Ubisoft has already come under fire for single-player game Star Wars Outlaws having a Season Pass, but fans are expressing frustration once again upon noticing its highly anticipated Jabba the Hutt mission is locked behind it.
Publisher employ a sort of bribe/blackmail trick.
Preview copies of the videogame are provided to reviewer on the “white list”. If, as reviewer, make criticism that the publisher (Ubisoft in this case), don’t like… you may end on the black list.
If you’re on the black list, no pre-review copies for you… this mean that reviewer on the " nice" side of Ubisoft can publish review even before the day one, quite before you, as “honest reviewer on the naughty side of Ubisoft”, can even go to buy and try the game to review by yourself.
At which point, being on a game companies’ blacklist itself becomes a bad sign for anything that company puts out.
Though as a patient gamer, I already don’t really gaf about prerelease reviews and always wait for user reviews to come in specifically to avoid the quid pro quo type reviews.
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Publisher employ a sort of bribe/blackmail trick. Preview copies of the videogame are provided to reviewer on the “white list”. If, as reviewer, make criticism that the publisher (Ubisoft in this case), don’t like… you may end on the black list.
If you’re on the black list, no pre-review copies for you… this mean that reviewer on the " nice" side of Ubisoft can publish review even before the day one, quite before you, as “honest reviewer on the naughty side of Ubisoft”, can even go to buy and try the game to review by yourself.
At which point, being on a game companies’ blacklist itself becomes a bad sign for anything that company puts out.
Though as a patient gamer, I already don’t really gaf about prerelease reviews and always wait for user reviews to come in specifically to avoid the quid pro quo type reviews.