Lair Update

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Wow, even I didn’t see this one coming! Due to an extra step in QA testing to enhance the community features in the game, the release of LAIR, originally set for August 14th, has changed to September 4, 2007. Natural challenges that arose while finalizing the offline game to include key online features – such as leaderboards and medal systems – have led to the difficult choice of pushing back the release date. We appreciate everyone’s excitement and patience for the game and look forward to its release on September 4.

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  • Hmm I thought it was in production already :P , at least I have more time to fix my PS3 that became almost unusable with the 1.90 update

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  • never gonna happen that I’m goin to switch console.
    it’s kinda frustrating but i rather wait than to get a shtiy games.
    thanks factor 5 that u exercise exellence to your games rather than just to make money. I think factor 5 can be count on when it comes to quality games.

  • Does this game output at 1080i/p?

  • Even though that was a bs excuse because you can just patch that easily. But anyway to improve the game then im all for it, even though its better to release it in august then september but oh well. I still got Madden 08 and Persona 3 to play on Aug. 14th

  • I really dont mind a small delay, but if its going to be a month, dont dedicate the whole time to tweaking leader boards, Focus on the controls of the game as it seems that maybe the only issue.

    I still look foward to this game.

  • @EVERYONE

    PLEASE DONT GIVE ME LIP FOR WHAT IM ABOUT TO SAY CUZ I REALLY DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS…THANK YOU

    @RYAN/SONY

    YOU MAY HAVE MOST PS3 FANS FOOLED WITH THE NONSENSE…BUT YOU RYAN CLAIM TO NOT HAVE SEEN THIS COMING???…I DID!!!!!! AS IM SURE COUNTLESS OTHERS AS WELL….WE MAY HAVE NOT WANTED TO THINK ABOUT IT…OR HOPE THAT BY SOME ACT OF GOD A GAME WOULD ACTUALLY BE RELEASED WHEN IT WAS OFFICALLY ANNOUNCED IT WOULD BE

    PS3 = DELAYSTATION 3

    WITH THE PS3 LIVING UP TO ITS NEW NAME…WHATS NEXT???…ISSUES IN PRODUCTION PERHAPS??…I KNOW! THE WAREHOUSE HOUSING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF COPIES OF THE NEWLY TWEAKED VERSION BURNED TO THE GROUND AND NOW YOU HAVE TO START FRESH!!

    HOW DOES THAT SOUND FOR YOU??

    SO YOU SEE RYAN IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU SAY…ITS ALL BULL****…YOU ALREADY MANAGED TO PISS OFF JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WITH ONE DELAY AFTER ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER…DID I MENTION AFTER ANOTHER???

    IF THIS WERE AN ISOLATED INCIDENT I’D BE THE FIRST ONE TO SAY “NO SWEAT” BUT ITS NOT!!!! AND IM 150% ITS NOT THE LAST…

    ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THEN WORDS MY FRIEND!!!! AND SONY’S TRACK RECORD WITH THE PS3 IS SPEAKING PRETTY F****** LOUD RIGHT NOW

    AND ALTHOUGH I COMMEND YOU FOR BEING THE PUNCHING BAG FOR THIS INCIDENT IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM DO I ACCEPT ANY APOLOGIES OR FORGIVE ANY PARTIES INVOLVED…MAYBE ONE DAY YOU, YOUR STUDIO, PRODUCER, AND ULTIMATELY SONY AS A WHOLE WILL SEE THE MANY ERRORS IN ITS WAYS AND MAYBE ONE DAY A MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT WILL WANT TO CHANGE THAT PERCEPTION THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED OF THE PS3 AND IM TALKING xx NOW xx NOT IN THE FUTURE!!!

    @EVERYONE AGAIN

    ITS NICE TO SEE THE FEW LOYAL AND FAITHFUL SUPPORTERS COMING TO SONY’S DEFENSE BELIEVE ME…BEING ONE MYSELF…BUT ONLY WHEN WE ALL MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD OF OUR UNHAPPINESS AND FRUSTRATION MANY OF US FEEL WILL SONY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CHANGE THINGS….

    IF WE KEEP SAYING “ITS OK SONY WE DONT WANT OUR GAMES OR DEMOS ITS OK”…WE WILL GET NOTHING!!!!

    VOICE THE TRUTH AND SONY WILL HAVE TO RESPOND WITH GAMES MADE CORRECTLY AND ON TIME…DEMO FOR US TO DEMO TO ULTIMATELY MAKE A DECISION IF WE SHOULD SPEND $60 FOR A GAME FOR A $600 SYSTEM THATS BEEN HYPED UP TO KINGDOM COME

    STOP BUYING INTO THE HYPE!!!!

  • Wonderful, now ALL exclusives except for Warhawk are coming out during my college school year. F-ing wonderful!

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  • Well redDragon Warhawk is the 28th so it might as well be September.

    But Sony needs to act and act right now. I mean now. In the last week, how many trailers came to Xbox LIVE? 10? Higher. 20? keep going. How many came to PSN?

    How many demos have we had recently on PSN? 1. Sweet demo but still 10 minutes. Next time have the honesty with your very loyal fanbase to say, “We held the game back because a magazine reviewed a beta copy and their words were not kind.”

    Saying a title is in Q&A when it is in reproduction being printed isn’t just a lie. It is saying “Our PS3 fans are too dumb to know the difference.” That is insulting to the people that have protected you so much.

  • Nice to have official confirmation of this rumor… and I no problem waiting on the game if it will be better! :)

  • Well I won’t be picking this up at launch anymore…maybe early next year though!

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  • FOR EXAMPLE

    DIRT

    Old Release Date – 9/3/2007
    New Release Date – 10/1/2007

    Old Release Date – 10/1/2007
    New Release Date – 9/4/2007

    Old Release Date – 9/4/2007
    New Release Date – 9/11/2007

    THATS JUST DIRT!!!!

    I COULD GO ON…RAINBOW 6, HOME, GRAW2, WARHAWK, NINJA GAIDEN…I COULD JUST POINT TO EVERYTHING…HOPEFULLY YOU GET MY POINT

    XXXXX DELAYSTATION 3 XXXXX

  • ALL SHOW AND NO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 3 week delay, huh? Why don’t you fix those broken ass controls while you’re at it, Factor 5? That’d be something we’d actually want. The funny thing is… you’re so worried about your leader boards and online stats, but who the hell is going to be playing this game with your garbage ass controls?

    Nobody… Fix them.

  • I’d rather have a late, complete game than an on-time “almost-finished” one. Do your best work – we’ll be anxiously awaiting.

  • here we go again, no suprise at all
    ok just take your time and make the game perfect

  • agree Lucifer. but i guess if the games come out good, you can’t blame them. we can only blame ourselves for being early adopters. I payed my $600 proudly cause I support Sony.

    of course it sucks that now you can get a PS3 for 500 with 6 BR movies and a remote control. I would appreciate it if they gave us at least a free download from the psn.

  • Dont pay any attention to gamesblow comment he been a troll on every forums. Especially gamefaqs.

  • Yeah, don’t listen to logic… nobody wants to listen to the mindset of the casual gamer. The gamer who speaks for 98% of every gamer out there. We don’t want your broken ass motion tech as the only outlet. We don’t.

    We want a choice… I know it’s hard to wrap your heads around, cause you made the game you wanted to make and not the game we wanted to play.. but try to be objective, Factor 5… Do what’s right.

  • @K_A_S

    Rainbow 6 was delayed 7 months!! did THAT make it any better???…HELL NO

    every write up i read on the game calls it a bad port…if i can loosely quote one thing that stuck out to me was Ubisoft blamed for a game that looks like anti-aliasing wasnt used….but Sony over looked THAT and even though the game is made in 720p it looked like ass in 1080i or p…but again Sony overlooked THAT…

    i could go on for hours…i just wish most people wake up and smell the coffee…

    WE’RE GETTING SCREWED ON A DAILY BASIS BUT SONY AND DEVELOPERS STUDIOS AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE

  • Gamesblow dont even have a PS3. Hes a 360 fanboy. Did ur 360 break again? Waiting for your refurbished to arrive in the mail 4weeks plus.

  • online features are not that big that they should be put into the game and I think the delay is terrible and I wont be able to buy the game b/c of scheduling and also b/c all the good stuff starts coming out in September (halo 3, GTA 4, HAZE, UT3 etc.)

  • LOL…DO YOU GUYS REALLY THINK WHATS SUPPOSED TO BE RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER WILL ACTUALLY BE RELEASED ON TIME????…LOL

    YOU GUYZ REALLY ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE…LOL

  • oh man this was going to be the first PS3 game I was going to pick up since Motorstorm, and now I have to wait another month :(.

  • …Insert public outcry here…

  • This is it, I bought my PS3 JUST FOR THIS GAME AND MGS4. I bought it early so I could hope to get to play the Lair demo PRE launch. I have followed Lair since it’s debut, found out everything I could about the game and even reserved a copy the first day reservasions were being taken for the JUNE release. Heck, it’s becuase of games like this that I decided to go back to college for video game design. I have read the offical reason for you delaying it, but I still feel the need to put in my two cents.

    1. If you guys go and change the control setup just due to a bad review than I hope you never make another game. YOU guys know what you envisioned Lair to be and who cares about some stupid review, so keep Lair as what YOU guys dreamed it to be, Not what some crappy review said.

    2. I thought that the medals and everything had already been polished, so what happened with all of that?

    3. Why is the demo taking so long? Honestly, with as many times as this game has been delayed and with the fantastic opportunity for advertisment that the Playstation network offers and as a curtousy to your customers, you would release it so you would keep up some hype, tide people over and show that the game is worth waiting for.

    4. This will sound bad but I’m a firm believer in doing things for the point of it rather than regular old logic. If Lair is delayed one more time I am selling my PS3 and just waiting for MGS4 to come out. Then after that game is beaten, maybe I’ll think about renting Lair.

    I really do hope that it comes out Sept 4th and that this game holds true to what YOU guys envisioned it to be, becuase if anything major gets changed just because of review, then I wonder about how much thought actually went into this game.

  • AchillesWar .. welcome to the fold .. this has nothing to do with the review .. Play magazine gave the same game a 9.0 .. go figure.

  • I know that their saying that, I was just commenting on some rumors that been associated with the dely thats why I made sure to put some “ifs” in there

  • Any way it goes, I want this game. I just hope to get a demo before it releases!

  • will you guys pass a message along to factor 5 for me? Tell them they can produce one less copy now because I’m sick to death of this crap and will no longer be buying their game. They delay the game from the spring to late summer and they STILL can’t get it together. I’m really getting close to just selling my PS3. If you guys can’t give me games to play then I’m out.

  • Tell then #252 i think u should cry about it or be a man a wait like the rest of us Lunchbox…

    Go out and enjoy the rest of the summer u goof :D

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  • Dang I was looking forward to this game, I was going to go use some of my birthday cash to go buy this which is 8/11, now it looks like i got to wait, well i guess the PS3 has 3 heavy hitters launching around the same time, Lair Heavenly Sword, and Warhawk.

  • ARGGHHHH!!!!

    a 3 week delay.

    damn. i’ll have to go out and do more mtn biking and rock climbing. Curse you Sony for making me enjoy the good weather.

    I guess i could pick up Bioshock but my 360 starts to cry whenever i go near it with Gears of War. Bioshock would probably kill it stone dead.

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  • Please don’t delay Warhawk.

  • Sounds like they are making some changes for HOME integration. The HOME dev kits went out a couple of weeks ago.

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  • I guess im getting two games on 9/4/07

  • Sony whatever you do you can’t delay Warhawk or any other game. You need Warhawk to hold you over until the PS3 gets help from Lair and Heavenly Sword to fight heavy hitters from Nintendo and M$: Metroid, Bioshock, and Blue Dragon. It would have been nice to see Bioshock slip to the PS3 but you have allowed another exclusive to fall into Microsoft’s hands, while many more have been stolen from you by Microsoft. What to do: FIGHT BACK! Haze and Unreal Tournament 3 as well as the thing with Rockstar are steps in the right direction but you NEED to keep MGS4 and FFXIII at ALL COSTS.

    While I am glad you are perfecting Lair to more effectively compete against other games, could you at least release a demo of it in order to convince your fans of purchasing this? I have supported you 100% since the PlayStation but we need to get the games. There are only three games that are worth our money that aren’t available on other platforms. It’s been about 9 Months since launch and that is unacceptable. While you do have promising titles coming out, it doesn’t help when many of them get delayed and many multiplatform titles like DiRT release as timed exclusives on the Xbox 360 due to porting problems to the PS3. I know you are providing many tools to developers such as the PlayStation Edge but try to provide even more support. Look what you did with Epic, that turned out wonderful, try for more of the same.And whatever you do when a developer like Rockstar are Ubisoft come up to ask you if it is ok for them to make an exlcusive or timed exclusvie cater to them right away! GTA4 and Assassin’s Creed have been huge blows, and you could have really used them against the Halo 3 onslaught.

    Try to get developers that stick to other platforms to release games on yours, Bioware hasn’t touched anything Sony since they opened. Try to make a deal with them, maybe Jade Empire 2 or their MMO would be nice on your platform. But don’t allow them to only support your rival’s products.

    The last game I bought for the PS3 was MLB 07 The Show, and my next won’t be until Warhawk.

    And Sony please cut the price of the 80GB version are we know how that will turn out. I want you to murder Microsoft this generation, you won a vital E3 victory which was great, but it didn’t help by annoucing that Lair is delayed.

    And Sony release Final Fantasy 7 on the PlayStation Network soon to give us some firepower on the message boards. Whenever we try to fight on message boards, we are usually beaten by M$ due to sheer numbers, and they all say the same thing: DelayStation has no games. Your Number One Priority should be to shut them up. And it hasn’t helped by delaying a weapon you could have used in that regard.

    But hopefully you will have good news soon, because the only good news has come from the GDC and E3.

  • But I will get Lair anyway along with a ton of other games on your PS3 this year.

  • Also Sony make sure multiplatform titles look better than their Xbox 360 counterparts. Many multiplatform games look better on the Xbox 360, and to your loyal fans who have waited this long and paid this much, that is unacceptalbe. Good job with the PS Edge but continue to give them more.

    And at least have announcements of something major, like rumors are still flying that MGS4 is only a timed exlcusive and that FFXIII is no longer exclusive. HAve an announcment to end those once and for all. Plus you will get good press.

  • Oh yeah about going to developers who have stuck to other platforms. Here is something you could do:
    Go to, let’s say Xbox 360 loyal developer Bioware, and start talking with them. Start co-funding some of their products and throw in some extra marketing so they can see some nice returns on those. Then give them a bag full of money and ask for a nice exclusive. Jade Empire 2 would be a wonderful choice. Maybe you could ask for a PS3 version of their MMO and point to the hopefull success of NCsoft’s stuff as a reason to port it to the PS3. Or better yet: Convince and publish a PS3 version of Mass Effect 2. That would be the worst blow you could give to M$.

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