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Originally Posted by Bridget
Exactly, so make Fortress Forever's development more transparent. It would generate hype, allow the development team to break inevitable rumors, and give the public something to look forward to and comment on instead of a dead beta team.
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Notice how I stressed (or tried to) the port aspect. They aren't showing anything
new. They aren't innovating, they are recreating. Everything they show is familiar and will only serve to generate hype (unless it's of very poor quality, but the BMS team is incredibly competent).
In a non-port, new things can both generate hype and generate negativity (easily at the same time). All you have to do is look back at the skim cap "backlash" to see that. Screenshots can't explain something like the skim cap. Even videos can't make the public
feel the impacts of the change and form an accurate opinion. Transparency of new ideas only goes so far, and a majority of the time (unless a lot of time/effort/care goes into it) people happen to form unfair first opinions that are hard to reverse without allowing them to play with the changes. It's a gamble that might be worth taking some of the time, but transparency as a rule is generally too risky at this point.