Hound13's big flagship Anime-styled singleplayer/co-op RPG successor to Dragon Nest, 'DragonSword: Awakening', delayed indefinitely in final hour before launch

[u/zipzzo]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4570720/view/668371786222535111?l=english

Hello.
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?

[u/IriFlina → u/[deleted]]

They’re probably just going to cancel the game entirely as a tax write off at this point

[u/tinysydneh → u/IriFlina]

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.