Destiny review copies going out on the day before release

I played the alpha myself and was impressed enough to pick it up. If they don't want to release review copies that's fine, nothing forcing them too. If people have a problem with it then don't buy the game on principle.

I've never played a Bungie game I was disappointed in and I enjoyed the alpha so that's enough for me.

In the end the only thing you can do as a gamer is not buy games that don't publish review copies and then wait for truthful reviews to come out. I know that in a lot of cases (Call of Duty/Assassin's Creed), the early reviews are basically paid for reviews and aren't a representation of a real opinion of the game. They take devs, butter them up for a few days in luxury, then give the game to them in an ideal playing situation. So it's a mixed bag.

I'm assuming Activision is behind this, not Bungie. I don't take Bungie for the type that would be alright with a review event, which is Activision's style, so they probably decided to not even bother. Unlike a lot of games, they've given the public a lot of playtime through "beta" testing (glorified demos). So at least people know what to expect going in unlike most console games that don't even have demos anymore.

I'm looking forward to this game, but this isn't good sign, perhaps review scores will be lower than some are expecting

well, I imagine reviews will get rushed forward as quickly as possible... and I expect other review sites to catch up by basically plagiarizing each other

and, I imagine they'll give it good reviews regardless, after all I think they'll give it the benefit of the doubt before fully exploring the content and gameplay and such, and do as much to give it as flowery a review as they can

The game is Review Proof,

So why bother

I'm very excited to play Destiny I never played the beta but It's bungie who made halo so I'm very confident this game will be a success.

*doffs caps to champ* urgh that made me feel dirty

Ownage is served.