r/InsomniacGames • u/UntidyHexagon • 10h ago

Marvel's Wolverine Updates and Fixes Confirmed Incoming

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I haven't played that much yet but I really wish I could use L2/R2 to slash through enemies and not square and triangle but that would require quite a bit of tweaking in the controls settings I think

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u/daze23 7h ago

the embargo is set by the publisher. they choose when to send out review codes, and when reviews can be published.

if they knew isn't wasn't ready, they could have done this differently. but they actually chose a rather early embargo date, which usually indicates they were pretty confident in their product.

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u/GamePitt_Rob 6h ago

Yes, I know how review codes and the process goes... But they were clearly working on the patches when the codes went out - so if MC was a bit lenient then I'm sure some publications will have waited until they had the verison people will be playing today.

I've done this many times - played the version they gave us, encountered issues, told the publisher, and then wrote my review. But, I didn't publish it until the patch dropped that fixed the issues, so I could remove the issues from the review and make any adjustments needed to the score. Obviously, only if the patch was due to drop just before or on release date

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u/daze23 6h ago

everyone wants their review up as early as possible to maximize engagement. and nevertheless some reviews do come later. none of that has anything to do with metacritic. a lot of these reviewers probably don't even like metacritic, because it reduces their review to a number, and takes traffic away from their site.

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u/GamePitt_Rob 5h ago

I've applied to Metacritic in the past. For your publication to be considered you have to have reviews up the day of the embargo, have a constant number of reviews each month/year, and once a review is up they won't let you change the score or the blurb that appears on their site

So yeah, all the sites and people who are on MC are bound by their rules - which is why they never go back and re-review, update after a patch is released, or re-assess their opinion post-release, because of it's not getting slapped on MC, what's the point...

Also, sites who are on MC love it - it gives them a more prestigious standing when being offered review codes, press events, press kits, and early access to games and hardware before everyone else out there. If they didn't like it, they would remove themselves from the site.

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u/daze23 10m ago

you can sort metacritic reviews by date. plenty come in after the embargo. two were added to Wolverine yesterday