The thing that amazes me most about these videos is listening to how clueless the developers really are to their own game and the outside player world it’s absolutely amazing listening to the cluelessness
Probably because these things are set up based on what time the devs can schedule out to get on a call and watch a speedrun. Looks like they told IGN they could do 30 minutes, and IGN looked at the speedruns for the game and there weren't any that short, so they opted to show the last 30 minutes of this run instead of the first 30.
That director doesn’t know his own game… Also, he doesn’t even understand the principles of speed run (the video he is commentating on), asking why the player skip the cut scenes? What a joke