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How are review embargoes likely to work and when should I go dark

Practical planning question. Reviews for a game this size usually land somewhere between one and three days before release, occasionally on release day itself for the biggest titles.

What I want to know from people who have been through several of these: is the embargo lift the danger point, or is it the day before that, when people start posting that they have received a copy? I am trying to work out which day to disappear.

nospoilersplease2w ago

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preloadwatch2w agoHaven't played

With a code in a box release there is no shipping window to break, which actually helps you. Nobody gets a copy early from a warehouse.

portgellhorn_2w agoHaven't played

A week is right. The last week is when everything that has been sitting on someone's hard drive comes out at once.

vicebeachcam2w agoHaven't played

Reviewers still get keys in advance, so the embargo lift is still a hard date to plan around. But the street date break risk is much lower than for a disc release.

keysrunner_882w agoHaven't played

The day before is the danger point, not the embargo. Physical and digital copies leak early, people post that they have it, and the thumbnails start before any review is live.

nospoilersplease2w agoHaven't played

That had not occurred to me and it is a genuine argument in favour of the thing I have been complaining about all year.

kalaga_hiker2w agoHaven't played

I went dark four days before RDR2 and it was two days too late. I would go a week.

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