Judgmenl posted...
Cool, watch the trailers on Youtube.
That approach only works if you already know they exist to search for them. For discovering them in the first place, you need
somebody
to promote them, whether that's in a game show like this, a third-party journalist bringing attention to them (often as part of their coverage of game shows like this), some algorithm somewhere deciding to show it to you (usually because people with similar advertising profiles to yours have shown interest in the previous two options), or word of mouth advertising from peers (who will themselves have learned of it through one of the three previous routes).
Yes, a lot of these game shows are just cynical advertisements, but people want to be advertised to because that's how they find out about things to buy. Given how many games are coming out these days, discoverability is a major issue and a lot of great games end up flying under the radar because they just don't end up getting the marketing needed for anyone to find out that they exist. Marketing that brings otherwise-unknown games to light is not a bad thing.
Cruddy_horse posted...
I think they had like 4 Factory builders in a row, they started to melt together and I couldnt tell.
I guess people are trying to bandwagon on the hype of Factorio's expansion and Satisfactory coming out of early access last year.