Sea of Thieves - Metacritic/Review thread - Metascore: XBO - 69 (69 reviews) PC - 68 (23 reviews)

[starcraft]

JRPGfan said:

starcraft said:

The gave gaming publications a tonne of time in the game, in addition to all the betas and alpha.

At the end of the day, whether the game is good or bad, it was never going to be possible to comprehensively review it without a viable population on a real-world server.

It would be if you give review copies to like 100-200 reviewers and let them play at the same time (final build of game, not beta's with missing content), and told a few of them to group up.

I see what you mean, but what a logistical nightmare.

You'd have to tell them to be on at exactly the same time. What if some are happy to review after 6 hours but others want 20? What if they are in different timezones etc.

Don't get me wrong, I am a huge opponent of review embargoes, and personally am highly unlikely to purchase an unreviewed game. Hell I will be automatically biased against a game with a day-of-release or day-before embargo as I'll assume they are hiding something. But in this case, I can sort of understand it.