Sony Santa Monica Studio is warning fans to be wary of God of War: Ragnarok spoilers, as some retailers have seemingly shipped disc copies of the game before its 9th November release date for PS5 and PS4. For those lucky enough to have received the game early, they ask that you be considerate and not share or forward clips and narrative spoilers in particular.
“We are doing our best to limit the exposure of unsanctioned footage and screenshots, but the reality is that we cannot catch everything,” the studio writes on Twitter. “For those of you who do not want to risk seeing anything before launch, we strongly advise that you mute any keywords or hashtags associated with the game until release day.”
Santa Monica’s creative director Cory Barlog also took to Twitter with a more personal message, sharing his frustration by saying, “sorry to everyone that you have to dodge the spoilers if you want to play the game fresh. completely f******* stupid you have to do this. this is not at all how any of us at SMS wanted things to go.”
God of War: Ragnarok will mark the end point of the Norse story arc of the revived God of War series, which is a point that has disappointed some fans of the 2018 revival, but there is actually a fairly sensible reason behind it. Cory Barlog, who now has a role as producer on this new game, explained that it’s simply because these games take so long to make. God of War Ragnarok was first announced back in 2020, with an initial aim to release the game in 2021, which would already have been a four year development cycle. Now that some AAA games take five years to make, stretching a story out across a trilogy would take a whopping 15 years.
God of War Ragnarök Final Preview – Journeying into the first few hours
In our final God of War Ragnarok preview, Jim wrote, “God of War Ragnarök leaves a solid, hammer-shaped impression. While we’ve yet to see anything that completely blows us away, it’s still everything we’d ask from a sequel – and that’s without commenting on just how incredible the game looks on PS5. Let’s just hope the pace picks up and that we don’t have to wait too long for Kratos to unlock some new toys to play with.”
Keep an eye out for our review later this week (and we promise to avoid God of War: Ragnarok spoilers as much as possible).
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