Just yesterday my TES: Oblivion Remastered guide was released. Many users are surprised and wondering how I managed to create a guide to a game that was just released on Steam. The situation turned out to be quite interesting, so I want to tell you a little about it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3468613968

Many users who often use my guides or follow them know that I always release guides along with the release of the game itself. Literally in the first minutes after the game becomes available on Steam, my guide is created, published and filled before the eyes of the community.

This happens because I have basic information about the game long before the release and most of the materials have already been prepared by me by this time. If the game is a well-known AAA, and it is heavily advertised, then the information can be found in open sources, but sometimes, when the game is not very well-known or the developers themselves do not allow some information to be leaked, it is necessary to resort to some insiders in order to find out what you want.

Thus, I (almost) always have a period of time to prepare a guide, but this time everything was different. Rumors about the release of TES: Oblivion
Remastered began to appear only a few days ago, nothing was really known about the game. I was not even sure that the game would have achievements. The situation with the announcement and release of the game happen simultaneously is very inconvenient for me: I need to create the design and structure of the guide, preferably in such a way that it has a final look right away, and I do not have to redo it, at the same time I need to prepare the achievement files and publish them on Steam, which is sometimes very inconvenient.

Once again I am convinced that the Internet is the Internet and there is no way to avoid negativity here, because there are people who look at a guide that you made from scratch in literally a couple of hours and write things like: "wow, another half-empty speedrun guide for the sake of steam points" or "you have only played 1 hour in the game, how can you write a guide?"
I will not hide the fact that I usually delete this nonsense, because I do not even consider it necessary to explain how stupid and absurd these things are and I admit that people write them because it irritates them or maybe because they are jealous (I would like to believe, heh).

Despite all this, I am very glad to see how the guide literally in the first day collected a lot of positive reviews and found a response in the eyes of the community, because there is never a guarantee that a well-made guide will be interesting to people or it may happen that the game will be unpopular.
Besides, I have my own calendar of game releases and guides for them, so such things really ruin my schedule. Yes, I really try to make a guide
and fill it with information as soon as possible, but only to benefit the Steam community and ordinary players.

Once again, I declare that I work alone on my enthusiasm, I do not receive payment and do not have any profit from my guides. I also do not collect donations or Steam items, gifts, except for those rare cases when the developers themselves contact me and provide access to their game.

Thanks to everyone who follows, likes, shares and writes comments about my guides (even if something negative), because it means that my work
people care about. Special thanks to fellow guide creators, their feedback and opinions based on experience are very valuable to me.

This May promises to be very rich in releases (if you know what I mean), so very soon I will be ready to show off new interesting guides. See you!