First impressions last, unfortunately. The trailer and the streamed races looked awful, but thankfully better footage has emerged since.
Why PD didn't preface the event with some direct feed offline gameplay is anybody's guess. The shitstorm could easily have been avoided entirely.
Only for the impatient and shallow. The phrase itself leads to it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, and expectation that upon first view everything absolutely MUST be perfect.
Which, quite frankly, is idiocy and leads to this kind of nonsense:
PD releasing the worst trailer of all time + the really early impressions from the event this week might have turned some people off from GTS for good.
At least they now have room to underpromise and overdeliver this time.
Not criticising Grover for saying this obvs, but that whole mentality of 'OMG THIS FIRST VIEW LOOKS LIKE SHIT!! = NO BUY FROM ME KAZ!!!' is completely beyond me.
Games, like any other media, need to be judged on their final content, not on a first viewing.