I get that, but you’re also not quite getting the full picture with this specific instance. The community on Reddit has been waiting for Silksong so long that they have been over-analyzing every single game convention for years to see if we’re going to get a release date, and had a heated debate over whether or not a blood sacrifice of a member of the community would bring the release. They’re a little crazy over there.
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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 days agoI have a hard time accepting the way social media works. The whole chain of logic you just spelled out makes me want to vomit. I don’t want to have my strings pulled, my chain yanked, or my goose got. I want to be talked to like I’m a person, and I know it’s just going to keep happening less and less and one day it’s going to do my head in.
Kovukono@pawb.social 3 days ago
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The context only increases the granularity of my distaste. We live in a society of conspiracism and forgetful unthinking chaos. I don’t want to read entrails for clues about the future, I want to wait patiently for a good game and not become schizophrenic trying to connect meaningless dots.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I don’t want to read entrails for clues about the future
But, you don’t have to. This is them hinting about a upcoming announcement of a release date. For the average player like you and me, it’s just the announcement itself that we need, and we’ll get that.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It just seems like unnecessary noise in an already noisy world.
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Tbf there are a lot of people who love solving cryptic puzzles and getting info out of very little, thats why ARGs are a thing. The good thing is, you don’t have to engage, you can just wait for proper announcements but for the people who love this shit they get to have fun, and presumably the devs too for making it.
And imo it shows that team cherry is interacting with the community in a positive way and might actually be finishing the game
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s pretty dramatic
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is it such a failing? I hope I haven’t upset anybody.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It’s marketing, and they do it because it works.
slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not for “normal” people, it’s for die-hard fans in their community, a little brain teaser / clue hunt. For the rest of us, there’ll be a proper announcement and a trailer.
Different things for different people.