The embargo for critiques of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has lifted. We don’t have a assessment on the positioning right here at epicgamejourney. This isn’t an editorial choice; we had hoped to assessment the sport.
On Jan. 2, epicgamejourney requested a code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios, the studio behind the sport, and obtained no response. On Jan. 7, we reached out to the PR agency working with Warhorse, who informed us they have been “not in a position to present entry. We’ll let if this adjustments.” We reached out to guardian firm Plaion on Jan. 9 as properly — no response. On Jan. 10, we noticed our friends publishing early previews for the sport. We re-upped our request and have been once more informed we’d not be given entry.
This was very uncommon. However this was the state of affairs that transpired with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
It may be tough to inform when a studio’s choice to withhold a code from a publication is intentional and private. That’s due partially to the truth that the method for getting advance assessment codes is about as rote and administrative because it will get. Typically, PR companies working for studios ship us codes unsolicited in hopes we’ll cowl the sport in query. Different instances, we request codes from the sport’s representatives ourselves, a number of weeks forward of the discharge date, and we get these codes when and if they’re accessible.
As a part of our last request for code on Jan. 10, epicgamejourney’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante contacted Plaion and Warhorse’s PR agency to get a remark as to why we have been denied advance entry to the sport. He harassed in his message that our hope is that this choice wasn’t on account of any private bias towards epicgamejourney, nor motivated by any of our earlier protection of video games made by Warhorse or every other. Briefly, we needed to know: Was epicgamejourney being blacklisted?
On Jan. 10, we did obtain a response to this request stating that we may get one code for the sport on launch day, Feb. 4. We didn’t obtain any clarification as to how this choice was made. Nor did we obtain the requested clarification on why the builders of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 declined to supply epicgamejourney entry to the sport.
As a result of we is not going to obtain entry to this recreation till its public launch, our assessment is nonetheless forthcoming however is not going to be printed in time for its launch date. We look ahead to telling you extra about this recreation within the weeks to return.
