What is the idea of releasing the game to streamers before everyone else?
Please don't see this as a "Im angry" post, it's more in regards to why
I can understand they want to get reviews, but still CDPR have been pretty careful with spoilers, yet one day before it releases they pretty much say "screw this" lets potentially spoil everything. To me it doesn't really matter if things were spoiled 20 days ago or 1 day. (I stay away from all streamers, obviously)
But what I find strange though, is that CDPR must be interested in as good reviews as possible, so releasing a somewhat buggy version to the reviewers surely have an impact on the review scores, but it makes sense in regards to pushing pre sales. But if reviewers got it at the same time as everyone else, they would review the least buggy version of the game, because obviously the amount of bugs is being mentioned in a lot of the reviews.
So just wondering how much of a difference it really makes whether the reviews pops up 1 - 2 days after the official release in regards to people buying it. Because does it really matter that much if people pre order it, compared to buying it the same day or a few days after the release? They don't share pre sale numbers anyway.
Most of these streamers are not reviewing the game, they are merely playing it and potentially spoiling it for people, maybe not the streamers themself, but people watching might share stuff. So I just find it strange to be very careful with spoilers up until the 11 hour, to then just let go of everything.
Is it just in hope that the streamers can push the game a bit more or what? I really don't get it to be honest, any person having seen a gaming stream for the last year or two know what Cyberpunk is and whether they are interested or not.
Please don't see this as a "Im angry" post, it's more in regards to why
I can understand they want to get reviews, but still CDPR have been pretty careful with spoilers, yet one day before it releases they pretty much say "screw this" lets potentially spoil everything. To me it doesn't really matter if things were spoiled 20 days ago or 1 day. (I stay away from all streamers, obviously)
But what I find strange though, is that CDPR must be interested in as good reviews as possible, so releasing a somewhat buggy version to the reviewers surely have an impact on the review scores, but it makes sense in regards to pushing pre sales. But if reviewers got it at the same time as everyone else, they would review the least buggy version of the game, because obviously the amount of bugs is being mentioned in a lot of the reviews.
So just wondering how much of a difference it really makes whether the reviews pops up 1 - 2 days after the official release in regards to people buying it. Because does it really matter that much if people pre order it, compared to buying it the same day or a few days after the release? They don't share pre sale numbers anyway.
Most of these streamers are not reviewing the game, they are merely playing it and potentially spoiling it for people, maybe not the streamers themself, but people watching might share stuff. So I just find it strange to be very careful with spoilers up until the 11 hour, to then just let go of everything.
Is it just in hope that the streamers can push the game a bit more or what? I really don't get it to be honest, any person having seen a gaming stream for the last year or two know what Cyberpunk is and whether they are interested or not.
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