Fiasco live: PC gamers were waiting for Bloodborne, and got a game in the Thief style – Story of Gloomwood’s ridiculous announcement

During the conference PC gaming show revealed to the world Gloomwood – a stealth project in retro style, inspired by the classic series Thieffrom the team New blood interactiveknown to many for working on a shooter DUSK.

However, despite the fact that formally the announcement took place, the game was overshadowed by a series of sad and somewhat ridiculous moments. For some strange reason organizers PC gaming show just forgot to show the trailer Gloomwood as part of his event, despite the fact that the entire program of the show was previously agreed.

When Dillon Rogersdeveloper Gloomwood, realized the scale of the disaster, in his personal blog, he hastened to share his experiences.

“The opportunity to show our game to an audience of 80 thousand people just disappeared into thin air. It seems they just forgot about our trailer. Why did I start doing this immersive sim, lol. We made such a good stealth game that it could even hide from PC Gaming Show, “wrote Gloomwood in a series of posts.

As soon as users noticed what happened on Twitter, a small commotion began – caring gamers began to flood the conference organizers with messages about a forgotten game.

Edition Pc gamer, just responsible for the broadcast, realized his mistake, apologized to Rogers and nevertheless managed to show the project in his stream. Only after the formal end of the PC Gaming Show – right after the credits.

“Dillon, please accept our apologies for this mistake, we will show Gloomwood in a separate segment of the show! It’s great that you support the spirit of the classic Thief. Your game will be shown after the end of the credits.”

But the troubles did not end there. After Pc gamer announced that everyone is waiting for the broadcast another surprise (namely display Gloomwood), hungry for announcements, for some reason, users decided that it was most likely a PC port Bloodborne, about which there are a lot of rumors lately. And when, as expected, a gloomy role-playing game Fromsoftware on this broadcast did not show disappointed PC gamers hit with a flurry of criticism of Dillon Rogers.

“What the hell is this? I waited six fucking minutes for the end of the credits, then to look at the trailer for your wretched school project with graphics like in Runescape?” – wrote one of the players, angry about the lack of an announcement of the Bloodborne PC port.

Ultimately the author Gloomwood even apologized to the distressed users who were expecting Bloodborne, who might have a misconception about the whole situation.

“I apologize to everyone who was waiting for Bloodborne. It’s not my fault :(“

Nevertheless, such an announcement, which is difficult to characterize as a circus, attracted Gloomwood quite a lot of attention. Perhaps even more than if the game was shown without any overlays. Now Dillon Rogers gets in his address a lot of words of support, including advertising from various bloggers who are in a hurry to get acquainted with the demo Gloomwood and speak mostly of flattering words about him.

Gloomwood created for PC and does not have an exact release date. If the game seemed interesting to you, then you can try free demoreferred to above.

See also: DOOM on the minimum: The new trailer for the retro shooter Prodeus.

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