[CD360]

First off, I just want to say that I love OOTP and have already preordered 25. But the rollout for 25 has me concerned and, judging from the comments I’ve seen here and elsewhere, I’m not alone in this.


OOTP has never had big or flashy rollouts, but the devs have always been good about clearly communicating the major changes coming to the new version. There have always been some surprises left for release, but in general when preorders opened you had a pretty clear idea what the new version offered. This year’s announcement only listed 3 new features (the dev lab, the HOF license and a PT mode). What’s more worrying is that we haven’t gotten a trailer and none of the reveal streams even showed any images.


I’m hoping you guys just hired a new marketing guy who doesn’t have a hang of the job and that this won’t reflect the game’s quality or the way future releases are done (although if you’re committed to making reveal streams the new way of disseminating info, y’all need to comb your hair, fix your lighting/internet and come with more images/info and less empty platitudes).


But after last year’s release, I’m nervous this is a sign of things to come. The fact that there is no trailer or gameplay footage has me concerned this will be another year where the game is broken upon release. I really hope we’ll be able to start long term saves as soon as the game is released, but I’d be lying if I said I thought that would be the case.


So I'm worried, and it feels like that’s an incredibly common feeling across the fanbase.


TL;DR

1. This year’s road to release has been awful, with very little information provided and much of what has been provided came from (respectfully) amateurish reveal streams.


2. In the context of the last couple of releases, this lack of information/footage can’t help but make me concerned that we’re in for another rocky release.