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Ys VIII delayed last-minute on PC

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mullet2000

Member
Just a heads up if you were planning on picking it up tomorrow.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/579180/announcements/detail/1441571497990560200

Hello Everyone,

We regret to inform everyone that the release date for Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA on PC has been pushed back due to continued efforts in improving gameplay quality.

We sincerely apologize to our fans who have been looking forward to this release. Ultimately, our goal is for fans to enjoy a high-quality game. We are providing the extra care in the PC development of the game by taking time to enhance the overall quality of gameplay.

If you have made a pre-purchase on Steam and would like to get a refund, please use the link provided below for instructions on requesting a refund:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6695-QIKM-7966&l=

For any purchases or pre-orders made outside of the Steam channel, please contact the corresponding refund support for that channel.

A new release date will be announced as soon as it is available.

Thank you for your time, support, and patience with this matter.

Best,
NISA Team
 
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Ash735

Member
Hopefully not a Sonic Mania "Whoops, we're delaying this for improvements" and having a dose of Denuvo slapped on.
 
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epmode

Member
As long as they turn out a quality port* in the end, I'm OK with this delay.

(I heard a few rumors that the port is not in good shape at the moment.)



*arbitrary rsolutuon support is my dealbreaker
 
jchung55

jchung55

Member
Rumors were going around that the PC port was rough, so maybe its best to take care of that.

Also its not Denuvo, this game is coming out DRM free on GoG
 
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Matt Attack

Member
On one hand, I'm down for a delay if it means getting a better experience. On the other hand, it's kind of messed up to drop the news so late. I was really looking forward to this! More time to finish Yakuza I suppose.
 
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GhostTrick

Banned
Ganado said:
Because delaying it less than 24h before release is just a really shitty thing to do.
Gonna refund that shit.
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If they released it tomorrow, it would've been a shitty thing to do.
Also to people talking about Denuvo or piracy, you're aware the game is getting a GOG release ?

This is for quality only.
 
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Granjinha

Member
Ganado said:
Because delaying it less than 24h before release is just a really shitty thing to do.
Gonna refund that shit.
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It really isn't.

Entitled gamers.jpg

GhostTrick said:
Also to people talking about Denuvo or piracy, you're aware the game is getting a GOG release ?
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Do you actually think people would look up things before being angry and spewing bullshit up? Of course not.

Blue-kun said:
Because it's kinda scummy to wait until the very last minute to say "hey guys, we're not releasing this game y'all been waiting for for months because turns out there are technical issues with it we gotta solve".
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That's how game development works. I bet they thought they could fix it up before launch. They couldn't. It happens.
 
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Maffis

Member
This game is coming to GOG aswell so there wouldn't be Denuvo. The reason is simply the port sucks and they didn't want to sully their reputation.
 
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Blue-kun

Member
Granjinha said:
Better delay and make it a good port (from reports of the beta, it wasn't really that good)



...? Why?
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Because it's kinda scummy to wait until the very last minute to say "hey guys, we're not releasing this game y'all been waiting for for months because turns out there are technical issues with it we gotta solve".

I mean, okay, I'm disappointed with the delay as much as the next guy, but it's not like they found out about the port being busted today. Reports have been around for a while that things were crappy, it'd have been better to pull this off sooner rather than less than 24 hours before it launched.

Things are made even worse by the fact that the post doesn't even give an estimate for the release, so you're left wondering just how badly they fucked it up for the thing to be in this sorry a state.

Also, no, I don't think this is Denuvo. It just screams NISA incompetence, really, especially since it's releasing on GOG and all.
 
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Eusis

Member
jchung55 said:
Rumors were going around that the PC port was rough, so maybe its best to take care of that.

Also its not Denuvo, this game is coming out DRM free on GoG
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It'd be funny to delay to slap that on Steam only to release DRM free on GOG, huge "but why?" scenario.

But given the hints floating around it probably is optimization.
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

Member
GhostTrick said:
No. They're doing it for good reasons.
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The game is releasing on GOG so there are no need for Denuvo woes.
NISA taking this step to improve the PC ver. is admirable.
And heck it gives me a reason to go about playing Spidey Shattered Dimensions until it releases, phew.
 
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Ganado

Member
GhostTrick said:
If they released it tomorrow, it would've been a shitty thing to do.
Also to people talking about Denuvo or piracy, you're aware the game is getting a GOG release ?

This is for quality only.
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Granjinha said:
It really isn't.

Entitled gamers.jpg



Do you actually think people would look up things before being angry and spewing bullshit up? Of course not.



That's how game development works. I bet they thought they could fix it up before launch. They couldn't. It happens.
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I wasn't serious about the Denuvo stuff. I haven't been following the development of this game, but apparently the port has been bad all along as evident by some in this thread, yet they still had it up for pre-orders and preload, which seems that they wanted to hide this? Why didn't they just say that it was delayed a week ago or something? They must've known it would be unfixable in a weeks time.
 
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GhostTrick

Banned
Ganado said:
I wasn't serious about the Denuvo stuff. I haven't been following the development of this game, but apparently the port has been bad all along as evident by some in this thread, yet they still had it up for pre-orders and preload, which seems that they wanted to hide this? Why didn't they just say that it was delayed a week ago or something? They must've known it would be unfixable in a weeks time.
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They've been trying hard and worked even on week end. Really.
 
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Amirnol

Member
That's a shame. I think I will just go with PS4 version. Hopefully this turns into a great port eventually, though.
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

Member
Foffy said:
You would have assumed if the port was bad, this decision would have been made clear a week ago.

Announcing it less than 24 hours before its expected launch doesn't seem like a good sign if they knew it was in poor shape.
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Or they've been working on the fixes hoping to iron them out by release, but alas they needed more time.
 
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Leafhopper

Banned
I mean there probably is a good reason.

Just it's starting to suck with games that have Japanese publishing or related to a Japanese publisher getting delayed so close to release.

Or in the case of some games just launching bad.
 
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shimon

Member
Durante said:
Everything is fixable.
You just need to know how :p
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Heh well sure. But we've seen many games where that was not the case. What if they try to rush "the fixing" so they can release the game asap?

At the same time this could be something small and pc release will be great like TLoH CS ;)
 
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SunDimension24

Member
Ganado said:
I wasn't serious about the Denuvo stuff. I haven't been following the development of this game, but apparently the port has been bad all along as evident by some in this thread, yet they still had it up for pre-orders and preload, which seems that they wanted to hide this? Why didn't they just say that it was delayed a week ago or something? They must've known it would be unfixable in a weeks time.
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I kinda see it as a case of they tried all they could to fix the game up until today following feedback from beta testers so that they could release it on time tomorrow and maybe had enough faith they could do it but it was still not up to a certain quality so at the last moment just delayed the game and have a little more time because that would be better than releasing it tomorrow, getting review bombed on steam for a bad port and turning people away from the game.
 
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Durante

Member
dreamfall said:
Well, that's why they were so mum. Good, delay it to iron out the problems!

SEND IN DURANTE ASAP
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I'd be very curious to see just what the issue is and what it would take to fix (and also what a more contemporary Falcom codebase looks like), but I don't have much time right now.
 
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GoldandBlue

Member
I found it worrying when they started the beta test sign up only two weeks before release, felt like it wasn't enough time to iron things out.
 
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