Telengard
Arcane
Everyone's argument was, asking those questions will somehow get some new answer. It won't. It will get you the re-re-rehearsed answer that they have said a thousand times. And the important bit, the really important bit, is they won't actually answer the question. The question will be answered like so.Everyone and his mother had already asked the devs those questions anyway. So, asking them again would have just gotten the same boring answers anyone could read anywhere. Not to mention, if the devs have a marketing team on payroll, those are the exact questions they would have been coached for. That's how the system works. The red meat questions (or the tofu questions, as I like to call the public radio versions) are just things to throw to the base, so the base can nod to themselves and agree that the interviewer is one of them. The answer matters not. Which is good, because there never is an answer to those questions.
If you want real off-script answers, and you're not interviewing someone who's out of the industry and doing a tell-all, what you need to do is get the interviewee talking about one of their pet subjects. Get them on one of their own pet rolls, and then get out of the way. You still probably won't get any dirt, but you will get something unique
That's such a lame excuse to not ask a question. You're whole argument of "Everyone else has already asked that" is quite strange as you are assuming I as a viewer of sstacks videos have already read every damn article, interview, or press release about this game. I might have heard one or two things, yes. But I don't necessarily have the whole story.
Does CNN not interview a presidential candidate just because they were already on MSNBC or Fox News? Do they avoid asking a lot of the same questions? Of course not. Because CNN probably has an audience that doesn't watch all three.
The reason sstacks didn't ask these type of probing questions has already been addressed by him: It's not the type of show he wants to run. Fair enough. That's his choice. But to dress it up and say that you shoudn't ask a question because you might get a canned answer is ridiculous and bizarre. You might as well avoid having the interview altogether because you know they've already said the same thing to a million other press outlets.
1) We did our best. 2) Mistakes were made, which we did not forsee. 3) We believe in [insert owner product here], and wish them the best.
I mean, if you really want to hear that a billion more times, go right ahead and ask those questions. But you all were talking like you wanted to hear something new. If you don't, if you just want to hear the question being asked so you can like the interviewer, and not because you want to hear an interview where questions are actually really answered, then those are the kinds of questions you should be asking.