@Galidrum No citcon is my favorite bit of news this year. Huge resource suck for a bunch of slide shows that historically have not even amounted to much of anything.
@Krexxal Bc they're about 1,000,000 more likely to succeed taking advantage of an established IP and filling a niche people are actively seeking out vs starting an expensive and unproven new project that has an extremely high likelihood of failure, presumably.
@that_kind_oforc@Lumidoom What, you aren't excited for khaleesi-coded Calia to execute the entire desolate council in the name of freeing the leper gnomes from the basement before declaring the kingdom of lordaeron for the Alliance?
@Morphologis@OlliHull Just deeply cynical, deeply corporate marketing department style content imo. It felt very gross watching it, more than any video they've made in a long time. Jared lies to us a lot but it at least feels off the cuff and impulsive, not polished and produced.
@Morphologis@OlliHull It might cover what was being worked on, but it's also an obvious post-facto narrative manufactured and imposed on the process. Like the "x days till 4.10" stuff feels very weird when I think we all know the target release date was a few weeks ago.
@Morphologis@OlliHull It also, frankly, feels oppressively like a TLC show. The framing, the shots, the stilted interactions, it all feels very crafted. It's very bad, imo.
@Morphologis@OlliHull To me this doesn't really feel like the right direction at all. I wanna see more transparency about what's being actively worked on, not retrospectives of stuff that just shipped. This is just a corporatized director's commentary spin on what ISC has already become: patch reports
@starjumporg I can't help but feel like it's gotten a bit bloated and shapeless in production, like so many concepts before. It doesn't really carry the same nautical vibe it had when the lower sections were thinner.
@starjumporg I do think the GTA stuff is a little insincere tbh. If that were the only factor, it'd be Q1. Game's likely just not done, and GTA is an acceptable smokescreen for that.
@_zocco@OlliHull Obv it's not all bots and a lot of people sincerely like the content but it's very sus just how many generic "omg this is so good" comments went up within 1-2 minutes of the video dropping, esp with it dropping at midnight CST/6-7am in Europe.
@_zocco@OlliHull tbf that deluge has a lot of bot accounts. watched the video like 5m after it posted and there were tons of comments already about how amazing it is despite it not having been up long enough for anyone to have watched it in full lol.