"As a courtesy, we ask that anything below 80% be posted after ____ launches."
I'm surprised that I made it through all these years without a publisher requesting something like this. I feel as though I joined a secret club. Then again, this is the same publisher that hired an escort to keep us company (nothing dirty) at a preview. File that under, "Never believe it until it happens to you."
So when they say "as a courtesy" do they actually mean "you can, but we'd be sad" or "we'll tear your proverbial nuts of, dip them in chum and toss them into a pool of starved sharks if you do"?