Please, no. Shadow Drops are bad for the games that do them. Devs stopped doing them at Nintendo Directs because they killed sales and we now know the same happened to Hi-Fi RUSH
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Did it really kill sales? I though HFR beat Forspoken on steam in its first month of release?
I feel shadowdrops work better for F2P games, but I think being a shadowdrop hurt HFR sales performance. I think you need to do a little but of marketing to hype up games because missing the hype cycle puts less eyes on a game.
This is a ridiculous expectation. All I want are good games when theyāre ready to play.
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I would like more shadow drops, but I mostly donāt want one this time because it will set the expectation that it will happen every time.
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Yeah thatās probably what happened. Shadow drops could work in the form of Early Access/Open Beta for co-op/multiplayer focused games IMO. For a highly polished SP game, probably not.
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While not everything has to shadowdrop, didnāt BG3 still do well? Unless you mean completely new title premiere?
BG3 was in Early Access for 2+ years until its full release in August 2023 though.
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I mean for Xbox fan base.
We back?
Thatās much different because it was one of the most popular games of the year, and won many GOTY awards. So, its more than fine for it to shadowdrop on xbox due to built up hype of strong word of mouth
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So basically, not good for a completely new title that literally showcase on the same day. Others would be okay.
How do we know the shadow drop of HFR hurt sales? Did MS say something about it underperforming or was there an insider reporting on it?
MS said they were happy about it. It could do more though. I guess in times, it will crawl further and further with more of word of mouth and potentially sequel announcement.
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With that in mind it could work for Avowed, Hellblade 2 and anything else that has been announced a long time ago and has been shown a few times too. So if HFR had been revealed like in the summer of 2022, the sales would have been much better?
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The conversation about shadowdrops kinda sucks imo, Hi Fi Rushā case was cool, nobody expected it, and it also turned out to be a great game.
Now iām reading everywhere āwhat will they shadowdrop this time?ā, even some people thinking big games like Indiana Jones could be the next shadowdrop, kinda feels like since MS did it last year, they are supposed to repeat this each year now, hopefully this kind of expectations wont be around for next year if thereās no shadowdrop on this DD, and maybe in a few years we will get another big surprise drop like Tangoās one on 2023.
Just like having to read the ābut whereās Fable? (or SoD3, Perfect Dark etcā, man iād be more than happy with just Avowed.
The real questions about this DD imo are, will Avowed deliver and bring the hype back? Which date will HB2 get, how will Indy look?, will Avowed finally confirm 2024 date? (or even a less vague one), will Indy get a date? And about Ara, it has nothing to lose, maybe what they show is cool and manages to attract some attention too.
Iām slighty worried (in a good way!) but confident on Obsidian being the king of the show, i just started a replay of BG3, getting ready for some more RPG goodness
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Avowed always was going to be good and it was weird seeing some concerns after the last showing honestly as it looked incredibly good already. Really do t understand what it is about this game that people find unpolished for some reason.
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I think people were expecting super photo-realistic dark fantasy and were put off by how colorful it was. I guess people forgot that fantasy used to be colorful. 
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Obsidian themselves said there were real issues with that trailer, and those issues were noticeable to a lot of people. Iām sure itsā next showing at this DD will be much better received.
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And I think a lot of people really expected it would look like the last few seconds of the debut trailer back in 2019 or 2020.
Even though Jez Corden had said it looked different when he saw the game.
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