Wesp5 wrote on Aug 1, 2014, 08:07:
Creston wrote on Jul 31, 2014, 22:47:
There is a marked difference between what someone expects and what someone is promised.
I agree. I find it quite interesting that so many people complain about minor differences in the ACM trailer compared to the game, but nobody much did the same when Bioshock: Infinite showed a whole sequence that never made it into the game and looked much better than the final game itself too. I guess because ACM itself was a bad game, people just stick to it!
How long before launch was the BioShock Infinite sequence shown?
That's the big problem with these things - games change, sometimes on rapid swings several times in one day, even in the final two or four months. Entire sequences get cut. Entire features get cut. New shaders are added or removed. If something is shown at E3, it may disappear by a November launch.
This is a big part of the reason why Valve says nothing and shows nothing until it's all basically set in stone. We get zero communication from them, but then we also don't get something that eventually disappears. That happened with HL (Mr. Friendly and Nemotoads), happened with HL2 (whatever that tentacle was), and happened with TF2 (which is an entirely different game.) Everything else has been hush-hush.
What Randy ultimately did was scummy. It changed, due to his mismanagement of the outsourced team. It was not what they showed (but friends at Gearbox tell me that what they showed was what they had at the time.) Was the launch trailer using the old footage or the new footage? I think that's the big question. Something changing from E3 to launch shouldn't be a suable offense. We really don't want that precedent if we want to see things at E3. But if the launch trailer wasn't the launch title, then I can see an argument.
As for a class action, if the launch trailer and the E3 trailer were different, how? No one should buy based on an E3 trailer. Ever. And the amount of people buying the game that saw the E3 trailer are probably minimal compared to the amount that bought the game without seeing the E3 trailer. The lawsuit makes complaints about E3 and PAX. Sorry, those aren't launch trailers.
As for scenes being in trailers and not in the game, are we going to sue Twister for not having a flying cow?