Eurogamer and Starfield, why our review will be late.

UPDATE 5.45pm UK: An hour after the publication of this blog, Eurogamer was provided Starfield review code by Bethesda.…

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TLDR: didnt receive review codes until today

Also, review embarge is in 2 days
- I could almost see the "digital foundry can't share it" as not giving their review outlets preferential treatment over everyone else (because the technical breakdown is a separate thing), but the timeline is just not anywhere near sufficient, especially for a game of this scope.
  
  i mean... it wasn't ready until today, everyone patching to the last second...
  
  its bethesda, lol... the game wont be "stable" for 3-6 months after release :)
  
  I understand that Beth delayed the review codes, but I don't quite understand why. The subtext of this article seems to suggest that they expect higher reviews from other outlets. Is that the case?
So basically no reviews before the Premium Pre Order release? That smells fishy.
Too busy with their 3rd play through of Baldur's Gate 3! AYYYYYY!
ReedPop killed every outlet they bought, except in the case of RPS where they killed themselves. This is well deserved.
Eurogamer parent company Reedpop.

An unfortunate name almost.. :)

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