{"id":1166,"date":"2009-01-29T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/29\/when-is-a-game-ready-for-review\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T19:17:55","slug":"when-is-a-game-ready-for-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/29\/when-is-a-game-ready-for-review\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a game ready for review?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of talk in my circle about the public beta for THQ&#8217;s Dawn of War 2, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.dawnofwar2.com\/viewtopic.php?f=43&#038;t=6362\">a game they are still doing a lot of balancing for<\/a>. This is, after all, a beta.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Future publishing has had no problem running reviews of the RTS.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the prevalence of balance patches throughout the lifetime of a real time strategy game, I suppose many reviews go to print without being the &#8220;final version.&#8221; But beta means work in progress. So how much work needs to be incomplete before you can tell the media that its ready to go?<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t reviewers have an obligation to write in their reviews that the version is, in fact, still being tweaked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of talk in my circle about the public beta for THQ&#8217;s Dawn of War 2, a game they are still doing a lot of balancing for. This is, after all, a beta. Still, Future publishing has had no problem running reviews of the RTS. Considering the prevalence of balance patches throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-iO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}