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Hey Survivors! Tymon here, your favorite Dying Light Franchise Director.
It's been an absolutely wild month here at Techland! We're in the thick of what I'm calling the "Summer of Dying Light," delivering updates and big news across all three Dying Light games. Just a few weeks ago, we dropped the first gameplay for Dying Light: The Beast, revealed its release date, and kicked off pre-orders (if you haven't seen it, check out my last dev blog). I'm incredibly proud of what we're building with The Beast - it’s the culmination of more than 10 years of experience in open-world survival horror!
But here's the thing: we never forget where we came from. That's why, this week, we're not just looking forward - we're rolling out significant updates for both the original Dying Light and Dying Light 2: Stay Human. We promised to support our games for a long time, and we're committed to continuing that support, right through and beyond the launch of Dying Light: The Beast.
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I prefer delay to be honest. Sure, it can get frustrating. But it even more frustrating when the game is broken.
Broken all the way!!!
Delayed, easily. There are plenty of games out there, i can just play something else to pass the time, it doesn't really bother me if a game is delayed. Broken games are horrible though. With a broken game you are waiting for a huge patch that can take a long time to download and with a lot of games we don't even get a patch, some games stay broken forever.
delayed its the only one thats recoverable a broken game even once fixed still leaves a shit taste. a amazing game delayed a few times before release is still amazing on release even if you had to wait a little longer. what im getting sick of is these 2 week delays like it dose anything push it back 2 months finish the game and put some serious time into q&a. It is 2016 there is not excuses for releasing a game that dosent work outer then well we didnt care. i for one wish sony would start charging devs to release patches and xbox would go back to doing that so when the game is fucked at luanch it cost the publisher money and if they chose not to pay it for one reason or anouther then it will cost them fans. sure that will lead to devs not wanting to patch a game when the revenue or playerbase shrinks but i think devs publishers and even gamers need to be taught a lesson about broken games and why they suck balls. i have been playing games sense i could crawl there is nothing worse then starting a game knowing the devs spent 2+ years on it to be nothing more then a buggy broken mess
Why is this even a question? Who in their right mind WANTS to play a broken game? It seems to me that it's a dumb question and a no-brainer that no game should be released until it's finished. Every time a publisher snatches an unfinished game from a crunching dev, anger and stupidity ensues.
An announced release date is arbitrary and should be flexible. Is there ANY other product in the world you would expect a manufacturer to sell you by a certain date even if it's not finished? Is there any entertainment medium that benefits from a hurried tacked-on ending? Or worse, when ending is just cut off?
There is such a flood of games out there right now, anybody stamping their feet over a missed release date will be able to find something fun to do in the meantime.