Project CARS release date moves to May 2015

[LogiForce]

It's official. The release has been delayed, again:
http://www.wmdportal.com/projectnews/project-cars-release-date-moves-to-may-2015/

Now I wonder if GTA 5 for PC will be delayed again as well. It's been the case every time so far.

 

[OneBadHuskerFan]

I guess PD has just given me thick skin over the years. Of course that makes me wonder, is it worse to delay it once for a long time (al la PD), or do a bunch of smaller delays?


Jerome

As far as I'm concerned a bunch of smaller delays is MUCH worse.

 

[thedottore46]

I'm not going to have an angry rant. That's pointless.

However, why state a two week delay if that's not really enough time?... clearly this was the case. I'd rather they have stated nothing at all, then announce a 2 month delay... rather than "oh give us a little more time then you can have it..." then later say this. It's more annoying than anything.

Totally agreed, says me as WMD member. We heard the news synch'd to you btw But nevertheless, the current bugfreeness is 100% better than any EA title, 2 times delayed and 3 times patched

 

[scubieroo]

Have a feeling its the xbone causing the issues but SMS can't call them out on it

 

[bleeder]

I wonder if they announced the delay the day before the Baftas event because they didn't want to spend 3 days lying to people and saying it's out April 2nd? now they can just smile and say 'mid-May'.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Developer wants to finish the game before releasing it shocker. 👍

More developers should have this attitude. It beats the hell out of buying almost working software.

 

[avilab]

I'm so mentally invested in this game, so I can't give up on it now. But man, please release this game on the next set date. I need this game so bad.

 

[FuriousDemon]

Have a feeling its the xbone causing the issues but SMS can't call them out on it

hm...I'm not going to say much here, but you may be very close to the truth. Can't be certain but...

 

[GTAndy36]

Developer wants to finish the game before releasing it shocker. 👍

More developers should have this attitude. It beats the hell out of buying almost working software.

Sure.
But also developers should be honest with their reasonings. "Polishing" is not a reason. Why have you decided to delay?! Not even WMD members know.

 

[V8-Johnboy]

Feels quite appropriate at the moment.......Oh cock!

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Since it's been delayed again I think we should all be given free season passes

 

[OneBadHuskerFan]

Developer wants to finish the game before releasing it shocker. 👍

More developers should have this attitude. It beats the hell out of buying almost working software.

That mentality is fine if you don't string along your customers. Just say "we'll announce when it's ready", not have a release date and then delay it multiple times.

 

[Cholton82]

No smoke without fire with that rumour then !! Absolute toss .
I wouldn't be surprised if it's not out until November at this rate .
I think this is really quite shocking from a pr point of view , it makes you look highly incompetent .
They should of delayed it for longer the first time and not given themselves an unrealistic target .
Poor show SMS

 

[swg]

Developer wants to finish the game before releasing it shocker. 👍

More developers should have this attitude. It beats the hell out of buying almost working software.

There's a very definite line between it being a good idea to to hold off on releasing something in order to make it better and endlessly delaying something to the point that your customer base is so disgruntled that you're going to end up losing more sales and reputation based on the delays than you would have by releasing the product "unfinished". PD crossed that line with GT5 and codemasters seem to be making a habit of never even reaching that line and just releasing half baked garbage. I hate to see the one shining light for the racing community (on console) that SMS had the potential to represent, snuffed out because of bad decision making/politics/business practice or whatever this mysterious issue is.

 

[blowfishrulez]

That mentality is fine if you don't string along your customers. Just say "we'll announce when it's ready", not have a release date and then delay it multiple times.

Agreed, it's more of a PR desaster then anything else.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Double edged sword for SMS. Release the game in April with a couple of small bugs and 1 potentially big one and the community goes mental, slagging them off left right and center, accusing them of releasing an unfinished game, or, bite the bullet and delay it, knowing the uproar that will generate but be able to release and finished and bug free game.

I am fine with the delay, I still get my builds on Steam and can still enjoy the fruits of what pCars has to offer. I will be less fine with the delays if the released game is buggy. Then I will stop caring because I will have the game.

 

[swg]

Agreed, it's more of a PR desaster then anything else.

Hopefully agreed as well. The problem is though that when a company loses confidence for whatever perceived reason all too often the final product ends up justifying the loss. (ahem...PD...cough) The worse the delay the closer to absolute perfection the end result has to be to make up for it and eventually now matter how great it was it'll just end up a bargain bin title that had such potential.

 

[blowfishrulez]

I know, its a dangerous game to play.

 

[Iron Monk]

SMS what are you doing to me! Hype train well and truly derailed. I've been following this game for about a year now and this is the third let down, is it ever gonna come out?

Witcher 3 is out mid May, another delay incoming?

 

[swg]

Double edged sword for SMS. Release the game in April with a couple of small bugs and 1 potentially big one and the community goes mental, slagging them off left right and center, accusing them of releasing an unfinished game, or, bite the bullet and delay it, knowing the uproar that will generate but be able to release and finished and bug free game.

I am fine with the delay, I still get my builds on Steam and can still enjoy the fruits of what pCars has to offer. I will be less fine with the delays if the released game is buggy. Then I will stop caring because I will have the game.

Bugs can be fixed and a developer that follows through with their product and fixes them quickly and successfully will earn nothing but respect from the consumer. You can win back a customer who was unhappy with what they initially got. It's harder to gain a customer who has already dismissed you. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission and all that.

 

[Cholton82]

When it was due back in November I thought great this will kill the cold dark winter nights , now with a earliest release date of mid/end of May I'm thinking I won't get much chance to play it as when the weathers good I'd rather be out in the sun . However this is England I'm talking about so it will probably rain anyhow !

 

[AnfLaw]

Having played Battlefield 4 for the last 18 months in it's various states of readiness, from its unbelievable poor launch to its dozen patches dragging it by its shoelaces up to mediocre status, and the most recent one pulling it into something that is somewhat playable... And having had the original development team actually drop the project in favour of its next big budget title and hand it off to it's smaller, usually DLC tasked team to be fixed. Playing something you know could be good but isn't... is so much worse than waiting for it in to be finished in the first place.

That being said... The way they've gone about these delays has been handled quiet poorly. At this point, the lack of communication is what's bothering me the most. When the rumours of the delays first started yesterday, I went straight to twitter to see if there was any chatter, and the various regional twitter accounts for Namco/Game stores/Publications were all plugging pre-orders for April 2nd/7th. Bit weird to wake up the next day an announce another delay.

You'd think something like this would have some build up. Instead of just flipping the script.

 

[PzR Slim]

Do we live in an entitled world? Sure seems like it.

Developer releases game on time with a few bugs and gets hammered by the community, developer delays release of game to iron out all bugs and give their community the best possible experience and gets hammered by the community. Go figure.

 

[AnfLaw]

Do we live in an entitled world? Sure seems like it.

We most certainly do. Entitled to opinions. Entitled to emotions, feelings, being upset by something. Entitled to expressing them....

 

[Brend]

I've cancelled my pre-order. I will buy it when it comes out, not in May though. Already got Splatoon and Kirby and Mario Kart 8 DLC in that month.

Shame.

 

[swg]

Having played Battlefield 4 for the last 18 months in it's various states of readiness, from its unbelievable poor launch to its dozen patches dragging it by its shoelaces up to mediocre status, and the most recent one pulling it into something that is somewhat playable...

Like I said, a company that "follows through with their product and fixes them quickly and successfully." BF4 falls into the category with codemasters F1 of, lets release this garbage and then completely fail to follow through and support it. Given SMS's apparent desire to get things right I don't see them falling into that same category and would be much more comfortable going ahead and accepting something they dont consider ready as opposed to something PD or CM thinks is ready to ship. From what the testers and video makers here on these forums have produced alone I have confidence that "polish" wise PCars is ready for the market. The question is, what is REALLY responsible for the delay. Just tossing out the basket response of "a finished product is a good product" just doesn't cover every situation and every delay.

 

[Foxiol]

For those of us who own the game (since October 2011) is not a problem but for the ones that have no idea why this is happening is all because of the licences (they are trying to get them but is not as easy to get them in time, they have to sign contracts and need to approve a lot of content, etc) and of course the game needs some more polishing in some areas.

I like the game more and more with each build (and we get new ones each day), I can assure that it will be fun to play and great to race with it.

Be patient.

 

[PzR Slim]

We most certainly do. Entitled to opinions. Entitled to emotions, feelings, being upset by something. Entitled to expressing them....

You're getting upset at the release of a computer game...

 

[zdmetal]

Do we live in an entitled world? Sure seems like it.

Developer releases game on time with a few bugs and gets hammered by the community, developer delays release of game to iron out all bugs and give their community the best possible experience and gets hammered by the community. Go figure.

This game is going to be buggy regardless, because every game is. At this point, give me the buggy game in April ffs. Last time I schedule time off of work for a game though, learned my lesson the hard way. Why keep announcing dates if you can't stick to them? Same thing goes for GTA on PC.

 

[PzR Slim]

Personally I think they just want more time to play the Assetto Corsa Dream Pack DLC.