Dick Justice
Banned
I'm not complaining about peeps complaining. I proposing a question. To answer my own question I will say that it was a bad question. I should have asked, was Bethesda better off waiting? And I think they were. The gameplay aspect of a demo would have prevented such a focus on the possibly negative aspects of the graphics. People will be going into the demo with an agenda now. In the end it probably doesn't matter. Game will sell crazy good. Showing CG, as people expected, would at least save the community managers and artists/devs some short term stress. I think we need a better quality trailer, or I need to see it before I can do stuff.
I'd say they'd have been fucked either way. Release a CGI trailer, people complain about no gameplay. Show nice-looking but notgonnahappen gameplay (e.g. Witcher 3), you're delaying the inevitable shitstorm. Show real gameplay (well, presumably) that doesn't look too hot, people are gonna criticize it.