Though delays can sometimes be an omen, it’s a common misconception that all delays somehow expose a game’s poor quality. In many cases, delays aren’t even to fix a broken game – they’re to expand and make the game even better. While we have yet to see how the delay will ultimately affect Ubisoft’s new games thus far, we do know what happened to delayed games in the past. Still not a believer? Here’s a list of games that suffered delays and were still successful.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…
Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.
Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
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This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.
Every industry has these issues
Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.
"The developers focused on making the character models very distinctive so that you could tell them apart from a distance"
A great joy it was to play TF2 , it's hard to believe that it came out back in october 2007, i don't know who had the idea of using that art style but it sure helped the game age really well. The delay was sure worth it.
i have always waited for metal gear games no matter how much they delay, i know it will be better.
The new Drive club footage pretty much proves this. They must have had a ton of stuff they knew they could add but didnt want to risk anything going wrong so close to release because the new footage looks so much better than anything we've seen before and they pretty much only just announced the delay.
Having said that there are two things about these delays that disturb me.
1) Games like Contrast (which will apparently replace Drive club as a free PS+ launch title) are much more my type of thing artistically speaking but they could clearly be made for current gen systems. With the delay of Drive club I will only have Killzone Shadowfall as an example of pure next gen gaming for months until something comparable is released. This also makes me worry the PS4 could go the way of the Vita, which is packed with interesting creative titles but hardly any that fully exploit the power of the system and is instead packed with games that technically could have been done on the previous gen version.
2) I want these games now. I want every game announced for next gen systems to come out right the hell right now and I don't want to wait any more,
Aside from the rather severe delays regarding studio changes or simply starting again from scratch, I haven't seen too many cases where games are ultimately worse because of the delays.
I do think, however, that depending on how or when the delay occurs, a delay can result in a difference in sales, publicity or exposure. Rayman Legends is a clear example of how to wreck sales with a delay, but I think Watch_Dogs will fare better, since it won't be competing in such a crowded holiday lineup. That and the game still looks really, really good.
delays don't bother me because i know most times its gonna be a better game after the delay, what bothers me about watch dog though is the fact UBI showed so much of the game and kept adverting that its coming only for it to be delayed
on one hand yes it sucks but atleast UBI sees the bigger picture, and believe me metacritic does matter. There are people who only buy 9 or above, yes their loss but publishers also loose out on potential buyers. So now i hope WD ends up being high 9s if not perfect 10s
also i praise sony for delaying Drive Club, i believe when it comes out and doesn't have to live in shadow of GT6 and Forza 5 than it may actually get the limelight it deserves
end of the day when i see delays i always look at the past history of publisher/developer, if publisher actual makes quality games than i am fine by the delay