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twesterm on 17 March 2010
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Spagoodle said:

I'm going to do this one last time for those of you who don't know what the fuck you talking about.

Developers do not send retail copy's to reviewers. Reviewers have things call debug kits. They download the game from a service like PartnetNet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartnerNet or the file is sent directly to them. WHEN YOU PLAY A GAME ON A DEBUG THERE ARE NO TROPHIES/ACHIEVEMENTS.

You guys can keep ignoring the facts. those screen shots prove nothing but how far he played it on a retail copy. For those of you who still can't figure it out he didn't review it based off of that play through. You guys are wrong and are talking out of your ass. When you take a shit on someone integrity you should try to not talk absolute shit in the process.


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You're partly right, it depends on who is reviewing it, the game, and when they review it. 

  • The Who -- if it's not a big time reviewer, they don't have access to partner net and are forced to use whatever they're given.  Destructoid might be on Metacritic, but they aren't that big.
  • The Game -- Like it or not, FFXIII is a huge game and they had loads of copies printed before release and well before release at that.  Knowing that, it makes sense that they can send retail copies or copies that can be played in retail machines before it releases.
  • The When -- The game released on the 9th and the review was posted on the 16th, if he had an early non-retail copy he would have posted it the day the game released.

Since the game was actually finished long ago I would be willing to bet they just sent him a retail copy early.