Originally posted by BillMurphy

It's not up for GotY, but we removed it from Most Innovative.

Oh? I thought we were nominated for Most Innovative Launch Procedure.

Ackbar writes:

Also from the blog :

"...We regret the last minute announcement, we had to agree on this with several parties and get approval from all our departments so we’ve been agonizing over this since last week.  We do appreciate your understanding on this, it was not an easy or a pleasant decision for us to make, especially at the last minute, and we feel badly that we’re not true to our word..."

Originally posted by Badaboom
What a bunch of childish whiners.  Yes AV communicated poorly.  Yes the news is disappointing.  That is no excuse for some of the behaviour being shown.    

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I'm happy about them finally realising that a Beta is the best thing for the game before going live on such a big platform like steam.

However i'm dissapointed how they thought telling us 2 hours before release was okay. 

NO Aventurine, Tell us in advance next time. This created ALOT of unneeded drama and had you just told us about the beta 1 week ago it would've been fine

Originally posted by Kaminaxius

However i'm dissapointed how they thought telling us 2 hours before release was okay. 

NO Aventurine, Tell us in advance next time. This created ALOT of unneeded drama and had you just told us about the beta 1 week ago it would've been fine

Fact:Actually Tasos announced the new delay 45 mins prior to launch!!

People are going to cry but in the end it's better for AV to have the game ready for launch - otherwise they'll be whining about the game not finished.

Since I played Darkfall 1.0 I know to expect from these guys but I also know that the game will be great when it is finished and even better now since it's been re-designed.

Too many games are being launched too early (::cough:: SWTOR ::cough::) and then crash and burn and that needs to stop. However, AV should not have listed a hard date for launch unless they new with absolute certainty they were ready....it just makes them look inept.

Kids these days, beta will be good for the game.

You would've only cried when it launched with the bugs not squashed in a public beta.

mmorpg.com got tasossed aswell..

Welcome to the club..

Good decision to remove darkfall from voting..

Not one person is surprised by these news, which  leaves me and others wondering, why oh why did AV not just honestly tell about the pushback earlier? Or why did they, indeed, choose such a close release date in the beginning.

Why not just play it safe at once and give a launch date that you actually have a chance of reaching. An early launch, if successful, isn't necessarily even very important. Why does AV always end up taking the risk, overestimating their development speed?

Oh well, not like I wouldn't forgive them. A beta will for sure be better for the game, but I do hope that all the let-downs AV has caused so far haven't shrinked the population of the to-be players by a margin too high.

People speak as if the beta launch date is certain and as if the launch in January in certain.

You just don't learn do you?