6 weeks out....no gold?

This thread... So MUcH PAraNOiA.

As been pointed out, previous Bioware games went gold approx 3 - 4 weeks before release. The truth is out there.

Some games don't go gold until a month before launch. My guess as long as it's gold before the end of this month, there should be no issues.

I think they do too bu tusually once a date is locked in they don't delay again if they were still working to a window like say Spring/Summer then yes they can delay then as people will more likely understand that the games hit a snag but not normally once an actual date's been given once the date's been locked in that's it. It goes then any work that hasn't been done by then will have to be done in patches.

True it is I agree I found it tough at times just working a 16 hour week for Kent County Council. In my case it was tough due to my diasbility but I understand how tough things like this are. I'm grateful to them as well though as Bioware has developed a lot of great games in recent years and I'd like to think MEA will be another one. Judging from what I've seen so far I'm impressed anyway.

This.

(and actually DAI was 19 days ~10/31>11/18)

So assuming 20 days out: On or around March 1st. 

This happens with other games too.

Horizon Zero Dawn for example only went Gold last week I think on the 31st, and that's out end of this month, on the 28th, 28 days between Gold and launch.

Even if Andromeda doesn't have a 28 or 30 day gap between going Gold and launch, it doesn't indicate anything, like others have said, Mass Effect 3 and DAI had 21 to 19 days between Gold and launch.

I'm expecting it'll probably go Gold in and around either the end of this month or the start of March.

Yeah which is pretty much what I've been saying.

Actually, there is a little-known, very hard to get, super-secret ending choice featuring ALL THE COLOURS. Literally


In all seriousness though, there is also refuse, and if you go by the primary colours, it's... yellow, which is like gold, right?

I know you're joking, but I think that would mean it would be gold on the same day the EA Access people get their early access. Cutting it a bit close?

Yeah, I was going to say something similar. Going gold doesn't mean a whole lot anymore. Basically it's just the cutoff date where the publisher needs to start printing copies, whatever the state of the game currently is. It doesn't mean it's bug-free; quite the opposite, and for some infamous titles, still contains game-breaking bugs. There is still going to be a day-1 patch, and many later patches (hopefully), which might even contain new features, not just bug-fixes, so it's not really "done".

Also, I'm okay with them getting the game into as good a state as possible, with the least amount of cut content as possible, even if it takes longer or gets delayed. I've waited 5 years... I can wait a bit more

It may have lost some significance, but not all. In other words, which are they gonna do? Hold three separate games for XB1, PS4, and PC and then try and fix all of the issues once they eventually come up? In other words, if they tried to continue to fix the PC distro before it got released (because they know that most copies of the PC version are going out digitally), they would still have to hold the other two back because they are not going out digitally. So, that would just create a huge mess.

Much much easier to say, "Okay, the game has gone gold... Let's work on non-platform specific bugs."

this is the gold you need