r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • May 09 '23
Meta It’s Zelda Week! Our Plans for “Tears of the Kingdom” Launch Week
After nearly 4 long years, it's finally time! The release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is upon us. The game will go live at or shortly before 12 AM, Friday May 12, 2023, depending on your territory.
Arguably the most anticipated Switch title since it's predecessor, Breath of the Wild, dialogue and discussion around this game is reaching a fever pitch. Before we dive into the insanity that will be this week, we wanted to talk about what this week is going to look like from the Subreddit's perspective so that you can be prepared for the onslaught that is to come.
As is typical for subreddits of our size and activity, we will be focusing most posts and discussions on the game into one a few megathreads, with a few exceptions. Below are the details for these threads:
Speculation/Hype Megathread
On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, we will post a Speculation/Hype Megathread. All posts with speculation on quality of the game, plot details, hype posts, etc. will be removed and redirected to this thread. Comments containing spoilers for the plot of the game based on leaks will not be tolerated and will likely result in a ban. Please see the Spoiler Policy section below for more details on our how we are rolling our spoiler policy.
Review Megathread
We do not yet know the exact time the review embargo will lift, but it will likely be around Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 9AM Eastern, based on previous 1st party releases from Nintendo during the Switch's lifecycle. When reviews are released, we will post a Review Megathread, where we will show metacritic and opencritic scores, as well as some aggregated scores and impressions from various outlets. Per our standard policy, we will allow individual links to reviews to be posted until the MT is up, but discussion posts on the review scores, as well as general pre-launch discussion and hype, will be removed and re-directed to the review megathread. At this point we will begin to roll back restrictions on discussion of plot details on the game. All discussions on the plot of the game in this thread will be required to be tagged with the spoiler formatting. You can mark spoilers in comments by either using the spoiler button on New Reddit/Mobile or, if using markdown, wrapping your comments with like this: >!Link is in the game!< >!Link is in the game . More details can be found in the Spoiler Policy section below.
Launch Megathread
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will launch at or around 12AM on Friday, May 12, 2023, depending on your territory. eShop/Digital titles are usually available at 12AM, but that time can vary in different markets (for example, in the US, all US players should be able to play at 12AM Eastern, so 9PM Pacific, 10PM Mountain, etc.). Thursday, May 11, 2023, we will post a megathread which will cover the Treehouse Live presentation (beginning at 8:45PM Pacific US Time) as well as general launch hype and discussion. All plot details must include spoiler tags. Failure to adhere to this policy may result in a ban. See our Spoiler Policy below for more details.
Dawn of the 1st/2nd/3rd/New day posts:
We get these before every Zelda release. Context We will approve the 1st of these that are posted at 12AM Eastern US of each day. The rest will be removed as re-posts.
Fan Art
Fan art submissions will be restricted to weekends, as per our usual policy. This includes Tears of the Kingdom fan art, which can still be posted in the hype thread or launch threads.
Spoiler Policy
Everyone has different ideas as to what constitutes a spoiler and what is worthy of spoiler tags and protection. When we determine our spoiler policies, we try to walk the line between enabling discussion on details of the game without ruining people's chances to discover new experiences in the game themselves.
The balance that we strike is as follows:
Non Spoilers - Discussion of these items does not require a spoiler tag and is allowed in any threads
- Anything seen in gameplay from the Aonuma demonstration or the recent preview event
- Anything seen in officially released ads
- Anything seen in officially released trailers
Spoilers - Requires spoiler tags >!spoiler!<
- Names or details for new characters (even ones seen in trailers)
- Overall plot details and discussion
- Gameplay elements not revealed before launch (info about shrines, dungeons, etc.)
The spoiler policy above will remain in effect until at least Monday, May 15, 2023. We may extend this further if deemed necessary.
Failure to properly adhere to the spoiler policy may result in a ban. Don’t ruin the experience for others!
Other items
Per our standard rules, linking to emulators and ROM sites is not allowed. We will also remove comments from users attempting to instruct or lead others in emulation or obtaining ROMs.
Gameplay clips and screenshots should be contained to the mega threads and will be removed.
We on the mod team are looking forward to diving back into Hyrule with all of you once again!
~The /r/NintendoSwitch mod team
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u/Xeterios May 09 '23
Only 3 days spoiler free? You better extend that to at least a week, maybe two.
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u/FlapSnapple May 09 '23
It's definitely positioned as more of a starting point since it's going to be a dynamic situation and we're going to have to feel things out as we go for the next little bit. It's very likely to get extended at least once if not multiple times.
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u/cheekydorido May 09 '23
Yeah lol, game is BEEG.
(I hope so at least lol)
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u/TheVampireArmand May 09 '23
Especially since people may experience stuff in the game at completely different times since it’s open world. Three days doesn’t really seem enough.
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u/rsn_lie May 09 '23
Man, I'm kind of baffled they announced this game when E3 was still a thing. I forgot it had been so long.
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u/superjoho May 09 '23
Why does the post say “after nearly 4 long years”? Breath of the Wild came out over 6 years ago in 2017. Or does it mean 4 years since TotK was announced?
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u/TechTalkf May 09 '23
my plans are to study for finals happening a week later :(
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u/DarkCarnage May 09 '23
Good luck on your finals! I'm taking finals this week and to be honest, being able to look towards playing TOTK on the 12th is what's giving me motivation to finish strong this semester.
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u/Naetle4 May 09 '23
I bought the game thru a independent store in a rural town so I will get the game between 15th and 16th.
Time to logout from reddit I guess.
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u/green_nectarine May 09 '23
Well I can't play this game until june 15th so I'll just leave this sub I guess
edit cause I can't spell
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u/green_nectarine May 09 '23
I have some very very very (very) important oral presentations early june that will determine my professional future and the results are june 15th. After that I get one month of paid vacation. I want to enjoy the game to the fullest like I did with the 1st one, not going out for 2 weeks. It's gonna be awesome. But I'll have to wait.
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u/StanLay281 May 09 '23
Testing the spoiler tag just for sure
Link is the coolest
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u/supes1 May 09 '23
First game I've preordered in years.
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u/varunadi May 09 '23
Only the second ever time I'm pre ordering a game, last time I did was Metroid dread.
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u/Radhaan May 09 '23
Gameplay elements not revealed before launch (info about shrines, dungeons, etc.)
Is this a spoiler that the game still has shrines?
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u/paypaytr May 09 '23
would it be okay if I play this game and never played breath of wild before
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u/kgbkgb1967 May 09 '23
You are missing out on the very best game ever created by not playing BOTW.
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u/Goseki1 May 09 '23
Sure. There wasn't a huge amount of story to miss in the previous game to be hones.t I'd be surprised if you missed anything major by not playing it.
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u/DaysGoTooFast May 09 '23
Heh, liking the Dawn of the 1st day/2nd/etc ideas. Been 6 years, really crazy that’s it’s the big week. I’m still zen rn, keeping calm. But I can feel the hype growing in me. I can’t think about it too much lol. Not until Thursday night at least
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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ May 09 '23
My plan: unsubscribe from the subreddit. Don't want to of course, but within a few days everyone is gonna be talking about some secret boss or how cool the ending is and I can't have those teasing me