Season 10 Delay

@tesiccl where did you see this announcement?

This will be tough on the dev team at Rare too. Both from a professional and personal point of view. No studio wants these kind of delays, it's never good for business or optics.

It will have been the most difficult decision but, ultimately, we have to trust it's the right one going forward. They were obviously not confident at all that they could deliver Season 10 on time in a state that would have benefited the game.

There will be extra pressure on the devs to deliver for October 19th now, so I think it's worth keeping a sense of perspective and acknowledging the people, the real people, working on this game and to show them appreciation for all they do.

@tesiccl

I'm very disappointed too, don't get me wrong. But I think there will be a lot of disappointment at Rare as well. Morale will be low and the negativity around social spaces won't help that.

Maybe we'll get to know a lot more in the next podcast regarding Season 10, and that's why they promoted that on the video. If they haven't told us the details of what features are coming, it's likely they have a lot of stuff that's not locked down.

While spreading the Monkey Island Tall Tales out may have a conscious decision to fill the void, I think that was probably the better option over having them all at once and nothing until Season 10.

While disappointing from a players perspective, these delays are usually for good reason. I don't think we as a playerbase will find out why but whatever has caused the delays must be pretty crucial and I honestly feel for the dev team. Most of the hardwork they put in isn't always seen by the players so we often fail to appreciate just how difficult these decisions must be for the team.

@tesiccl

Unfortunately, it's the reality of game development. In an ideal world, they would want to constantly add content - it keeps players playing and paying. It doesn't benefit them to hold back anything unnecessarily.

For a AAA studio, Rare are a small to medium sized, relatively (less than a third the size of Bungie, and split across multiple games). And to deliver what they have done in the last 5 years or so is astonishing. But delays are inevitable when they have high ambitions for the game and want to hit a quality threshold.

Yes, it's disheartening news, but it's time to channel the faith we had in Rare when the game launched and many wrote it off for its lack of content back then.

I can wait a delay even if the seas will be empty outside of Tall Tales but I'm extremely worried for Season 11 (Season 10.5) being significantly cut down in size.

If I remember the recent interview at SOTfest correctly the only part of Season 11 that was mentioned was a PvP hourglass expansion into adventure mode.
I'm assuming that's all we get and even that may be bare bones.

@tesiccl

The alternative, unfortunately, is a road littered with broken promises. Look at Overwatch 2, for example, launched on the promise of a PvE story mode that got abandoned shortly after the game released.

I'm sure Rare tell us what's coming only when they are certain on what they can deliver.

Like I've said on the previous delay and other numerous occasions.

Drop these self implicated dead lines. You look unprofessional.

If you are meeting someone in any environment and you say Oh I will be there in 15minutes, because you want to show them how dedicated and fast you are, but you end up coming in 45 minutes, you look like a biggest Richard on the planet.

Instead if you said I'm coming in 1 hour, but you show up in 45 minutes, it creates a good impression.

The only reason I see you keep the seasons is £ from plunder pass.

So perhaps given how long these seasons are running, maybe just maybe extend them beyond 100 so pirates who finished their season pass in MARCH can still enjoy it :D?

@zig-zag-ltu if they didn't release roadmap they are seen as not open with their community, I'd rather they did and admit unable to meet deadlines than not, it Still makes me feel more included than all plans being withheld and shrouded in mystery. Even without planned timeline it would have been obvious that this season has been severely delayed

@tesiccl

Unfortunately, even if they don't explicitly promise to add features/content, a lot of misinformed folk will hold them to it and question what's taking so long to add them.

Mike Chapman's "Sea of Tease" comments are probably the only hints we will get at things coming until they are ready to be announced. While that may be frustrating, it's arguably better for the perceived integrity of the studio.

Rare, if a good time for releasing drip fed pirate themed cosmetics exist - THIS IS THE TIME.

I guess we are also not getting Mysteries for Season 11. (Probably none for Season 10, i'd bet on it)

We are supposed to be 4 Mysteries in at this point (Not including orher season delays, we'd be 5 or so in if things went as planned) and if we're lucky and get 1 in this combo season that's still 3 that never happened.
After the first mystery ended OVER A YEAR AGO I was really looking forward to seeing Mysteries improve each season and become a great way to finish off each season but nope.

I really hope things get better one day.

Well. As not a fan of monkey island, if there is t anything else to add between now and October

I’m gonna slowly for the first time in 5 years take a monthly break. Unless they give something worth playing between now and then