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[Saurabh17]

October end is what is i wish for!

I hate u for that.

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Everyone is asking about release date....

1.What I want to know is what will happen first, release date announcement or the play sessions??

2.Ross you have said that EB games have a tight schedule, have they given you any feasible period of holding the play sessions or are they just stalling??

Also if you don't want to answer first question directly, you can always tell the average gap you are planning to have between the play sessions and release date of the game!!

 

[cricket_online]

I hate u for that.

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Everyone is asking about release date....

1.What I want to know is what will happen first, release date announcement or the play sessions??

2.Ross you have said that EB games have a tight schedule, have they given you any feasible period of holding the play sessions or are they just stalling??

Also if you don't want to answer first question directly, you can always tell the average gap you are planning to have between the play sessions and release date of the game!!

Given that Ross is waiting on AC13 team to reveal more info about their game and keeping his cards close to his chest until that happens, it's highly unlikely we will see play sessions before we know more about AC13.

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

Why do BA want to market against AC13? Why not just hit the market early that way you get all your features out early, people know of your game early, people buy your game! People are probably going to buy AC13 regardless so even if they do have all the features why would it matter as it'd look like they're copying BA?

 

[barmyarmy]

Maybe you missed a few posts but they plan on releasing before AC13.

 

[blockerdave]

Maybe you missed a few posts but they plan on releasing before AC13.

i think they actually remain sceptical that Ashes will release at all, so I think we have one of 2 scenarios:

ashes looks like hitting their november date, in which case DBC launches mid-october

ashes look like missing november/not releasing at all, in which case DBC will launch for/during the first test

all will be clear in a couple of weeks I guess because by then they'll know whether ashes is likely to make november

 

[cricket_online]

Why do BA want to market against AC13? Why not just hit the market early that way you get all your features out early, people know of your game early, people buy your game! People are probably going to buy AC13 regardless so even if they do have all the features why would it matter as it'd look like they're copying BA?

I think it's more from marketing purposes and getting the timing right. For example, if AC13 kicks off their campaign focusing on Ashes, Big Ant can talk about Don Bradman. If AC13's campaign talks up licensing, Big Ant can talk about Cricket Academy, if AC13 goes on about Team Mode, Big Ant can counter it with Career Mode etc.

Cricket is a niche market and the success or failure of the games might end up with who was able to make the right sales pitch to the consumers and get them to buy their product. Big Ant needs to see what new features, if any, AC13 comes up with after reworking on the game for the last 4 months.

Maybe AC13 will not have any new feature other than changing the name to AC14, but Big Ant don't want to risk going out there and AC14 comes along marketing a new feature like "a new immersive captain's mode with dynamic fielding which puts you in Michael Clarke and Alastair Cook's shoes like never before". Even though we know that's nothing but automatic fielding where you select the field using a field editor and sit back, for a casual gamer that might be the selling point. Most probably Big Ant are waiting for that information to be disclosed so they can embark on their campaign and counter their competitor as best as they can. Plus they would also be keeping an eye on whether AC13 fails to meet its release deadline once again leaving the market open to DBC14.

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

Maybe you missed a few posts but they plan on releasing before AC13.

Yeah I know that but I don't get why they're waiting for them to reveal?

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I think it's more from marketing purposes and getting the timing right. For example, if AC13 kicks off their campaign focusing on Ashes, Big Ant can talk about Don Bradman. If AC13's campaign talks up licensing, Big Ant can talk about Cricket Academy, if AC13 goes on about Team Mode, Big Ant can counter it with Career Mode etc.

Cricket is a niche market and the success or failure of the games might end up with who was able to make the right sales pitch to the consumers and get them to buy their product. Big Ant needs to see what new features, if any, AC13 comes up with after reworking on the game for the last 4 months.

Maybe AC13 will not have any new feature other than changing the name to AC14, but Big Ant don't want to risk going out there and AC14 comes along marketing a new feature like "a new immersive captain's mode with dynamic fielding which puts you in Michael Clarke and Alastair Cook's shoes like never before". Even though we know that's nothing but automatic fielding where you select the field using a field editor and sit back, for a casual gamer that might be the selling point. Most probably Big Ant are waiting for that information to be disclosed so they can embark on their campaign and counter their competitor as best as they can. Plus they would also be keeping an eye on whether AC13 fails to meet its release deadline once again leaving the market open to DBC14.

Yeah this does make sense but, why not just market your game way before the other game even says anything? But as you said it is a niche market

 

[blockerdave]

Yeah I know that but I don't get why they're waiting for them to reveal?

they want to know if AC are releasing at all.

if AC are releasing in November, they get DBC out in October and try and have it established before AC, hoping to get extra sales against AC through word of mouth and damaging AC sales as people might not have appetite/money for another cricket game so soon after.

if AC miss the November date they will release DBC for the first test when cricket fever is higher and they have the field to themselves.

very frustrating for us guys who just want to get our hands on a game, but understandable.

 

[MattW]

Yeah this does make sense but, why not just market your game way before the other game even says anything? But as you said it is a niche market

They haven't said nothing, they have made small statements to the effect that they will match DBC on most of the features and then refused to provide further explanations.

Those hurt the market for this game by making people think it will be worth waiting to see both - while if they wait for AC13 to prove itself to not be near the mark, they don't have that problem to the same degree.

I'm not in the camp that think there's a chance AC13 won't release - they were going to push it out the door if they got approvals in June, they are certainly going to push it out no matter what this time.

 

[phani001]

haha.... no matter how much we debate here, the release date isn't going to change.... Ross will release it only he wants to....

 

[soyab0007]

haha.... no matter how much we debate here, the release date isn't going to change.... Ross will release it only he wants to....

Exactly

 

[isrararrafi]

Even though competitions increases the quality of game, big ant would like to drive trickstar/505 out of the cricket gaming market and vice versa. Neither want to share the spot together and coexist in a relatively small market like this. To do that, big ant cant release the game too early giving people a chance to "recover" and buy ashes 13 and big ant cant release it too close to the ashes either as that will give people an option just to wait a little while to get the licensed game. They need to get the timeing just right so that people wouldnt want to wait for the other game nor they want to spend twice on a cricket game in a short amount of time. That is how i will be doing business if i was in charge.

 

[balkeet]

Both games are into approvals, but dbc14 got there earlier than ac13 so it will come before ac13, my guess dbc14 - october and ac13 - november.

 

[Ajh1977]

As a subscriber to The Cricketer magazine I was looking forward to AC 13 when it featured on back page of may issue. In June they had a two page spread on the game with the news of a full review coming in July issue, which obviously didn't happen! If bigant want to get ahead in the marketing surely The Cricketer would be the way to go. It's sold worldwide, and after the AC13 debacle they may be happy to advertise an already finished quality cricket game they can back with confidence, instead of a game that makes them out to be liars!

Just a thought!!

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

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Yeah I guess if the aim is to drive the other company out of business or release the game at a time where people won't buy both makes sense.

But another question then, if the aim is to release the game at a time so people don't buy both...why does that matter? If BA release early people would have bought their game anyway so why does it matter if they buy AC13 as well?