bigjon said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
Yeah, they don't want people reading reviews. There's no reason not to send out review copies other than the game having flaws. Splatoon 2 got review copies shipped out and it was the same type of game. The game has released and it doesn't have a metacritic score. I don't think this sort of thing has ever happened before. Not for a game with so much marketing at least.
The 2 day invitation event was just another way to control reviews. They probably invited mostly journalists that they thought would have a positive reaction to their game. This accomplishes two things.
1. The first reviews to come out will mostly be positive. By not issueing review copies they can make sure that reviews will be delayed enough to get people to buy the game without reading anything.
2. Journalists that weren't invited have to start playing the game today, and as a result their reviews will be even more delayed. This means that most of the negative reviews won't come out until a week or two after the game releases.
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sounds to me like you really want to hate it.
Game is excellent. But you can keep rolling with your conspiracy theories which all seem to point to Bungie engaging in a huge coverup on how bad the game they are releasing is.
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Too be fair, that kind of stuff is well documented as ways to control the review process. People are more likely to be biased(well ... even more biased than humans already are) when they go to exclusive events, and companies stopping the review process through embargos or in this case not sending a review copy can effect sales of the game. Whether or not the game gets positive reviews OP should not retract these "conspiracy theories", because getting a positive review from EasyAlly just means it's a good game, not that shady shit wasn't going down
