Another Mighty No. 9 delay....

"Online matchmaking" again. I hope Bloodstained doesn't delay itself for something like a year over the asynchronous multiplayer or something. It's supposed to be a classic Mega Man game!

I can see how it would be challenging to implement various online features for -every- platform they're promising, since they all do function a lot differently. Online play on a PS4 vs online play on a 3DS would certainly be quite different. Even so, given the backlash from variuos issues, I might would have either been extra conservative with date estimates or released the game sans online functionality and then added that later. Even something as high profile as Metal Gear Online for MGS5 was handled in such a way, and definitely didn't mar the overall reception of the game (if anything, Konami itself did that).

The backer comments are just vicious...I don't think I would be -that- upset (I backed by Paypal shortly after the campaign). Oh well. At this point, I hope more than anything they can pull through and this game is awesome.

I cant knock them for this, having to resort to reprogramming an entire section of the engine that has to be tweaked multiple directions is a nightmare, i hope they can figure it ou soon so they can get it released and take a breather

Another Kickstarter Reminder to roll out updates like Shovel Knight did, e.g. don't try to do absolutely everything prior to launch.

They tried to pull some spin about that, right? On how the Unreal Engine 3 was not getting updates to help with their problem regarding online.

Why are they the only ones to have this problem? It's not even an ambitious task; it sounds like they're making excuses because they're just not familiar with that type of designing when it comes to games.

This is...#3 I believe. It seems like more than that with the communication problems, i.e. how there was denial of a delay for a time, Red Ash being...a thing, just general fanbase confusion.

The original release date was to be April 2015 I believe, and if spring 2016 holds, looks like a good whole year.

At this point, people just want to play the game. If I was Inafune, I'd release the game and patch in the online stuff at a later date. Seriously!

I was counting down the days to the release of the game but I have really worried that I hadn't heard anything about platform surveys yet. Now I know why. It's too late now but if they had staggered the release of content and platforms over time (ala the already mentioned Shovel Knight) they would have been golden. Now they've put themselves into a corner and they only way out is to grind through these bugs. You're never too old or too experienced to be learning lessons though. Heck, its clear (to me at least) that a lot of lessons learned with managing/producing MN9 have gone into Bloodstained and will likely make the later game even better. Here's hoping this third delay won't be too long.


How many Unreal 3 games are coming out nowadays with this many features across so many platforms? Remember how borked the online for the Master Chief Collection was (and that had Microsoft money behind it). Doing online modes in games is hard. Releasing on 41535125 platforms is hard. Granted its their own fault for putting themselves in this situation but I don't doubt they are really trying their best to get this game fucking out there.


3 Delays

1) April 2015 > October 2015
2) October 2015 > February 2016
3) February 2016 > "Spring 2016"

Though to be fair, nobody should be upset with the first delay - that's when Deep Silver jumped in and massively improved the base package of the game. That and KS game rarely come out on time anyway. It's the 2nd delay and this one that are ballbusters.

It's funny to see how people flocked to Inafune's corner when he announced this Kickstarter, but now the game seems to have destroyed his reputation.

2013:
Screw you, Capcom! You killed Mega Man! Disk-locked content! Well, don't worry, Inafune is our savior, Mighty No. 9 will show you how it's done!

2016:
Urgh, Inafune is a #$@%ing hack! Endless delays! Never telling us all those additional Red Ash stretch goals! Grr! Capcom, you've been, er... generally inoffensive lately. I just might get the Legacy Collection.

I agree with the commenters who say that what they should do is release the game without online, then patch in the online later. While I do put stock into the 'A delayed game is good eventually, a rushed game is bad forever' viewpoint, the amount of delays this game has gotten is getting cartoonish.

I called Inafune shady (and a few other, more "fun" things) when MN9 launched and I've posted nearly identical comments after each delay and the Red Ash KS.

The posts stayed the same, but the replies? Oh man, they went from being flooded with insults and accusations to getting spirited approvals and agreements. Have to say, I really enjoyed seeing the journey of a few remarks from one end of the spectrum to the other.