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martyb [soylentnews.org] writes:

The game director for Final Fantasy XV claims that the master disc of the game has been written, but to ensure the highest possible quality, the game's release has been delayed until November 29th. As reported in Ars Technica [arstechnica.com]:

Early Monday morning, FFXV Director Hajime Tabata took to YouTube to announce an official delay for the long-awaited RPG, now slated to launch on November 29 [youtube.com] of this year (meaning, one day off from the joke date). Tabata-san explained that the game's "master disc" (typically called the "gold" copy) had been completed "the other day," but its content would not be "the highest possible quality" without a downloadable patch, which he said would be completed by September 30.

Then the director changed course and said that the game would eventually require another patch, as the day-one patch's content would still be "one step away from that truly ultimate quality we are striving for." Tabata-san insists that this delay means FFXV will not require any day-one patch downloads—a fact that he stated multiple times, almost as if to pour salt in the wound of No Man's Sky in light of its recent day-one patch brouhaha [arstechnica.com]. The announcement also mentioned separate plans for paid DLC, which had already been reported [engadget.com] days earlier in the form of a $25 "season pass."

I find it more than a little amusing that something which is called "Final Fantasy" has had so many releases. Any Soylentils looking forward to this release?

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