THQ Delays South Park, Company of Heroes 2 and Metro: Last Light

[marurder]

THQ must me moneyphobic...

*looks it up*

They all have chrematophobia!

Also "the high standards of the TV show" - this IS Southpark? Right? It may be several things but I'm sure 'high quality' isn't one of them.

 

[Ldude893]

Considering the tried-and-true result of games that get delayed by Valve time, I've no objections. Get the games out when you're ready, I'll be waiting.

 

[Irridium]

I was looking forward to all of those titles. This saddens me. If it results in better games, then yay. But still...

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Oh come on I was really looking forward to CoH2 oh well at least I'll have a little more time to upgrade my computer.

 

[PortalThinker113]

According to what I've read, fiscal year 2014 begins on April 1, 2013. So these games are certainly not delayed until 2014 yet. The THQ president referred to South Park as "one of the most anticipated titles of calendar year 2013," so I think it's safe to say that we'll see South Park, at the very least, before 2013 is out.

Delays are unfortunate, and I am very much looking forward to South Park, but I'll take the positives I can get out of this development. I now have more time to play Bioshock Infinite and Pikmin 3 before South Park comes out! That will probably be good for my wallet and time...

 

[AJax_21]

Actually Last Light is still slated for a march release according to their twitter account. As for the rest... well shit.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Giving more time for Obsidian (for bug testing) and Relic (for balancing) is always a good thing.

 

[Lunar Templar]

bummer for every one looking forward to those i guess.

long as the games turn out better then it'll be worth it, i guess o.o. i'm not looking forward to anything under THQs banner till the next Darksiders or 40k game

 

[Nouw]

I have no problem with pushing back titles for polish, good call THQ. Perhaps the feedback Relic got from the CoH 2 players was less than positive. I've heard good things but it's their call.

 

[gardian06]

Why do I read this to mean "we've had our market analysts go over our games compared to other games, and we're stopping to take extra time to make sure we including the following successful features: fast moving zombies, slow moving zombies, mutated monstrosity zombies, online-only single player, a multi-player leveling system with rank based unlocks, titles more accommodating to an endless stream of vanity item DLC but no actual content, and a real money auction house."

I think your confused this is THQ not Blizzard.

OT: A publisher that want to give "more" time to a developer amazing. now only if they can get a calender that the rest of the world uses.

 

[Something Amyss]

Overall though, that whole Udraw thing really bit THQ hard, hopefully they can recover, in this economy so many ships are sinking.

Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent, but it would serve them right if they fail at this point.

 

[dragongit]

Overall though, that whole Udraw thing really bit THQ hard, hopefully they can recover, in this economy so many ships are sinking.

Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent, but it would serve them right if they fail at this point.

Serve who right? A couple of executives who pushed out a poor peripheral that failed to meet expectations, so the company would be closed off and hundreds (who may have had absolutely no involvement) left without a job? Serve them right?

 

[Something Amyss]

Serve who right? A couple of executives who pushed out a poor peripheral that failed to meet expectations, so the company would be closed off and hundreds (who may have had absolutely no involvement) left without a job? Serve them right?

Ah, the GOP platform. Spare the executives because it might hurt jobs.

 

[DarksideFlame]

Hopefully they can survive long enough to release Saints Row 4 a make it great game, even though I loved SR3 there was several things that could have been done better

 

[TheEndlessGrey]

Why do I read this to mean "we've had our market analysts go over our games compared to other games, and we're stopping to take extra time to make sure we including the following successful features: fast moving zombies, slow moving zombies, mutated monstrosity zombies, online-only single player, a multi-player leveling system with rank based unlocks, titles more accommodating to an endless stream of vanity item DLC but no actual content, and a real money auction house."

I think your confused this is THQ not Blizzard.

OT: A publisher that want to give "more" time to a developer amazing. now only if they can get a calender that the rest of the world uses.

That was really a laundry list of offenses from a range of games and platforms, but whatever. The point I was going for is that I see THQ sealing their own fate by trying to squeeze every dime out of their upcoming games, and screwing things up in the process. More time is great, if it truly is polish time and not How Can We Further Monetize This time. Call me cynical, but I am not overly hopeful that the extra time will be used the right way.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Darn. I was looking forward to seeing how that South Park RPG would turn out. I'm afraid that given the trouble THQ's been in that they may not be anything left by 2014 to release the game. Then they'll be sold to another publisher, and be delayed further.

Considering the tried-and-true result of games that get delayed by Valve time, I've no objections. Get the games out when you're ready, I'll be waiting.

Because Too Human and Duke Nukem Forever were highly polished masterpieces. I think Valve Time only works when it's Valve making the game.

 

[Evil Smurf]

"Jesus Asterisk Christ, Stan! People are feeling really cheated by this!" - Cartman

You are so wise Cartman

 

[Frankster]

Looking forward to Coh2 and the Stick of truth, and see it as minor good news relic are being given the time and space to properly work on their game. You cant rush genius and relic is the best asset they got imo, they should take care of them.

 

[Quazimofo]

I understand and respect their decision...but it still hurts. Hopefully it adds some polish to the games and helps THQ take a few steps in the right direction. I was really looking forward to Metro: Last Light, but eh, what are you gonna do?

...but still, 20414?!?

fiscal 2014. the fiscal year is very different than the calendar year. their fiscal 2014, as it says in the article, begins next april. so pushing things back until then means pushing things back to mid-late next year, when the bad omen of 13 is gone.

13. BAD JUJU!!! not good for falling publisher.

 

[kburns10]

I must have that South Park game! But in all seriousness, I don't want to see THQ go. That would be another major publisher whose games I grew up playing go the way of the dinosaur. Sad times in gaming, indeed.