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To me if it’s a new release of a game…of course it should be shared! The first person to post it (preferably with their own views on the game coming written underneath) keeps the community up-to-date with what games look like. Trailer ‘dumping’ really only happens when there’s a big event, and the point of that event is seeing trailers for games. It makes sense to have them shared here.

But posts sharing the same trailer after that first? Removed.

I don’t think of it as ad spam, because it’s not like Rockstar is making a Lemmy account to make sure we see the GTA VI trailer. If we denied trailers being posted, there’d be some very angry Silksong people when that one got the trailer!

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frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Should they be consolidated into one post then? It’s just bothersome to see a bunch of ads (because let’s be real, trailers are ad material) dumped in quick succession. The only ones I’d watch are for games I’m interested in playing, but for the ones I really want to play, I’d rather go in mostly blind so I won’t watch those either.

It’s not just one trailer, either, it’s announcement, release date, “now on steam”, cinematic trailer, gameplay trailer, release announcement trailer.

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- Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s indeed what we asked to do next time for big events. Bit when no such big event occurs, it’s OK.
  
  In my opinion, the following trailers are acceptable :
  
  Announcement of a new game -> so we can start talking about that game
  
  Announcement of end of early access or of game release (like Hades 2 recently) -> So we can talk about the game at its release state
  
  Major update of updates of a game (as soon as it isn’t too often) -> So we can discuss how that specific update make that game evolve, for better or worse. I’d honestly still prefer those one to be kept to their dedicated communities, but one from time to time won’t kill anyone.
  
  Globally, that’s also a way to advertise dedicated communities for that specific game, so I think that’s alright.
  
  We’ll discuss all of this with the incoming community rules update.
  
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