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Aura7541 on 19 November 2014
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JakDaSnack said:
Aura7541 said:

It doesn't take that much energy to download a patch that came out day one. All it takes is a few minutes. Driveclub, on the other hard, took weeks for the online portiont to start functioning properly. Maybe there was a lack of communication where Sumo Digital didn't tell sites to download the day one patch before reviewing. Nonetheless, the reviews that dock LBP3 for having a lot of bugs don't give fair judgement because the bug-fixing patch was readily available and assessable.

The review was already written, they were just waiting for the embargo to lift.  Why should they have to download a patch and then play the game all over?  That makes no sense from a business stand point.  If they already played the game and wrote the review, there is no point for them to do that again.  From a business standpoint, they just paid a journalist probably hundreds dollars depending on how much that journalist makes, to write this review.  And now you are asking them to pay hundreds more because a new patch came out?  That makes 0 sense.

Um.... the sites can update their reviews, you know? Just because you download a patch, doesn't mean you have to do the entire review again. Did you not see Polygon update their reviews on Driveclub and Halo: MCC? And paying 100s more to journalists because a new patch came out is purely hyperbolic. I have no idea where you got that from and you should know better than that.

Example

"UPDATE: We have recently downloaded the Day One patch and all the bugs that used to hold back the gameplay experience no longer occur."

Simple, concise, and to the point.