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[Ayanna Nyx]

Bumping this too as I really want to know what's going on. Like I said in another thread, my mum is a manager of a game store and has records for the next year of releases. Of course they get updated all the time but the next couple of months is pretty solid as they need to take in preorders, but Awakening is no where to be seen............

[Lakmoots]

Odd.. there was alot of work by Moderators and Designers on the board yesterday - but they forgot to answer any of the important questions

[Althernai]

Lakmoots wrote...

Odd.. there was alot of work by Moderators and Designers on the board yesterday - but they forgot to answer any of the important questions

The moderators don't know any more than you do -- they're volunteers from the community. The designers probably don't know the details of the release schedule in each region either, but even if they do, they wouldn't be allowed to say. The people you need to talk to you are marketing/community relations/etc and they rarely hang around here except in dedicated threads.

[Lakmoots]

Good Point.

Still... I think this does need to be confirmed.  And this is a general discusssion board.

[Ayanna Nyx]

Bumping

[Lakmoots]

Ayanna Nyx wrote...

Bumping

We can always play "thread tennis" - back and forth until it is eleven pages long and looks more noticeable...

Or the xbox version comes out

Still, it is a good distraction from trolling about RTO... at least they should be happy for small mercies

[Fexelea]

This is the last ps3-related update we got... regarding RTO... Needless to say there is much to be desired on the phraseology.... misleading indeed. I posted this 9 hours ago:

Fexelea wrote...

Victor Wachter wrote...

Killian Kalthorne wrote...



that's just lazy talk... traditional gets old. it all depends on your commitment to make it work. if bioware had been more committed, rto's fix for the ps3 shouldn't have been a problem but they chose to fix the ps3 version last. which, for me as a ps3 owner, is a no-no.

Actually, to clarify, the PS3 version is in certification with Sony right now. It was developed concurrently, and was submitted for testing at the same time as Xbox 360. However, Sony has a different process than Microsoft, and so their process takes longer. This is not to point a finger and blame someone else, but to make you aware of the fact that we do consider the PS3 right along with other platforms. But that part of the release process is something that we don't have control over.

This clarification just confused me. You wrote on the other thread:

Victor Wachter wrote...



As promised yesterday, I followed up with Fernando on the status of the PS3 release. Here is what he sent me:

The

issue we saw on 360, which was introduced with the title update, also

exists on the PS3 patch that was planned to go out with the Return to

Ostagar DLC for PS3 – it is a console agnostic issue. However, the

title update / patch itself (without the issue) is needed for both

platforms in order to fix some main game items, as well as enable

functionality for Return to Ostagar, and future functionality that

benefits upcoming DLC. This meant we were unable to simply go ahead and

release the PS3 version independent of pulling the 360 version, we now

needed to re-open the PS3 version as well before that went public.



Once

we were able to resolve the issue for 360 and delivered the second

title update to MS for final certification then work began in earnest

on the short hop to moving this across to PS3 and directing the test

focus there. The nature of the issue was such that it required the same

programmers and made more sense for that particular ‘nut’ to be cracked

on the 360 first to really understand how to fix it once and for all,

so this was not something we could do in parallel for both platforms.



Lastly,

Sony's certification time simply takes longer than Microsoft's. It is

also worth mentioning again that as we saw with the original RtO dates,

even once in Cert until we actually pass an issue can still be found

anytime either by ourselves or Sony/MS which would re-start the process

all over again. In practical terms, what that means is that until we

are virtually on the last days of certification it is not easy to

provide an estimated release date – and we’re not there yet.



What we can do is update you once we get there with Sony certification, as we did with the 360 updates.

It might be best to avoid this kind of misleading statement. Even if you developed simultaneously, you did not fix that bug simultaneously, you left the ps3 for last. Such a decision might have adequate reasons behind it, as it is stated in Fernando's quoted post, but you should always make it clear as to what you are referring to.

[Ayanna Nyx]

Myeah I was hoping that it would be out tomorrow but I doubt it. I am able to get it for the PC but still I would prefer to play it on the PS3 first. I think they should have released them all at once personally. Okay you satisfy the 360 and PC crowd but it leaves the PS3 peeps very upset and impatient. Whereas if everyone was waiting, there would be less fuss surely?



I thought the bug was not identified until it was tested for the 360? So does this mean that it was only relevant to the 360 and they wanted to correct it for everything nonetheless? Or that it just had not been checked properly and would have effected all formats?

[zy1054]

bumping

[Bryant84]

take more water with it

[Bryant84]

ive just found the first site in the uk that has awakening so it's looking promising which is more than i can say for there price i was hoping to pay around £20-25



ps ive never heard or bought anything from this site before so it could be a scam personally im waiting till amazon stock it



http://www.cdwow.com...on-3/dp/7006105

[rogue1983]

is awakeing going to be late for ps3 and when should we hear something about RTO for the ps3 like early this week or next week or what?

[Drasill]

Well according to VGChartz the PS3 version of Dragon Age only sold 610,000 copies. If most of those happened to come from NA then maybe EA doesn't see a point in releasing the PS3 version of Awakening in other territories.

[rogue1983]

bump

[zy1054]

icy cold here in ps3 land even though here in good old nz its summer. Still can't see any preordering for ps3 locally though xbox and pc preorders for awakenings have been out for ages.

I don't want to nag but an answer on this would be great it was this game along with a few others that eventually pushed me into buying a ps3

Modifié par zy1054, 02 février 2010 - 12:31 .

[Fexelea]

Drasill wrote...

Well according to VGChartz the PS3 version of Dragon Age only sold 610,000 copies. If most of those happened to come from NA then maybe EA doesn't see a point in releasing the PS3 version of Awakening in other territories.

VGChartz does not have accurate information, and they track American sales using the data from NPD and such, which means that anything beyond NA gets blurry very quickly.

Regardless, even if PS3 version had sold only half a million copies.... Out of the ps3 you expect EA+Bioware to get about $20 back from each sell after associated discounts and such are applied. So $20+600,000= 12,000,000. That's significant revenue at minimum added cost for development (same overheads, shared marketing, volume printing, etc). It would be stupid to turn back on 12mil because the 360 got you 24mil.

[zy1054]

i just contacted one of the local online stores asking about DA:Awakenings and they had this to say

on a possible release date.

""Hopefully not too long after. Bioware/EA havent announced anything as yet.""

It dosen't sound that encouraging really.

[EJ42]

immortal_scream wrote...

Love it when Bioware release their first game for ps3 and completely muck it up, just like with the original release date and RtO. It's just great.

How, exactly, is it completely mucked up?

If they aren't releasing it in Europe, then what release are you referring to?

They don't owe you anything that you haven't already paid for and received.

[rogue1983]

so ej you just troll every ps3 thread get a life.

[Victor Wachter]

I have my weekly meeting tomorrow with Dev. I'll ask about Awakening for EU. As always, no guarantees of specifics, but I will ask about it.



(Sorry for the late reply. You caught me on a late day)

[zy1054]

thanks so much Victor

awakening looks like it will be fantastic

[Bryant84]

yeah cheers victor we only want to know if it will be released on the ps3 the sooner you let us know the better that way if it isn't i can still get a fairly decent price when i sell my current copy of dao

Modifié par Bryant84, 02 février 2010 - 07:34 .

[Lakmoots]

I hope that by "EU" you mean Europe AND Australia...

The AU version better not miss "question time"...

It would be a rather annoying oversight if this thread ended up with a great result for EU and then the Australian fans had to create the exact same thread...

I swear I'll do it

[zy1054]

yeah EU usually covers Aus and NZ dosen't it? Im a kiwi so kind of used to getting things last more or less

[silver-crescent]

I'm glad someone finally took notice of this! Looking forward to getting some definitive info.