CONFIRMED: NBA Elite 11 Delayed until 2011

[rangerrick012]

Wow...surprised a company would come out and admit a mistake like this. Props on that end for not taking money from consumers when they felt the product wasn't up to snuff, but this has to go down as a bit of an embarrassment for EA.

[TheKasmar]

Quote: Originally Posted by da ThRONe

No disrespect but for me this completely undermines rEAnimation word. He has been pretty honest ,but this makes him seem like a lair. If the game is as good as he says it is why this delay?

That seems like kind of an unfair statement. We dont know who made the decision for the delay. I'm sure he was doing the best he could with the tools available he had at the time. He may have been as surprised as some of us.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by da ThRONe

I agree that this is done for us ,but because of us. But I do disagree about what can be done in a 3-5months. 5months is probably more than half a development cycle. There is a lot the can improve in that time.

As I said, if they were truly only 70% done with the game they storyboarded from the start and need that extra 3-5 months to finish, that's one thing (after all, Polyphony has been doing that with Gran Turismo 5). However, if they were finished with their intended product and need to wipe away or tack on percentage points to get the game to be successful, that is quite an invaluable waste of time just for them to get their game on par.

The only good that can come out of this is that means they will get 16 months for NBA Elite 13, so they can pre-plan it as so. I'll have high hopes for that basketball game.

[icecoldcash]

Will I need to buy EA's $10.00 "Passport" to get NBA Live 10 rosters online?

[HotSauce2k3]

Swallowed a lot of pride to do this. This is basically the white flag for this year. I won't say wise move because this will clearly hurt them in the short term. We'll see if it will help them in the long run as they now have more time to work on the game.

[koolaid251]

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

Like I said previously, Give Littman time with this series and he'll do for basketball what he and the NHL team did for hockey. I have no doubts that within 2-3 years, Live/Elite and NBA2k are on the same page if not Live/Elite being the better game much like NHL being the better of the two currently.

I doubt that seriously

[da ThRONe]

Quote: Originally Posted by HoosierDaddy

come on now, just because they have delayed the game doesn't change the opinion a developer has on the game, or even a consumer. Some people think it's a decent game, most of us are in agreement that it's a beta-like game that needs tons more depth. Whatever the case may be, I commend EA for swallowing their pride and admitting it's not a finished product.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr.Wednesday

I wouldn't go that far and call him a liar. He said (I'm paraphrasing this), the game was good to him. It's just his opinion. He also said the demo was a pretty good representation of the final product. Based on the reaction to the demo, I think it was a good decision to delay it.

I think you guys missed the point of my post. I think rEAnimator has been one of the most honest dev. since I started following the development of games. ,BUT There is no way this game would be getting delayed months if it was up to par. You guys have any idea how much money they are losing delaying this game? So either he was lying or his opinion of what a good basketball game is completely off. Something is really wrong if the Head of EA has to come out and basically issue an apology and delay the game. There is no way you can tell me a game that is so bad it needs to be delayed a week before release is good enough to come here and endorse. Sorry but somebody is wrong here.

[trobinson97]

Very very good move and this instills a lot of confidence in EA from me that they are trying to please the customer as opposed to tricking the customer. I haven't bought an EA basketball game in five years now. Looking forward to seeing what they bring to the table next year.

Seriously, kudos to them for this move.