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Forums - Gaming - Lack of day 1 Reviews of Destiny is a joke

How can you review all the content from the game in one day?



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"Partial reviews and on going reviews should have at least been release by now. "

Why not just read some previews, then?



4 ≈ One

Screw reviews: play the game for yourself and if you didn't enjoy it, send it back for a refund or sell it used. You should be able to recuperate the majority of your funds. If you did enjoy it, congratulations.



you had an alpha and a beta to make a decision.



Would be nice if the developers would give the game to the reviewers a few days prior to release.



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Playing online is a lot more crucial and centralized to the game than most. They have to experience that aspect before they can make a full review.



Because two, very widely reported betas wasn't enough to sidestep the need for a review core to convince you if you want it.

Because reviews of an online-only game the day it's servers go live are going to be accurate and dependable.

As an ex-reviewer, I will say this, reviewers-only online play for reviewing doesnt work - you spend most of your time trying to connect or run in to someone, or find anyone worth playing - reviewing online elements of a game and doing so accurately REQUIRES a real world retail release environment.



shikamaru317 said:
Yeah, seems to me like Activision fears the game is going to get some bad word of mouth once people actually start playing it, and they're trying to delay that bad word of mouth long enough for early sales to make back that huge 500 million budget.

If it didn't have an alpha and beta i would agree with you, but it had the biggest and most participated in beta in the history of videogames, i'm pretty sure if they had something to hide it would have been outed then.



daredevil.shark said:
Reviews should be released a few days later. Day 1 reviews are actually joke. This is why guys like angry joe has more credibility than ign.


No there should be review a few days before. No one should be allowed to blindly buy something only to find out 2 days later it was a broken or bad game. Other forms of entertainment has reviews before release dates, but how come players should have to wait.

At least a movie ticket isn't 60 dollars.



MB1025 said:
daredevil.shark said:
Reviews should be released a few days later. Day 1 reviews are actually joke. This is why guys like angry joe has more credibility than ign.


No there should be review a few days before. No one should be allowed to blindly buy something only to find out 2 days later it was a broken or bad game. Other forms of entertainment has reviews before release dates, but how come players should have to wait.

At least a movie ticket isn't 60 dollars.


Back in 90s people didnt had any early reviews. And gaming was better at that time. So my post is correct.