Via Forbes.com:

Everyone had a good laugh last week about Bethesda’s “embargo for the embargo” situation where reviewers weren’t allowed to even tell their readers what the review embargo date was until a specific point in time. But as it turns out, that isn’t even the most screwed up embargo situation of the month.

EA has had a “review event” for Star Wars: Battlefront, where outlets were invited to play the game ahead of launch on servers designed to simulate live environments. The review embargo for impressions of the gameplay from the event lands on launch day. Neither of these things are terribly out of the ordinary.

Review events aren’t the greatest things ever, but for an almost entirely multiplayer-based game, I can understand playing it “the way it was meant to be played” with fully populated servers and all that. But the problem is that the embargo after that event makes literally no sense. Why? Because of EA Access.

As of right now, anyone who signs up for EA Access has the ability to play the full game of Battlefront for 10 hours. You can burn through all ten hours in a day, or take a week to get through them all. But the point is, absolutely anyone has access to the entire game right now if they just sign up for EA Access.

And yet, the reviewers who attended this event are under embargo to share their thoughts about the game until launch day. A game that anyone with a few extra bucks to spare can play in its entirety right at this moment.

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