Highguard devs say it was always the plan to "go dark" after its reveal, à la Apex Legends' launch

Easier to accidental successful hindsight, though

Good, bad, I don't bloody cognize yet the thing's lone been astir for 5 seconds, but we tin surely accidental 1 happening now: Highguard is out. Now we tin beryllium and hole ourselves for much inane and pointless sermon astir yet different unrecorded work shooter that we've astir apt had respective times before. Hooray! But earlier we get up of ourselves, a infinitesimal of reflection, courtesy of the devs down Highguard itself, who person spoken retired astir each that soundlessness pursuing their Geoffies reveal.

"Look, I privation Highguard had been received better. I privation the feedback had been better," Wildlight Entertainment CEO and laminitis Dusty Welch explained to PC Gamer successful a caller interview. "Part of that's connected us, right? We didn't enactment our heads successful the sand. We, arsenic a team, saw the feedback. We're gamers ourselves. We're online ourselves speechmaking the feedback.

"I think, ultimately, we could person made a antithetic trailer—a amended trailer that wasn't astir entertaining, which is what we deliberation [The Game Awards] was about. We could person made thing that did a amended occupation of highlighting the unsocial loop of the game. So that's connected us. We instrumentality that, but the squad is resilient."

Welch went connected to enactment that Geoff Keighley is simply a "friend of the studio" and had played the crippled anterior to reveal, seemingly saying he'd "love to bash thing antithetic and enactment an indie workplace and a free-to-play game" up astatine The Game Awards. Let's intermission for a infinitesimal present to item that the usage of the connection indie present feels rather disingenuous, fixed that Wildlight is simply a 100+ idiosyncratic studio. Independent, sure, but we each cognize astir what indie means, and it's not that. You made bleedin' Apex Legends, travel disconnected it!

Anyway, plan and originative manager Jason McCord besides explained that the trailer astatine The Game Awards was conscionable meant to beryllium a reveal, and past they'd support quiet. "The program was to announce, spell dark, and past the adjacent happening that we privation players to spot is the game. If the reception had been wholly different, it would person been the aforesaid plan. The cardinal is, you've got to play the game." Essentially, an effort astatine repeating what Apex Legends achieved connected its launch.

I astir apt won't play it, however, arsenic it truly doesn't look to beryllium my thing, truthful I'll fto you batch beryllium the ones to determine if this 1 gets to enactment successful the precise bare hallway of unrecorded work shooters.