We were only told about this a few hours ago, it is a piss take as the boxart, pre-order posters and RELEASE DATE was suppose to be announced today. We got one of those, but we were told everything was on track just early this month!
What happened to the Boxart Reveal and Posters? On Hold Until Further Notice.
I can't make an excuse for this, it's very dangerous, for a FIVE MONTH delay to creep up out of nowhere in the space of three weeks is very worrying, and to only tell us lot mere hours before going live, it's a daft move, especially as certain other studios are itching to show off Next Gen Projects in the coming months.
We were only told about this a few hours ago, it is a piss take as the boxart, pre-order posters and RELEASE DATE was suppose to be announced today. We got one of those, but we were told everything was on track just early this month!
What happened to the Boxart Reveal and Posters? On Hold Until Further Notice.
I can't make an excuse for this, it's very dangerous, for a FIVE MONTH delay to creep up out of nowhere in the space of three weeks is very worrying, and to only tell us lot mere hours before going live, it's a daft move, especially as certain other studios are itching to show off Next Gen Projects in the coming months.
The way I look at it? You have a right to be pissed but it does seem that there might be some things to iron out with the game itself. OK It could have been bought out in may but what if it was full of bugs/what not? I think personally it's a good move for rockstar to delay to iron out any possible problems and make the final product better for us all
Everyone was so excited for this game! Personally this has already dented my excitement! This could be damaging for them! There was a real buzz around he game before this!
Surely it doesn't take 4 months to 'polish' things up does it? Maybe there are a couple of major bugs encountered during testing
Even if a couple of major bugs were encountered during testing . They usually factor testing bugs into development plans. I wonder if rockstar failed to get certification for one of the platforms for some reason. That would take four months to fix.
Nice going Rockstar. Would of been great game for over Summer. Plus in September the new consoles will be coming out.
Yep. Totally bizarre what is happening with gtav.
As i'm using PC and not a console I don't really care that much, we will be getting it at least 6 months after release so we may see it in...ooooo.....mid 2014
It's an open world game where the player can do anything with a bunch of weapons, vehicles etc. It's not such a simple bug-hunt as in a linear game.
Late-year release isn't unusual for the series - it has just been far too long since the latest GTA game. Even longer since the real 'fun' GTA game. They promoted GTA V too early, I agree.
GTA - October
GTA II - September
GTA III - October
GTA: VC - October
GTA: SA - October
GTA IV - April
GTA V - September
I expected a delay to October, if there was to be a delay. So I guess I should take September...
I guess I can let you guys know now since they pretty much just tore it up in front of us. The Original planned Release date was April 23rd ("Last Week of April 2013 is what the guys are aiming for if all goes to plan"), amazing how much can change in three weeks! A lot of us are worried as we relied on ad revenue from GTA news and articles, and with the new delay, we're possibly going to be hitting a month or two of a blackout again, the News Wire team has had to shift stuff around to fill a Four Month Void on their own website, with Max Payne 3 being finished off, there's no major project or news on the website in the next few months, most of us are just utterly confused.
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Official then. At least it gives them time to make it possibly as bug free as possible and so forth
Indeed.
It's been in development long enough
We were only told about this a few hours ago, it is a piss take as the boxart, pre-order posters and RELEASE DATE was suppose to be announced today. We got one of those, but we were told everything was on track just early this month!
What happened to the Boxart Reveal and Posters? On Hold Until Further Notice.
I can't make an excuse for this, it's very dangerous, for a FIVE MONTH delay to creep up out of nowhere in the space of three weeks is very worrying, and to only tell us lot mere hours before going live, it's a daft move, especially as certain other studios are itching to show off Next Gen Projects in the coming months.
The way I look at it? You have a right to be pissed but it does seem that there might be some things to iron out with the game itself. OK It could have been bought out in may but what if it was full of bugs/what not? I think personally it's a good move for rockstar to delay to iron out any possible problems and make the final product better for us all
R* shouldn't have pushed that original trailer out so early, will be pretty much 2 full years from that until launch date now.
They have delayed it to add more dating missions.
Happy for it to come out any time this year, don't want to see a 2014 release.
Even if a couple of major bugs were encountered during testing . They usually factor testing bugs into development plans. I wonder if rockstar failed to get certification for one of the platforms for some reason. That would take four months to fix.
Yep. Totally bizarre what is happening with gtav.
As i'm using PC and not a console I don't really care that much, we will be getting it at least 6 months after release so we may see it in...ooooo.....mid 2014
Late-year release isn't unusual for the series - it has just been far too long since the latest GTA game. Even longer since the real 'fun' GTA game. They promoted GTA V too early, I agree.
GTA - October
GTA II - September
GTA III - October
GTA: VC - October
GTA: SA - October
GTA IV - April
GTA V - September
I expected a delay to October, if there was to be a delay. So I guess I should take September...
Problem with Spring being out there is that the people will now expect that perfect product, which is nigh on impossible because bugs happen!