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Is there real excitement about that game coming out (you know the one) or just the expectation of hype (piefed.social)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by iatenine@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I haven't played anything in the series in probably over a decade and am well aware I'm asking a userbase who prob isn't easily hyped by these things but even outside of that I hear the hype always talked about in third person ("it'll sell so well", "hype is enormous") rather than first person ("I can't wait to get it", "I'm so excited!")

I'm not claiming it's all manufactured hype or predicting a flop here, just wondering if the wait becoming a meme has kicked off an undue expectation so I guess the question is do you know anybody who is or are willing to admit to a genuine excitement?

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[-] iatenine@piefed.social 0 points 9 hours ago

Since the question was regarding hype, I thought it important to word it in a way that couldn't be construed as adding fuel to the fire nor feed into any sort of engagement baiting marketing strategies (thankfully this developer doesn't seem keen to do that)

The people saying they don't know what I mean also provides insight on the reality vs expectation of hype I was curious about

TL;DR: It was necessary for what I wanted to know

[-] anothermember@feddit.uk 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Talking about a game half of us have never heard of and saying it's really hyped without telling us what it is seems more like engagement baiting marketing to me than just being straight forward. And it's annoying.

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago

It can apply to any game and/or hardware, and I don't know what you're talking about. Explain that in the comments because as-is this thread is kinda useless.

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