BG:EE Delayed

reepnorp · Fri, 14th Sep '12, 10:18pm

From an email I just received from Beamdog:

Quote:

Dear Friends of Baldur’s Gate,

When we first announced Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, You set fire to our servers and we were overwhelmed by the huge wave of support from the fans of the original game.

Once the fires had subsided, thousands of you posted suggestions and requests on our forums. Dozens of volunteers from all over the world helped us improve game play, squash bugs, and generally fine-tune the game. Even more came to help work on translations from English to more than 16 other languages.

Executing on our plan to make the best Baldur’s Gate possible and responding to that overwhelming feedback, we’ve added new characters, areas, and story, creating many new hours of game play. Yet the suggestions, fixes, and translations continue, and more volunteers keep joining.

After recently reviewing the game and then consulting with our partners, we've decided to ensure that Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is the best possible product on launch. Thus, we have pushed back the release date of the game. Our release date is now November 30th, 2012.

To all who have pre-ordered, we ask for your patience as we move toward our final release date.We will be working on something a little extra for you. To all who have volunteered, we thank you for your dedication and support.

Trent Oster
President, Overhaul Games

Laaaaaame

dmc · Fri, 14th Sep '12, 10:30pm

Translation: "We bit off more than we could chew. God I hope we make the 11/30/12 date so I don't look like more of an idiot than I already do."

Sjerrie · Fri, 14th Sep '12, 10:31pm

I am quite dissapointed... *sigh* Why did they wait til 4 days until the release date to tell us this?

Taluntain · Fri, 14th Sep '12, 10:39pm

I was actually quite surprised (because I was certain that it would be delayed) that there was no announcement for so long... so I didn't even need to open the mail to know that it's going to be an announcement of a delay. I guess they waited for so long so as to maximize pre-orders in the final days after sending out a mailing promoting BG:EE (among other games) a while ago. Given their relatively small team and the goals that they've set for the project, it'd really be a small miracle if it was released on schedule. They're going to want to cash in on the Christmas sales though, so it's unlikely to be delayed again. Which isn't necessarily a good thing (because come end of November, start of December at best, it's going to be released no matter what state it's in).

Blades of Vanatar · Fri, 14th Sep '12, 11:08pm

That is very diconcerting news. Reepnorp you are the Grim Reaper...

omnigodly · Sat, 15th Sep '12, 12:22am

News was surprising, but now or end of November, I'll probably find more time to play it at the end of November :P. As long as my pre-order is released at some point, I can wait.

T2Bruno · Sat, 15th Sep '12, 2:26am

OMGWTF!?!? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

ION: GOG just announced a sale on BGI, BGII, PS:T, IWD, IWD2, etc....

Marceror · Sat, 15th Sep '12, 3:25am

Better a delay than a product not ready for release coming to market.

Well, Inquisitor it is then. I purchased and downloaded this afternoon. It ought to tide me over for a good long time.

starfox64 · Sat, 15th Sep '12, 4:57pm

I actually went to pre-order this last night and saw its release date was changed to "November". I didn't pre-order it.

Blades of Vanatar · Mon, 17th Sep '12, 2:14pm

My first thought was, no biggie, not surprised! Then, the more I thought about it, I was pretty pissed off. They got my money in the pre-order, knowing all the time they were going to delay this. But then, I thought some more. This is a small company who is staking their name on this release. It is probably better to release the finished product when it, you know, is actually finished. I think the gaming industry has gotten away from actually completing the testing before shipping and it is refreshing to see a company actually wanting to ship a finished product. I HATE having to download patches or buy updates to fix the game that I ALREADY PAID FOR. They sure as hell don't advertise THAT feature when marketing their products...You don't buy pants that are missing half the stitching or underwear without the elastic.....But, when the game is finally released, it better be effing ready.

Shardnax · Wed, 19th Sep '12, 4:03pm

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Originally Posted by Blades of Vanatar

My first thought was, no biggie, not surprised! Then, the more I thought about it, I was pretty pissed off. They got my money in the pre-order, knowing all the time they were going to delay this. But then, I thought some more. This is a small company who is staking their name on this release. It is probably better to release the finished product when it, you know, is actually finished. I think the gaming industry has gotten away from actually completing the testing before shipping and it is refreshing to see a company actually wanting to ship a finished product. I HATE having to download patches or buy updates to fix the game that I ALREADY PAID FOR. They sure as hell don't advertise THAT feature when marketing their products...You don't buy pants that are missing half the stitching or underwear without the elastic.....But, when the game is finally released, it better be effing ready.

I don't normally have anything against patches and updates as long as they're free and the game will run to completion without them. After finding out my wishlist of things couldn't happen because of Bioware bungling I went from giddy to they better do good or I'll hate them forever.

Maybe they'll shore up some of the new areas to make them visually similar to the originals while they do whatever they delayed the release for? The softness still bugs me.

Merlanni · Tue, 25th Sep '12, 7:40pm

If a game is not delayed, I start wondering.

Nakia · Tue, 2nd Oct '12, 11:58pm

I would rather the game is delayed and then released relatively bug free than have what happened with Skyrim. Seven patches and the game still had bugs. That to me is inexcusable. I don't mind one patch and rather expect it, I can live with two patches but after that I get really annoyed.

dmc · Wed, 3rd Oct '12, 12:37am

Huh - I guess that's the benefit of not buying things early. By the time I bought Skyrim, it was pretty much bug free for me (admittedly, I do not mod, so I supposed I would have different comments if I did).

I have no intention of buying these games unless you and the others all crow about how wonderful they are, how they will be like a fountain of youth and transport me back to how I was when I first played BG, etc. I suppose at that point, any bugs they started with will be long gone.

Rawgrim · Wed, 3rd Oct '12, 11:52am

Delayed is better than rushed. Besides, we still have the original BG while we wait.

Taluntain · Wed, 3rd Oct '12, 4:17pm

Game releases on the PC are practically never really delayed solely due to bugs but rather other, more critical issues. I can't recall any game to date whose release had been pushed back coming out bug-free, or even bug-lite. So don't get your hopes up expecting a game whose release gets pushed back to come out bug-free...

Merlanni · Fri, 5th Oct '12, 7:38pm

There are bugs and bugs. Small ones you can step on, or avoid in games. large ones that makes things float or break quests.

But huge ones, the size of raptors, are merit for delays. There was one in Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines making it impossible to follow the main quest.

Ot to stay in the world of superior dice: ToEE. Unspeakable horror.

Fri, 14th Sep '12, 10:39pm	#4
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Tue, 25th Sep '12, 7:40pm	#12
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Tue, 2nd Oct '12, 11:58pm	#13
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