Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Game Director Refused Another Delay

[Gamernyc78]

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Game Director Refused Another Delay - Insider Gaming

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched with quite a few issues for players on PC, so why did its game director refuse another delay?

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[ethomaz]

Why CDPR refused another delay?
Why MS refused another delay?
Why?

Presure... basically that... you reach a point or you deliver or you are fired up because Execs won't accept another delay as excuse.

 

[Nym]

People buy broken ass shit on day 1 regardless and then do it again for the next game they can't live a few months without, so they probably see little reason to miss their targets.

 

[John Elden Ring]

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Game Director Refused Another Delay - Insider Gaming

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched with quite a few issues for players on PC, so why did its game director refuse another delay?

insider-gaming.com

When Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched on April 28, it was met with some backlash over its performance on PC. From frame rate drops to stuttering and more, many with even the most powerful machines saw problems. It lead to questions about why the game wasn’t pushed back to sort out those issues. If you look back, however, there was an opportunity to delay the game further, one that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor game director Stig Asmussen refused.

In an interview with IGN back in March, Asmussen was asked how the team at Respawn Entertainment settled on the April 28 launch date after numerous delays, including one from March 17, 2023. He told the outlet that the team was asked how much time they needed, and they settled on six weeks.

“That was exactly April 28,” Asmussen said. “That’s no joke.”

Asmussen added that the team “stress-tested” the date. That included looking at other games releasing around the same time — Redfall and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are two that immediately come to mind — and finding what Respawn and EA believed to be a good spot to fit in.

“There was an option of do we want to extend it a little bit longer, but no we said no we can get it done in six weeks,” he said.

Have PC Issues Hampered Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Sales?​

Despite the issues at launch, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor still became the second-biggest Star Wars launch on Steam. It showed that the team still had a game players wanted to enjoy, and were willing to look past issues with the hope of fixes from Respawn.

That said, Respawn has made it known that the issues for PC players are actively being addressed.

“While there is no single, comprehensive solution for PC performance, the team has been working on fixes we believe will improve performance across a spectrum of configurations,” the company said in a statement on launch day. “We are committed to fixing these issues as soon as possible, but each patch requires significant testing to ensure we don’t introduce new problems.”

 

[nongkris]

Game didn't need a delay, game looks amazing and plays perfectly fine on PS5. PC gamers either need to buy a console and stop whining or accept that most of them have shit hardware to be trying to run next gen games like tlou part 1 and star wars.

 

[Pey]

Game didn't need a delay, game looks amazing and plays perfectly fine on PS5. PC gamers either need to buy a console and stop whining or accept that most of them have shit hardware to be trying to run next gen games like tlou part 1 and star wars.

Why do I need to buy a console because developers are too lazy or incompetent to optimize their games properly like Rockstar does? You're delusional. Unless you're being sarcastic, because the game doesn't run well even on the most expensive CPU and GPU, so it's unacceptable that a $3.000 PC can't run the game properly and a $400 console can.

 

[nongkris]

Why do I need to buy a console because developers are too lazy or incompetent to optimize their games properly like Rockstar does? You're delusional. Unless you're being sarcastic, because the game doesn't run well even on the most expensive CPU and GPU, so it's unacceptable that a $3.000 PC can't run the game properly and a $400 console can.

"Lazy", "incompetent", all buzzwords when the product you got is functioning enough to where I can see streamers playing the game just fine on PC all over the internet. PC gamers are so obsessed with "muh high framerates", that any game more demanding than CSGO is instantly review bombed. Consoles are easier to code for, always has been. If multiple million dollar studios are running into the same issues, they should complain to Nvdia why their 3 thousand dollar hardware is shitting the bed so early in the gen.

 

[anonpuffs]

Game didn't need a delay, game looks amazing and plays perfectly fine on PS5. PC gamers either need to buy a console and stop whining or accept that most of them have shit hardware to be trying to run next gen games like tlou part 1 and star wars.

Nah products you pay full price for need to be in good condition. Idc delay the pc version by 4 weeks for polish. Don't put it out in a mess. And the console version needs a little work too.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Should've signed a temporary exclusivity deal with Sony and focused only on that PS5 version that most people will be playing anyway. 6 months later they could show up with the PC version in a better state. As for the Xbox version, probably not even worth it until MS is willing to pay for the port.