The Last One
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["Rumor"] Final Fantasy XV Delayed to November 29 [Up: Photo evidence]
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But who is "we"? Do you work for a gamestop?
Yes.
The Last One
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Ah ok, thanks for the info!
blankslatenator
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Judging from the timeframe of release and how quiet it is, I'm thinking this was QA finding something gamebreaking. Too quiet for Publisher's decision.
If No Man's Sky has taught us anything, is that everything can be fixed with some stickers just before release.
i say december 2017
Original Man
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They need to stick with the original release date. People who want it delayed are not even looking forward to the game. Be it delayed 2 months or a year, these people will never be happy and should just move onto FFXVI tbh
What's the poster look like? Is it new?
orthodoxy1095
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No Man's Sky also taught me to not trust what some shmoe GameStop employee says.
Never forget that moron on the subreddit who called dozens of GameStops to "disprove" Kotaku's scoop.
Hmmm.
or if its delayed they will be able to fix a few issues and smooth out things...in which everyone wins
Lol if QA find something so breaking it takes 2 months to fix
I want it to be delayed because if there are technical issues with it then they need to be ironed out. Do you want a potentially buggy game just so they could hit the release date and have it trashed because of it?
I preordered the ultimate CE edition of the game. I'm looking forward to it. My most hyped game of the year no doubt. Delays suck. But if the end product is better I can't be against that. it happened to Uncharted 4. I think Deus Ex also got delayed quite a bit as well.
DarknessTear
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jx7UD3ItNk&t=11m52s And this.
Delay is real.
j/k I have no idea honestly.
yeah, November 29th probably won't be enough. I mean realistically no game is ever fully finished these days when they get shipped, they're simply too damn big now. This is why I say they should just rip the bandaid off fully , give us a big press release filled with a ton of spin and give the team the 6 months they probably need to finish the game off properly. I may have voted for March in the poll but honestly - delay it to May even.
There's probably a cost benefit analysis going on with square right now , releasing on September 30th will probably result in the game being buggy and unfinished (if it's even possible , perhaps they don't have a certified build yet) which will effect the scores handed out and probably be detrimental to sales. How detrimental ? I mean maybe it sells 1 million fewer units worldwide ? that's a 35 million dollar hit on revenue. A 2 month delay in comparison , will only cost maybe 3 million dollars in extra dev costs. A 6 month delay will be more obviously - maybe even 10 million dollars BUT the end result will be a better game which could lead to more copies sold.
My guess - just like last night - we'll get a pure business /spin announcement soon about the delay to November. Come September 30th we will get a new demo that showcases the actual game instead of simply a tech demo. It will be preforming much better than any previous trial. People will get excited again despite the 2 month delay.
Then, around the end of October when the game needs to go gold and pass cert , well instead I think we'll get another announcement that it's being pushed once more to ...2017 and most likely ? we won't even get a date. The internet will be furious , hype for the game will die out considerably and 2017 will roll over on the calendar. Sometime in January a big event will be announced. This even will be tentatively planned for sometime in February - the purpose ? it will a live streamed event similar to the 03/31/16 thing this year where the final trailer of the game will be showcased and it will be announced that it's gone gold, FFXV is actually , officially FINISHED. It will be out on March 24th , there will be an enhanced NEO mode where it runs at 1080p/30fps locked and some of the DLC planned for the game is now built right into the disc.
That's just my guess ... and the thing is , this release will actually land on time but the game still won't be 100% ready ... there will be at least a couple major patches that clean up a handful of remaining problems , one in May and another in September. Only after this game finally launches will we all move onto the 18 month hype train for Kingdom Hearts 3.
Yeah, like Kusagiri sort of mentioned, any date between Thanksgoving and New Years is probably a death sentence.
You responded to a post about JRPGs with AAA examples. Do people have to choose? Yes, plenty do. The market has seen this play out and struggled to react. It's why we had online passes and why we have season passes now. Games are expensive, on console especially.
orthodoxy1095
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Do we really think they would have sent out updated materials to GameStops already so that any shmuck could leak the new date before they have a chance to damage control it with their own announcement?
Come on people.
The rumor said they did, that's why we're having this leak.
To be fair, the timing is very close to Gamescom so SE wouldn't necessarily have to wait very long before making a statement of their own.
It makes absolutely 0 sense to send this, unless they decided it like a day or two ago. But then how would another GameStop have new material in such a short time? It doesn't make sense.
Psycho_Mantis
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This gives me more hope its fake
If the marketing team had been told about the delay early this month, they wouldn't have send out this material to stores, though. If the delay is real, I think it's something that was decided not too long ago.
CrimsonSquall
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Not saying it can't still happen ofc, but they would be boned to advertise this heavy in-stores just to delay it
artsi
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But the whole rumor is based on Gamestop stores supposedly receiving promotional materials with a November 29th date, lol.
orthodoxy1095
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This really is a bit of a repeat of NMS all over again where we had GS employees uploading their latest promo materials without the delayed date as proof.
I feel exactly the same, it's why I said yesterday in this thread I wouldn't be surprised if this game ends up slipping to March 2017.
Perfo
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Yeah it doesn't make much sense now. Multiple gamestops across usa are displaying from today already the promo materials with 9.30 r.date.
Those are some pretty sweet displays. The marketing push has truly begun (for both titles)
NinjaCoachZ
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Yeah, there's two possibilities.
1. There is no delay.
2. There IS a delay. This poster having the older date is likely down to
- lengthy printing process for the poster
- lengthy shipping process to get it to the various Gamestops around the country
- Square Enix NA's marketing simply rolling with the previously announced date when commissioning the poster, only to then be told that SE Japan's developers are planning to delay it after it's too late to change anything.
Of course, because North America is so big, it's entirely possible not all Gamestops end up getting the same information at the same time too, or aren't always 100% in touch with each other, the execs may be keeping quiet, etc...
Basically, we know jack at this point. For all we know the game is out tomorrow. If there IS a delay though, it was definitely a relatively recent decision.
For the record I think the sources indicating the delay are credible enough that I believe them.
Dark_castle
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This gave me the flashback where Versus XIII was rumoured to be cancelled.
Icyflamez96
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I hope so. I'd like it to be longer tbh.
The Last One
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Why? This video is from July which suggests that this marketing material is actually old event though they are putting at the stores just now. The delay probably was decided a few days ago or something like that.
Feel like I'm missing something here. Are you saying you expect a leak or you don't?
I the weird thing is that if it was decided very recently, is it likely that like one GameStop has access to new marketing stuff?
Who knows? Honestly, at this point I'm taking the temperature of certain posters here and taking Gematsu at their word that the delay is real. I've sort of cut GS out of the equation.
Lime Blockade
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Something worth noting, in that video the ESRB rating is still RP while the displays out right now have the proper T rating, and for some reason the Xbox One and PS4 logos are swapped. So the displays at GameStop have to be more recent.
Gematsu really is only trustworthy source here.
orthodoxy1095
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I believe that there's a delay.
An old instructional video from the beginning of July and marketing materials presumably from the same time don't prove that the leak was wrong. All that indicates to me is that most GameStops haven't received their new materials because of shipping and printing times.
But why do some stores have order to put up these old materials and others apparently received new ones to be put up on the same day? Wouldn't they inform all stores to at least not put up the wrong ones they received just two days ago?
It just doesn't really make sense to me, but I'm not working in a store, so who knows.
Yea that's the odd thing. Maybe GS corporate knows more, but you'd think the GS stores would have the updated info if this rumor is to be believed. Either way we'll know Monday.
They aren't from the same time. As a post above me mentions, this has the official Teen rating as well.
I think the only thing you can trust right now is Gematsu.
Are they? I don't recall any major foul-ups. And like The Last One said, they've quite a bit of credibility to just throw away. The original source is reputable, too.
Nah, you wouldn't. Because SE wants to make announcements about SE games, they don't want GS employees doing it.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
And why a leaked source should get the news before important sellers like gamestop though? One would guess the first to know would be the partners they work with. Then the audience through games com.
Wow, this is so cool! O: Watched the whole assembly video.
I want one of those for my room. Where can I get one and what happens to this stuff after they are not needed anymore in stores?
That is nice and hope-inducing, really didn't want it to be true.
Can I take this as 90% confirmation please?
actually after 2.8 lauches the kh3 can start buliding hype
The Last One
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Yeah. it's hard to know. If Gematsu hadn't agreed with the website that started the rumor I would probably just have called it fake by now and be done with it. But I believe in Gematsu since their source was right about the 30/09 release date of the game.
And I agree, that video was actually cool. lol
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