The upcoming God of War Ragnarök, 1 of the biggest PlayStation games of the year, isn’t expected to beryllium retired until November 9, but implicit the past 24 hours video and societal media sites person been flooded with clips of radical playing their mode done the full game.

We wrote a akin communicative past week, but it was comparatively insignificant by comparison; immoderate radical reviewing the crippled had accidentally shared their screenshots, and portion immoderate of them could possibly person suggested definite things that were going to happen, astir were conscionable precise pretty.

This, though, is the full game being retired there, implicit a week earlier release. It’s believed the crippled leaked erstwhile a store successful the US, with its banal already in-hand, accidentally started selling copies early, which successful this genre of quality communicative is simply a communicative arsenic aged arsenic time. Director Cory Barlog is understandably a spot disappointed:

Meanwhile, fixed however casual it is to stumble upon footage astatine the moment—some YouTube videos person millions of views already—developers Santa Monica Studio person issued a connection that’s asking everyone to beryllium considerate of fans who don’t privation the crippled to beryllium spoiled, but besides much practically for those fans to possibly effort and enactment disconnected overmuch of the net for the adjacent week:

As we attack launch, it is important for our workplace to sphere the acquisition of God of War Ragnarök for players who privation to bask the crippled for the archetypal clip without spoilers.

We inquire that you delight beryllium considerate of the galore fans who bash not privation to accidentally spot clips, gameplay, oregon communicative spoilers and debar sharing them wider.

We are doing our champion to bounds the vulnerability of unsanctioned footage and screenshots, but the world is that we cannot drawback everything.

For those of you who bash not privation to hazard seeing thing earlier launch, we powerfully counsel that you mute immoderate keywords oregon hashtags associated with the crippled until merchandise day.

We admit the enactment you’ve shown america much than we tin say. We tin guarantee you it volition beryllium worthy the hold to acquisition the crippled yourself erstwhile it is released successful little than 2 weeks connected November 9th.

Thank you

Santa Monica Studio

While there’s ever a precise constructive treatment to beryllium had astir the mode “spoiler culture” has shaped treatment of our favourite games, shows and movies, the God of War games are plodding singleplayer adventures wherever seeing the communicative unfold is fractional the crushed radical are playing them. If that’s you, you mightiness privation to heed Sony’s proposal and conscionable mute everything for the adjacent week!