Unlike most games, an MMO's most critical development and operations period is the first week or two after launch. Critical bugs need to be identified and fixed, hotfixes and patches developed, server problems identified and solved, customer service opening up, all the GMs doing their first week on the job, etc. Those Bioware employees are not going to have a Christmas this year.
No one would have believed a release date bewteen xmas and new year, so this was the last feasible release to squeeze it into 2011 and hit the christmas market, vital for shareholder confidence and driving pre-order sales. I would not be surprised to see the almost inevitable slip into 2012 arrive sometime end-Nov, beginning Dec.
Christmas comes 5 days early....
- 24/09/2011 06:02:18 PM
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Those poor BIoware employees.
- 24/09/2011 06:30:57 PM
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Assuming they make the date
- 24/09/2011 07:41:28 PM
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I dunno, it's pretty well good-to-go. I'm in beta now, and it's more polished than most release MMOs *NM*
- 24/09/2011 08:16:51 PM
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There are certainly other factors that could lead to that date I'll admit
- 24/09/2011 10:20:33 PM
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