For the gameplay guide contest
I feel like the top prize guide should also be put into the actual game as an introductory guide to the game. Most new players aren't gonna just hop on the forums to look for beginner guides. They're gonna expect to know everything they need to in the actual game.
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That might be difficult depending on what format the guide takes, though. Like how would you embed a PowerPoint presentation or an Interactive PDF into the game? Might be possible, I don't know.
The other thing is, while you make a good point, in some ways having guides external to the game is a good thing. For example, I imagine there are people who might want to read about the game at times when they aren't able to actually play it, like when they're on the train or on a different device or something. Depending on the format and content of the guide, integrating it into the game itself defeats that purpose and effectively just means that there are two game manuals to choose from, one official and one fan-made.
@Fibijean The official one could be replaced. I mean it's not like it gives that much info as is. As for the other point, there are 3 prizes. The other two could easily be looked at if someone wanted to view an outside beginner guide. Most likely the guides won't go that far either, they'll likely either be videos or something like that, or text, and you can put a video guide into the game, there are other games that put video files in them.
Yes, but the winning guide won't necessarily be a video. While it's true that the second and third place guides will be available for viewing elsewhere, they aren't interchangeable and will almost certainly cover a different topic and not be as good anyway. Also, even if you don't think the ingame manual is useful, it does cover a lot of useful information for new players and it's unlikely that, having put all the work into making it, the devs would just remove it from the game.
A beginner's guide should encompass everything a beginner needs to know to play the game. I can't imagine that one thing will cover a completely different set of information as another as they're likely to try to cover everything you'd possibly want to know as a newbie, and while yes, the first place winner might cover a wider range of things than the others(having more info), that doesn't mean it should primarily be used outside. If anything that gives it more of a reason to be put INSIDE the game. The only way new players are gonna stick around is if there are less campers. The only way there'll be less campers is if they know how to deal with them/the new players who would potentially camp learn it's a bad play. New players are likely to try to find out everything they can in game, without looking for outside sources until they've played for a while. They're not gonna play for very long if every game turns into them being camped/their friend being camped and the killer getting 4ks like now. My main hope is that the winning one tells strategies for new players against camping, and explains to killers why it's generally a bad strategy, making the newbie experience less frustrating.
New killers are the reason new survivors do not enjoy the game, and once that is fixed, the game might actually see more people sticking around after playing. Also if new players searched for outside information first, we'd see a lot more skilled survivors in lower ranks instead of the ones who are eating trees the whole game. We would have less problems with camping as well in newbie ranks(and even up to green ranks and occasionally purple), because almost every bit of outside information tells the strategy to beat this.
As for BHVR removing their information for the game, while it is unlikely, it's in their best interest to add more information such as strategies and things for newbies to learn to deal with problems that exist within the game. If a newbie guide tells their information plus strategies and how to deal with certain problems, it should absolutely replace their information. If it doesn't tell all of their information, it'd be just as fine to keep it as a different tab on one of their many tabs on their current "guide".