You can see from the videos, the ones who led all the cheers were the staff in the front rows.

I think that was mostly Finn, if Twitter is anything to go by!

Free booze and a day off for staff!

commodore64 wrote: »

Free booze and a day off for staff!

WHOOOOOO YEAAAHHHH!!!!!

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I would figure if you take the time, money, and effort to get seats in a place like that, you're going to be hyped and probably having a good time that you'll cheer or encourage just about anything. Especially if it involves a game you really enjoy.

There were a few awkward pauses I noticed when something would be said and then the speaker would pause as if expecting cheering/applause, and it would come after a beat... but I feel like that's more on the speaker than the audience, expecting people to GET HYPE at nearly every-other sentence when they probably just want you to keep going.

A lot of them seem to have been employees or relatives to be honest...and the 2 times they showed 2 females up close they looled rather bored tbh....i love(ish) bethesda but honestly...NO ONE was waiting for commander keen or another mobile game.

Bethesda seems to shift their entire company focus towards maximizing monetization regardless of reputation loss along the way....

They should take note how fast things can change - bioware went within 2 games from "greatest rpg developper" to "oh god dont give it to bioware to develop"

Anthem would be tight if there were more things to do.

Americans clap in cinema's, why not there as well?

They may NOT have been cheering at the games themselves but rather thinking at the time of the vast profits those games are/will be generating and bonuses that (May) be going into their pay packets.

Several times I noted that the same people, wearing strangely similar black tshirts and trousers, led the "spontaneous" cheers. The rictus of terror and nervous giggles of the people who were shunted out to deliver their carefully scripted "informal chat" (including the curses meant to make them look cool and edgy) made their performances cringeworthy. I felt sorry for them being made to do it. All in all it all seemed surprisingly amateur and actually said very little of note, most of it being inane chat and so-what videos.

I don't think they'd need to pay anyone, except their staff of course who absolutely should be paid. If anyone thinks working a convention is time off I can only assume you've never done it. If anything it's more exhausting than normal work, especially if you have a desk job. You're just on the go all the time. Literally the moment you leave your room in the morning you're working and you're at it until you go to bed. Even if you're in the bar in the evening it's still working - making sure you're talking to the right people, saying the right things, making sure everyone's ok etc.

But for the fans I think it's safe to assume anyone who made the effort to be in the room is going to be excited about hearing the announcements no matter what they announce...unless they really mess it up. And honestly that kind of atmosphere is infectious, you get drawn in by the people around you and end up joining in with the cheering even if it's not something you think is the greatest news ever.

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

i love(ish) bethesda but honestly...NO ONE was waiting for commander keen or another mobile game.

Wait, what? They announced another Commander Keen game? I loved those when I was a kid and I'd definitely be up for playing a new one now. I certainly wasn't waiting for it because I didn't think anyone would bother to make another one, but I am interested.

Honestly, it’s most likely that the attendees were mostly studio members, studio member friends and families etc... and people had prob had a few drinks since it was evening time.

Or maybe not, but honestly, that amount of support for fallout 76 is ludicrous, turn on that game now, tell me it’s in a good state, there have been weapon duplication glitches, people run around with every OP weapon in the game because the found dev rooms, and because they could be duplicated no-one can prove what weapons are legit or not. I mean seriously, the game is finished, it’s a meme, “it just works”!?

I just can’t fathom how someone can support the disgraceful affair that game is, so much so, I would scream shill too.