Mighty No. 9 Has Been Delayed - Aiming For Q1, 2016
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Why ought they be? o.o Without a firm release date, who'd be hyped more than passingly for any game, crowdfunded or no? Getting 'hyped' just for a kickstarter's in development is like getting hyped for any other game's apparently in development.Shiftygiant said:
I'm excited for Shipbreakers, but I'm not bouncing off the walls with hype while it's still in trundle-on-development mode.
Wait, I though the community had decided that rushing games out to meet arbitrary dates then using patches to fill in the gaps was the cancer killing games, but now when a dev actually does what you want its rage as far as the eye can see?
As a backer, I checked on the forums, and holy jeez the level of butthurt there is amazing.
Yeah, ok, look, it sucks that it's delayed.
But it's better they wait on it and iron out all the kinks. The game itself still looks good, so I'm willing to wait a few more months.
God knows I've had to wait way longer, and am STILL waiting longer than I wanted to for Cryamore and Lost Paradise. *sigh*
Yeah, ok, look, it sucks that it's delayed.
But it's better they wait on it and iron out all the kinks. The game itself still looks good, so I'm willing to wait a few more months.
God knows I've had to wait way longer, and am STILL waiting longer than I wanted to for Cryamore and Lost Paradise. *sigh*
I think it's less JUST that it's the delay(which usually is probably a good thing, though not always - see WatchDogs), but it's the delay in combination with the questionable Red Ash kickstarter in combination with them forging ahead on an animated series for a game that JUST got delayed because it wasn't ready yet, and so on.major_chaos said:
The delay is just a further symptom of eyebrow-raising behavior Comcept has been doing. If people have faith in the developer, a delay is usually seen as a good thing, like when the Witcher 3 was pushed back a little.
If people have no faith in the developer, then a delay comes off like the desperate floundering to make the game at least passable before being launched into the void to be forgotten about, like with WatchDogs.
This is kinda my stance on the whole thing. Granted there comes a time where that grace period expires and its certainly past that for me. Though that's one of those things that'll change for everyone.Winnosh said:
I'm a neutral observer here since I'm not a backer and don't really have any immediate plans to purchase this. I also typically strongly agree with that sentiment and find it a major nuisance when people ***** about delays.The Enquirer said:
But... I don't want to make light of game development, but I mean come on this is a 2D side scrolling Megaman clone. On kickstarter they claim an "all-star team of veteran Mega Man devs". Two years ago (or 22 months) they raised nearly $4 million dollars on kickstarter. What the hell could they possibly be doing that's taking so long?
To add some contrast, I don't think it would be a stretch to say on a technical level that Might No. 9 shouldn't be much different than fellow 2-d side scrolling indie game Rogue Legacy. Except Rogue Legacy was created by two brothers in 18 months for a cost of $15,000. See what I'm getting at here?
It's not that there is a delay it's the reasoning for the delay, we have to spend a year ironing out bugs is basically fobbing off talk.RandV80 said:
Which is exactly what everyone else is asking now. It's a bloody Megaman game...It's a sweet looking megaman game but it's a megaman game. They're not exactly breaking new ground here.
And as someone who has played Rogue Legacy, that game was simple and toight! So yeah one wanders what Kenji is doing. I think we've seen this pattern enough times. My theory is, he wants to ride the fame train a little longer because he knows once people realizes all he did was make a Megaman or Megaman X reskin, the love will dry up pretty quickly.
And he's still trying to capitalize on his fame for other things Like Red Ash, and the Red Ash anime...seriously.. an anime already? Not to mention he's already doing the preorder thing on STeam. Preorder now and get retro hero DLC. only $20.
Me thinks Kenji is gonna be in for a run awakening when someone likely beats him to the punch.
Oh wait: http://store.steampowered.com/app/363440/?snr=1_5_1100__1100
I think the people are less grunpy that the game overall is delayed, but rather about the fact that the same team wants to be backed for a second project (that leaned itself a bit far out of the window), despite not having finished the first project, and the first project beeing now held by a publisher.
So yeah, I totally can see why people are nagging. It's not the delay, it's the way they handle the public, their finances and their fans.
So yeah, I totally can see why people are nagging. It's not the delay, it's the way they handle the public, their finances and their fans.
What?!? That's not how modern games work. If they were a AAA game developer they'd release the game as is, then let the community patch the problems out while also taking percentage of the bug fixing mods. Clearly they don't understand the modern game industry.
It's not so much the delay itself, but what's surrounding the delay. First there was the mess that they called community management, a considerble disconnect between backers and devs that was NOT supposed to happen, the suddenly getting a publisher (very late into the process I might add), the "backer exclusive" content being put as pre-order incentives, the anime, the movie , the second game which now has a publisher that is shady at best, two weeks ago Inafune saying the game was ready to be pushed out as it was, and now this.
For a game that was promoted as being made by the community, for the community, the community was largely seen and treated as little more than walking wallets and they're getting fed up with it.
For a game that was promoted as being made by the community, for the community, the community was largely seen and treated as little more than walking wallets and they're getting fed up with it.
And to think that I was actually initially sad that I missed the boat on this particular Kick-Starter. So glad I put my KS money into Grim Dawn, Path of Exile, and Umbra instead of this. It is just unfortunate that because of this, other more worthy/responsible kick-starter projects will have people being very hesitant to donate to them.
This is actually exactly what I'm getting at. I didn't back the project but was certainly excited to hear about it, just now the hype has died down. If there was a better level of communication with them explaining why its taking so long (ie a lot of extra content, staffing problems, bugs, etc) I'd be more forgiving, even and especially with the bad stuff because it would at least convey that they want a really good launch and product.RandV80 said:
... The reason I initially defended Read Ash is because I assumed that half the team would be twiddling their thumbs because Mighty No 9 was pretty much just in the testing period. Seeing this little development, well, Red Ash can go fuck itself and Inafune can get lost after this. Christ, I was so hyped for the September release...
Better be a damn good reason for that delay... and if it´s only online features, release the game and release a patch for the online features once it´s sorted, jesus...
Better be a damn good reason for that delay... and if it´s only online features, release the game and release a patch for the online features once it´s sorted, jesus...
Why is everyone saying this is a year's delay? The game was planned for September, and has been pushed to Q1 2016, which is from March to May, IIRC. That would be, at most, an 8 month delay. Not small, but a fair bit less than a year's delay.
