An open letter to all of you who feel entitled to "fill in the blank"...

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Here's another voice from the silent majority that disagrees with the OP. Yes, I disagree.

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Wanna hear a funny? I say yes to all of these and said yes to several points from the OP. Because one person can hold both positions. If anything, it's the positions from this quote that make me hold the positions from the OP.

I want Intrepid to present their game in the best way possible, so that the "silent majority" can see a proper alpha for a proper great game. What we saw on stream was a jumbled mess that, for 80% of its runtime, didn't even represent the topic of the showcase. We saw a video with terrible sound. We saw devs trying to explain the abilities while also juggling gameplay, instead of a good presentation and explanation from the redone video.

All of this could be avoided if Margaret received the recording for the livestream a day before the livestream itself, instead of fucking minutes before it. Intrepid had to do their own job twice just to reply to the direct and majority feedback they received during the stream itself. They are literally shooting themselves in the foot before a marathon and yet here you are asking us "why are you saying this runner is stupid for shooting themselves in the foot?! Are yall entitled or smth? Do you not support this runner?"

Intrepid has proven that they can do better presentations, which set the bar for any of their future presentations. So why should we settle for an honestly poor showcase when we know for god damn sure that they can do better. Why should we be ok with them literally spending twice as much time on fixing a problem that shouldn't have been a problem in the first place? Why can't they plan their job (and streams are a part of their job. At least Margaret's) correctly and what does it say about the rest of the development, when making a video is waaaaay easier than creating a whole damn game.

I want Intrepid to be better for their own good. If that's somehow entitlement - so be it.

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In your opinion, what do you think these 2 positions imply? Is it "go program a mob to hit a player" or is it "think of a way to present our game in the best way possible"?

I know that Margaret does an unreasonable amount of work at Intrepid. Her saying "this is a cosmetic I designed" on pretty much every single dev stream is proof of that. But if her job title includes words like "marketing" and "communications", I'd assume that her main goal at the company should be to present Intrepid and Ashes to their potential target audience. And do that in the best way possible.

Now I'm not trying to blame Margaret for all Intrepid's sins. What I'm trying to say is that Steven, as the main boss of the whole enterprise, should let her do her job. And having a pretty shitty showcase (when they've done much better ones previously) reflects quite poorly on Margaret, because she's the face of communication between the company and its audience.

I'm sure they're all busy. I'm sure they have a ton of stuff to do that is more important than the stream. But I'm also sure that the game would be much better received if what they show came in a pretty package. That stream's showcase did not look pretty. I'm assuming that Margaret saw the immediate reaction to it from literally everyone and told Steven "we gotta redo this before we put it on YT". So ultimately she did her job well. But due to whatever circumstances, she was prevented from doing it well on the first try.

So all I'm asking is that Steven finds a way to let Margaret do her job as well as she can on the first try. If that require them to make the streams bimonthly - fine. If that requires them to make the videos shorter - fine. If it requires them to do whatever they need to do within the company's structure - I'd hope they do it.

Steven's attitude towards these showcases imply that he's trying to appeal to the broader audience outside of their 100k++ customers. And unless they're going down the road of "there's no such thing as bad PR" - their marketing should look better than what we got the first time.

And like I already said, these kinds of mishaps imply a potential bigger problem within Intrepid's management. If they can't find just a few hours out of a whole damn month to make a proper video, how are they supposed to make a super complex and intricate mmo in any reasonable time.