January 2, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, Greazer said: Screen shots do not hurt. It's for folks who missed the Alpha anyway. Throw them a bone. In fact I made a number of Alpha videos too. I would post online, with an official approval from MS. It can hurt if there’s stuff in the videos/pictures MS doesn’t want the general public to see yet.
January 2, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, Greazer said: Screen shots do not hurt. The problem is that they can hurt. On one side someone could get excited about some feature in the alpha version and post screenshots and/or videos all over the internet trumpeting how the awesome feature, only for it removed later in development (maybe it wasn't actually working well). This could very well lead to people blaming Asobo/MS for a bait and switch, or something else, even though it was never a promised feature in the final release. On the other side, someone could start running around posting screenshots of things that aren't working, it is still in alpha after all, and start the ball rolling on the idea the sim is a broken mess, the developer is hiding something and everyone should stay far away. Both situations have happened with software before, and both make it harder for the developer and publisher to control the marketing of the product. While it would be easy to say no one would do something like this, people do, and people are also not always rational when they see it (plenty of people have an almost irrational level of distrust of Microsoft, for example).
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