Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

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I just kinda got the feeling with the pictures like they were going "Oh no fans are getting impatient... Hey Jeff (I don't know their names, sorry ) Could you take a few screenshots of the game and post them to a news site? Oh, and make sure the pictures show the Jack the Ripper places so they can speculate a bit - that should keep them busy for a while!" And the rest is history

This. What people are missing here is that this was not some big, official announcement. It was just a bunch of screenshots they made for the escapist magazine. They're not even on their official page! It probably went something like this: Escapist wanted to make a small article about the game, asked them to give 'em a couple of new screenshots, like RIGHT NOW, and some poor dude had to rush and make some.
Then he had the usual gamma issues hpl is known for and they couldn't figure out how to fix them in time, so they were like "ah, whatever", because in the end having an article with kinda shitty looking screenshots is still better than wasting the opportunity to get some press coverage completely. And now everyone's going completely batshit bonkers about it, even though samuel already stated it doesn't look like that ingame. *sigh*

So basically, what I'm saying is, the critique is completely justified, no denying that. But it is petty and useless, especially after the information given by samuel. So why can't we please just move on to discussing more interesting aspects of the pictures instead? Is it so much more fun to be negative?