Comment Re:Happens all the time... (Score 1) 247
"You have no idea what you're talking about. Let me clue you in."
If that wasn't flaimbait then I don't what is, but anyway...
I work in the industry, and I can tell you that you really, really, do not have a clue what you are talking about.
The only magazines that get versions from when the game has gone gold are those fairly uneducated "lifestyle" magazines (perhaps you work for one of them?). All the major games mags regularly get "unfinished" versions (normally post Beta), although 99% of the time the only things different between these versions and what end up in the stores is usually a few bugs, standards failures (console manufacturers are quite strict) and perhaps a bit of artwork. The time between a game going gold, and hitting the shelves is usually too short to allow the magazines to review finished games and have their mags on the shelves before the game comes out (the mags would be pretty useless if they couldn't do that).
If that wasn't flaimbait then I don't what is, but anyway...
I work in the industry, and I can tell you that you really, really, do not have a clue what you are talking about.
The only magazines that get versions from when the game has gone gold are those fairly uneducated "lifestyle" magazines (perhaps you work for one of them?). All the major games mags regularly get "unfinished" versions (normally post Beta), although 99% of the time the only things different between these versions and what end up in the stores is usually a few bugs, standards failures (console manufacturers are quite strict) and perhaps a bit of artwork. The time between a game going gold, and hitting the shelves is usually too short to allow the magazines to review finished games and have their mags on the shelves before the game comes out (the mags would be pretty useless if they couldn't do that).
