I thought Jeff was adamantly against that kind of thing ever since they did something similar with MGS4. 

Times change.

Doesn't seem like a very good working environment :P

Since retail copies were provided well before release, we were able to see the game running on a proper TV, with a proper sound system, and with proper retail load times prior to release. If that hadn't happened, we would have held our review until that was possible.

"Since retail copies were provided well before release, we were able to see the game running on a proper TV, with a proper sound system, and with proper retail load times prior to release. If that hadn't happened, we would have held our review until that was possible."

Enough copies of the game had gotten out there that playing multiplayer online prior to release wasn't a problem at all.

At least Jeff did the responsible thing and played a retail copy to make sure everything was cool (good), even though I wouldn't expect that trickery from Epic Games, but it's good that you did that.

"Enough copies of the game had gotten out there that playing multiplayer online prior to release wasn't a problem at all.

I haven't run into any issues with the matchmaking system. Sounds like most of the people complaining about it don't understand how it works or want to be able to play ranked games against their friends, which sort of defeats the purpose of having ranked games.

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Yeah, that's probably a traffic thing. I haven't played the game much since it was released, so I can't say either way.

"Since retail copies were provided well before release, we were able to see the game running on a proper TV, with a proper sound system, and with proper retail load times prior to release. If that hadn't happened, we would have held our review until that was possible."