EA has delayed the release of BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition and Visceral's Battlefield Hardline. The former will now launch on November 18th in North American and on November 21st in Europe.
Writing on the game's website, Inquisition Executive Producer Mark Darrah explained:
"We appreciate the enormous support we've received from all of you to get to this point, and while this extra few weeks may not seem like a lot, I know the game you'll play will be all the better for it. I'm privileged to be a part of a team that has been working very hard to surpass every measure they've set for themselves. That has meant completing huge amounts of game content, fixing bugs both big and small, and improving the overall experience.
"This last bit of time is about polishing the experience we want you to see. Ensuring that our open spaces are as engaging as possible. Strengthening the emotional impact of the Hero's choices. And ensuring the experience you get is the best it can be in the platform you choose to play on."
Meanwhile, Battlefield Hardline has been pused back to the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, which is to say some point during the first three months of 2015.
Karl Magnus Troedsson, DICE's vice president, commented on the Battlefield Blog:
"Back at E3, we launched a beta for Hardline — we wanted to not only show you the game, but to let you play it for yourselves.
"Millions of you jumped in and had a great time. As a result, the Visceral Games team learned a lot from players about what they wanted in the game. We've been pouring over the data and feedback, and have already been putting a lot of it right into the game and sharing it directly with you.
"This feedback also spurred us to start thinking about other possibilities and ways we could push Hardline innovation further and make the game even better. The more we thought about these ideas, the more we knew we had to get them into the game you will all be playing. However, there was only one problem. We would need more time. Time that we didn't have if we decided to move forward with launching in just a couple of months."
Dragon Age Inquisition was originally due for release on October 7th in North American and October 10th in Europe. Battlefield Hardline was initially set for an October 21st launch. Both games are in development for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
