RUGBY 24 announced...

[TRF_Olyy]

.....not great

 

[Stade Rochelais]

 

[saulan]

That's just bizarre. Releasing a sports game in early access feels a bit odd, especially when its listed as a specific year ***le. I assume it's them trying to get some wiggle room on getting some additional licenses/leagues on board, but not having all the teams directly in for their Cricket games has not stopped them before. Specifically they're known for having good creator hubs and people filling in the rosters/teams of missing teams or leagues. This really seems to be missing out on what exactly is driving the delay from January to March though. If it truly is just team scanning, release the game now in early access and then add the updated team likenesses at a later stage, like they have literally just done with Cricket 24 and Pakistan. Unless they really had very very few teams captured (You'd think being officially licensed to the World Cup they could have done some of the scanning in France last year for all those teams).

Weird

 

[Hankstrom]

Just release the game with a polished gameplay and we will take care of the licensing and customisation

 

[Wasps92]

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.....not great

May as well call it Rugby 25 then.

I'm not sure I've seen a more shambolic "release" tbh.

 

[esoj]

I think it's a compromise so that they can still release the game without having to patch it like crazy at release. There were significant delays with both afl 23 and cricket 24 that I am sure bigant don't want to repeat. Afl 23 also had major issues at release that required a lot of patches just to get the game running without crashing.

The early access route seems to be bigants way of being able to release a game but not be under so much pressure to release it perfectly from the start and allow them to patch it at a bit more of a normal rate. This should also help when it comes time to release on console as the game should be more stable by then as well.
The new tennis game bigant made tiebreak is also doing a similar thing releasing into early access first with a full release later. One good thing for early access release is the price is cheaper. The tiebreak game on steam in early access is a lot cheaper than recent bigant full releases on steam.

March is not an ideal release time though for rugby 24. The six nations will almost be over or could be completely over depending on when exactly they release in march. This could have a big impact on sales in the nothern hemisphere. A lot more fans would have been interested in getting it if was releasing in february at the start of the six nations. Look at netflix they choose a great time to release their full contact six nations series just a few weeks before the start of the six nations will lots of people would be interested in watching.

 

[edzwales10]

This genuine?

 

[Bears Gamer]

This genuine?

It certainly is.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Not sure that counts as a trailer. No gameplay and no details.

 

[Bears Gamer]

Not sure that counts as a trailer. No gameplay and no details.

In game engine footage, Premiership confirmed, official stadiums confirmed, a first look at player models.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

If that's as good as they can muster for a first look then I'm not holding out much hope

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

It's not on their twitter, which is odd

 

[edzwales10]

My prediction is early access will be 14th March - i have no insider information just slightly educated guess. If i'm right then come back to me and ask me how I guessed right. I hope i'm wrong and that its today to celebrate St David's Day

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

In game engine footage, Premiership confirmed, official stadiums confirmed, a first look at player models.

How do we know that's in game engine footage?
Also that didn't really look like twickham and player models might just be from the trailer.

 

[Bears Gamer]

How do we know that's in game engine footage?
Also that didn't really look like twickham and player models might just be from the trailer.

It's definitely in game footage and Twickenham. I've had it confirmed on both fronts.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

It's definitely in game footage and Twickenham. I've had it confirmed on both fronts.

Where have they confirmed it's in game fotage?

 

[Bears Gamer]

Where have they confirmed it's in game fotage?

 

[elrussi]

The TEASER itself was good. Player's models look great!!! But on the other hand the Grass looks like s-hit for a ps5 game!!. Also the crowd has that awfull colour !! Like the tie break crowd. Hope they do something about it for the launch.

 

[davsav93]

I really think teams and licenses is not hugely necessary, and that the number of confirmed teams so to speak is ridiculous. They should focus instead on making the gameplay as good as e.g. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Winning Eleven). That's just me though.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I really think teams and licenses is not hugely necessary, and that the number of confirmed teams so to speak is ridiculous. They should focus instead on making the gameplay as good as e.g. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Winning Eleven). That's just me though.

Disagree, this is 2024 I expect good gameplay, teams and licenses.