Why? Only a minority of potential EU5-players watch streamers, and an even smaller minority know about the Tinto talks. It wouldn't be strange in this era of digital decentralized marketing to allow streamers to talk about the game without doing a public announcement.
It was announced at PDXCON, so the lead up was the lead up to the event itself.
The vibe of this comment sold me, it's happening. Tomorrow even
Most of these content creators have jobs and families and lives outside of making YouTube content. Additionally, it's not uncommon that the studio foots the bill for accommodations and airfare for events like this (at least, other studios often do it.) The closed event in Stiges was almost certainly a one-off thing.
Welcome to the world of $100 base price for games, plus an endless stream of $50 DLCs.
Hope they announce their DLC policy beforehand, and stick to their announcement. I don't want to get hooked on something I can't afford. It's easier not to buy in the first place than not to buy the DLCs once hooked on the game. Guess they're well aware of such addictions and use them.
Can the Haha reaction be used as a substitute for crying, just this once?
With all due respect, you don't invite those players just to playtest the game in person. This is if you want to provide a teaser for YouTube. I do think something like this may be imminent, albeit not necessarily this week lol
With all due respect, you can absolutely fly in some influencers just to playtest and prepare for future cooperation. It's not particularly expensive to fly people to a certain location (especially seeing as many EU4 steamers live in Europe), and a reasonably big company like Paradox isn't on a tight budget with regards to marketing.
This wouldn't be budgeted under marketing in that case, since you claim it's possible no public-facing product results from it. Their bottom line can handle it, but I don't believe it's plausible they would do this just to build rapport they already have with most of them.
I miss the days when PDX released free demos before the game release...What a joy it was to try EU4.
I agree, especially with the future cooperation part. My opinion is that the announcement is still weeks or even months away and streamers will be part of the hype-up that leads to it. Also I wouldn't be surprised if some of them would cover more tinto talks from now on in their channels than before (didn't check all of them, but after a quick check on Ludi I can see that he doesn't always cover all of them). I'm expecting that they are already preparing the announcement, but I wouldn't expect it to happen this month, that would be kind of "out of nowhere" even with the teasing we got recently. Maybe one of the upcoming dev diaries will end with "Next week/two weeks from now we will have something special for you guys, stay tuned" and I would expect the streamers to drop videos about it at least one week before (like "Paradox is up to something" title with youtuber face thumbnail).
What do you all think about beta testing?
