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FFG Policy on Embargos
Cordova, TN; May 28, in the year of our Lord 2018--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is defining a brand new policy when it
comes to embargos. We will do all we can to avoid breaking an
embargo. Whether this is a review, preview, news story, or image
that a company wants us to spend our money on publishing. There
are rarely embargos on content we are paid to publish. Those
news and updated news stories are seen on the pages with a
different color. If it is a video then it is clearly stated on
the video. Any other items will have clear references that we
are paid for. The embargo date and time must be convenient for
us. Too often these companies pick dates and times that do not
work for us.
Family Friendly Gaming feels no compulsion to get anything
published as close to the embargo lifting as possible. In fact
when it comes to a review we will work to get the review online
within one week of when the embargo lifts. Our normal timeline
for a review is to try and get it online within one week of when
we receive the game. That timeline is getting adjusted when an
embargo is put on the review. The new timeline is one week from
when the embargo lifts. Too often too many companies pick the
exact same dates for when a review embargo is lifted. We
generally release one review a day (unless it is a Saturday or
Sunday and then we have two reviews released many times).
These companies are not paying us, so we see no reason to kill
ourselves to fit into their time tables, and what they want. To
make matters worse they are not providing us anything of any
real world value when they send a digital download code. So we
spend money on the no value they send us. This is a one way
street where we make them money at no cost to them, and they
make all the revenue. They do not share this revenue with us in
99.8% of the cases. Why kill ourselves to make them even
wealthier? When it comes to news stories we will consider the
story one day after the embargo lifts. Again they pick
inconvenient days and times. They expect we will be at their
beck and call when they want something done. We are not
performing monkeys, nor are we dogs performing tricks for them.
We will publish when it works for us. Again we will do all we
can to make sure it is after their meaningless embargo date and
time. Just not right after. If they want that service they can
fairly compensate us for it.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming
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