rugby24 already delayed maybe bigant are lazy now
It's been fascinating lurking in this thread over the last few months and seeing comments like this. It's a staggering comment when you look at the amount of games they've been involved with over the last few years. That's not to say they're free from criticism - far from it. I have plenty of issues with the state of some things in Cricket 19 and then how Cricket 22 was left, but to call them lazy is just fairly lazy in itself. It's a cheap shot that serves zero purpose. Like most game developers, they developed through the covid lockdowns (of which the Australian lockdowns were among the most brutal), which undoubtedly had a huge impact. An impact that could still be being felt today. Who knows the projects that got put on hold through necessity or canned entirely because of covid.
They are currently on for FOUR game releases in potentially EIGHT months if they somehow hold to the current schedule. I would argue that is the very opposite of laziness. Ill-advised, stretched thin and setting themselves up for trouble? Perhaps. But even then, we don't know what the deadlines are from Nacon or from the various entities they hold licences with. Game development is so much more complex than you seem to be able to imagine. Absolutely criticise bugs in games, design decisions or whatever. But sitting there and calling them lazy is so far from what the truth likely is.
Do you think they wanted to delay the game? The very future of a developer like Big Ant hinges on being able to get a product out there and make money for goodness sake.