07-19-2009, 08:57 AM | #241 |
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Bah I've given up hope that Gray Matter will ever get completed. In fact, I'm purposely telling myself this game is dead and buried so that if it does eventually come out, it'll be like a surprise! Man, I'm a genius!
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07-19-2009, 09:22 PM | #243 |
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Breaking news: Game canceled due to not whore out the development updates to annoying fans.
Seriously people, when a project goes quite, and isn't some independent game development, don't expect the worse. Most game companies keep things quite....usually for years. Just be lucky you get any updates. |
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It means you have to focus on publicity on top of development, which takes a lot out of marketing and real work. Do you know how many mods for games were canceled just because they got everyone excited when they just started development? A great example of WHY you should prepare people until you are close to being finished. |
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I have to say that if there's one team I definitely wouldn't accuse of focussing on publicity over development, it's this one.
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What publicity? By whom?
Lightyears ago, dtp announced a new JJ game. Wow, everybody got excited. The rest was silence. Except for a couple of statements about dtp having every confidence in the developers... what's their name. Nothing about the game at the developers' site, nothing at dtp's site. And then all of a sudden dtp hired new developers and of course they have every confidence in wizardbox. A couple of entries in JJ's blog (now gone), a web site which hasn't had any new content in ages... you call that PUBLICITY? |
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I recall seeing new artwork in the blog a couple of months ago. How is that resemble not having new content for ages? There was some awesome artwork of the natural history museum and background/sketch comparisons. |
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A lot of arguments against the project lately. Maybe we will see soon a new blog entry with a single artwork or an interview about Jensen's favourite meals, colours etc
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I am being realistic. Why? Because most games have zero publicity until 75% of the game is complete.
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So you're saying that less than 75 percent of Gray Matter has been completed yet... In that case, we will have to wait another year. At the very least.
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07-21-2009, 02:15 AM | #256 |
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Actually the blog is still here. Wizarbox is working on a new version of the site and, meanwhile, the content has been moved. Not removed, just moved. In fact, as you see with the blog, it is still there, only not on the main page.
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The only adventure wizarbox and dtp ever created together was So Blonde. We got loads of info on the game and saw *dozens* of screenshots of different development stages way before the release date. Not so with Gray Matter.
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And I also think that we will definitely see something new at the Games Convention next month.
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Do you mean at Leipzig? Or is it happening somewhere else this year? That would be fantastic, especially since they didn't show anything at the convention last year.
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