Both the original release date and the moved up one are Q3 ending Sept 30th.
For it to be 'just in time' for Q4, that means a Christmas sales release date. Which is not what happened so you will have to do some adjustments.
Fixed, I meant to say Q3/End of Year to Q4. It means he can show positives on the balance sheets for both quarters and end the year on a positive - way more impact especially since you have to do investor calls at each Quarter and the end of year one. More impactful when you can say we had these losses for this half of the year but these gains for the latter half of the year.
You also gave Larian a fiscal reason. The game was in development for 6 years and was funded by Larian and the early access sales. They have every incentive to release a game 'good enough' upon running out of money.
Originally Posted by Piff
You've forgotten the actual reason games win GOTY. It has surprisingly little to do with how "good" the games are, or how much money was spent on them, they don't have to have high-end graphics (Untitled Goose Game, 2019), or incredible writing (Fornite, 2018), or even be bug free (Skyrim, 2011). For a game to win a GOTY it has to be influential. This is not always the easiest thing to quantify, because it relies on analysis of the goddamn zeitgeist, which is getting harder to do each year with how quickly trends roll over. But even then, what I said before still holds, different companies judge how influential games are differently, and it's rare for one game to top everyone's lists.
To put it simply, BG3 will probably win a GOTY award, because it's been one of the most influential games of this year, it has sparked many conversations about and within the industry by powerful and knowledgeable people, conversations about early access games, about the growing reliance of the industry on post-release income generation which continues to upset consumers, and about sex and sexual content in video games. Knowledge of the game reached beyond the normal video game sphere of influence, so that people not even associated with video games were talking about the game (thanks, bear sex). It's only one of a bunch of games that have all released this year and received high critical acclaim (according to metacritic), but it's easily one of the most well-known.
I wouldn't be surprised if it wins Best RPG or something at Game Awards or other outlets. I'm expecting DICE at least to give the top award to Tears of the Kingdom though.
Although I am curious who are these 'powerful and knowledgeable people' and if you can give me any links? I always take such things with a grain of salt as, you know, DoS 2 was foretold to revolutionize RPGs by critics when it came out and it didn't happen. I'm also not sure what conversations about early access games you are talking about. PUBG: Battlegrounds was nominated and won awards as an early access game back in 2017. I am also fairly certain the bean counters with the data have been saying all there is to say about the reliance on post-game income generation and the trend line of live service games for years now. Bear sex, I'll grant you.
That's also very much a case of 'Thanks, I hate it' for me personally, lol
