Lets hope not

[hendeeze]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6252786.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1


"It will be a busy three months for the publisher, which also plans to release L.A. Noire, Max Payne 3, and Sid Meier's Civilization V during the period. So busy, in fact, that Take-Two president and CEO Ben Feder is already laying the foundation for more delays. This afternoon, he told the company's fiscal outlook allows for "one of those games being pushed into the next fiscal year."

I hope we aren't on the wrong end of 33%

 

[Dale]

Uh....... Mafia II plus those three makes 25%.

 

[Gamemaster77]

Oh noes. Don't push civ back!

 

[Fredric Drum]

Please push it back! PLEASE! Think of the children!


But seriously. Please delay it, so we can have a bug free game.

 

[bonafide11]

Please push it back! PLEASE! Think of the children!


But seriously. Please delay it, so we can have a bug free game.

No matter when it's released, there WILL be bugs. That's inevitable.

Please don't delay it though! I can deal with some bugs at first, I just want to get my hands on a copy!

 

[Fredric Drum]

No matter when it's released, there WILL be bugs. That's inevitable.

Please don't delay it though! I can deal with some bugs at first, I just want to get my hands on a copy!

Why not release what they have RIGHT NOW, then? As you said, there will be bugs anyway. It doesn't matter how big or how many, right?

 

[-=Yin=-]

The importance of a delay comes in the fact that publishers usually set a finite number of patches that they will give before moving their dev teams on to something else, sometimes the x-pack. So the better shape the original release is in, the more true fine-tuning (rather than fixing gaping holes) can be done in the remaining patches.

 

[Agrippa]

and the old man said:"somewhere somehow in the future there will be a company with a great community, and every step of a new game in development will be open, the community will test it, find bugs, balance gameplay, give suggestions and discuss needed changes.
Finally, a great game will be finished, countless testing hours on countless hardware configurations will guarantee its stability.
somewhere, somehow, maybe in a far, far away galaxy"

 

[Quintillus]

No matter when it's released, there WILL be bugs. That's inevitable.

Please don't delay it though! I can deal with some bugs at first, I just want to get my hands on a copy!

I dunno, Civ4 wasn't superbuggy at first, but it sure did use a ton of resources (i.e. RAM). By the time patch 1.51, and especially 1.64, was out, it was much better. Now I know 1.51 is too long to delay, but as someone who didn't have Internet and only had 512 MB of RAM, I sure would have appreciated some better optimization at release even if it had meant a month or two delay. And if a game's too buggy, it can ruin a game. I was pretty bummed when my first game of Medieval II Total War ran into crashes that were all but inevitable when I fought the Timurids. Fortunately by then the 1.3 patch was out and that fixed it, but if I had bought it right at release and no patch had been available, I would've felt like I missed out thanks to whatever bug it was their patch squashed.

In other words, sometimes I'd rather wait for a better final version than have a buggy version sooner. About the only thing I'd really trust to be very good at release is Microsoft Office. Games, certainly not. Especially ones due out shortly before Christmas. But that's all the more reason to suspect that Civ5 will be on time. They know that there's a lot of money in the Christmas market, and I'm sure they want some of that.

 

[CanuckSoldier]

Why not release what they have RIGHT NOW, then? As you said, there will be bugs anyway. It doesn't matter how big or how many, right?

Yes but the idea is that only minor bugs and small gameplay changes are required after release. Not major bugs and huge game imbalances....and therefore this requires time and QA to make happen.

CS

 

[Double A]

They'll probably delay one of the other games, most likely Max Payne or Mafia II. They're all from the same-ish genre, and they wanna get the most potential customers before Christmas.

 

[CanuckSoldier]

Considering they accellerated the release of Civ4 by a couple weeks to increase pre-order sales in the current FY, I doubt that Civ5 will be the game that will be delayed. Some mag also stated that Firaxis has 50 people dedicated to Civ5 development, not sure how accurate that is, but it does say atleast that the resources for Civ5 are there and short of a major code problem I think we can all ask Santa for Civ5

CS

 

[Shiggs713]

civ5 will be my Christmas present to myself this year

 

[RFHolloway]

and the old man said:"somewhere somehow in the future there will be a company with a great community, and every step of a new game in development will be open, the community will test it, find bugs, balance gameplay, give suggestions and discuss needed changes.
Finally, a great game will be finished, countless testing hours on countless hardware configurations will guarantee its stability.
somewhere, somehow, maybe in a far, far away galaxy"

Try OTTD

 

[toft]

Firaxis has nothing to do with the other games, they only share a publisher. If Firaxis has been working over 2 years on this, then I doubt anything should come as a surprise to an experienced developer dishing out the 5th installment of a game.

 

[Agrippa]

Try OTTD

Someone had to take it serious, but even then I won't comment the suggestion made.

 

[AlphaShard]

Someone had to take it serious, but even then I won't comment the suggestion made.

What's OTTD?

 

[mattigus]

Out of those three, I think Civ5 is the biggest seller. The original Mafia wasn't that great, and there hasn't been a Max Payne game for like 5 years.

Take Two needs Christmas cash, and Civ5 will definately work with that.