Avowed Officially Delayed to February 18, 2025 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 August 2024 / 5,737 Views
Following a report that Avowed had been delayed to 2025, Xbox and Obsidian Entertainment have announced the RPG will now launch on February 18, 2025 in order to help spread out the upcoming first-part Xbox lineup.
"So many games coming! As such, we're moving Avowed to Feb 18, 2025 to give players’ backlogs some breathing room," reads a tweet from the official Xbox Twitter account.
"Stay tuned for more from our games across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda & Xbox Game Studios at gamescom, including our Aug 23 livestream for a look at Avowed."
So many games coming! As such, we're moving Avowed to Feb 18, 2025 to give players’ backlogs some breathing room.
— Xbox (@Xbox) August 2, 2024
Stay tuned for more from our games across Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda & Xbox Game Studios at gamescom, including our Aug 23 livestream for a look at Avowed:… pic.twitter.com/3RnyVwlHRa
The upcoming 2024 slate of first-party Xbox releases includes World of Warcraft: The War Within expansion on August 26, Age of Mythology: Retold on September 4, Ara: History Untold on September 24, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred expansion on October 8, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on October 25, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on November 19, as well as another three scheduled for 2024 that don't have a release date yet - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Starfield: Shattered Space expansion, and Towerborne.
The current lineup of first-party Xbox games announced for 2025 includes Avowed, South of Midnight, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Fable.
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This may be the first strategic delay in Xbox’s history lol
Why do you think that? Quite a few times over the years Xbox has allowed studios to delay games for polishing reasons or need more development time. If Avowed is done, most of the team, if not all the team, will continue working on Outer Worlds 2, Avowed DLC, or the unannounced project. They’re not going to just let developers sit there for 3-4 months and do nothing. Plus, we don’t even have a release window for Outer Worlds 2 because they don’t know when it will be ready.
Smart decision to delay it. New IP's are risky at the best of times, and releasing it in an already stacked Q4 makes the risk even greater. Q1 tends to be one of the deader seasons for game releases (alongside July-August) so a new IP has a better chance of finding success in February than in October-November.
Is it technically a new IP if it's part of the Pillars of Eternity IP? I know it doesn't use the name but baldur's gate didn't use the names dungeons and dragons or Forgotten Realms.
Avowed has a more mainstream appeal than Pillars of Eternity did. So the majority of players will be unaware of Avowed being a part of that universe. It would've been different if Avowed was called Pillars of Eternity 3.
Will there be a physical version of this game? I wonder.
I find this good news. More polish plus lets me catch up on WoW
Avowed looks cool so it deserves a chance to succeed.
Now, what's up with that picture on twitter? Two of those 2024 games are published by xbox not "first party" LOL. MS trying to play the little tricks.
Lol yeah, I consider Ara and Towerborne second party, but MS typically owns the rights to games they publish, so they still consider it first party.
That combat looks substandard. Needs a ton more work, so to say that this game was delayed because of a crammed Xbox schedule is simply not true.
Releasing this game with that level of combat would have been a massive mistake....that is one of the real reasons. And even then I don't see this gaming being fun.
And Obsidian AI is D tier, they need badly to work on that as well.
I swear Microsoft has a kink to look as amateurish and improvising as possible. The game was already delayed and they couldn't think of this by then? Seriously...
And the suspicion of the delay being caused by quality/standards problems is still there because what has been shown so far is pretty lame/cringy.
Xbox has a loaded Fall and Holiday release schedule. It makes sense for them to delay to make space. With the number of games they have in development, Xbox knows they have to be more strategic with releases. Not sure why this concept of Xbox being strategic is so hard, even though other publishers have been doing it for some time.
