Ashes Cricket delayed officially

[savvart]

Its pretty hard to run games on pc nowdays.

I can run EVERYTHING and ANYTHING on my PC and so can all of my mates????

 

[IceAgeComing]

Now its 15.56. Whts wrong with them really ! Cant decide in 1st time.

If you look carefully, you can see that the ?14.99 is there from Amazon and the ?15.56 is from some third party person who sells through amazon - its just that the latter has said that they have the game while Amazon has moved the release date back. Its actually a jerkish thing to do, since the amazon page implys that the game is released at the moment because of that ?15.56 deal. (Its the same for consoles; Amazon's price of ?32.99 is covered by someone elses price of ?40.66...)

 

[Villain]

Thank you all for your honest feedback. Firstly, we
do feel that we owe you all an apology, informing
you two days before the scheduled release that the
game is being delayed was an error on our part.
Once we accepted that the game was not going to
hit its submission dates, we were contractually
obliged to gain approval from our partners before
communicating a shift in release date. For the
reasons outlined below, this has all happened very
late in the end-phase of the development cycle.
That said, we should have been more transparent
and honest with our community and for this we
sincerely apologise.
We would like to reiterate that this has only been
pushed back as we are 100% committed to
delivering the best possible cricket game, pushing
the boundaries of what has been done in previous
titles. This has always been our focus.
In an effort to make a truly authentic cricket title
and one which stood up to the benchmarks of
current sports games, 505 Games and Trickstar
Games decided to rebuild the technology behind
Ashes Cricket 2013 from scratch. To ensure we
delivered something that met our own
expectations, we had to focus all resource on game
development. As a result, creating assets such as
screenshots or videos had to be put on hold so the
team could completely focus on the development of
the game. We understand that this hasn't been
popular with the community to date.
However, it is neither in the nature of Trickstar
Games nor 505 Games of finding excuses, but
rather solutions. And while we continue to pursue
our goal, we want to work with our communities to
help you understand our issues and be more
transparent in the problems we have experienced.
We understand that many of you feel there has not
been enough communication. In an effort to rectify
this we are to going open up a direct line of
communication between you, the real cricket fans,
and the Trickstar development team. What we
would like to do is ask you to send us your
questions as a post below. The top 10 most
frequently asked questions will then be answered in
video form from Mike Fegan who heads up
Trickstar Games. All other questions will be replied
to in text as soon as humanly possible.
Every week, between now and release we will be
posting a video answering the top 10 questions of
that week and giving you an update on where we
are in terms of physically releasing the game. As
soon as we can be 100% sure when the game will
be released we will tell you an exact date. We are
also pointing some additional resource at asset
development, such as screenshots and videos as
we understand you all want to see where we are at
and how the game is going to look. As a result, we
will be releasing more assets very shortly.
Please post your questions below. We are
committed to our community and to releasing a
game that we are all proud of.

-Official Facebook page.

 

[cricket_online]

Too late for the apology though. The horse's bolted and I don't think I can ever take 505 Games or Mike Fegan's word at face value.

One interesting thing to note is that Chief/Jamie is nowhere in this communication channel/mechanism proposed by 505 Games. Looks like Chief will continue to work on his podcasts, if he's still with 505 Games that is.

 

[savvart]

To ensure we delivered something that met our own expectations, we had to focus all resource on game development. As a result, creating assets such as screenshots or videos had to be put on hold so the team could completely focus on the development of the game.


What are we 8 years old???

Is it really that difficult to create a screenshot???

 

[cricket_online]

To ensure we delivered something that met our own expectations, we had to focus all resource on game development. As a result, creating assets such as screenshots or videos had to be put on hold so the team could completely focus on the development of the game.


What are we 8 years old???

Is it really that difficult to create a screenshot???

If you don't have a game, it is

 

[Biggs]

They should've been giving us videos of what the game might look like as envisaged through interpretive dancing.

 

[sohail]

just a quick update i spoke my mate who works in GAME and he told me Ashes Cricket 2013 is scheduled to release on 19th July it was in the list of releases that time. It might be true or it might be total BS so who knows, we will have to wait and see "again".

 

[Pakistani Army]

just a quick update i spoke my mate who works in GAME and he told me Ashes Cricket 2013 is scheduled to release on 19th July it was in the list of releases that time. It might be true or it might be total BS so who knows, we will have to wait and see "again".

Thanks a lot for the information brother. I guess we will have to see if in these three weeks leading up to the 19th July, there is additional activity from 505 Games - in terms of further screenshots and previews.

 

[cricket_online]

just a quick update i spoke my mate who works in GAME and he told me Ashes Cricket 2013 is scheduled to release on 19th July it was in the list of releases that time. It might be true or it might be total BS so who knows, we will have to wait and see "again".

That's just the placeholder date and realistically even August release seems to be a bit of a reach at the moment.

 

[sami ullah khan]

I can't believe people are still holding their breath for this game after how developers have made a mockery of the potential consumers.

 

[graham]

Thanks to VideoGamer for this piece ...

(Publisher accepts that it should have been "more transparent [about] the problems [it has] experienced".

505 Games has apologised for Ashes Cricket 2013's last-minute delay, stating that it "should have been more transparent and honest" with fans after discovering that the game "was not going to hit its submission dates", before reiterating that it is "100% committed to delivering the best possible cricket game".

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/a...for_last-minute_ashes_cricket_2013_delay.html

Glad to see press have picked up on Ashes 13
Cock up !

 

[RobinHood]

All release dates are just guesses at the moment because 505 themselves have no idea.

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I can't believe people are still holding their breath for this game after how developers have made a mockery of the potential consumers.

If it's good (that's a BIG if) then people will buy it, that's the bottom line.

 

[cricket_online]

If it's good (that's a BIG if) then people will buy it, that's the bottom line.

True. It's not as if we are spoilt for choice as the footie folks are. But I hope folks buy both the games coming out this year *fingers crossed*

 

[MattW]

I'll pick this up here so I don't need to yell at myself for being off topic,

I think they would be mad to release what I saw tonight, absolutely mad.

I think the original delay announcement would have been to the Australian series at that time if delaying it over the quality of the product was a possibility.

They have a license to cash in on, I think it will release the moment they can slip through platform approvals.