Gonna call it: I think it will slip again, and will be a launch wave title for PS5. They just don't want to say that right now as that would involve it slipping out of this FY and that would look bad.
Fair enough but I'd vote it's around monitisation and maybe some slippage. It doesn't make sense to delay until next gen unless the game is so bad at this point that's the only salvage. You'd be losing out on 8-12m sales now from releasing the game, plus having to keep a large developer team on it. You could just release Doom Eternal GOTY 8K edition for the new consoles a year later.
We can compare notes after launch but my guess is this new online mode has got some form of lootbox/battle pass/MTX system that just wasn't part of the original development and isn't ready.
Yep, you could be right. The game looks like it is very closely built on the previous game, which means that there should have been fewer development surprises. Unless they came from new elements. It's a significant enough delay for a game that was already so close to its release date.
Maybe Bethesda pushed it back to ensure it launched without issue, they've suffered hard from launching sub-par titles in weak condition for the last year or two so maybe tried caution this time out
Maybe. If you read the Wikipedia page on Doom Eternal the multiplayer is being developed in-house rather then outsourced. There is a quote about iD wanting to make the multiplayer more "social" and "connected" to the campaign. This just makes me think they are trying to ram MTX into the game, Breakpoint style. Hopefully I'm wrong.
I hoped it doesn't Stay unfinished because Bethesda could Save Our Love and we'd be Just a Step from Heaven, which would be So Good that, Oh Baby I... I go Crazy thinking about the Power of a Woman with a BFG and I Am Blessed by this Good Thing.
Who Are You? Someday I'll share my Secrets about my passion for Doom, but Don't You Love Me when I enthuse about the game? I guess I Wanna Be the Only One who gets excited, but I don't care Think About Me, Angel of Mine, because What'cha Gonna Do?
I hoped it doesn't Stay unfinished because Bethesda could Save Our Love and we'd be Just a Step from Heaven, which would be So Good that, Oh Baby I... I go Crazy thinking about the Power of a Woman with a BFG and I Am Blessed by this Good Thing.
Who Are You? Someday I'll share my Secrets about my passion for Doom, but Don't You Love Me when I enthuse about the game? I guess I Wanna Be the Only One who gets excited, but I don't care Think About Me, Angel of Mine, because What'cha Gonna Do?
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