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[Praetor Knight]

didymos1120 wrote...

robarcool wrote...

I think I have seen this topic before.

Seems to just be part of the BSN zeitgeist lately.

Indeed.

[Brand New]

No matter what It was a good idea. People simply can't afford all the games coming out the holiday season. With all the Multiplayer madness going on people won't be able to put their controllers down. after a few months people will loose interest in those other games.

Battlefield is also coming out which is a huge EA title. Why compete with your own game?

If Mass Effect can draw improvements from this or it gives them time to create their DLC while the game is done or being refined.
If this advances the next game in the ME series(any type) I will be happy.

[JediMaster_Murph]

ok im a little lost, it didnt move again its still 3/6/12??

[DarthSliver]

Well I was under the impression it never had a official release date until this year at E3

[Praetor Knight]

JediMaster_Murph wrote...

ok im a little lost, it didnt move again its still 3/6/12??

The game is still set for a March 2012 release, for what we know.

[RocketManSR2]

I am a little puzzled as to why ME3 is releasing 1 and a half months (give or take) after the January 26th mark of ME2. Considering there was far less work that needed to be done on the engine this time around, it should release before ME2's date. Why the longer delay?

[didymos1120]

darkness reborn wrote...

JediMaster_Murph wrote...

ok im a little lost, it didnt move again its still 3/6/12??

dont you mean: 9/3/12.

Not if you're in the US, where the month comes first. As do, usually, game release dates.

[didymos1120]

RocketManSR2 wrote...

Why the longer delay?

Again: no one here really knows for sure, and no one from Bioware/EA is going to be telling us anytime soon.  Or, most likely, ever.

[didymos1120]

darkness reborn wrote...

I'm form England.

Well, there you go: for you, it'll be March 9th.

[Funker Shepard]

littlezack wrote...

Doubt it. Even if that was the case, they'd release it in January, not March.

I assume that they moved it back because of the "rushed" label DA2 got, to prevent it from releasing pretty much simultaneously with SWTOR and because March usually has very few other releases, and is a good time to push a sequel to (one of) the best reviewed game(s) of all time. Extra time to polish, probably better market window, win/win for them.

[LilyasAvalon]

Mesina2 wrote...

Who cares, it's delayed.

That means they'll put more work into ME3.

[LGTX]

It may be delayed because of marketing, but it will have effect on the development. The devs will have more time now, they won't just sit on their backsides for three months just because they've "completed a game" (a term that is non-existent in the industry, there are always things you wanted to add but couldn't due to lack of time). They'll make good use of the delay, I'm sure of it.

[MaskedAffection]

Brand New wrote...

No matter what It was a good idea. People simply can't afford all the games coming out the holiday season. With all the Multiplayer madness going on people won't be able to put their controllers down. after a few months people will loose interest in those other games.

Battlefield is also coming out which is a huge EA title. Why compete with your own game?

If Mass Effect can draw improvements from this or it gives them time to create their DLC while the game is done or being refined.
If this advances the next game in the ME series(any type) I will be happy.

Do we know if they are planning to add DLC for ME3? I'm not talking about combat sets and squad outfits though, more like Shadow Broker status.

[Melra]

It was delayed so it won't turn into Dragon Effect 3.

[Chuvvy]

Regardless of why the did it, I'm happy. It gets a longer dev time and I don't have to worry about my wallet as much come Q4.

[GamerJ]

if it is delayed only becuse of kinect support im angry, if they delayed it to improve the game im happy =-]

[didymos1120]

GamerJ wrote...

if it is delayed only becuse of kinect support im angry, if they delayed it to improve the game im happy =-]

Silly attitude.  It's not like the entire team would be working on just kinect support for those additional months.  Even if it was because of kinect, the majority of the team still gets time to work on other aspects of the game.

[dujh]

leonia42 wrote...

I reckon TOR stole ME3's original release date.

[Mister Mida]

EA will never give us the real reason for delaying it. I personally believe that besides the Kinect thing the delay is a silent admission that EA doesn't want to compete with Skyrim. EA's CEO's argument that they want to 'make it more accessible' is just the company line. Because believe it or not, TES sells big time no matter what. Last I remembered, Oblivion on X360 sold more than ME2 on X360 did. Has anyone else besides me noticed that Bioware never releases games in the same year Bethesda does? DA2 is an exception because delaying that to next year would be totally unbelievable. Bioware wants the prices for RPG of the year, and Bethesda has always been the big obstacle in that desire. Would ME2 receive that much prices it did if Bethesda had released a game of their own in 2010? Probably not. CDP Red isn't an obstacle yet because they lack the rep either of the other two have. For now they're a cult developer climbing their way up. And once CDP Red gets rolling (which could be quite soon looking at TW2), Bioware is gonna have a problem with them as well.

[Gatt9]

Mister Mida wrote...

EA will never give us the real reason for delaying it. I personally believe that besides the Kinect thing the delay is a silent admission that EA doesn't want to compete with Skyrim. EA's CEO's argument that they want to 'make it more accessible' is just the company line. Because believe it or not, TES sells big time no matter what. Last I remembered, Oblivion on X360 sold more than ME2 on X360 did. Has anyone else besides me noticed that Bioware never releases games in the same year Bethesda does? DA2 is an exception because delaying that to next year would be totally unbelievable. Bioware wants the prices for RPG of the year, and Bethesda has always been the big obstacle in that desire. Would ME2 receive that much prices it did if Bethesda had released a game of their own in 2010? Probably not. CDP Red isn't an obstacle yet because they lack the rep either of the other two have. For now they're a cult developer climbing their way up. And once CDP Red gets rolling (which could be quite soon looking at TW2), Bioware is gonna have a problem with them as well.

Very highly doubtful.

First,  Bethseda games don't sell as well as people seem to think they do.  Oblivion didn't have any direct competition at all on any of it's 3 platforms,  and only sold around 4 million units from what I remember.  Fallout 3 did have competition and it didn't sell nearly as well as Obliviion,  only around 2.2 million units (Being generous) before it dropped off the charts.  Mind you,  both of those games had to release on 3 platforms just to reach those numbers,  whereas ME and ME2 both outsold Fallout 3 by a large margin on just one.

People seriously overestimate Bethseda's importance.  3 platforms all to themselves,  an entire genre's fans starved of games,  and they still didn't manage to sell all that well.

Additionally,  moving the game was a huge risk.  It puts Bioware directly in the line of either Diablo 3 or Starcraft's Part 2.  Both of those games are an order of magnitude bigger than anything Bethseda could manage.  It also means ME3 is absolutely not getting any Game of the Year awards,  not facing off against Diablo 3.

Bethseda is really just not all that important.  Plus,  what does Bioware have to fear from a company whose fan's mantra is "Wait till the modders get it,  they'll fix all the flaws and bugs!".  Eventually,  that buisness model falls apart,  especially when you keep removing features.

ME3 was moved because EA's new direction is putting as many market fads as humanly possible on their products,  and milking DLC as much as they can.

[shepskisaac]

Do we care? More dev time = better game for us.

[marshalleck]

I think it was delayed mostly because development was behind schedule. Look at what they're showing, the work they've yet to complete, the decisions for the game they've yet to make, and ask yourself what they'd be delivering if they kept to the original schedule. It would have been undercooked, to put it mildly.

I don't believe it was just because of competition, or just because they want to add Kinect support, or any other single reason in and of itself. I think it was for a number of factors that when taken together, made them decide it would be best to delay the release date and keep working on the game. Which is the responsible decision to take.

Modifié par marshalleck, 30 juillet 2011 - 02:30 .