Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 3

[jens]

I would say half of the youtube clips are from people that are reviewers. They have a copy of the game, but they have also made use of the opportunity to publish preview material as they are allowed to do that. The preview material can be let's plays, straight up gameplay clip with no commentary, it can be a written preview or well whatever they can come up with, we have no restrictions on what they do, only on how much they can do as a preview.

Reviews are as mentioned in this thread under embargo, meaning they will not be published until the day before the game is released. In general if you look at the about for a channel you can see if they have a website where they will publish a review.

Yes you are right about the sites you mention! I assure you they have all been given a copy of the game.

Why are these bloody people getting review copies? None of them do reviews that I've seen so far.

Well they do need to play it first .. and maybe they want to release a well-written article instead of just rushing something out.

These people are LPers, not reviewers. They don't write articles. They make videos showing gameplay. None of the ones I've looked into even do video reviews.

People like rockpapershotgun, pcgamer, ign, kotaku, etc. should get the review copies, not LPers. And even if they feel so inclined to give LPers a copy of the game, I feel they should use a stricter NDA to avoid all the spoilers that are out there now.