Dune Awakening has been delayed from its meant Might 15 launch date, pushed again by just below a month to June 10. This comes following suggestions from its closed beta testers, who’ve led Funcom conclude it wants “a bit extra time to prepare dinner”.
This sudden announcement was posted on social media platforms for the sport including Twitter for keen gamers to search out, and makes the bitter style of unhealthy information slightly simpler to swallow with the announcement of a big scale beta weekend subsequent month to get extra folks in! It is a no-brainer resolution, as Funcom may have absolutely paid for server house through the month of Might that will in any other case be left barren…like Dune.
This information clearly sucks for these desirous to play the sport (and possibly even write a number of guides on it), however as anybody who has performed an MMO at launch will inform you, it is the primary few days that matter most to curious gamers. In the event that they log in for the launch and the sport has points, be it server stability or technical faults, or simply too many visible bugs, gamers will flip it off and by no means boot it up once more.
This will affect even the hardiest of MMO IPs – a few of you could keep in mind the launch expertise for World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, which was a nasty begin to an already tough enlargement, turning off many.
An essential replace relating to Dune: Awakening:
— Dune: Awakening (@duneawakening.com) 15 April 2025 at 15:14
If there’s a silver lining, it is that the beta subsequent month will give the crew an honest concept of the urge for food for Dune Awakening on launch, and permit it to regulate server capability accordingly. That is about it. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless most likely a very good transfer, and one which’ll harm the crew too. You only got to look at Path of Exile 2’s last minute delay, which cost them over a million dollars, to know these selections cannot be made hamfistedly.
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