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Award-winning reporter @IGN; formerly @GIBiz. She/her. Exuberant, always. rvalentine@ign.com, DM for Signal.

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    Rebekah Valentine‏Verified account @duckvalentine 17 Oct 2019

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    please share your stories of crunching on reviews. everyone in this dang industry does this and it's the worst. far from being something to brag about ("I had to beat this game in three days!") it's a symptom of how writers, esp freelancers, get exploited for their time/laborhttps://twitter.com/duckvalentine/status/1184912911271186434 …

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    Rebekah ValentineVerified account @duckvalentine
    sending a reviewer a 60+ hour game with a week to beat it is contributing to crunch culture!!!
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      2. Rebekah Valentine‏Verified account @duckvalentine 17 Oct 2019

        mine is the one in the quoted tweet there. Reviewed the Switch hardware, BotW, Just Dance 2017, and 1-2-Switch in I believe 10 days. While working a FT job. I did nothing but work, play games, and sleep, and it was not fun in the slightest.

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      3. Rebekah Valentine‏Verified account @duckvalentine 17 Oct 2019

        this tweet is starting to get responses from film and TV reviewers too and wow, entertainment review industries are just ten kinds of fucked up aren't they! my heart is with you all.

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      1. TooMuchToSay‏ @JBergeron94 17 Oct 2019
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        It also does not factor in the huge time of writing and construction.

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      1. Daniel Lucic‏ @danny_hr 17 Oct 2019
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        Don't even get me started. I was never officially forced, but it's the nature of the print that you want to have coverage soon, else you are risking beinh 2-3 months behind.

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      2. M.H. Williams‏Verified account @AutomaticZen 17 Oct 2019
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        GTA5. 13 hour days of playing, because the review embargo was in a week, or something absurd like that.

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      3. Rebekah Valentine‏Verified account @duckvalentine 17 Oct 2019
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        UGH

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      1. James @ Final Fantasy XI‏ @Theswweet 17 Oct 2019
        Replying to @duckvalentine

        Monster Hunter World (and Iceborne) had relatively reasonable embargos... if you got code from the EU side. Even then, you had like... 2 1/2 weeks to review Monster Hunter World, which was probably a very big ask for a game that size. Iceborne, we got 4 weeks. NA had 1 week.

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      1. Carli Velocci  👽‏Verified account @velocciraptor 17 Oct 2019
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        the one I previously mentioned.https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/9/14859716/torment-tides-of-numenera-review …

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      2. Caty McCarthy‏Verified account @yumecaty 17 Oct 2019
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        pretty much any triple-a game or rpg results in just playing all night because i don't have time during my work day to do it. for recent ones, kingdom hearts 3 and we happy few i recall the crunch being particularly awful

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      3. Caty McCarthy‏Verified account @yumecaty 17 Oct 2019
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        sega, in my experience, gives the most time for reviews for any triple-a game. usually have a month+ for yakuzas, i remember i had a few months for persona 5. that's ideal, because it just slides into my life and i feel like i can play it more carefully and less like a marathon!

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