Tomorrow is the day. We finally get our update
Especially since this criticism only seems to be leveled at Valve. Nobody pesters Sony about not promoting their games.
I think I have mentioned this before but it does seem like Sony does "promote" 'their' games but that is only leading up to launch and it might just be a blog post as most or if they are lucky and at a convention or something Sony will show them off their but that does not happen that often?
So that means that Sony at least did do something to tell the world about this game and that is a form of promoting the game. This is not something that Valve does (asides from maybe very recently with Steam China) all that often if at all and when they do promote (a blog post as an example) it all happens within Steam (which you know is where these games are going to be sold and not at some convention, where only a small amount of people will be to see the game and stuff like that).
So Sony and other do talk about these games as events and stuff like that but then when it times come to release they don't really seem to do a lot to promote these games. I mean sure Sony spends money and stuff trying to tell people about the game and people do take notice and people do buy but is that enough? Lets assume that for every new game releasing on PSN that Sony does a blog post, tweets about it and has a youtube trailer for the game and if the dev team is lucky enough Sony will feature them at an event. But here is the thing does all of that really help? From what I heard most indie games are selling best on N/S followed by Steam, then PSN and in last place Xbox.
So does Valve promote indie games? In a way yes but also no. Valve seems to tell indies to promote themselves since that seems to be the only way that people will known about their game. What good is Valve telling people to check out indie "X", when indie "X" knows more about itself than Valve does. Is there where the whole "wishlist now" comes into place? I say Valve doesn't promote "upcoming games" outside of Steam it would seem, If you check on their twitter a majority of it is for Steamdeals, they also mention when a new game releases but that is only for big profile games (and I'm pretty sure we know the reason why, having to post about 20 new games and DLC everyday, ya no) and on very rare occasions they will also tweet about something else, like they did about Steam cloud save with DOS2. If you look at the Valve youtube page it is just Valve stuff and not game trailers, but the PS youtube channels is a lot of trailers and stuff like that. So unless I am missing something in those avenues Valve is not really doing a lot to promote games. But the place that they do "promote" games on is Steam and that is where it matters more and I guess that is what indie devs want? But the thing is why do they want it on Steam and not say PSN? Why don't these indie devs make noise about their games getting noticed on PSN? I'm guessing that because of how selective that Sony is (?) that they don't have to worry to much about competition since it doesn't show up too often? I remember in 2016 when my Vita was my main device that I would check on PSN for new games and stuff like that and not that many came out all that often and because I knew where to look I could find out about these indie games, but is it the same way with other people though? I'm just rambling on right now.
By the way the "Ellen" game also seems to be on PSN and it just released a few days ago, I wonder how its selling on there?
This is what I assumed it did, but it does makes sense as to why I would get a lot of weird random event invites but never any news feed updates or very few.
That said, if a dev just drops a game on steam or any digital storefront and doesn't do any kind of promotional work, they have only themselves to blame. Valve is not your PR, but it can help with how you approach PR. Still gotta put in that leg work yourself to get your title out there for steam to recognize an interest uptick
In other words if you play your cards right and are able to get people to notice your game, get hype around it and such than on release date or the day after (assuming no other big name game came out or that there is a publisher sale going on) Valve may even put your game as the banner. I don't think it happens all that often but Valve has been doing more and more often (didn't they do a banner for Greedfall?).
Is there even going to be a difference in the two games or nah?
I doubt it, if anything they (along with Sony and MS) will try to make it so that your progress carries over like with GTA Online. Seeing how the next Xbox and PS5 will have BC I doubt they will "can" the current versions.
But what will Epic do when PC2 gets released?