It didn’t contribute to the Prey review because the infamous review was from an outlet that wasn’t blacklisted (IGN). It was just some unfortunate circumstances (Arkane was actually in touch with the reviewer throughout his review and trying to fix the bug).
They withheld pre-launch review copies from all outlets, not just blacklisted ones.
Huh? Source? I’m sure it wasnt every outlet, IIRC.
when you’re spending 100’s of million of dollars hell yeah you would want to see how it’s reviewing to see if the investment is worth it and with games should additional money be necessary if they want to make dlc or not because they get one chance with this
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Not a fan of this his, but Microsoft can limit preview specials from outlets
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Nah, I get it, it’s just hilariously dystopian that’s how much marketing engines have developed.
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It was 24 hours before launch but even still. The effect was the same.
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Oh yeah Bethesda being dog shit at review embargos is a open secret at this point lmfao. They had an embargo on embargo announcements for Fallout 4 ! They did that shit to New Vegas!
Microsoft doesn’t withhold every game from competing platforms so why would they ever withhold review codes and previews?
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They’ve completely reverted. I had two weeks on Starfield and could say the embargo time. It was similar for the Deathloop and GW: Tokyo ports. The only exception was Hi-Fi as it was shadowdropped.
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Microsoft is normally fair but still selective with who gets what review copies. We didn’t get AO2DE or 4 for console
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Didn’t those games launch on PC a year before console? Flight Simulator has 138 reviews on Open Critic and 38 of them were for console in 2021 while the other 100 were PC in 2020. So this would be my guess why they don’t send out console codes. The game was already reviewed a year earlier.
It’s probably less Microsoft didn’t give out codes and more outlets didn’t want to do a second review for the game.
No, they didn’t give us a code for either when we requested them and said “availability is limited”.
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Fair enough then 
Revisiting Deathloop rn, man did the aI in this get harder???
Funny you mention that… I was playing again last week, for the first time in a few months, and I wasn’t sure if that was the case or I just sucked now lol.
If there was doubt surrounding this
I also confirmed with some sources separately over the holiday period that games like Hellblade 2, Avowed, and The Elder Scrolls VI are still slated to be Xbox console exclusive, after the initial rumor mill around moving towards platform agnosticity swirled.
-Windows Central
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They detect me so fast now, I’m honestly shocked. Just wanted to see the Golden Loop cutscene on my hardware lmao
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https://twitter.com/klobrille/status/1744284012623921440?t=LHEenWH1kkmjPexk8zl6Fw&s=19
It’s follow time!
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