Square Enix postponed Deus Ex: Human Revolution

LateX'Dog · 16 Dec 2010 at 21:58

Square Enix said in a statement it is delaying the rollout of the latest installment in its "Deus Ex" game series until the financial year starting in April. It had initially planned the launch for the January-March quarter.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE6BF05720101216

Very sad panda here.

gronf · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:04

Not that long of a delay, could've been much worse. Good as long as they use that time to polish and squash bugs.

Sleepery · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:07

They're not doing well :

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/square-enix-cuts-earnings-forecasts

Net income down over 90% according to that.

Uriel · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:10

I'm glad of the delay. Will give me time to finish my current play through DX1 again.

Rroff · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:12

What I've seen of it so far didn't really inspire me... looks like we will never get a fitting follow up to deus ex 1.

arc@css · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:27

Like with NV I've tried not to watch the gameplay videos too much as it might spoil some of the fun for me. I am still optimistic for this third title.

Deific · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:34

I'm excited for the game, but the fact that SE are behind it hasn't filled me with confidence from the start.

Tefal · 16 Dec 2010 at 23:52

I bet it's going to be a generic 3rd person cover based shooter.

MallowPhoto · 17 Dec 2010 at 00:04

Deific said:
I'm excited for the game, but the fact that SE are behind it hasn't filled me with confidence from the start.

I agree. Something about it that I can't put my finger on makes me slightly worried for how it will turn out. But I have every hope they will manage to pull it off in the end. And an extra month in QA can't hurt either.

drunkenmaster · 17 Dec 2010 at 00:41

Sleepery said:
They're not doing well :

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/square-enix-cuts-earnings-forecasts

Net income down over 90% according to that.

Thats not surprising, if the initial forecast including revenue from Deus ex and thats been pushed till the next financial year(even if its only really a month later) then that income gets pushed to next year, meaning nexts years revenues will be way higher than forecast.

Even so, they have a huge revenue and still posted a profit despite one of their biggest and almost certainly most expensive titles flopping and money going into Dues Ex which won't have started earning yet.

EA have made a loss for, I dunno, 5-6 years straight, as have MANY game companies, so profit = pretty good in the grande scheme of things.

Tefal · 17 Dec 2010 at 00:42

which game flopped?

Souness · 17 Dec 2010 at 02:14

The trailers seem bland and generic. The lead character is lifeless. The combat looks like a chore. The game has no soul.

LateX'Dog · 17 Dec 2010 at 08:44

Tefal said:
which game flopped?

FF XIV - 800k subscribers on launch, 3 weeks in and that dropped to less then 60k.

Tombo · 17 Dec 2010 at 09:08

Now free to play it's so bad

arknor · 17 Dec 2010 at 09:21

Tombo said:
Now free to play it's so bad

we warned them in beta but they never had devs on the english language forums anyway...

hope the ffxiv game is more popular in japan its obviously the only market they care about

FrenchTart · 17 Dec 2010 at 10:08

LateX'Dog said:
FF XIV - 800k subscribers on launch, 3 weeks in and that dropped to less then 60k.

Isn't the minimum sub length one month? If so, how had so many stopped subscribing with a week left on their free sub?

McGray · 17 Dec 2010 at 10:15

They made it free and sacked everyone involved.

Don't think anyone's ever actually paid to play it. I played the beta and it was absolutely awful lol.

arknor · 17 Dec 2010 at 10:22

its crazy hpw they can make a game so bad and not realise lol

FFxiv beta was awful the GUI was awful the game needed a pretty good pc even on minimum settings which a lot of mmo players dont have and it was to focused on a console version to ever be truly succesful.

most console gamers arent willing to fork out on a subscription so dont make them your target audience and ruin the game for pc..

Tombo · 17 Dec 2010 at 10:48

Yeah I know a few people that play it and they said it was so bad they had to use a 360 controller, they got on fine with FFXI too.

FoxEye · 17 Dec 2010 at 12:44

Which MMO released in the last couple years hasn't been a complete flop tho?

There's some disconnect between MMO devs and what players want, it seems.