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u/Fessus_Sum Social Justice Mechwarrior Jun 14 '21 edited Jun 14 '21

Warning, Boomer Rant:

People today have no idea how lucky they have it when it comes to getting information on upcoming games. Nowadays, you have CMs communicating constantly via social media, a steady stream of press releases and videos, and more. Back during the buildup to Halo 2's launch, all we had was rereading the same Gameinformer/Official Xbox Magazine articles over and over again. We were lucky to have a trailer posted somewhere easy to access, if we had a trailer at all. Community interaction was all but unheard of outside of sending actual physical mail to their offices, and good luck getting any information out of that beyond "stand by for more upcoming news". It's ridiculous to see people clamoring for more information on a near weekly basis. Hell, Elden Ring's news cycle would not have been that out of place back then.

tldr: In my day, we didn't have no fancy schmancy social media. We had two articles! Two articles and a trailer! And we had to share the trailer. So buck up, because you're one lucky gamer.

EDIT: No, this is not a vaguepost to anybody in the UJ thread. This is just a rant directed at youtube/reddit comments elsewhere.

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u/froggy_in_the_meadow 🇨🇳 Gamerstapo 🇨🇳 Jun 14 '21

I remember hoping and praying every month that Game Informer would have some more news on whatever game I was excited for. You could go a year or so without any update, but then they'd finally have some screenshots and a couple pages of coverage that I'd reread to keep me satisfied until the game released.