Alpha Protocol - Short Delay?

A least two online retailers have moved out Alpha Protocol's release date with Amazon and GameStop both now showing October 27. There's no official word yet but we'll keep an eye out.
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Oh dear. Well, that leaves Risen all alone in early October, doesn't it? Rats. I was hoping to do Alpha first and let Risen get some patches before I played.

P.S. IGN has also moved to date to October 27.

Oh well … I actually am fine with the spread of games … just hope it all works out.

Originally Posted by Zloth
Oh dear. Well, that leaves Risen all alone in early October, doesn't it? Rats. I was hoping to do Alpha first and let Risen get some patches before I played.

P.S. IGN has also moved to date to October 27.

Alpha Protocol might need the patches ;-)

Hopefully its only a short delay. The two biggest South African gaming etailers have moved it to a 2010 release on their sites.

The good thing about Risen being on time, is that it's the one I'm looking forward to the most

Indeed, as long as Risen is out in time, I'll be occupied untill DA:O/AP/Div2/etc are out, even if they get pushed back a bit.

Delayed due to bugs maybe. I remember reading a report of this being a bug ridden game. Maybe it was here.

RPG overdose problem solved for October.

The latest PC Gamer mag out in the US had it slated for October, and they also made a point that 6000 bugs had been fixed during development.

Good! If they test a little bit before release it might even already be *Beta Protocol*!

Originally Posted by Melvil
The latest PC Gamer mag out in the US had it slated for October, and they also made a point that 6000 bugs had been fixed during development.

That's…. a really strange statistic.

Bug #1: There is no exe to run.
Developer response a couple of years later: Fixed - wrote a game.

Yeah yeah, I know, they probably just counted the number of bugs logged in their change tracking system, but it's still a weird statistic.

6000 bugs is not an unusual number. We have several thousand logged into our U6P bug tracker and we're working with an established engine and resources.

Just reporting the reported facts

Yeah but what does it mean? Does it mean they had a really great QA cycle where every bug you could possibly run into was fixed? Does it mean they had a really awful development cycle and produced exceptionally awful code? Does it mean they were trying to maximize the number of bugs? (Hey look, that paragraph is in all caps! Write up a bug for each letter that's wrong!) I have no idea.

I guess we'll know in a month.

Originally Posted by Zloth
Yeah but what does it mean? Does it mean they had a really great QA cycle where every bug you could possibly run into was fixed? Does it mean they had a really awful development cycle and produced exceptionally awful code? Does it mean they were trying to maximize the number of bugs? .

It means that most of us will be playing Risen first.

Am I the only one who thinks Risen have all the potential in the world to be buggier than Alpha Protocol?

Originally Posted by Starwars
Am I the only one who thinks Risen have all the potential in the world to be buggier than Alpha Protocol?

Well, most games have that potential.

However, very VERY few games have the potential to be as good as Risen - and in my opinion a lot of games have the potential to be as good as Alpha Protocol seems to be.

I'm pretty much the opposite, at least regarding Risen. I'm not *crazy* about AP (not a fan of action-RPGs in general), but I'm quite a lot more interested in that vs any other games coming out soon.

Originally Posted by Starwars
I'm pretty much the opposite, at least regarding Risen. I'm not *crazy* about AP (not a fan of action-RPGs in general), but I'm quite a lot more interested in that vs any other games coming out soon.

Such is a way in which we can all differ