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[Kotaku] Borderlands 3's Review Situation Sure Is Strange
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The fuck is going on?
If they wanted to only send review codes to outlets they think would favour them, then it would be less conspicuous to just send them and ignore the other outlets.
Sending weird EGS accounts with jank Borderlands builds makes no sense this close to release...
Unless... EGS doesn't actually support sending out review codes?
Edit: looks like I was wrong: Quoted from page 2 for context:
So I repeat, what the fuck is going on? :O
If they wanted to only send review codes to outlets they think would favour them, then it would be less conspicuous to just send them and ignore the other outlets.
Sending weird EGS accounts with jank Borderlands builds makes no sense this close to release...
Unless... EGS doesn't actually support sending out review codes?
Edit: looks like I was wrong: Quoted from page 2 for context:
So I repeat, what the fuck is going on? :O
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They can't be too happy with PCGamer then if they wanted to pad the reviews.
Also, 2K is paying KindaFunny to do what amounts to a monthly infomercial for the game and none of the KF crew has even played the game yet because 2K only had PC codes available.
Gamecentral got told the same thing about "security concerns"
sounds like total bs
sounds like total bs
A very Randy thing to do indeed. *aliens.gif
All i know is if the launch release is a mess, lol, dont preorder games folks.
All i know is if the launch release is a mess, lol, dont preorder games folks.
Yeah this is weird as fuck. The fact it doesn't sound like the final retail version of the game sounds bizarre.
Yeah, I'm not trusting / feeling anything about this game, who would have thought a sequel to one of the games I played the most on PS360 era would end up so shady, what a shame, hope it ends up good but I don't know anymore.
The "security" line is such nonsense when you're dealing with big, established sites like Waypoint and Kotaku. It sounds like they're just trying to get positive opinions out first before everyone else gets a chance to play.
Also, if reviewers are playing an incomplete version of the game, at what point are they within their right to write a preview rather than a review?
Also, if reviewers are playing an incomplete version of the game, at what point are they within their right to write a preview rather than a review?
The thing with only US sites being sent "review codes" didn't bother me, but this? Something weird is going on here
Whatever the public-facing reason is for any kind of shenanigans where Randy Pitchford and Gearbox are concerned, you can believe the truth is something else entirely.
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My major concern here is this performance discrepancy from the console version to the PC version.
Doesn't pretty much every company do this? Of course it doesn't always work, such as with that PC Gamer review.
no console reviews is suspect.
publishers literally do not provide advance copies of a game to press unless they are problematic. There is no other reason.
I personally have issues with EGS leadership team conduct so that combined with a 500+ game backlog means anything on EGS is an easy "wait for sale" but no console reviews? woof
e: cynical me says it feels like they are hoping to skate by on PC reviewers using 2080ti's in their review rigs
publishers literally do not provide advance copies of a game to press unless they are problematic. There is no other reason.
I personally have issues with EGS leadership team conduct so that combined with a 500+ game backlog means anything on EGS is an easy "wait for sale" but no console reviews? woof
e: cynical me says it feels like they are hoping to skate by on PC reviewers using 2080ti's in their review rigs
Would this be more attributable to Gearbox, or 2K? It's definitely weird.
And no console copies is sketchy af.
And no console copies is sketchy af.
On a podcast I listen one of the users has an epic review account and has said multiple times it just has free access to everything on the store so maybe they don't do individual games.
It doesn't, the store also doesn't feature a proper backend for developers.
edit: i mean't it doesn't support it properly. You can give someone a pre-release key, but cannot revoke it. The reason they got janky test accounts for bl3 is because the outlets that got the accounts were given access to one of their development branches. Which is why they had so many warnings. It's most likely still not finished and gearbox wants to revoke those accounts once the game goes live.
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looks like it's giving me a bit more time to play my other games lmao
I think the pro versions of consoles will be able to run 1080p/60fps.
Right? It's a bit odd that no one got console codes. Maybe it's coming in real hot.
