LAIR Pushed To Next Month

LAIR, the much-anticipated title featuring combat from dragon-back, is a very important title for Sony and the PlayStation 3. Its the first of the AAA slated for the end of the year for the trailing platform ... and so far things don't look good for the title. Now, the company has announced that LAIR has been delayed until early in September. "Due to an extra step in QA testing to enhance the community features in the game, the release of LAIR, originally set for August 14th, has changed to September 4, 2007. Natural challenges that arose while finalizing the offline game to include key online features - such as leaderboards and medal systems - have led to the difficult choice of pushing back the release date. We appreciate everyone's excitement and patience for the game and look forward to its release on September 4."

Are we surprised?

This is happening to 50% of the new releases. Probably higher for big-name titles. I completely made up that statistic btw, but isn't it just about common now to view a release date as only a suggestion?

A month? That's an absurdly long delay.

I'm sure people will stop buying PS3's due to their outrage.

No kidding

Why doesn't that surprise me? Can't wait to see the game though. It looks gorgeous. Are they going to release it for the PC?

Shocking!

That it would take extra time to try and develop Achievement -- er, I mean "medals" -- and leaderboard functionality for the title when Sony has only just decided that having those kind of community features is valuable and necessary.

Xbox ftw.

Hopefully making for a better game

The early previews did not seem great, hopefully they'll be taking the extra time to fix issues and make the game live up to potential (the idea is great, it's just the execution that needs work).

Control scheme

I hope to FSM that they fix the control scheme. Forget that leaderboard crap. Make sure the control is tight. My suggestion: make Sixaxis an option and let us use the analog sticks.

Okay here goes my karma.

This is offtopic, so get your mod points handy. But:

I am really sick of the following two terms, and they seem mostly confined to slashdot (NONE of my gaming friends outside of /. have even heard them): AAA Title, and SKU. The former just sounds stupid. Oh noes, AAA? What about AAAAAAAA?! AAA? Like, the battery size?

Are there B titles? O titles? S titles? So could there be a BOOBS title? (Would that be those volleyball games?)

Both of these terms have come around somewhat recently, and it irks me. It reminds me of computer terminology thrown out there on bad TV by an idiot: "It has Megagigs!"

Seriously. You guys sound like marketing idiots using buzzwords.

It's better this way..

Honestly.. I actually praise that they delay the game only for the reason that when I get the game in my hands I won't be bombarded with bugs that aren't fixed or spotted by QA.. which if anyone forgot, means QUALITY ASSURANCE.. emphasis on the assurance part and bigger on the quality part. They want to make the game fool-proof of glitches that can cause for negative gameplay. All they're doing right now is pleasing their customers by providing good quality software. Final note.. many games in the past have had delays on release dates but they do it because they don't want to just shell out some p.o.s. that could possibly ruin their fanbase and cause them to never be able to make another game because the previous one was 'buggy' and didn't meet the gamer's expectations.. after all.. isn't it in the end all about the end-user? they after all are the ones paying $60 out of their pocket.

Eh a month isn't all that bad...

I can live with a month delay, that's not too bad, especially if it helps. At the very least it shows they do care about the quality of their product. I'm sure I can find something else to amuse me for a month, actually I'm pretty sure theirs a couple other games I need to play this month.

Quick! Someone write a perl script

that copies all the comments for the "Spore: When it's ready" thread over to here and replaces "Spore" with "LAIR". Guaranteed +5 Karma!

zonk bias

ok i am new here but is it not quite obvious to everyone that the editors here have a strong personal bias towards (or in this case against) certain consoles. off topic i know... but as a ps3 owner it's quite annoying having my favourite news site slating the ps3 for *any* reason at all, even regarding stories that are about positive things.

ps3 gets a price drop: article "ps3 price doesnt get lowered enough".

ps3 gets a bundle/starter pack deal, article: "ps3 starter pack forces you to get games you may not want"

or something along those lines anyway. this time the lair dev's want to spnd a few extra weeks tweaking the control scheme and somehow this is doom and gloom for the whole game, and next the ps3 will die!. ok, it's more subtly worded... but the bias is obvious to me.

... or am i alone in finding this a bit tiresome. i suppose i can never get enough of the microsoft blunders... maybe you just have to be of a specific mind set to appreciate the editorial style here, and if you dont happen to share the mindset you're on your own.

Wasn't this a Launch Game?

So much for the PS3 "launch window" closing anytime soon.

OT: Caps Lock - bad

You know, between 'LAIR' and 'THEY' apparently trying to muscle their way through using all big letters, I'm starting to loose all faith in mankind.

I'm hoping that the game is still _called_ Lair (sans all caps), because that trend is definitely not something I want to be a part of.

Re:yawn

I own one. I'm a person. I have more than one friend who ones one. Collectively, we are people.

Can I kick you awake now?