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PlayStation is locking out certain people that got review copies of Death Stranding because of many reviewers spoiling the game
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Are we sure they're locking people out or could this be that weird authorization glitch? I know I've been locked out a few times before.
(Actually have stayed relatively unspoiled other than some gameplay stuff)
True. This is fake news until there is proof of it actually happening
Honestly, I don't think sending out copies early is ever a bad thing. It's important to have objective and thorough reviews well before a game's release. Spoilers might be a necessary evil to have but to be fair in most cases people want to be spoiled.
Now this is a silent faulty feeling. But not at all the fault of the reviewers who didn't spoil.
So has it gotten out that Norman Reedus dies in the first hour and is replaced by Taylor Lautner for the remainder of the game then? I thought that was still kept a secret.
It's funny because usually we have compliants that people don't get enough time to review a game, this is the first case where it sounds like people have gotten too much time. I'm suprised it went out 3 weeks before release.
I actually just saw the first commercial for this while watching ESPN this morning.
it's not hard to get a good embargo up and running, the gaming community needs to look more at how the beauty community handles new releases like this for example. Once you break embargo it's over for your career.
This is actually really interesting, could you go maybe a bit more in-depth with how their embargos are handled? Embargos are in place with games but they aren't really that strictly enforced. I mean, there's a well-known YouTuber who's literally sharing impressions and screenshots, breaking the NDA like c'mon...
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LOL of course that's what that leaker is gonna say
Luckily haven't heard shit yet. I'm cautiously interest not sure if I'm going to jump in day 1 yet.
Nah, it's the right thing to do. Beats not sending any and coasting sales on preorders and prior franchise reputation like publishers sometimes do.
the beauty market has a very similar release schedule of a constant barrage of high profile reeleases (mostly eyeshadow palettes).
Those products get sent out in advance to a lot of people, mostly influencers nowadays, who make youtube videos and the likes about these products, or post on instagram. Not unlike how a streamer on twitch or youtube operates to be honest.
But part of being relevant and staying relevant as a beauty influencer is bringing out your review as fast as possible to ride that hypewave, just like a reviewer wants to be the first review out that will set the tone.
It is here that you pre-release product comes in hand, as a content creator you need to rely on PR to give you their product in advance so you can be prepared. The beauty community also works with embargoes but they are more ruthless with enforcing them.
Breaking an embargo means you're immediately of the PR list, you won't get products in the future anymore which will fuck up your chances in the long run.
They easily can do the same with game reviewers, as soon as one company starts being more ruthless with withholding review copies others will follow suit and people won't be daring to break embargo's as easily because it can fuck up the relevance of their entire publication or platform.
even if it is a kojima production, that can not be true. Right ...?
As a reviewer this sounds like fucking nightmare. There are games I played for dozens of hours in the span of a couple days even when I kinda wanted to stop because I wanted to put as much time as I could into it to have a review that is the best possible work I can push out. I almost got sick of The Division for this very reason, must have put 50 hours into it in a week, you do the math. If I were to be blocked from the game near the end of it, that would just fucking infuriate me to no end. If they can't handle leaks they shouldn't send out review copies and such and just pull a Bethesda, sending them out after they're available in shops. Or is just hiding impressions because they aren't too confident? Either way it's scummy, giving people a product they review for Sony's sake too not just their own, and then they take it away because somebody else might have leaked something. Terrible stuff.
As someone who doesn't care at all about spoilers, this just seems ridiculous to me.
If this is even true that is.
If this is even true that is.
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