Just before release, numerous spoilers and leaks about Elden Ring suddenly appear. Fans are discussing spoilers and whether they ruin the anticipation.
What kind of leaks are these? Apparently, a playable version of Elden Ring is circulating for press and influencers. At least that’s what the colleagues from PCGamer.com report.
In recent days, several streams from influencers went online, showing them playing Elden Ring for several hours on Twitch, and without restrictions.
Publisher Bandai Namco had them taken offline, but numerous spoilers and screenshots are now circulating. Therefore, it is also difficult to verify which streamers are among those responsible.
If you have a problem with such information before the official release, you should avoid places on the internet like the Elden Ring subreddit or Twitch chats in the coming days because the risk of spoilers is particularly high there.
Fans salute moderators who have to deal with all the spoilers
Fans are discussing spoilers: Not all fans are on Reddit to check out spoilers for the game, and many of them have already stumbled upon information they didn’t want. Because many of them are not clearly marked as spoilers.
However, most of them have since been deleted by the moderators of the subreddit, which was well received in the community:
They are virtually saluting and demanding a pay raise for the unpaid Reddit moderators. The post has nearly 4000 upvotes so far (as of February 18, 11:30):
In the discussion that arose below, players express their opinions on spoilers and whether they increase or lower their anticipation for a game. There are particularly sensitive player types who try to avoid any information as much as possible in order to be surprised.
However, some of them do not find spoilers that bad. For example, noah1831 writes quite dryly: “I don’t know what could be so great to spoil about the game. It’s not like I’d understand the plot without looking it up.”
He refers to the typically cryptic stories from developer FromSoftware, which are often difficult to decipher.
But if you are totally into spoilers and can’t wait to see what information is circulating, you can read the discussions of the fans in the forum on resetera.com. They have already gathered quite a substantial amount of information.
Elden Ring releases in a week and fans are about to burst
This is the mood one week before release: The Elden Ring subreddit shows quite well in what state many of the fans are. They are counting every second until the release in a week, on February 25, and creating appropriate memes as if there were no tomorrow.
Here are just a few small examples:
With the sheer number of memes from the last weeks, one could probably create an entire art book.
Fans typically discuss under such posts about which class they want to start the game with, which weapons and spells are most interesting for them, and what they hope for from the game.
However, the good mood was recently dampened by the official system requirements of Elden Ring, which did not satisfy everyone in the community. In particular, the requirements for RAM caused confusion.
If you want to play Elden Ring directly at release on Friday, you can download it in advance.
While the preload is already available for Xbox users, PlayStation and PC players still have to wait a few days.
All information about the start times of Elden Ring, preload, and download size on PS5 and Xbox
While the preload is already available for Xbox users, PlayStation and PC players still have to wait a few days.
All information about the start times of Elden Ring, preload, and download size on PS5 and Xbox
