How am i not surprised by this, It’s basicly the star citizen of singleplayer games at this point.
Now imagine WoW was multiplatform as well. Game would be delayed so long even Chromie would lose track of it
It is actually multi-platform, We keep forgetting about the 1-3% that play on Mac for some light-forsaken reason.
As for CDPR, They honestly have zero excuses at this point imo.
Be that as it may, making sure the game works on 99% pc and 1% mac is a lot easier
I mean, Mac and PC vs 9 different versions.
9 different versions wouldn’t be delayed unless the 9th version had contractual obligations and a hefty sum to launch on at the same time, Like say for example
cough stadia Cough Googles failing platform that has a LOT of money behind it and announced late, This game wont launch before 2021 i’m calling it.
Iirc most games like this have a unified release?
There probably is a clause in the contacts
Many games have had segmented releases, PC first then consoles, Or Consoles first then PC, Companies release a product when it’s ready for one platform because that means INSTANT money and a giant portion of the team can be switched to pushing other platforms thus saving and making more money at the same time.
To release on specific hardware first, OR to demand a release at the same time as everyone else means there is money on the table, First we had a working product years ago but it was delayed for “polishes and fixes” then consoles got announced/rumoured and we were delayed again with the statement “We are a next gen game too”
Then more platforms got announced
Then they went gold in oct 5
Then stadia was announced, Stadia has a lot of money behind it and a desire to be seen equal as other platforms.
Stadia is DIFFICULT to work with as the Games will be run in virtual machines, With multiple games playing on the same hardware at the same time (it’s the only way to make money with that kind of design) wich means it needs to be hyper optimized and cut down in some departments, You didn’t think they would make money with high end hardware being dedicated to a per user license did you?
Never said anything about stadia specifically; just that there’s probably some risk management or legal reason they are delaying everything instead of just individual platforms
It’s because money, Who would buy the stadia version if they can already have a copy on a different platform?
That’s why.
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Still think there’s some contractual stipulation regarding a multiplatform global release/delays
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Even so, it’s a business. They are trying to make money. In this case, it’s in the best interest of developer/publisher and platform to make as much money as possible.
They are unfortunatly turning into Vaporware and people are mass refunding their product due to YET ANOTHER DELAY unless there is a lot of money in a contract promised by someone companies have always released on platforms when it’s ready and then moved it to other platforms after to get more money.
There is only one group around with so much money as to be able to pay for this kind of delay, Because MILLIONS have been lost today alone just from the delay announcement in both stock and refunds and it’ll only get worse.
People have been hyped about this game for ages. Refunds will be temporary just like shadowlands.
They’ll buy it again and if there’s a contractual obligations to delay then the repercussions may be worse than any potential income lost
it’s looking like 150,000+ refunds now i’m going to use my own currency for ease of math but
that’s like nearly 12 MILLION dollars that’s 12 million just yanked, That’s hardly small.
Yeah and if they break a contract by releasing the game on other platforms first it is probably more than 12 million lost
Plus… They’ll just buy the game again. Trust me the hype on this game is massive.
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They won’t all buy the game again, And that money didn’t include the loss in share prices wich is what will make devs truly uneasy to go with it.
Many people will pirate it out of spite at this point, Not all, not a few, But a non insignifigant amount of people are now royally peeved with the behaviour of CDPR in general.
As for who the contract is? Google and Amazon are the only ones i know of that would be so willingly to fire that kind of money around, And who of the two runs a streaming platform that was announced late? That’d be google stadia.
I think a deal would of been made of a giant amount of money because they would have to account for the loss in marketing materials for the nov release, The MASSIVE backlash the company itself is now dealing with, The share price drop, The refund backlash.
Let’s say it’s not stadia - let’s say the problem is xbox1 - if the people have chosen to buy the game on that platform but refund it because it’s available on ps4, then Microsoft loses out on sales.
This way, any refunds don’t just go back to the game on another platform, but back to the same platform.
It has to be a contact reason.
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they had already acheived Gold cert for all available platforms on Oct 5th, Stadia was announced after.
Gold Cert means the product is ready to be stamped onto discs wich is important for consoles because it means it’s verified and running.
Right. There’s probably some kind of clause in the contracts with all platforms that say delays will affect global release, to avoid exactly what you’re describing people will do.
I’m not seeing what you’re so upset about. Clearly whatever means they undertook to include stadia are legally binding and they have no choice but to fulfill them.
If you are that mad at them, just don’t buy it.
They said they wouldn’t be a greedy company, They promised people publicly that this release was on time up to and including yesterday. with the statement of “Only a natural disaster could delay it”
Both of these were proven to be lies.
It was delayed to help their greed and they lied about it publicly.