Or we, consumers, could be smart enough to wait 2 or 3 days for the first reviews to appear and then make the choice to buy it or not instead of rushing to the stores to get the game on the first day.

Ubisoft: No embargo, but don't play it before release, alright?

This has to be one of the stupidest lines ever coming from a game developer.

So apparently this is what you do nowadays; just make it impossible for people to decide to see and beforehand instead of actually making a decent product you're proud to show off.

Company's always look the worst when they treat their customers like they can be so easily mislead -
They def are doing what made MSFT look so bad during the XB1 launch- why do they need to re learn an expensive lesson when some own else learned it for them -

Not exactly, you could hijack a boat and steal a copy before it hits the mainland.

Even if you got an early copy, you couldn't play it, because it's an MMO, you can't play if the Ubisoft servers are down.

Or sneak a PS4 on the ship, take a copy from one of the cargo boxes and play it onboard. Oh wait... the game needs online.

Joking aside, if someone even managed to play the game before the release date and embargo, will the console be blocked from playing the game?

A game like this made by Ubi., and their tendancy to rush their games. As well as always forcing that Uplay enrollment with playing it. Isn't appealing to begin with. Along with this fiasco of holding reviews off and the fiasco of other titles by Ubi. this year. Usually I'm really into games like this one (open sandbox/racing) and would do a day one purchase but this one isn't going to be that way for me. I'll check the Twitch streamers playing but the game dosen't look that good from what I've seen so far from Beta. IMO

This doesn't sound good.

Honestly, I won't preorder or buy games day one from now on unless they are from flawless devs.