Just got linked this post. Sorry for quoting several pages back. But just want to be clear here: you are not employed by OpenCritic, nor do you have any contractual relationship with us.
Knowingly breaking an embargo is a serious mistake, one that calls into question your motives for reviewing games to begin with. Are you posting your reviews to help others? Or are you just doing it to gain a quick follower or two? Regardless, it's not sustainable and certainly not something that OpenCritic will support. The entire reason we made OpenCritic is to better the industry for all parties, and we believe embargoes do that. One reason we believe that is for what's you've been called out on in this thread: so that no one's pressured to publish a review after only a few hours.
We've disabled your contributor account for the time being; I'll discuss next steps with the team in the morning.
I'm surprised this blog even became "one of the 30 launch partners for this contributor program" when the author couldn't even keep the big description in the header on his site free of spelling mistakes.
Constantly misspelling the game's main protagonist's name throughout the review, calling him Adam
Jenson, further points towards low-effort writing.
On your site you say "The other thing to call out is that we'll be doing a basic quality check on each applicant." I feel this quality check could be tightened slightly. I certainly wouldn't trust the "review" of such a sloppy writer.
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"(...) it nails the core aspect of Deus Ex in almost every way and delivering an unforgettable experience."
"(...) you once again assume the role as Adam Jenson"
"(...) to stop the Illuminati which was caused millions of innocents to die."
Wow. And this is just the first paragraph.
http://opencritic.com/blog/8/opencritic-contributor-program: "We don't intend to be too harsh here, but we will be looking for basic grammar, spelling, comprehension, and review structure."
Hmmm...