They are releasing Far Cry 4 on the tueday as well??

The simple answer is the publishers like Ubisoft/EA/Activison etc giving the studios enough time to complete and test the game.

The main problem is that the publishers on triple A titles, spend large amounts of money on marketing weeks before launch- to build up pre-orders yet once the reviews hit they can damage the marketing if the review is negative.

Review embargos are a way of protecting the first sales of the game, people will pre-order and buy on day of release as they want the game, the bad publicity will hurt ubisoft but will it change it much.

Simple. From now on don't buy a game until you hear the reviews. If they stop reviews from being released then don't buy

Enough patches will fix the optimization and bugs to get the game to a playable state.

If the studio and ubisoft can mess up FC3.5 (FC4) then it will be a very bad time for ubisoft's share price.

I just read that shares have already dropped 10%

Yes Swanny that has been the release date for ages,only GTA5 got added to that equasion .....

worse than black flag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgpzT5V5Mgs

In reply to a post by ccxo:

Enough patches will fix the optimization and bugs to get the game to a playable state.

now days more than 2 patches per game is rare.

it has micro transactions as well ouch.