> You don't ask anyone to lie (good reviews can still be totally sincere), but the gestalt is no longer natural. What I'm seeing fairly often is "Review embarg

> You don't ask anyone to lie (good reviews can still be totally sincere), but the gestalt is no longer natural. What I'm seeing fairly often is "Review embargo: nth Month; Streaming embargo: n-7th Month". While there's an argument for it (reviewing a game takes time, but a stream can be done cold), I suspect it (in some cases at least) is a way to make sure good coverage comes out first - a streamer probably isn't going to be digging completely into the flaws of a game, and they are actively playing to an audience/trying to be entertaining, potentially making a mediocre game look better. It's not quite the same as controlling review content, but it definitely feels manipulative.