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My estimated Release Date!
burdock2
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I feel they will launch this game on March 16th, 2014, to co-incide with the 15 year anniversary of the original EQ. I believe they will start closed beta around the end of August until end of January, and then Open Beta from end of January to March 16th.
This is just my speculation, and I hope that when they do a closed beta, they do a big one and give many people the chance to participate and stress the servers.
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SOE live, or close to it, will be the start of open beta. They've already been doing closed beta with in house testers and are going to get their product out of the gate as fast as possible to get a lead on the competition.
August 2nd - August 30th will start open beta.
Release will happen sometime in September - November, to be ready for the holidays.
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march is one of the slowest times for game purchases for consoles, not sure about PC.
If anything they will plan for a release right before Dec of this year, or if they can't meet it, right before Summer 2014. Both are high purchase times for the gaming community and would maximize their profits for box sales (if they go that route)
The people that are trying to make the world worse never take a day off , why should I. Light up the darkness Bob Marley
I agree, though I don't think they have to rush their product. With Blizzard's pushback on WoW2 (whatever it is), I predict next spring/summer post public beta. I just hope they don't leave it in beta... i'm a bit discouraged by these AAA title publishers leaving titles in open beta for months at a time. I'm sure there are reasons behind it that i'll never know or care. IMO Test it, package it, ship it - perfect is an illusion.
If they are really pushing for a 2013 release like Smedley makes it sound, then I pick mid-late November.
If it doesn't happen then, I pick April as the next earliest available date.
Well I already predicted a late spring launch date a couple of weeks back when I said November 11.
P.S. I really wish people would stop using seasons as a reference point in time lines, once you cross the equator they are all the other way round and we have had this wonderful innovation called ""months"" for some time now.
It's possible that Blizz realized sandbox was the trend and are re-doing Titan for the same reason SOE re-did EQN, and are waiting for SOE to show their hand, and SOE know this which is why they are holding back till Aug, they may have intended a reveal at E3 (which is why they had a press demo ready).
This may mean that whatever innovative features EQN has can be quickly copied over onto another mmo, such as Rift or GW2, depending on how fundamentally sandboxy and engine taxing they are. I can see Trion being able to copy some EQN features pretty fast, and Wildstar too, as they are not restricted by IP.
Or SOE are simply worried about mmos being made from scratch with their ideas, in which case they are comfortable with a year or 2 of further development in the open before launch.
November is my guess aswell.
They've been doing alpha in house. Closed beta will probably be September with open beta/release right around christmas
In an interview last October it was hinted that the game would be playable at SOE on August 2nd. I would think that the OP's estimates are close. I would guess that beta would begin in August and run till much closer to the end of the year. I would not be surprised to see the beta run into next year, if only because SOE will offer the option to buy into the beta, just like every other recent Free to Play MMO has done, including Planetside 2.
It'll be totally free to play eventually, but it's totally free to play right now for just $40.
Planetside 2 beta lasted from the beginning of August to mid-November.
That's true, but In the interview October when they made the claim that players would have a playable version of the game by the end of the year "and not just a beta".
I'm wondering if they're going to come out with some other kind of version of the game that they can give to us that doesn't count as either the beta or the full game. That'd be odd.
Not that odd. They did that with Spore, for example. I'd love to be able to create my character beforehand and just jump into the game when the servers go live.
If the rumors are true, that EQNext has been in production for over 4 years now, I could see a 2013 Release.
Would be great.
Lets see your Battle Stations /r/battlestations
Battle Station
This would be a good reason to not suspect a November release... if the game wasn't going to be F2P.
If you know anything about game development, you'd know there is no set Alpha/beta standard. Beta just means when they feel there is few enough remaining known bugs for their beta standards. One company may call a game in beta when another company would call that same game Alpha. Google releases final products and has them out for years and still calls them beta version xx.x.xxx or whatever.
Bottom line, SOE has been doing internal testing, and you can rest assured that they've already been well into beta by now. SOE Live will mark a mid or end point of close beta, with an open beta to follow and release this year.
Legends of Kesmai, UO, EQ, AO, DAoC, AC, SB, RO, SWG, EVE, EQ2, CoH, GW, VG:SOH, WAR, Aion, DF, CO, MO, DN, Tera, SWTOR, RO2, DP, GW2, PS2, BnS, NW, FF:XIV, ESO, EQ:NL
Mine too, but November 2014 because I am a pessimistic little f**k and it makes me to be more patient.
Sandbox means open world, non-linear gaming PERIOD!
Subscription Gaming, especially MMO gaming is a Cash grab bigger then the most P2W cash shop!
Bring Back Exploration and lengthy progression times. RPG's have always been about the Journey not the destination!!!
I'll guess Q1 2014
ArenaNet has been looking for programmers since before release of GW2. It's not any kind of sign of how far they are in development.
Depends on where those programmers are going... I mean maybe they're hiring people to replace others they've pulled off PS2 or the other EQ games to work on EQN, you can't really tell for sure. Would shit myself laughing if the release is by september though.
Oh how much would I live that to be true. Fingers crossed and going to light a candle for a Sept release
Wondering as well, with TES coming next year, it would probably be much better for them this side of christmas.