Means you can't publish a review before the embargo is lifted.
Means you can't publish a review before the embargo is lifted.
Date set by company when you can publish review, not before that.Ignorant question... what is an embargo in this case?
In Spanish, embargo means a foreclosure...
Seriously. Steam reviews are fantastic. And accurate. Pillars of Eternity has 95% positive reviews. Yay.
There was a game recently, that I can't remember specifically for the life of me, where the devs allowed "full" reviews in terms of gameplay, tech, general progression, etc, but they had put a spoiler policy in place that kept reviewers from displaying or discussing story details beyond a certain early point of the game. That allowed them to still give their overall impressions for the review without spoiling anything for people that were more interested in the story. Maybe CDPR could do something similar.
Honestly, for this game, I'll only be reading/watching reviews to get some more media and to hear people gush about it. It's not like I'm still up in the air on whether I'll be buying it or not.
Honestly, for this game, I'll only be reading/watching reviews to get some more media and to hear people gush about it. It's not like I'm still up in the air on whether I'll be buying it or not.
Erm... Thats what every review is. They dont spoil even games like CoD where people dont really care about story. I think you might be mistaking review with walkthrough.
I've seen enough gameplay and heard plenty about the game, and I really enjoyed TW2. I want to read a few reviews by someone who has played to the end of the game at least once and played it on the platform I'll be playing on. Not just the score, but an impression of the game as a whole.
No, this one was very specific, because the reviews even pointed out "We can't show you most of the cool stuff because they won't let us". As you said, most reviews hold to those rules anyway, but with this game it was specifically mentioned as a heavy restriction in almost every review I read. I don't know, what are some big story-driven games from the last six months or so? It was one of them. Order 1886, maybe, I can't remember.
I think early embargo lift would be great for the initial sales AND for the sales of the previous two games.
I mean, I am sure most of us have seen a sharp increase of interest in the franchise over the last two years since the third game was announced.
But if people see perfect scores all over the place a couple of weeks before the W3 release then they may want to buy the first two games to get in on the story.
I mean, I am sure most of us have seen a sharp increase of interest in the franchise over the last two years since the third game was announced.
But if people see perfect scores all over the place a couple of weeks before the W3 release then they may want to buy the first two games to get in on the story.
WEEKS before the game comes out? Hell no. Make it days and then we're talking.
I'd say set the embargo on the day the game comes out and give out review copies one week...maybe two but that' pushing it given that there's going to be a day 1 patch.
I would argue that based on past history with TW series and the way they conduct interviews for the game that the mainstream gaming media has no fucking clue what they are talking about and I certainly would encourage everyone to not give a damn what they have to say about TW3, good or bad.
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I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that they've not decided on a certain date yet, but assured it would be before release day.