A little inconsiderate, imo
A lot of people are liking the reveal, and to be fair, it was an interesting move to do it that way.
I kind of wish you guys hadn't announced the stream and had just done it as a surprise. But announcing it was going to happen at a specific time for it to then last that much was a little excessive and somewhat inconsiderate of people's time, in my opinion.
Maybe you could have streamed the cabin multiple times over the course of a few days in short bursts or something, that way people's expectations get kinda set from the get go…Who knows…I don't know how this could have done better, I just know how it felt.
I'm sure, from a marketing perspective, this will be successful, it will get people talking, etc, etc. I just think it was a tad cruel. For me, it sure makes me less interested in future streams that you announce beforehand, because I can never trust that you won't just waste my time for hours just to market something.
I couldn't care less for Jason, but I'm happy for everyone who will get something they liked and have been waiting for for a long while.
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You weren't forced to watch the entire thing. I went to bed after a couple hours because I knew it wasn't ending anytime soon. I woke up to Jason and a cool breakdown of the easter eggs. You are owed nothing.
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It’s not about “being owed”
It’s about being mindful of people’s time and the individuals that have to work on the weekends like I am doing right now. Pulling a double.
If they have broken it up, that would’ve been neat too.
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I am actively at work right now. It's a CCTV style video that was meant to build anticipation until the 13th hour, after weeks of 13 second teasers. You are allowed to have an opinion but I think the entire concept of this teaser was really unique and fun and fitting for the King of Slashers.
You're seriously telling it wans't worth it to see the Unknown attempt to jumpscare Jason, realize its out of its league, and skitter off? The average DBD player was never, ever expected to watch the entire 13 hours of this.
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I the whole idea was cool. I just feel there was a better way to go about it. Some form of heads up.
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I just played DBD while I watched it on the other monitor.
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If BHVR was a little forthcoming about the fact the stream was going to be hours of not much happening leading up to the reveal at X time, it would have gone over better. Especially when they were starting it late at night. Most people could have gone to bed and wake up for the actual reveal instead of sticking around until it became clear nothing was happening.
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I agree to both statements that if they started it much earlier and didn't make us wait an entire day just for a reveal at 7AM PST after 13 hours, most if not everyone would've been happy.
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It was 12 hours. The reveal happened on the start of the 13th hour.
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It was definitely a failed PR stunt.
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If they had said "tune in for a 12 hour Livestream" and didn't say "it's better live" this would have had an entirely different reaction imo
People would've picked up immediately that this wasn't the standard DBD stream and started speculating about what was up, and the cabin would've immediately been a clue in that nothing was immediately happening rather than most people spending 20-40 minutes waiting for something then getting hit with sunk cost fallacy for their time.
I would have loved to watch this slowly unravel in a different context, instead it just ended up a kinda funny and pretty head scratching way to reveal one of the games most hype additions.
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Oh please… Nobody knew in advance that they would keep the stream running for a whole 13 hours. Had I known that, I wouldn't have bothered watching until the next day.
Some of us in the Euro time zones stayed up to essentially watch nothing but a shed for a couple of hours. Yeah, maybe that's on us for being too dumb to realise nothing was gonna happen for ages, but I think we're allowed to be at least a little bit grumpy about having wasted our time.
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The amount of disrespect BHVR has for it's own fanbase is astounding. There is no universe where you say "announcement at 9pm (my time)" and then run a 13 hour stream. ######### ridiculous. Uninstalled. ######### BHVR.
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Yeah but when BHVR has said in the past (paraphrase) that they want to respect our time more this is definitely not respecting our time considering people in EU like Otz stayed up for even 3-4 hours and was visibly frustrated by the time he ended. It didn't build anticipation until maybe around the 6th hour mark which honestly this was just sad.
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I couldn't possibly finish the stream (stayed 8 hours in w my friends) but the tile "still live" was kinda funny when i though about it
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I maintain that they should simply have never announced it.
Let it run its full course, but don't acknowledge it in official communication.
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They’ve been able to do basically whatever they want without regard for the opinion of the player base because all that matters is player count. Obviously not very many players are mad enough to stop playing because the player count has remained historically high for quite a while now.
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You could have stopped watching at any point. Nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to watch the stream? You're all overreacting for no reason.
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I agree that the stream would have been a lot more fun/interesting if they had not announced it beforehand and just let the community discover that there was this weird cabin thing happening. They might have been afraid no one would notice if they didn't announce it, but they kind of stepped on their own stunt by doing that IMO.
I watched a few minutes of it on Tofu's stream and then went to bed once it seemed like nothing was happening. LOL'd when I woke up and still nothing was happening. Forgot completely about it and found out later it was Jason. So it was not frustrating for me, so much as confusing and boring, but I can understand how, if you went out of your way to be available to watch and then nothing happened, it would be annoying.
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Tofu's stream was hilarious, you should have stuck around. The streamers who are just naturally good at entertaining their viewers made it worth it tbh, BHVR owes them big time.
Also, i feel like if they never gave forwarning that it was happening, all the online complaints would have been the opposite lol complaints that we should have had warning
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While I agree the stream should have never been announced, it was most definitely a successful marketing tactic. Among all platforms and streamers, it was close to 100k watching this event unfold.
One of the gripes I hear is that people have to work. My answer is that not everyone has to work, and a good chunk normally have the weekends off with the exception of retail based jobs, among others. My second answer is getting priorities and risk. If you're willing to risk being dead at work the next day, thats purely on you, and realistically a video game should also fall below work priorities.
It made very little difference to me because I knew I was going to know who the killer was in the morning and I would be able to watch plenty reactions.
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