Why remove the trailer scenes?

[Kreekakon]

I personally don't think this is really something to get upset about, or blame Frictional/TCR for "bait, and switching". Let me quickly explain my reasoning below:

Many of the trailers were shown over a year ago, during which the games were still deep in development, and many things were subject to change. I would understand the backlash, and think it justified IF the trailers were from extremely close to release, but they were over a year ago.

Time between release, and early trailers have a lot of room to change things which I think the longer time goes on between a trailer, and release of the game the better it is to take the trailer's content with a grain of salt, because given so much time it may be very likely that things have changed.

If they did I think it would be really weird if FG came out, and said "Hey guys just so you know after a year, this trailer is completely outdated, and the game will be nothing like this!" It just feels...off, and not something dev would say. Just feels like the kind of thing a gamer should keep in mind about how development, and trailers go.


As a personal example, and pardon the shameless self advertising, check out this trailer for my mod I announced a couple months ago:





This is from the mod's very early stages, and even though I very well hope it will remain unchanged, I really have ZERO CLUE if anything will be altered down the road to make it seem vastly different to what the trailer currently teases.

Same goes for AMFP, double since the trailers were from so ridiculously long ago. It's not a surprise that so much has changed imo.

EDIT: So while I very much disagree with Kein's snarky way of expressing it, I think he actually makes a valid point.