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disolitude said:

Looking forward to reviews...but you know you're in a BS industry when you have "review embargos".  So lame...


I'm usually skeptical  of last minute review embargos, but I'm sure the reviews are going to be good for this game.



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hatmoza said:
disolitude said:

Looking forward to reviews...but you know you're in a BS industry when you have "review embargos".  So lame...


I'm usually skeptical  of last minute review embargos, but I'm sure the reviews are going to be good for this game.

Don't see how you can even tell if an embargo is last minute ....

Plenty of games have had embargo's up until the day of release and turned out 9.XX scores so it's not really antyhing to be worried about, it's just devs wanting reviewers to play the game throughly and not rush and get a review up for the sake of hits.



 

Seece said:
hatmoza said:
disolitude said:

Looking forward to reviews...but you know you're in a BS industry when you have "review embargos".  So lame...


I'm usually skeptical  of last minute review embargos, but I'm sure the reviews are going to be good for this game.

Don't see how you can even tell if an embargo is last minute ....

Plenty of games have had embargo's up until the day of release and turned out 9.XX scores so it's not really antyhing to be worried about, it's just devs wanting reviewers to play the game throughly and not rush and get a review up for the sake of hits.

or there's something they're hiding, therefore makes me skeptical. Don't take my opinions too personal.

Like I said, I expect good reviews. Say for example this embargo was on -pffft- Resistance 3. I would be very worried.



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson

I can't wait for the reviews! I'm really excited to get the Kratos edition!



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson

hatmoza said:
Seece said:
hatmoza said:
disolitude said:

Looking forward to reviews...but you know you're in a BS industry when you have "review embargos".  So lame...


I'm usually skeptical  of last minute review embargos, but I'm sure the reviews are going to be good for this game.

Don't see how you can even tell if an embargo is last minute ....

Plenty of games have had embargo's up until the day of release and turned out 9.XX scores so it's not really antyhing to be worried about, it's just devs wanting reviewers to play the game throughly and not rush and get a review up for the sake of hits.

or there's something they're hiding, therefore makes me skeptical. Don't take my opinions too personal.

Like I said, I expect good reviews. Say for example this embargo was on -pffft- Resistance 3. I would be very worried.

I'm not taking them personal, I'm replying to them.

I don't think, for whatever game, coming out at whatever stage, an embargo as any sort of effect on sales. Conduit 2 seemingly as the same embargo and that's going to score very differently to MK and Portal (another one which will score well and has an embargo)



 

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Seece said:
hatmoza said:
Seece said:
hatmoza said:
disolitude said:

Looking forward to reviews...but you know you're in a BS industry when you have "review embargos".  So lame...


I'm usually skeptical  of last minute review embargos, but I'm sure the reviews are going to be good for this game.

Don't see how you can even tell if an embargo is last minute ....

Plenty of games have had embargo's up until the day of release and turned out 9.XX scores so it's not really antyhing to be worried about, it's just devs wanting reviewers to play the game throughly and not rush and get a review up for the sake of hits.

or there's something they're hiding, therefore makes me skeptical. Don't take my opinions too personal.

Like I said, I expect good reviews. Say for example this embargo was on -pffft- Resistance 3. I would be very worried.

I'm not taking them personal, I'm replying to them.

I don't think, for whatever game, coming out at whatever stage, an embargo as any sort of effect on sales. Conduit 2 seemingly as the same embargo and that's going to score very differently to MK and Portal (another one which will score well and has an embargo)

O_o

I thought this was review thread



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson

hatmoza said:
Seece said:

I'm not taking them personal, I'm replying to them.

I don't think, for whatever game, coming out at whatever stage, an embargo as any sort of effect on sales. Conduit 2 seemingly as the same embargo and that's going to score very differently to MK and Portal (another one which will score well and has an embargo)

O_o

I thought this was review thread

It is, what are you talking about?



 

KylieDog said:
Seece said:

Review embargo ends on day of release! Only 48 hours or so to go.

IGN seem pretty positive about it ... 9.0 plus?


So no play-testing during development and review embargo until release?   Something will not be good.

Everyone that's played it, be in with the team or in the wild, has only got praise for it.

Stop being so pessimistic based on those 2 (small) factors.



 

KylieDog said:
Seece said:
KylieDog said:
Seece said:

Review embargo ends on day of release! Only 48 hours or so to go.

IGN seem pretty positive about it ... 9.0 plus?


So no play-testing during development and review embargo until release?   Something will not be good.

Everyone that's played it, be in with the team or in the wild, has only got praise for it.

Stop being so pessimistic based on those 2 (small) factors.


Location tests with the competitive scene is not a small factor, Capcom constantly create new builds of its fighters and put them out to get feedback, MK has had none of this.

 

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/02/02/why-you-should-be-worried-about-mortal-kombat/

Well, I'm not worried, and as so many SF fans like to point out, MK isn't a fighting game for competitions anyway. So who care's? it's still gonna be kick ass.



 

KylieDog said:
Seece said:
KylieDog said:
Seece said:

Review embargo ends on day of release! Only 48 hours or so to go.

IGN seem pretty positive about it ... 9.0 plus?


So no play-testing during development and review embargo until release?   Something will not be good.

Everyone that's played it, be in with the team or in the wild, has only got praise for it.

Stop being so pessimistic based on those 2 (small) factors.


Location tests with the competitive scene is not a small factor, Capcom constantly create new builds of its fighters and put them out to get feedback, MK has had none of this.

 

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/02/02/why-you-should-be-worried-about-mortal-kombat/

Well, that's depressing.

I'm still confident the game will get great reviews. I bolded review because I didn't want anyone to confuse that with sales .



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson