Why remove the trailer scenes?

[felixmole]

Actually, there was a pig encounter in the cage area right up until we handed it over to Frictional at the end of January. We talked a lot after that and it got removed, and the reasoning was that players would be expecting a Pig to be in the room, so we got the build of tension through the expectation. If the Pig didn't appear, it keeps the fear high as players area constantly expecting it. And you can broadside them by introducing a pig at another point in the level where it's not expected.

Hey Dan. What about the first pig encounter that happens when you open the door near the stairs, like in the first teaser? Why is it just a fleeing pig? Is it because the area had so many entities that the pig could have got stuck chasing the player or something?

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.

Not to forget that some playthroughs of AMFP were released a dozen of days before the release.