Well, we already got like 3-4 videos of gameplay showing most everything off, and only so much screen shots can show.
No we don't, we have 3-4 vids showing off features (and mostly the same ones), but none showing some real propper gameplay.
Features are nice, i'm not saying they aren't, and to thouse of us who played Ost and/or the mod, we can imagine how thouse features will blend into the gameplay.
But for thouse who didn't play Ost/mod, it's pretty much useless, fake tits on a zombie useless, and probably the number one question i have seen posted about HoS out there on the net is "But what does it play like? When will we see gameplay?".
Or maybe that's the number two question, just after "when will we get the release date", but that one's been solved, so i digress.
As much as i think Vakka is beeing too pessimistic, what with allready writing the game off as a day-1, he is not wrong in his critisism of the marketing, and plenty of us oldtimers here have been asking, no,
begging for some gameplay vids for months now so we can start word-of-mouth'ing this game, get people excited for it, generate some hype free of charge for TWI.
As things stand, we really can't, because every time we go out there, we're just assaulted and sabered down by negativity, like "dude that stuff's old, they haven't show anything new in months, i bet this game is delayed to 2012 or we would have seen something new by now", and "why should we care? I don't even know what this game is like, and they won't show us, probably because it sucks!".
TWI's response to all this is "we'd rather work on the game than spend time making videos and screens", and "we don't work on fully baked/compiled builds most of the time, so we can't just take some screenshots of thease raw builds", and i can see that angle, but it's not going to be good enough, not if they want to expand and get thease games out there in a big way, they are going to have to find ways to release more shots and vids in the future, or they won't be making it big.
And even on a small marketing budget, if they could just have supplied this community with some material, we would have gladly put it out there free of charge! And indeed we have with what we've been given, it just hasen't been enough.. we may have lots of facts about the game to share, but nothing much to show.
