People generally stopped talking shit about the game after official reveal press conference - but that doesn't negate the resoundingly immature and reaction the game got when it was leaked which affected the dev team as has been mentioned here countless times.
Some ideas:
I get that,
You're likely misremembering as the hatred before the reveal was so vitriolic. Just your usual amount of skepticism which all games tend to get - if you look for Reddit threads and comment sections in posts about the reveal there are a lot of people quite surprised about how good it looks (not sure about how GAF took the news, wasn't around then).
emotional manipulation by appealing to emotion is rather bad, don't do that when no one is really willing to do the myriad of other things that would make their lives so much better already.
Not like there was that much interesting stuff to announce haha
Are you kidding me? He's talking about people and you're equating it to corporations? Gtfo with this awful take
...but those comment sections have quite a few people saying they were excepting something terrible and it looked good. Their opinions changed once they saw the game being shown off as the developer intended, rather than what hey'd seen/heard/read through leaks - first Google search I could find was this article on Polygon which has a number of comments like this.
Where did I defend the latter? Do you even know what you're saying?
Why not both?
wu.. what?
Cool. Either way, all the leak did was hurt the dev team which is the point I was making from the start. It helped no-one and only hindered - the game needed a specific marketing message which a leaked name and materials with no context was not able to do and was detrimental to all involved in making the game
If someone leaks something about my job and I'm threaten with being fired than my job is a shitty and toxic place.
Are you just going to ignore the person working in the gaming industry because it's too inconvenient to you?
You're currently using other problems with the industry and other industries to deflect from any negative impact that leaks may cause
What about when everyone got pissed because Metroid Prime 4 wasn't at the VGA's but only expected that because of a potential leak? Or when people get upset that there were no surprises at a conference because everything that would have been a surprise got leaked ahead of time?
Well that game was cancelled because it didn't match their standards.
It's not a good thing but it's not due to your workplace being shitty, it's to do with the general public being a shitty fickle bunch of assholes. You read shit that happens in any workplace and it starts giving you a picture of that company. Now think of the biggest asshole at your work, I'm sure you agree you don't want that piece of shit essentially being the mouthpiece for your company.
So because someone else leaked something the company has a right to threaten me with being fired. You really don't see how fucked up that is?
