 Hell yeah, guys. What's up? This is Chris Pike. My friends call me Banksy. I'm back again guys and today we got a special topic It's a topic. I want to talk about it's a big deal right now a lot of the gamers gameplay community and the developers are weighing in on this and in particular drumroll day one game reviews first off What are your opinion about day one game reviews because here's the thing the faster a website gets a review Out the more search engine results. They're gonna get in general This is an overstatement and this is a generalization I get that but if you're the first one out with a review you get the lion's share of the clicks at least up front from From Google so here's the problem these sites that are producing Reviews within an hour or two of a release They're not really that good of reviews in theory because they haven't had a chance to play the game Let's take for example. I don't know destiny You know what they got lots and lots of hundreds of hours of content although in the the websites defense the first four hours are Pretty cool, but the rest you know a lot of people are saying it's kind of just doing the same thing over and over again But no joking aside think about a game like World of Warcraft Whatever that is the new expansion the Draenor. I'm an orc I built a garrison and I grew a beard and I threw away my social life and Whatever it's called Warlords of Draenor. That's the one guys that game comes out that game's got like I don't know three or four weeks of content in theory, right? If you're a casual gamer it's gonna take you a few weeks to get through all the new stuff all the new zones Try out the new equipment get used to all the new systems Yada yada yada you get my point But here's the thing a game site releases a review in three hours Google because it can't fact check it doesn't have the ability to fact check or you know check the validity of these Reviews really like they could check up a website's legit, but they can't go through an individual review They will actually in theory send signals out saying hey, there's a new review It goes up it gets search engine priority and these sites are now getting views They're getting views giving out reviews and these reviews impact people's decisions to buy games And they haven't had a chance to actually play the game now there are notable exceptions for example if a if Game site for example is given a game in advance So they can actually play through the whole damn thing or at least a large portion of it and give a fair and reason review That's one thing but when you got a you know kind of fly-by-night site that doesn't have that sort of access or an Upstart site maybe you have one and this is totally legit, but you can't get the review you can't get the game right away you post a review or somebody else posts a review post their opinion and Bang, you know what you can actually sink or swim a site or a game based on that alone Pardon me So what's your opinion on day one game reviews in that type of circumstance? Also our developers should they be given like a few day leeway so that you know They're when they release the game if it comes with bugs and it's got some issues You know sometimes where the servers aren't entirely tweak You know what you give it a couple days and all of a sudden that stuff is figured out no problem Let's take World of Warcraft for example and we'll contrast that to like Drive Club or whatever hell that was for PlayStation 4 World of Warcraft when it released a new patch released or the new Not new patch near The new expansion released that game came out right quick They had a whole bunch of issues in the first 48 hours. They had issues, but we knew it would have issues They've got hundreds of servers with millions of players. They got a lot of balls to juggle And Anyways guys, do you give them a pass should a review that comes out in the first day that says this game's terrible I can't connect blah blah blah, which is which is a real complaint. Should that be given a review? Should that be included into Metacritic? Maybe I don't know That's one of my arguments the other one is and I'm still trying to think about it is Drive Club That game is a lot different World of Warcraft sorted their stuff out generally within like 48 to 96 hours And five free days of gameplay were given out so that so they remediated but Drive Club for the PlayStation 4 has been a gong show It's been out like almost four weeks now I think and they still don't have it together their servers are down. It's not working people paid money This is a PlayStation 4 exclusive that people were banking on as a ps4 Console killer blah blah blah and they still can't get it together. They shouldn't be given a pass But where do you draw the line guys? What do you do? Anyways, that's enough of a rant for this because we're gonna talk about this topic again But please weigh in on your opinions. What websites do you go to a couple websites that you trust? I know the big guys the IGNs the game spots the yada yada yada But do you have like a niche site that you know that you trust is gonna give it a good review? It's actually gonna play the game not just try and steal Steal a search engine optimization and search use and search hits because of you know releasing a game review early What do you guys think weigh on this guy says your boy big see I'm gonna be back and I'm gonna be taking on this topic again This is check it out