Watch Dogs delayed and pushed back their release now Witcher 3 just announced they were pushing back the release to Feb 2015 instead of this year. Are we going to see a trend of pushing release dates back for more "polishing"
Please let Dragon Age come out this year and let it already be polished and no delay.
*for the record I'd rather a company delay a release to make their game better than just release it with bugs and broken.*
TW3 has been delayed? Good, now I can play Dragon Age 
DAI was already once delayed. Now with the trailer, voice over competition and all I doubt they would delay again.
I doubt we'll get a delay again, rather surprised to see the Witcher 3 to get pushed back to such a far away date, though more Dragon Inquisition love to go around then if thats the case (never really been a big fan of the witcher series, really doesn't click with me, the dragon age universe is 100% more my prefered fantasy setting)
A delayed game is usually preferable to a rushed one.
I doubt we'll get a delay again, rather surprised to see the Witcher 3 to get pushed back to such a far away date...
TW3 has been delayed? Good, now I can play Dragon Age
I'd like to think that this may result in slightly less animosity between the Witcher and Dragon Age fanbase, but who am I ****** kidding?
Most likely the delay is related to the next gen consoles. The next few years will see developers figuring out how to code for and utilize them the most efficiently. Sometimes cuts were made early in production that could be re-introduced with the new hardware.
Or it could just be nothing. Games being delayed is hardly a new thing and that is usually only a good thing for us consumers.
Big title games have been being delayed since, like, the beginning of the industry.
Big title games have been being delayed since, like, the beginning of the industry.
+1 Hardly a trend since it's been something within the industry since it's inception. That said, delaying a game for more polish and fine tuning is never a bad thing imo.
This is one of my latest fears, hahah. Since they are saying that everything is still in pre-alpha, I am scared that they'll say that they're going to push it to the start of 2015 to polish it more. Then again it's already been delayed once, so hopefully they won't do it again. But I don't know.
I only knew Inquisition was not coming out last year because the book was scheduled to release in 2014. The book is a teaser almost to what we will be dealing with in the game, when that comes out there is no reason to push the game back any further.
I'm pretty sure EA is going to kick Dragon Age out the door if it's ready or not. They have the Fall to themselves now. W3 delay no doubt will help DAI in sales if it makes the Fall release. People who were only going to buy one and on the fence are most likely going to grab this title for the holiday season. Remember the EA earnings call though:
"But remember, we're introducing NBA this year. We're introducing UFC next year. We have Sims next year, we would most likely, possibly have Dragon Age next year."
Like W3, DAI is ambitious. Do not be surprised if it gets delayed. If EA was smart, they would give Bioware all the time they need but it's likely they're going to tighten the pressure on them with the Witcher news. Push more resources to Bioware to get it out in the Fall or something. TBH though, I think DAI will make the release date. The gameplay demo from months ago showed a pretty polished game and W3 never even released a gameplay demo yet. It wasn't surprising that game was going to get delayed coupled with the news several lead devs left the studio in the middle of development a few weeks ago.
That's my only worry is EA pushes it out too quickly. They're dealing with lawsuits due to how they handled BF4 with DICE. If anything, hopefully they learned a lesson from that game. Time is money and EA has been pretty patient with the DAI project for awhile now. More than they typically give a dev on a development cycle based on how fast their games release...another extension would not make EA happy, IMO.
It's looking like "year of the RPG" is dwindling a bit. Looks like some PC projects like Obsidian's KS project will be delayed too.
Delaying games for polish or to finish it is hardly new or a trend, nor is it a bad thing. We have games like KOTOR2 that show what happens when devs are not allowed to delay products.
I would think that picture would better represent the EA offices, still humorous though. I am actually hyped about this game, for the first time in a long time; it looks like EA is actually letting Bioware do its thing and do it right. Heh, I am praying that everything is on schedule and DAI will hit its release window, but I can (heaven forbid) wait a little longer if they do for some reason need to push back the release date.
I don't think EA needed to learn any new lesson from Battlefield 4. I think reviewers did. And some have.
With regards to Inquisition, it has already been delayed. As to whether or not it will be again, any prediction that is not backed up with specific inside information from BioWare Edmonton is mere idle speculation.
Not to mention, as trends in games go the evidence cited above is cherry picking at best. An industry as broad as games, or even as narrow as "RPGs" contains within it multiple trends across both the long and short term. This is, I'll point out, also an industry where Early Access games (eg. games released for public consumption before they're done) is also a very real, observable trend we all have the opportunity to participate in. That's before we consider the myriad games reluctantly released before they're truly finished, including Dragon Age II. One could just as easily suppose that Inquisition is headed for a premature release of some kind, based on the standards of the original proposition.
As a consequence hand-wringing over how the delay of completely unrelated games from completely unrelated studios - even if they share something as nebulous and incoherently defined as a genre - relates to a potential delay of Inquisition, is simply poor logic.
I don't think EA needed to learn any new lesson from Battlefield 4. I think reviewers did. And some have.
LOL
I'm serious. What new lesson could EA have learned? That multiplayer launches are hard, if you don't fix them quickly you can damage your product's - even company's - reputation, but if you do fix them people tend to get over it? All you have to do is look at every multiplayer launch ever for basically the same narrative, with varying levels of failure and success. This is plainly evident, unless one is to assert that BF4 is the first anticipated multiplayer game to have a disastrous launch, in which case they must have a functioning memory of approximately six months.
That reviewers recognize service reliability can be independent, and ought to be independent, from their evaluation of the game's relative potential is, on the other hand, quite new.
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