Dune Awakening has been delayed from its meant Could 15 launch date, pushed again by just below a month to June 10. This comes following suggestions from its closed beta testers, who’ve led Funcom conclude it wants “a bit extra time to prepare dinner”.
This sudden announcement was posted on social media platforms for the sport together with Twitter for keen gamers to seek out, and makes the bitter style of dangerous information slightly simpler to swallow with the announcement of a giant scale beta weekend subsequent month to get extra individuals in! This can be a no-brainer choice, as Funcom may have certainly paid for server area throughout the month of Could that might in any other case be left barren…like Dune.
This information clearly sucks for these desirous to play the sport (and perhaps even write a couple of guides on it), however as anybody who has performed an MMO at launch will let you know, it is the primary few days that matter most to curious gamers. In the event that they log in for the launch and the sport has points, be it server stability or technical faults, or simply too many visible bugs, gamers will flip it off and by no means boot it up once more.
This could impression even the hardiest of MMO IPs – a few of you could keep in mind the launch expertise for World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, which was a foul begin to an already tough growth, turning off many.
An essential replace relating to Dune: Awakening:
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— Dune: Awakening (@duneawakening.com) 15 April 2025 at 15:14
If there’s a silver lining, it is that the beta subsequent month will give the crew an honest concept of the urge for food for Dune Awakening on launch, and permit it to regulate server capability accordingly. That is about it. But it surely’s nonetheless in all probability a very good transfer, and one which’ll damage the crew too. You solely obtained to take a look at Path of Exile 2’s final minute delay, which price them over one million {dollars}, to know these selections cannot be made hamfistedly.
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