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Kingdom Hearts III - Only selected outlets have received the review code in time for the review
- Thread starter Rodjer
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Didn't the same happen with FFXV and it still ended up with a good amount of reviews when the embargo dropped?
Waste of effort SE considering the whole story has leaked regardless. You are just stifling the reception of the game this way and making things more difficult for the consumer.
I suspect it was to avoid spoilers but the leaks ended up happening anyway. (nomura commented on the leaks today and seemed to want to delay disk releases in the future to prevent it, that along with the epilogue and secret ending not being on the disk and being supplied by updates in a few days)
Delay leaks of it being bad?
I mean FFXV didn't end up well for them either after such a long wait
I mean FFXV didn't end up well for them either after such a long wait
And the game reviewed well. This is clearly more SE being overly protective and wanting to minimize spoilers potentially leaking or being data-mined as opposed to the game being a train wreck that will get shredded by reviewers. I imagine like with RDR2 most major outlets will have that one guy/gal who's a kh fanatic and won't be lost when the story references spin offs.
Honestly it's probably just a spoiler thing and they are being stupidly overprotective of it.
FFXV scored really well with an 81 MC. It had 8s, 9s, and 10s across the board. The game broke even on day one and made all their profit back immediately. The royal edition, which is how the game should have launched in the first place, was scored even better with an 85 MC. It's now at 8+ million and is the second best selling FF of all time.
FFXV was a major success for them. I think KH3 will be similiar, but based on the leaks it's not a perfect game.
That's not a great score for a Final Fantasy game. Final Fantasy has higher expectations.
I really don't think they should be afraid of reviewers but early copies which leaked the whole game already from what people are saying.
Nomura was not very happy with all the leaks, it is a shame that they are holding them back this far they just don't trust much outlets sadly i guess
It's pretty much in line with XIII, and higher than XIII-2. That's where modern FF is at.
Yeah I'm willing to bet that this is due to wanting to prevent leaks. The secret ending and epilogue are a day one patch and you have Nomura talking about delaying disk releases in the future cause of how much he hates leaka. And going by the reception of those who've played/seen the full game, we know the game isn't a complete trainwreck or anything.
I mean I know pre-release people spoiled the endings of some games recently because they got review copies. So I can believe it was to stop leaks.
For a Final Fantasy game its a pretty poor score, for a unfinished mess at launch its too generous.
Technically, it scored 85 MC as that's what the royal edition got and that's how the game should have been launched at from the beginning. That puts it higher than all the XIII games. 85-86 seems to be the median for SE games this gen. DQ was similiar too.
Didnt stop it from being utter crap. I finished it and felt it was the worst game ever made.
It would be funny if the outlets just got the leaked copies and sent SE a giant fuck you
How you feel is irrelevant as it has nothing to do with the original claim. FFXV went over very well for SE
It still wasn't a critical bomb, and while were at it
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/how-does-final-fantasy-13-compare
Article is old but you get the point, FF has so many games between mainline, sequels, remakes, and spinoffs that scores range from mid 90's to mid 50's. This narrative that "FF has higher expectations" is nonsense unless you kee moving goal posts.
The game leaked back during Christmas, and all of the story stuff this past week. If they wanted to stop leaks, limiting reviews was not the best way to go about it. They would have done better to work with press to push the narrative away from the leaks by flooding social media with previews by all sorts of outlets to get the hype away from leaks and onto the release.
But what do I know. I just have a degree in behavioral psychology that focuses on influence and persuasion based on media trends.
I know a good handful of people who did not get review copies, and I feel really bad for everybody. Why limit the positive press at launch? It's abolitely baffling to me.
But what do I know. I just have a degree in behavioral psychology that focuses on influence and persuasion based on media trends.
I know a good handful of people who did not get review copies, and I feel really bad for everybody. Why limit the positive press at launch? It's abolitely baffling to me.
I am concerned about the quality of the game and dont really care how it reviews or sells (its the last entry anyways)
Again, that's not relevant to the claim. And it's not the last KH game
Same. I feel FFXV situation was a giant sigh of relief for SE as they feared the worst. Perhaps they are aiming for the same here
I mean go ask in the spoiler thread if you want.
Ask whatever you want.People there are really nice, they will try to answer you without giving any story spoilers.
Must have missed that. But anyways FFXV scored good reviews but was shit and its not like SE had confidence in it either so they were happy to be wrong
I wonder if with how cookies and "if you watched x you'll like y" in modern internet would lead to more spoiler videos showing up on people's time lines and suggested boxes.
Then why are you in a thread about reviewers not getting copies in time for the review embargo?
Would honestly be surprised if this game doesn't review well, and I'm far from being a fan of KH's storytelling.
But this one was limited even more so than your average release. Not even the mainstay fansites for this series or smaller but still popular outlets got review copies. This is not the norm, especially when these are people who have gotten review copies in the past for previous KH game and SE games in general.
SE likes to use these sites for the press but doesn't want to actually give them the one tool they need to continue doing this. It's hilarious.
Because it shows lack of confidence in the game. However it reviews, SE could be thinking its as bad as FFXV so they locked it tight.
I mean I get it. After all, the game leaked over a month prior to release, which is quite unfortunate :(
LOL for people thinking this will be a bad game xD Kingdom Hearts has yet to have a bad game (yes, even the mobile game is fun to play)
