I'm going to step in real quick before bed.
So at TSA we're all just guys who do the video game stuff outside our day jobs. While some of us have some media training the site doesn't generate the kind of cash that allows us to do tbis full time. We're no IGN, Kotaku or Eurogamer.
That said I will support my editor's decision precisely because no one here including myself knows what has been said between the parties involved.
Have blacklists been threatened? I don't know.
Will the review score change? I don't know. Though my personal position is if the game doesn't ease up on the VC then it won't.
Honestly while the aim was to help highlight the issue, like Kotaku and Jim Sterling have, I don't think anyone at TSA thought it would get this much attention.
Just like you we're waiting on a statement from 2K. Just like you we don't know what will be said or what changes will be announced, if any. Right now I can't shed anymore ligbt on the situation.