Have you sat down? OK Avowed will reportedly be delayed until early 2025, but if that’s any consolation, it’s clear that the main reason for the delay is a desire to give the RPG game more traction by pushing it out of a busy window. “Breathing space.”
According to The Verge , Obsidian’s massive fantasy title is “in excellent condition.” So why was it delayed? Well, one contributing factor appears to be that a game recently scheduled to launch on Microsoft’s subscription service has been delayed again.
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In a newsletter mentioning the apparent delay, Tom Warren quoted Xbox saying that it believes the Game Pass product for the 2024 to 2025 holiday period is sufficiently mature to not need to include Avowed, and it appears that There is a risk of limiting its potential.
Stalker 2’s release date was recently pushed back to November 20th, and the game is believed to have contributed to the change in plans, as it will now release around the time Avowed appears to have been scheduled for, if the November 12th date holds true .
As of now, Avowed’s release is still planned for some unspecified point in 2024, rather than a confirmed date as has been the case for some time. STALKER isn’t the only game slated for a late October/early November release, with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (which Xbox is sure to hope does well on Game Pass) set to release on October 25th, while “Assassin’s Creed: Shadows” was released on October 25.
We asked game director Carrie Patel about Avowed’s goal of grabbing the attention of Game Pass players in a recent interview, and she revealed that Obsidian spent a lot of time crafting the game’s prologue to grab people’s attention.
“We get a lot of help from internal game testers,” she said, “and from external game testers that we bring in from Microsoft’s User Research Labs, all of which give us a good sense of what players are noticing. Lots of very good insights.
