Respawn’s CEO Vince Zampella stated that the company considered delaying the launch of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order but ultimately decided to release the game, bugs intact, in order to get it on shelves in time for the holidays.

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Zampella admitted that if Respawn had taken the time to fix the known technical issues, Jedi: Fallen Order would undoubtedly have released as a better game. “At the same time,” he said, “we could play through it. It was good and we felt like fans were going to like it.” Getting the game in stores on the target launch date on multiple platforms ultimately proved to be more important to the company.

Also in November, the television show The Mandalorian launched on Disney+, the company’s on-demand streaming service. And the final film of the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, released a month later. The end of 2019 truly was the season for Star Wars and it’s questionable whether Jedi: Fallen Order would have fared as well in sales if it had released even a few months later than it did.

Although the issues might have lowered the review scores of some critics, Respawn’s choice doesn’t seem to have hurt the game’s success much, as it has received predominantly positive reviews on Metacritic, OpenCritic, and Steam. It was the sixth bestselling game of 2019, despite only coming out in November, and EA announced in January that it is the highest-rated Star Wars game of this console generation. In 2019 the game brought home three Titanium awards, in February it won Adventure Game of the Year at the 23rd Annual DICE Awards, and it is also currently nominated for numerous NAVGTR and SXSW Gaming Awards.

In the case of Jedi: Fallen Order, releasing the game with known technical issues and bugs was a gamble that paid off. That’s not always the case, however, and often it’s gamers who pay the price for such decisions. One need only look at the constant issues experienced by players of Fallout 76 and 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to see examples of this. Hopefully, in the future, more game developers and publishers will follow the example of Square Enix and CD Projekt Red, who delayed the releases of Final Fantasy VII Remake and Cyberpunk 2077 by several months in order to give players the polished and finished games they’re expecting and paying for.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order released in November 2019 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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Source: USgamer