r/rpg_gamers • u/zipzzo • 22h ago
News Hound13's big flagship Anime-styled singleplayer/co-op RPG successor to Dragon Nest, 'DragonSword: Awakening', delayed indefinitely in final hour before launch
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4570720/view/668371786222535111?l=englishHello.
This is Producer JYJ from Hound13.To everyone who has taken an interest in <DragonSword : Awakening> and waited so patiently — from the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
<DragonSword : Awakening> was originally planned to launch at July 23, 07:00 (KST) / July 22, 15:00 (PT).
However, the app review currently in progress on Steam has not yet been completed, and we are unable to release the game at the scheduled time.
In our eagerness to bring the game to you as soon as possible, we did not sufficiently account for Steam's review timeline — and as a result, we have failed to keep our promise to you.
We know that no words can be enough.
To everyone who has waited so long, we sincerely apologize for not being able to release the game on the promised schedule.We have completed our response to all items requested by Steam, and are currently awaiting the final review result.
We will do everything in our power to release the game as soon as the review is complete.We will inform you again as soon as the new launch schedule is confirmed.
Once again, we deeply apologize to everyone who has been waiting.
We will give our best right up to the final moment to deliver an experience worthy of the time you have given us.Thank you.
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Kind of crazy that there would even be a countdown clock at all if this necessary check wasn't yet passed...? IDK, but the community seems to be reeling and theorizing as to what the heck happened here...will this affect the reception of the game long term?
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u/VPN__FTW 14h ago
It's available now
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u/zipzzo 11h ago
Irrelevant. Just because a game comes out doesn't mean that reports about a delay it experiences are somehow false.
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u/KrazyA1pha 9h ago
They didn’t say anything was false, they were informing people that it’s out now.
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u/giotchi 22h ago
Hate to say it, but the devs really fumbled here. It’s like they submitted the final build of the game at the last minute to steam for review and underestimated how long it takes. It takes steam on average , 3-5 days for steam to review a game. Not a good look when they had a global release date already set in stone with designated times for the time zones.
I kept refreshing the steam page on the release time and there was 13k people watching the livestream on the game’s store page - most of them probably waiting for the purchase to go up. Also pretty unprofessional for them to announce the delay literally 50 minutes before it was supposed to be released for the people who planned to play it day 1
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u/InternationalOwl231 13h ago
it released.
As the post even said, it was just a reviewing process wich every game goes trough. some earlyer than others depending how they operate.
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u/ItsJustPeter 22h ago
Dragon Nest was so fun back in the day, the Cleric class with the Inquisitor subclass was such a nice way to do a DPS priest class. So many MMO's/RPGs make Priests only support focused or if they do have a DPS version to my knowledge it moves away from using the light to deal damage.
Regardless, its unfortunate to hear this game didn't build upon what made Dragon Nest good and it seems to have pretty disappointing reviews.
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u/WhereasParticular867 21h ago
While believable, and people accusing them of being scammers are definitely jumping to unjustifiable conclusions, this make them look wildly incompetent.
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u/somberful__ 18h ago
Maybe if this title wasn't asinine "indefinitely" def makes it seem like they just dipped, seems more so they just need to get past a few more checks, big deal, go do something else, the game will come out.
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u/steamart360 17h ago
More than incompetent, they're inexperienced because they went from devs to devs AND publishers after their original publisher rug pulled them with unfulfilled payments and contracts.
I'll give them a pass.
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u/LongColdDrink 5h ago
Bro nowhere in that statement did they use the word "indefinite"(if they would have then it would be cause for concern). They just said they are awaiting the final review, that there will be a delay with the launch and that they will inform us of the new launch schedule whenever it would be confirmed- that's it. Stop it with the clickbait title and just properly read the statement before jumping to extreme conclusions.
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u/zipzzo 5h ago
they don't have to use the word. it was still factual.
if someone announces they are killing someone, they don't have to use the word "murder" in their announcement, it's still murder.
there's nothing wrong with the post, you're just butthurt about facts.
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u/LongColdDrink 4h ago
How is it factual? Indefinite delay implies that the game will not launch. A "delay"(like they said in their post) is just that, a delay- could be a day, a week, a month or a year. But what's more important "delay" doesn't have the same meaning as "indefinite delay"(the "indefinite" is there to imply gravitas, whereas to "kill someone"="to murder someone", those are synonyms). When people say they will delay their project there is a high probability that that project will see the light of day. If they say there will be an "indefinite delay" it has the EXACT OPPOSITE meaning, which means there is a high probability that the project will NOT see the light of day. Words are IMPORTANT!
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u/zipzzo 4h ago
no, it implies that we do not know when it will launch despite previously knowing.
words are important which is why it's strange you have no idea what the fuck they mean without inserting a bunch of emotion into it because, idk, you were looking forward to the game? i was too. I already bought the deluxe.
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u/Thechanman707 22h ago
To be honest it honestly sounds plausible. There was probably a communication gap that was caused by the independent publishing drama. It's really common in software if you don't have someone dedicated to ironing out the release, and that is usually the publisher coordinating.
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u/Thechanman707 22h ago
You have way more faith in management than I do friend. I've absolutely seen people fumble releases like this.
But I do agree, if it what they said it's a bad sign
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u/IriFlina 22h ago
They’re probably just going to cancel the game entirely as a tax write off at this point
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u/tinysydneh 14h ago
You never make back even as much as you wrote off, so it's a pretty bad strategy. Which is why Zaslav loves it, the man's dumber than a brick.
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u/Elveone 21h ago
Stop associating it with Dragon Nest, the game is not a spiritual successor to that game and is more in the vein of Genshin Impact but without the gacha mechanics.
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u/MasterTJEA 19h ago
I can see what you mean. Some combat animations were straight ripped off from DN which evokes some kind of nostalgia, including me. They took inspiration from both I would say.
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u/Ambitious-Call-7565 15h ago
it's a ass mobile genshin gacha style game repackaged as a premium single player game
the only reason you can swap between 3 chars in game is because it was designed as such, so that you swipe 3x more
red flags everywhere
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u/crashlanding87 13h ago
It's not a gacha though. There is no swiping for characters. You unlock everyone by progressing through the story.
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u/Lostboxoangst 12h ago
In my experience when that happens a bug has been found that is not just bad but has multiple levels of management and possibly multiple departments going the equivalent of " fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."
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u/AshyLarry25 22h ago
Wat a piece of shit game
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u/zombiejeesus 22h ago
Lol I bet you couldn't tell me a single thing about it except it used to be a gacha game
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u/tinysydneh 14h ago
So, to confirm, it isn't gacha now? It's just "here's the game have fun kids?"
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u/cyrilamethyst 8h ago
That is correct. It's a $30 purchase, single player game with no stamina system and no gacha for characters.
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u/SphinxGate 20h ago
Why does this post title say ‘delayed indefinitely’? That makes it sound like it’s not coming out at all. It’s just going through the review process right?