New CK II release date - February 14th

[Susana]

Dear all,

As you all know, Crusader Kings II is one of our key releases of 2012 and a title the internal dev studio have worked immensely hard on. It’s a title with potential to introduce many more gamers to the wonderful world of grand strategy games and we want it to get the best possible start around release! After discussing the release schedule of other major titles on and around February 7th with our various sales partners at last weeks PdxCon it became clear the game would not be able to garner the attention that we feel it deserves. We have therefore agreed to move the release to February 14th.

We realize this will cause disappointment with those who are eagerly awaiting the title but hopefully the fact that a successful release will mean more resources for the internal dev team to continue expanding on what they do best will lessen that disappointment somewhat. Our demo plans however remain the same, we plan on releasing a demo before February 7th for all.

Kind regards
Susana Meza

Edit: and yes, this is a sales/marketing call rather than a dev call which is why I'm making this post.

 

[Susana]

Hi guys,

Since a few people have raised the issue - I can clarify that it's not about one week extra of marketing. It's about store front exposure and mind share on the day/week of release (yes, even digital retail needs to share it's space between what is releasing), attention from partners and a lot more that is not visible to the end consumer, but thank you for all the advice on how marketing works . We'll def get cracking on getting that demo out so you have something to play before then.

Kind regards
Susana

 

[Darkrenown]

http://au.pc.gamespy.com/pc/mass-effect-3/1216713p1.html

Title says beta, body say demo. Offical site says demo too. Still, ME3 demo!

 

[Darkrenown]

Not good enough. I had that with Feb 7th.

I want more.

Being disappointed I understand. Demanding extras? What's with that? If you want the game badly enough that a week's delay upsets you, surely you don't need anything added on top of it. If the game is not enough to make you happy, why does waiting a bit longer bother you?

 

[Johan]

So A House Divided and CK2 are both delayed by a week on the same day. Yet AHD says it's due to a distribution issue, while CK2 claims it's for marketing purposes.

Something doesn't add up here.

AHD was delayed because of the GM not being delivered when it should have been. aka someone named Johan fucked up counting timezones so we missed the delivery for it to be 100% guaranteed to be ready by 24th.

 

[Darkrenown]

Wonder if Paradox are even reading this thread, or whether they dare to look in to the eye of the storm. :laugh:

Nah

You must know that's not at all going to happen, right?

It's a demo, it's not going to have a hundred hours of gameplay in it. They'll give you 10 years, maybe 20 if you're very lucky.

I don't know the scope of the demo, but if we assume you're right there's quite a lot of gameplay in 10-20 years of CK2.

 

[Darkrenown]

Well, if the delay was so they could get a boxed version together, that would be good. Alas, that does not seem to be. Not sure I will ever play this game.

Not sure what you mean by that as there is a box version.

 

[Darkrenown]

Then again, perhaps don't attribute to stupidity things that you don't know all the details to? I'm not sure how many game companies you run, but it's a complex affair.

 

[Darkrenown]

Well, it could be a stupid conspiracy!