What's with all the misinformation about review codes?

[Five]

Everyone I heard talking about this goes on and on about how they're denying review codes to people "critical" of the game when this is very easy fact checked as false?

MOST people did not get review codes, whether their coverage of the preview event was positive or negative. It has literally nothing to do with someone's coverage of the preview event.

The ONLY people that got review codes were major, official publications like Forbes, IGN, Gamespot, etc. As well as the content creators in the dragon age community council (basically creators that got early access and insight into most of the development of Veilguard) as a thank you to them. Youtubers like Ghil Dirthalen and such.

It's not some mass conspiracy, they just simply only sent codes to major publications and the community council. It's really lame that they didn't send codes out to independent reviewers or content creators in general, but I suspect that has more to do with EA than anything.

Not a new thing either, it's pretty traditional for companies like say, Nintendo, to only send review codes to major, official publications too. It's really out of touch, content creators imo have way more reach and pull than places like IGN as well as alot more trust with the public but it is what it is.

Just weird to see so many people "reporting" on this and just making ♥♥♥♥ up x3

[Sid]

Tl;dr :
It's not some mass conspiracy, they just simply only sent codes to major publications and the community council, whose reviews are guaranteed to be positive.

[HiGenX]

They want shills and only shills, no actual reviews, just praise.

[Five]

Yes, still sucks, but It's not exactly a targeted thing and I suspect it was an EA decision given how big of a shift the review codes are from their preview event where they invited TONS of people.

[Five]

Again, I'm pretty sure Dantics was on the community council he's done alot of dragon age and mass effect stuff.

But I don't know all the people who were involved with that, and not all the creators that were invited to the bioware community council stuff (whenever that started, probably before mass effect 3) kept up with it or stayed involved.

[Five]

Yea there's plenty to be critical about this decision, and imo it's definitely a calculated move since they know that major publications will be alot more... polite about their reviews. It's not a move that's exclusive to EA/Bioware, like I said Nintendo does it all the time too. It's why Pokemon Scarlet/Violet didn't get outed as an absolute buggy mess until after launch.

My point is just that you don't need to make stuff up about how they're specifically denying review codes to people who were mean about the game, it's not that deep.

[Sumpfmolch]

Originally posted by Five:

Yes, still sucks, but It's not exactly a targeted thing and I suspect it was an EA decision given how big of a shift the review codes are from their preview event where they invited TONS of people.

If you only give review codes to people that will promote the game than reviews 28.10. will be worthless.

But i have not seen any proof that only those "community council" members will got a code.

What i HAVE seen is that someone who got a review code is promoting preordering with his Creator promo code so he will be payed for the preoder.

[Five]

Originally posted by dulany67:

Originally posted by Five:

The ONLY people that got review codes were major, official publications like Forbes, IGN, Gamespot, etc. As well as the content creators in the dragon age community council (basically creators that got early access and insight into most of the development of Veilguard) as a thank you to them. Youtubers like Ghil Dirthalen and such.

This is not true. Other creators not on the council received review codes.

So then the question becomes what was the criteria for choosing who to send codes to?

It is true, I have heard it from several community council members that review codes were only sent out to major publications as well as given to people on the community council as a thank you.

Do you have an example of a creator who was not on the council that received a code? And are you SURE they weren't on the council? Not every youtuber who was involved in that made their involvement public.