And yet, they submitted a reel of it to the judges panel, who named it best Xbox game above Elden Ring and Far Cry. So it can't be awful. There had to be a reason to vote for it.
I'm hopeful that we're gonna turn on, like, Thursday Night Football kickoff game of the season and there'll be a 90-second commercial debut or something. But they probably feel like the buzz off the test flight, coupled with the fact that they'll have a few million players day one minimum anyway thanks to XGP and free-to-play MP, was good enough that they can keep polishing and polishing.
The game's going to live or die by word of mouth, since the vast majority of people will be playing for "free" on GP or free-to-play anyway. They can show as much or as little as they want, but the proof will be in the pudding come Dec. 8 (if the servers hold up).