Dune Awakening has been delayed from its meant Might 15 launch date, pushed again by slightly 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 cook dinner”.
This sudden announcement was posted on social media platforms for the sport together with Twitter for keen gamers to search out, and makes the bitter style of dangerous information a bit of simpler to swallow with the announcement of a giant scale beta weekend subsequent month to get extra individuals in! It is a no-brainer resolution, as Funcom can have certainly paid for server area in the course of the month of Might that will in any other case be left barren…like Dune.
This information clearly sucks for these desperate to play the sport (and perhaps even write a couple 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 may influence even the hardiest of MMO IPs – a few of chances are you’ll bear in mind the launch expertise for World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, which was a nasty begin to an already tough growth, turning off many.
An necessary replace relating to Dune: Awakening:
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— 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 workforce an honest thought of the urge for food for Dune Awakening on launch, and permit it to regulate server capability accordingly. That is about it. But it surely’s nonetheless most likely a very good transfer, and one which’ll damage the workforce too. You solely received to take a look at Path of Exile 2’s final minute delay, which value them over 1,000,000 {dollars}, to know these choices cannot be made hamfistedly.
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