Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 2

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I don't understand FG's logic here. Your game is MOSTLY finished and polished, if not totally, and you are prepared to release it "by the end of the summer".

Why not just set a release date? It helps build anticipation and brings attention/press to your project. You gain nothing by holding off on announcing such a date and then a few weeks beforehand going, "Hey guys, Amnesia comes out in 2 weeks! Hope you're ready". Unless you've encountered something unexpected/huge in your game as to cause a delay, announce the damn date already.

Because committing to a date that you aren't confident in and may be forced to delay is leagues worse than giving it that extra couple weeks of polish.

That would make sense if
1. They didn't already spend a SIGNIFICANT amount of time polishing it and
2. They didn't already make it clear that they would be ready by the end of summer. If they were able to confidently make that assessment months ago, its only logical that they should be confident about A date, even if its not the most ideal one.

My point is that at this point, they should DEFINITELY be able to predict when they will be ready to release their product.

But they did predict! They're very good at that, actually. They said we'd have a release date "soon" and it's been 2 months LOL Just kidding, I totally agree with you. Moreover, I don't care about the crappy talk "time vs quality" people have discussed in here and I hate the ones who keep on kinda of "defending" their delay. At this point we should all be worried, 'cause seriously, 90% of all movies, music albums and games which get delayed that much end up being a piece of ****. Even if the game is good, their timing for announcing game info and trailers was lame. People loose their interest, great new things get released... Whatever, it's their marketing problem. Just don't tell me to shut up "as they have no obbligation to give us info or release it soon", 'cause if it is so, I who have payed for their products in the past, don't think I have the obbligation to keep quiet about this.