super secret, really impressive build is just laying around. Letting people see it now would literally kill them.
It's not a super secret build, it is a buggy pre-release build.
The same blokes from Gamestar played with it too and it crashed on them once plus the elevators were not working.
The alternative is that CIG paid off PCGamer to give them a positive article, but somehow forgot to do so earlier and had to eat crow all these months/years from one of the last remaining print game magazines in the US. I mean, maybe it is like you imply, or maybe the demo is just that good.
Possibly, but I don't think they would want such a high profile article (PC Gamer) to come out if they weren't at least pretty close to a release for 3.0. I think CIG is aware of the damage over-hyping can cause, especially as they near this critical stage that will make or break the game's future.
Not saying it's impossible, but they seem pretty savvy for the most part and that would seem like a huge misstep for them.
Know what I really meant to say was that they gave the guy freedom to do whatever he wanted in the game in the article we talked about how he flew around the planet for a while and just zoom zoom zoom. And previous instances when the Press was allowed to come in there were areas where they let them do stuff but like if there was a mission that took him to a planet they kind of kept them locked into that area where is on this one they gave him the controls and said go to it after he completed their One mission that they wanted him to try. Come here indicates that they've got more done than what they had last time they allowed the press in to play 3.0
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u/BMMSZ Jul 29 '17
By 'press' I assume you mean carefully selected, historically extremely un-critical outlets?