gtotheunit91 said:
shikamaru317 said:
They had a chance to announce a Starfield delay last week and didn't, instead stating that it was still on schedule for a 1st half release. So I'm hopeful that it is still a 1st half game. With Redfall being in May supposedly, the only question now should be "is Starfield on April 12 for International Day of Human Spaceflight, or June 30 for Asteroid Day". Those are the only 2 suitable space based dates remaining in the 1st half if they want a space based meme release date.
I see no reason why Starfield would be delayed into 2nd half, supposedly it has been fully playable from start to finish since November 2021, and was said to be pretty much content complete in June 2022 with just optimization and bug fixes remaining. The delay was supposed to be simply to give them more time to fix bugs and optimize as the 5 months between June 2022 and November 2022 weren't going to be enough to get the game in the state they wanted it to be in without huge amounts of crunch. But surely 10 or 12 months of bug fixing and optimization between June 2022 and April or June 2023 will be enough time.
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Pit Starfield against Final Fantasy XVI? 
As cool as that would be to see two titans of RPG's go at it on opposing platforms, April is pretty barren and gives Starfield all the spotlight.
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Technically would be one week after FF16 if it is June 30 for Asteroid Day, FF16 is June 22. But I definitely think they should aim for April 12 for International Day of Human Spaceflight. Not only is April far less competitive, with the only AAA release being Dead Island 2 three weeks after April 12 (compared to 3 other AAA releases in June, Street Fighter 6, Diablo 4, and Final Fantasy 16), but obviously fans would rather play it sooner rather than later after waiting nearly 5 years for it since it's June 2018 announce.
