Avowed - Delayed to February 18, 2025

[HiddenX]

Gematsu reports that Avowed has been delayed to February 18, 2025.

More information.

 

[Heckle]

Good. Hopefully the extra time will allow them to make this one great. I’d like them to stick the landing on this one so that the IP lives on.

 

[Vaelith]

The delay won't guarantee that it's a good game, but it does mean it will be more polished than releasing earlier. Honesty, their main motivation should be chosing a good release window where their game won't be eclipsed by some other big launch. For anyone that's not the top-dog in the 'hood (think Rockstar, Larian, maybe CDProjeckt and Bethesda) that will get the product to more people than anything else.

 

[rjshae]

I'm definitely looking forward to it; the IP has a lot of potential. But I do hope that some they they revisit the first two games and cap it with a third isometric release.

 

[Couchpotato]

Josh keeps saying he wants to make another Pillars of Eternity, but with the low sales of the sequel and being owned by Microsoft, I have a feeling it'll never happen.

 

[Vaelith]

I keep wishing on that myself, but PoE2 apparently didn't sell more than 500,000 copies and I think I read around that for Obsidian it wasn't really a financial success, and at best, it just covered the costs of making it.

We'll see I suppose, at least now they're not at risk of dissolving if the game fails, as they're working with Microsoft's wallet. They might still get dismantled/repurposed if they don't pull their weight, though.

 

[Couchpotato]

Yeah their future probably rests on how well Avowed and Outer Worlds 2 sells.

Though it looks like MS is using them to push Game-Pass though.

 

[Redglyph]

Wasn't this discussed in another thread already? I'm getting really confused by all those double-threads, sometimes.

 

[Couchpotato]

Nothing new each game always has multiple threads and members comment on the newer thread. Anyway the other thread was a rumor, and this was the confirmation with the new date.