Is Polygon right to drop DriveClub review score?

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binary solo said:
That's the wrong question. The question should be whether reviews of online dependant games should be reviewed under real world conditions or under pre-release online conditions?

Personally I think what reviewers did with Destiny was the right thing to do and I wonder why reviewers didn't take the same approach with Driveclub. Reviewing an online dependant game under real world conditions will expose any and all flaws and bugs and thus there will be no need to revise the review score later on.

If I'm not mistaken, what happened with Destiny was that Activision/Bungie didn't give reviewers early copies of the game or forcing an embargo that prevented reviews to appear before the game launch.

It wasn't a decision made by reviewers.