I could almost see the “digital foundry can’t share it” as not giving their review outlets preferential treatment over everyone else (because the technical breakdown is a separate thing), but the timeline is just not anywhere near sufficient, especially for a game of this scope.
I understand that Beth delayed the review codes, but I don’t quite understand why. The subtext of this article seems to suggest that they expect higher reviews from other outlets. Is that the case?
I’m kind of reading it like the Europe team did kind of a shitty job, considering they said some places got codes from the American team.
It’s generally a hard balance to strike on when it’s good enough for reviewers to get their hands on it with enough time to actually provide meaningful evaluations (because they genuinely are fixing shit up to and through launch. This is the same reason it’s hard for reviews to provide a lot of information on general bugginess. They also play a lot of unfinished stuff that’s actually cleaned up before launch). But there’s no reason to give different reviewers codes at different times. It sounds like different divisions and one fucking up.
I could almost see the “digital foundry can’t share it” as not giving their review outlets preferential treatment over everyone else (because the technical breakdown is a separate thing), but the timeline is just not anywhere near sufficient, especially for a game of this scope.
I understand that Beth delayed the review codes, but I don’t quite understand why. The subtext of this article seems to suggest that they expect higher reviews from other outlets. Is that the case?
I’m kind of reading it like the Europe team did kind of a shitty job, considering they said some places got codes from the American team.
It’s generally a hard balance to strike on when it’s good enough for reviewers to get their hands on it with enough time to actually provide meaningful evaluations (because they genuinely are fixing shit up to and through launch. This is the same reason it’s hard for reviews to provide a lot of information on general bugginess. They also play a lot of unfinished stuff that’s actually cleaned up before launch). But there’s no reason to give different reviewers codes at different times. It sounds like different divisions and one fucking up.