Square Enix delays Deus Ex, slashes forecast

@wbezuidenhout I completely agree with you... but sometimes the "b1tchers" can be correct, some games get delayed, yet the quality of the game hasn't entirely been improved. When a game is delayed it is never to make any MASSIVE changes, unless the company released a too optimistic release date and had to move it, otherwise their game will be no better than the origional pong. This Deus will come back in the new release date looking the exact same way it did, play the exact same it did, and feel the same way it did before the delay. The only thing that will be different will be far less glitches, more polish on sounds etc or maybe a bit more interacticty with objects. I can bet that after this delay Deus will look the exact same way it does now, the changes unknown to the player... If im wrong, good on Eidos, but i don't think i will be. on the topic, not fussed on the delay, there is plenty coming out to fill the gap

I don't mind this setback as long as we get a game that's on the level of the first Deus Ex.

stupid square enix. the one title i enjoy by them and they need to push it back. ugh. maybe they should have spent no time on the colossal failure that was FF14 and all of it on Deus Ex 3.

I just caught wind of this from G.I. I've been a Deus Ex fan since the first, and if you're a fan... it means you suffered through the near-intolerable attempt of a sequel! Come on Square, I just put my pre-order down!

Hmm.. I'm having Alpha Protocol flashbacks. I hope I'm just being paranoid, but with FF14, it's hard to be optimistic.

@harman26, and what happens when they release the game too early, unfinished and unpolished? You'll be right here again b1tching about the lack of quality and how you hate them for releasing a beta. I seriously don't get most gamers, on one hand there'll be tears and anger at a game released too soon, and on the other, when there's a delay (because they don't want the previously mentioned situation) they get the same reaction. If you are one of the people complaining about delays, I don't EVER want to see you b1tch about the quality of a game. If you do, you prove yourself to be a complete moron and hypocrite. PS - Square, take your time and DO IT RIGHT. I don't care if I wait another year as long as you use the time well. Take a page out of Blizzard's book, they don't give two sh1ts about delaying a game, and we all know the quality of the games coming out of their stables.

No worries. I'm going to order the first Deus Ex games to catch up on the hype.

Hope to god that this is some sort of fluke or bad info.

And yet, no where on Square's website, nor the Deus Ex website do they confirm or deny this, everything still indicates a March release.

Disappointing... still hoping for a good game though!

Damn, deus ex was my favorite game of all time and I am a hardcore gamer. I guess I'll switch my attention to mass effect instead.

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hey have you any brain ?? if you delayed the date every one will hate this game i have waited two years for this game now they again delayed wtf i have selled my bike for this game to pre order it but now f,,,,

Delays doesn't bother me much, unless we are talking Duke Nukem delays :)

I'd rather they delay the game and make sure it lives up to the Deus Ex name than rush to meet a deadline and present a half-baked disappointment. Don't get me wrong, I am mildly depressed at this news, but by all means Eidos-Montreal, take as long as you feel you need. A lot of people have put their confidence in you, myself included.

Seriously, google this story and you will find most sites are reporting this as 1, 2 or 3 months at the most. This article is alarmist and should be edited to reflect that. What would be the point of waiting til the next fiscal year if they would just push it back to the END of the next fiscal year.... thereby making the profits of this game very small for the next fiscal year.... which is the opposite of what they want to do.... This is simple economics... square saw that DE:HR was going to come out during a time when a lot of other big games are going to come out, so they decided to wait for a quiter time and buy some free publicity by delaying it, which is honestly a big side effect of the delay. Basically, they realized that they needed to milk DE:HR for all its worth. Soapbox disengage.

Side note, I'm going to take out my frustration by hating Final Fantasy XIV....

Duuuuuuude!!!!! why? ugh. This was my first big game of next year. Not anymore...

Bummer for Deus Ex

very dissapointing news indeed.

Its still vague, they say its been moved to the next fiscal year, well that begins this april... so they are saying its not coming before this coming april but will be out by the next. The financial year runs april to april, so really its not saying anything other than it wont come out before this april. DONT PANIC, theres time for the situation to change, so dont hang yourselves before we hear more.

Arghhh! another year! I had preordered it.... I went out and bought the 2 older games and replayed them last year... let's hope that not everyone moves their dates....

This is terrible! I was really looking forward to the new Dues Ex.

wow another year to wait at least, as a gamer you have to learn patience.

Man this SUCKS!!! I'm old school and have played the Deus Ex series since the first one on PC years ago. I honestly liked the second one too. The diversity in game-play for something like a FPS/RPG hybrid was way ahead of it's time compared to other games of it's type in it's day. I hope that new release is just a "possibility" and not set in stone. From the earlier footage shown and what I've found on other sites I would guess the game is pretty far along in actual development. Maybe they can still get it out before 2012. Let's hope!!! Also, a modern remake of FF3 would be seriously AWESOME :)

@Quezakolt You hit the nail on the head. That's exactly what has been happening with the gaming industry lately; an emphasis on trying to appeal strictly to certain demographics as opposed to making a game with heart and soul. There's far too much analysis on games and breaking them into parts like "oh well here's the great gameplay, here's the great story, here's the graphics, oh for the story we have to make everything seem clever and funny/ sarcastic etc, and for the gameplay it has to be extremely simple with not much depth so no one feels left out and so we can sell more". Considering how expensive game development has become, it makes sense that companies would think like this. Unfortunately though, I don't see this kind of mentality going away any time soon. You see, the more people that get involved in the gaming industry, the more people that have stakes in it and rely on it. They can only care about the money, because they put too much into it, so they wouldn't dare make games with soul. Too risky for them...

Another game delay. Shocking.....

this is s*** news!!!!

I think it's kinda moronic to hype the game nicely, show lots of good looking gameplay and then delay it by a year. Shows a severe disconnect between the Japanese SE heads and every other part of this game. They'd better not try anything revolutionary (aka stupid)......

Oh great, this better not end up another "Duke Nukem Forever" case.

@squallgunblade7 a ff8 remake would be cool too. i think ff7 just stands out for me because it was like the first rpg and final fantasy i played. But a remake of ff8 would be awesome aswell.

I think that Square_Enix trying to spend too much money on making their games too much like western games when they could have saved allot more money by making anime style games and still had a big proffit. At least that is what my ture feelings are, considering many other western publishers are trying to spend so much on trying to make their games as real as possible that they are almost sending their developer teams broke. If 1 million copies sold is not enough to turn a proffit, then something must be wrong here.

I reckon Square and Enix should have remained seperate, for the simple reason that they had kind of ruined the Final Fantasy franchise. Squaresoft made the better games in the franchise, I reckon.

What a shame.

They shouldn't have given an exact date. they should have just said 2011 when they announced it then it wouldn't be so bad when delays happen. I wonder how many games are going to be pushed back next year.........

MAAAAN! Why does this always happen? I swear companies just give release dates so they can push them back...

Why the British pound that nearly no one uses anymore and not the Euro? After all the GBP is tied to the EUR, not to the USD...

I feel that part of the decline of Japanese video games businesses is that people are less open-minded than they used to be- also the quality of the games per se is on decline because someone sold them the idea that they had to make games for a specific market, thus killing the biggest potential of Japanese video games - their soul, their art & their hearts. In general video games are in decline, also American & European video games. I believe because of strong markets and dominance of share-holder mentality, we live in a dark age. There are still gems to be found. You just have to follow your heart not the reviews or advertisements. That being said I plan to stick with my passion for Japanese video games because they still fascinate me, despite the huge drop in quality.

@GravityDs id say the connection betweens squares decline since its merger has a lot more to do with the rest of the video game industry and the problems japan is having in general. Inafune from capcom said it best, the japanese developers are just out of touch, they dont know how to do story telling anymore. They script everything like it is an anime, except the japense dont like conclusions they like open endings. They also dont know how to structure things to be non linear.

@thelegendlives5 agreed. im not too stoked for this title so it needs to be an A title or i wont be buying it. @squallgunblade7 i like 8 better then 7 too, but no, ff7 and ff10 are the two most popular titles, not 8. Personally my favorite is still ff6..

In the name of quality, delay it as much as you want, just give us a quality product in the end :)

@Ajaycloud i would prefer a ff8 remake over ff7 remake and if they ever did it it would be 8 since the japanese fans want it more than they want 7 remake and Japanese game devolopers are very loyal to their Japanese fanbase

I hope they do give it a nice spit and shine, in fact, LOTs of spit and shine. I am always scared when people try to do tributes or say they are staying true to the original etc. It's always easier said than done.

After FF13 SEnix seems to lost the direction for future games.

I wont be buying now after Square Enix decided to leave us Supreme Commander 2 console players in the dark! Saying that i dont intend to buy anything with the signature of Square Enix on it!

Argghh

wow really, 1 year I have to wait. I was sooo psyched for this game to come out. But on the other hand, take your time enix. More time spent on it, the better.;)

I'm gonna play the role of the skeptic here, and I also think Square and Enix were far better off as separate companies. If they were really smart about it they would have gotten the guys from ION Storm to make this game. Not only has square-enix gone down in quality since their solo days, they're financially not doing well, which means to me when they say "polish", that they haven't had the resources that a project like this demands, and that the game isn't that great at whatever part of development they're currently at. I really hope this game doesn't suck, and in all honesty if it's not as good as the first or better, it won't do that well. The first Deus Ex is so incredible it's beyond categorizing. It's is a god amongst games. Long Live HELIOS!!!!!

Take your time, just get it right, as nothing less than perfect will do.