It still would not give the full experience, millions of people are going to be playing this game all across the world. 500 people will not account for any major bugs, true player style variety, and most if they were to give early copies everyone would be rushed to flush out a review and it would not be as good as the final product. IGN announced that they're review plan is to have their staff playing the game for 3 days straight and update us as they go. I don't think they are having any problems, they just don't feel it is worth the trouble. or I could be wrong any the game is shite