I’m wondering why longer game trailers are not a thing. It has merit and support, yet there’s been no response from any staff member that I could find about this.
There’s been 4 separate feature requests on this:
- Increase maximum trailer length (Jun 17, 2017)
- Longer Video Thumbnails (Nov 17, 2017)
- Improvement to game trailers (Jul 11, 2020)
- This thread. (May 10, 2019)
I’d love to see a response on this matter. Why can’t the 30 second limit be increased?
My answer would be that moderation is the issue. Allowing trailers to be a minute would theoretically double the workflow of moderators.
This is understandable, but my sentiment of wanting longer trailers is shared. In general, I feel as though moderation is holding the platform, and its developers, back. If this platform is to ‘take the long view’ on things and tout imagination, that vision too needs to happen for the moderation side of things.
In short: you can create anything… just as long as it’s in a 30 second time window.