Review embargoes should be illegal. Discuss.

>>384094147
When you launch a game you get ONE chance for media exposure: the launch itself.

So, you build up a little press kit and send it out to every single person you know in press. Every contact, and hope maybe 1% will actually pick up your story.

about 90% of those retards will just copy/paste what you sent them as an "article" because gaming journalism is a joke.

the other 10% will post some stupid shit they made up that clearly shows they didn't even play the game

that's game development for you

t. game dev - worst part of my job is launches. shit sucks.

Consumers should just stop being retarded and perpetuating this pre order bullshit that the industry now runs on.

>>384094349
my point being we shouldn't make it literally illegal to just ask journalists to wait until everyone else is going to post.

it's not like they're legally obligated to anyways. it just means they won't because they dont want bad blood with developers (they really just want free shit and ad money on their site)

>>384094401
this x1000000000000

>>384094147
Review embargoes that end on the day the game releases should be illegal.
Review embargoes that end a few days/a week prior are fine.

>>384094527
>freedom? nah fuck that let's try communism

>>384094564
>freedom is preventing businesses from making contracts with each other
what?

>>384094759
If you don't like the business practices of a company - DONT BUY THEIR GAMES

for fucks sake