Dune a delay: Just as it’s about to launch, the promising Dune Awakening gets pushed back a month following beta feedback

The MMO has been pushed backmost from its intended May merchandise date

Dune Awakening has been delayed from its intended May 15 merchandise date, pushed backmost by conscionable nether a period to June 10. This comes pursuing feedback from its closed beta testers, who person led Funcom reason it needs "a spot much clip to cook".

This abrupt announcement was posted connected societal media platforms for the crippled including Twitter for anxious players to find, and makes the bitter sensation of atrocious quality a small easier to swallow with the announcement of a ample standard beta play adjacent period to get much radical in! This is simply a no-brainer decision, arsenic Funcom volition person surely paid for server abstraction during the period of May that would different beryllium near barren...like Dune.

This quality evidently sucks for those anxious to play the crippled (and possibly adjacent constitute a fewer guides connected it), but arsenic anyone who has played an MMO astatine motorboat volition archer you, it's the archetypal fewer days that substance astir to funny players. If they log successful for the motorboat and the crippled has issues, beryllium it server stableness oregon method faults, oregon conscionable excessively galore ocular bugs, players volition crook it disconnected and ne'er footwear it up again.

This tin interaction adjacent the hardiest of MMO IPs - immoderate of you whitethorn retrieve the motorboat acquisition for World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, which was a atrocious commencement to an already unsmooth expansion, turning disconnected many.

If determination is simply a metallic lining, it's that the beta adjacent period volition springiness the squad a decent thought of the appetite for Dune Awakening connected launch, and let it to set server capableness accordingly. That's astir it. But it's inactive astir apt a bully move, and 1 that'll wounded the squad too. You lone got to look astatine Path of Exile 2's past infinitesimal delay, which outgo them implicit a cardinal dollars, to cognize these decisions can't beryllium made hamfistedly.

Let america cognize what you deliberation below! Was this the close call?