Watching someone playing on twitch. an unreleased game.. how?

[Alaskan Druid]

How are people already playing the game when it isn't out yet?

[Nigolasy]

A lot of game studios give out keys to content creators earlier
This is a common marketing thing

[SaltyWeasel]

Streamers/Content creators get early access keys, I dislike it but it is what it is.

[头孢]

Because developers gave them earlier early access, to promote this game.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by Alaskan Druid:

How are people already playing the game when it isn't out yet?

Its called Marketing

[Sthyx]

Originally posted by SaltyWeasel:

Streamers/Content creators get early access keys, I dislike it but it is what it is.

imho, its a good thing to prevent consumers buy games like 'the day before'. we can evaluate if the game suitable to our preference or not by watching their content.

[Lydhe]

At least we have gameplay and we know what to expect for the release, unlike ARK Ascended where it was zero in information and even less in terms of gameplay footage, we were going blindly and it happened what happened... (review bombing)

With Palworld we have at least concrete, the game exists and it is rather awesome and entertaining of what I could watched on youtube and twitch.

[RocklandRaiders]

in a way yeah its great to see how it is.
decide weather buy or leave out
however the majority of the people streaming are not very big in viewers, someone has 5 viewers watching him, kinda like wtf thats not marketing the game.
it looks good i think lots would enjoy it but not sure yet if its gonna be around for years or just 6 months and be dead

[Serkian]

early of early access for streamers, It's very disappointing that they do that with early access too, but hey, here's the thing: they'll be in the game for 3 days, they'll rush all the content, people will see it and say why am I going to play it now that I've seen everything? Is it a little disappointing.

[Leave me alone Weirdo]

See the game on Twitch looks like trash i skip it Big L

[Lydhe]

Originally posted by Sry dude i change my name:

See the game on Twitch looks like trash i skip it Big L

Trash heh ? Why ? maybe for you but not for me, instead go play something else that fit your preference.

There is Enshrouded soon but maybe it is also trash for you.

[Alaskan Druid]

Thank you everyone for your replies.

[jobocan]

This happens with literally every game.

[Lv1 Magikarp]

Originally posted by Plup king Quack Quack:

in a way yeah its great to see how it is.
decide weather buy or leave out
however the majority of the people streaming are not very big in viewers, someone has 5 viewers watching him, kinda like wtf thats not marketing the game.
it looks good i think lots would enjoy it but not sure yet if its gonna be around for years or just 6 months and be dead

I thought the exact same, there's a few random 'vtubers' with very few viewers that got keys, baffling.

[TheKazz]

Originally posted by Caduryn:

Originally posted by Alaskan Druid:

How are people already playing the game when it isn't out yet?

Its called Marketing

came here to say exactly this