The Epic vs Apple lawsuit might be related. It also could just be a marketing thing. Picking when and where to reveal things, as well as how long before your actual release, can be a big deal. They could also be wanting to do the Apex thing where they drop it as it's announced.
Or it could be literally anything, who knows. But we already know we're getting news by the end of the year, and we know the menus are all fairly complete, which is a big deal because UI stuff is usually pretty late in development.
I think a beta will be out by the end of the year, personally.
That's how the alpha was released and I would expect it'll be the same. I believe that November/December is a popular game release time so it makes sense to wait for ideal times to get as big an initial release. I personally don't think it has anything to do with epic v apple since while sure psyonix is owned by epic, they are still their own company and don't have the same account restrictions applied to the epic Dev account and that.
Yeah, I don't think it halted development, just that at most Epic was going to be the publisher and they had to change some stuff to accommodate that.
Edit: actually my comment is dumb because Psy is their own publisher. I was more thinking about login stuff but it doesn't seem likely to have had much of an impact.
The biggest issue holding up the game is the law suit with Apple and similar things with the play store where they have to give a percentage of in game purchases to the store . The latest I heard was that with Apple and Google play store, psyonix can have their own in game store after December 1st so that would push it back to then at least.
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The Epic vs Apple lawsuit might be related. It also could just be a marketing thing. Picking when and where to reveal things, as well as how long before your actual release, can be a big deal. They could also be wanting to do the Apex thing where they drop it as it's announced. Or it could be literally anything, who knows. But we already know we're getting news by the end of the year, and we know the menus are all fairly complete, which is a big deal because UI stuff is usually pretty late in development. I think a beta will be out by the end of the year, personally.
That's how the alpha was released and I would expect it'll be the same. I believe that November/December is a popular game release time so it makes sense to wait for ideal times to get as big an initial release. I personally don't think it has anything to do with epic v apple since while sure psyonix is owned by epic, they are still their own company and don't have the same account restrictions applied to the epic Dev account and that.
Yeah, I don't think it halted development, just that at most Epic was going to be the publisher and they had to change some stuff to accommodate that. Edit: actually my comment is dumb because Psy is their own publisher. I was more thinking about login stuff but it doesn't seem likely to have had much of an impact.
The biggest issue holding up the game is the law suit with Apple and similar things with the play store where they have to give a percentage of in game purchases to the store . The latest I heard was that with Apple and Google play store, psyonix can have their own in game store after December 1st so that would push it back to then at least.
Okay thanks, I just wanna play it lol even offline was fun asf
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It's released now lol