Variety is reporting that Sony has released a statement that the Ghostbusters game will be published in 2009 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the original film, which also gives them time to explore various options for its distribution. Activision Blizzard is said to be helping explore those options with Sony. This doesn’t preclude Activision or a subsidiary being involved in the end, but it does help confirm that the game is pushed back. No word on any delay in the Blu-ray release. Cheers up. The game will see the light of day and appropriately as part of the anniversary.
[UPDATE] Thank you to Mr. Green who sent along this link to a Kotaku article – they just got a preview burn of the game, but it’s impossible to tell if it was sent prior to the Activision announcement or after (which would then help suggest if the disc was sent as part of an old PR plan, or as a post-release PR plan to keep the hype going.) The disc was burnt on the 16th of July, so it feels like it was sent prior to everything shuffling – but, it does mean we’ll see more details on the current state of the game soon.
And a big thanks to Mr. Troy, who scanned the Variety article, for those of us who don’t read the Hollywood trades every day.
[NOTE] I won’t be posting every article out there on this matter – most are rehashes of other articles, who in a lot of cases are sensational and unhelpful. However, when an interesting one pops up, I’ll share. However, that doesn’t mean you guys can’t (and already have been) posting links in the comments (biggest PC discussion yet!) – please though, rather than dumping the long links in there, take the extra step and code it into your post.
< A HREF="http://www.link-address.com">my link!< /A>
will get you…
my link!
(take the spaces out between < A and < / or it won’t work)
For those of you that posted bit links already, I’ll take care of those, but in the future, if you’ll link as above, I’d appreciate it.
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That’s fucking bullshit.
No I will not cheers up. If this goes ahead then it is an even dumber miscalculation then Activision dropping the game in the first place. THE GAME IS ALMOST FINISHED, THEY ARE THINKING OF SHELVING A COMPLETE GAME FOR SOME MARKETING BS, THEY’RE SHELVING IT JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN. IT’S NOT FAIR, IT’S NOT COOL AND IT’S NOTHING TO BE UNDERSTANDING ABOUT SIMPLY BECAUSE WE’LL GET IT ONE DAY!
Why the hell are they fucking teasing us… First possibility of it being canned, and then saying its not and now making us wait til the 25th anniversary for the game release.
I mean whats so special about the 25th anniversary..true its a milestone but all they are gonna give us is the same tired old special features in the re-releases nothing new.
I mean since they are holding the game back (which looks 95% done or more), does that mean they will also hold the comic and the RGB DVDS back as well, it just doesnt make sense to release all other GB related material and hold on to the game and make us wait.
With a few extra months to wait, surely they can use the time to polish the graphics a little. like facial expressions, and the getting knocked out thing. I always thought it looked too daft for the rookie character to go all rag doll when he gets hit. Then just to get streight back up. < i don’t think it’d be better for the rookie to take 10 minutes to recoup, but at the very least, something a little more human…
*I just “love” the irony though – David Crane’s “Ghostbusters” pretty much put Activision on the map back in ’84…And they made bank on every release, or licensed release post-’84…
*And now it’s ’08 – And Activision won’t touch the franchise that pretty much made them famous…
*Bullocks…
*Cheers.
their not going to release the game until June 2009!! wtf, why would they push it back a year! it had 2 more months but now they’re treating us like hammie, like waving the cookie in our face and then throwing it away leaving us all like “but i like the cookie.
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Fucking. Ridiculous.
I’ve waited my entire life for this game, and now they’re pushing it back BECAUSE THEY CAN. Not to work on it, just because THEY CAN.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Whilst I’ll wait and see a secondary source confirm it’s been held back, if the rumor that it’ll get held back until 2009 winds up being accurate that bugger that.
A lot of people were originally praising the fact that Activision’s name was gonna be on this, but so far all that buyout has done is confuse and piss us off.
Someone email Ryan French, he’ll know the score.
Paul, I can’t accept that, they’ve already been working on this since 2006, just how much more polishing is it gonna need?
We’ll see soon enough as to whether Variety got their facts wrong or if Activision are being a complete bunch of wankers… but if they are pushing this back to next year then not only is that going ti fucking suck, but I wouldn’t be all that surprised if it simply serves to lose the interest of those people who aren’t hardcore fans.
Thanks for nothing, Activision.
it’s not a matter of marketing bs – bringing up the anniversary is them trying to find the silver lining. The other thing to appreciate is that even if there’s a company ready, right this second, to pick it up, the paperwork will take months to finalize. The minute Activision shed load, the project was at best delayed which is better than the at worst which is cancelled.
That said, this is an unconfirmed report – I only posted it because it was Variety. Maybe they’ll change their minds and cancel it – then you’ll have something to complain about.
And gratuitous use of caps aren’t welcome. Fair warning.
Hi Ben,
I just think that if there is going to be a peroid where the game’s pushed back, they should use it constructivly, as opposed to shelving it and being happy with what will manage to look dated given we’ve all seen the demo footage months, if not a whole year before release.
I can appreciate the graphics so far, but I don’t want to feel like it’s a ghostbusters game if it’s being billed as (what will bascially be) an interactive 3rd ghostbusters movie. Maybe when I’ve played the game I’ll change my opinon, but I can manage to pick little bits up here and there from pictures and videos of gameplay…All I’m saying is, I want to play the game and get lost in the story, not hung up on how much better it could have been if they’d spent alittle more time on the finer details.
I’m sorry if this has offended anyone, it’s just my opinion on how to make the most of a completly shit situation. got damn activision!
I am so mad, I can’t think of what to say.
I’ve thought of this game every single day since I heard it was ACTUALLY going to be released a months agos. I even pre-ordered it.
I am mad.
You shouldn’t have to apologise Paul, you had no control over Sony or Activision.
I’m glad I got my wild speculation out of my system with that first post… and I hope they see common sense and keep the game to it’s October 2008 schedule and abandon this rediculous notion to release it next summer.
While I can technically understand the sides of the companies on this, and all the legalese garble that gets wrapped in things… this still makes me want to gag. Though, if it was flat out cancelled, I would want to puke, excessively.
I suppose that in all this hysteria over the disruption of knowing the game’s October release, it really breaks the spirit of those that took comfort in knowing how soon the game COULD have been here.
Im just as heartbroken as the rest, but as if someone was sick, let’s hope for a speedy recovery.
Well, this Halloween’s gonna suck.
I’ve got to admit that i was looking forward to playing this for Halloween or in December (which is the month we got the Ghostbusters movies in the UK)
It does bug me that I’m gonna have to wait so much longer but its also infuriating that it was about the only game i was really looking forward to this side of Christmas but spring is normally a fairly brisk time for must have games (as far as I’m concerned) and this is now another title I’m gonna have to budget for then.
FUCKING BULLSHIT!!
WHATEVER DUDE…SCREW ACTIVISION AND SONY
Well there is an upside for this situation. With the upcoming DVD set, and the comic, and whatever else they decide to roll out, our wallets won’t suffer quite as badly.
That, and perhaps they can use the extra time to come up with a really kick-ass package deal. I dunno about everyone else but after seeing the concept art I want a book!!
There’s no upside…the game sparked all this new interest…and NOW, theres NO GAME
activision is a bunch of morons now. they have a huge money making property and they just want to let it go to someone who will really profit off it. if they are that stupid then they don’t deserve it. it just sucks that we have to wait longer. i wish them and the company to fail. What ever properties they keep will not make more than Ghostbusters. Man are they idiots. I hope someone there is reading this…if they can read.
we should all send angry letters or emails
I’ve been following the news pretty closely since the cancellation scare and that’s the only time I heard the word cancelled.
Beyond that we’ve got delayed, pushed back, still coming, etc etc. It will eventually come out because it is a major property for them, and yeah it does suck but this is business for ya.
Sometimes shit happens, and who ya gonna call right?
Just trying to be a little positive in this situation Jay.
While a push back to 2009 would be a dissapoinment, if it means the game will be polished even more, tighter controls/ graphics/ etc, I can wait. Soooo many game are good, but could have been berr if they had a bit more development time but were forced out to meet a release date.
I think Activision is making a huge mistake here. Not only are the underestimating the value of the Ghostbusters Franchise. (Over Crash Bandicoot and SPYRO!? You’ve gotta be kidding me.) But they’re hurting the billions of fans worldwide who recognize the Ghostbusters music and logo as part of their everyday as well. I’ve lost complete respect for a publisher I once wanted to work for someday. Scratch that plan.
And for those of us who hope they take this time to polish the game? Well that’s relative. If their investor wants to keep throwing money into the game sure. If not? Then it will sit with dust on it until near release when they think it’s worth putting money into the development again. Sad but true fact.
That is such total BS and really crappy that they are doing that so late in production, and with the actor’s being involved in the game and this NOW being a waste of their time I doubt we’ll even see one now. This is the BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE!!!!! Thanks Activison I hope you rot in HELL!
What….? Say what now? – this… can’t… be.. true…. They have lost their minds – the only thing I can think of is that this article is simply not true… Nah, I don’t believe it… I hope not… C’mon Activision – this really IS fucking bullpiss! I mean, releasing it at Halloween guarantees great sales for this IP, but releasing it in JUNE next year? Yeah, nice one! I stand with everyone on this page in their outrage over his potential news. We will have to wait and see what happens, but for the time being at least, I am super disappointed.
I f*cking hate this situation… WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO US??? WHY???
The game was almost finished, I don´t think they´ll polish it on any way… they just screwed us and they´re happy, cause they know that whenever they release the game… WE WILL BUY IT!!!
F*ck $ony, f*ck Activision… f*ck this bull$h¡t >:(
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Hope this doesnt becomes another Guns n’ Roses: Chinese Democracy that’ll totally suck.
You guys really need to get a grip.
But just to go with the flow, Oh my god my life isoverwhatamigoingtodoiwaitedsolongtheyowe
meeverythingonasilverplatter.
Anyway, Time Life more than likely wont touch their release date. The property was licensed out to them, they decide when it hits. Same with the comic. They want to hold back the game and blu-ray, whatever– and I say that as a jerk who will stupidly buy the thing for ps3 and 360.
I fully agree with you Roger. We’re still getting the Time Life DVD set and a new comic series this year to tide us over.
They didn’t cancel the game completely, it’s still coming, just at a date that will coincide with the 25th Anniversary. Maybe they’ll make a cool gift set out of it, I dunno.
After all the time, money, and effort put into this game, yeah this is a really bonehead marketing move but so be it. We know what they’re missing out on, so let someone else who gives a damn about this game and this franchise pick it up and run with it to it’s fullest.
This is Dan’s baby, he’s not going to let it gather dust on a shelf. He’s probably just as annoyed as the rest of us right now, but instead of writing furious hate spams let’s all try to focus on the positive.
IT WAS NOT CANCELLED, JUST DELAYED.
There, I’ve said my peace. I’m done now. Promise.
Not happy. Not happy at all.
The Month of October would’ve set the perfect mood for playing this game for the first time. Halloween, ghouls, gremlins, Hauntings, ghosts & ghostbusting.
Here’s hoping THE FORCE UNLEASHED & GOW2 aren’t delayed. I’m going to need a couple good games to tide me over til June 2009
The problem with saying pushed to 2009 is now they have the freedom to delay it to anytime in 2009. So it could be a Q1 release, or depending on how badly Activision gets hurt from the delay, maybe even Q3 or even later. GB came out in June, so if they go for a proper 25th anniversary release, we are looking a 7 month delay. Hardly a small push back.
Many retailers have taken preorders – so this is going to hurt people on all business level. I do think it’s clear that GB is going to get pushed back in favor of lesser brands. Anyone remember when Men in Black II and a Blair Witch sequal were given the go prior to a GB3 greenlight?
This is really a big dissapointment for me. It seems like right after Zootfly the community lit up with anticipation – which in turn paved the way for the game to be made and with all the recent promotion – a delay will only distract gamers onto other titles and in the long run will hurt the sale of the game.
As GB fans, we’ll wait – but there is a large market of gamers that would have picked this up on the release date of October. The push back will probably mean they forget about the game (cause they can’t keep promoting a delayed game as strongly in the press) and just leave to weaker sales.
So the delay resutls in a poorer game relase which in turn will make Sony think the GB franchise isn’t nearly as relevant and pretty much this will be the last push by them. I highly doubt Sony will take another risk on the GB title with the exception of maybe comics and rereleasing the theatrical movies.
I Boycott all Sony products & Activision til the release of the Game.
It’s not marketing, it’s disrespect.
Finaly, we got the “Big” Comic Con Announcement…
Am I the only one who wasn’t suprised, straight from the beginning? Why release a game short months BEFORE your huge 25th anniversary? I was more suprised at the original date.
As for cancellation, even with a delay, there’s no reason to not release it. I mean, they’ve got a story, completely recorded voices, a lot of stuff already modeled. Too much has been invested to stop it.
Boycotts?
Calm the hell down people.
It’ll give them time to tweak the game more, to ready an even bigger anniversary celebration, and get things done right.
You have my permission to start rattling cages and being violent if this thing reaches 88MPH delays. Until then, calm down.
While I agree that this is just plan bad, I’m definitely not going to boycott all Activision Blizzard games like some here have said (Wrath oft he Lich King and all).
I do, however, think it is a very bad idea to postpone a game that has garnered a huge following and anticipation, shelve it for later for whatever your reasons, and then release it when no one really wants it besides the fanboys. It’s POOR marketing to do so. And also gives Sony more “SEE?! SEE?! No one cares about ‘Ghostbusters’!” to fire with once the game tanks in sales due to a lack of interest.
Well, i’m still looking forward to the game regardless of this mess. I suppose in one way at least we’ll get new GB stuff this fall and then all throughout next year too. It will be simpler to afford all the loot if it is spread out. And the game is excellent fun to play – that won’t change between now and next year. Yes, it may hurt sales, but that isn’t our problem. Maybe it will discourage Sony from future Ghostbusters projects, but I doubt it – y’know, now that the ball is finally rolling. I suppose this does explain the lack of “the big announcement” and the cancellation of the panel at SDCC… what are you folks thoughts on that?
if they’re going to just sit on it for 10 months I hope some renegade employee leaks it online
Activision just guaranteed a Rock Band purchase over World Tour now.
die.
And what about all the people like myself that already payed for the game and shipping over a year ago!?!? If this whole disaster ends up with no game at all I’m going to go to Sierra/Blizzard and beat it out of those yuppie bastards myself during one of their “Fuck the people…I’m rich” board meetings!
ARE THE GUYS AT ACTIVISION STUPID! I for one will boycot any game that they release until they understand the error of their ways!!! Its bad enough that I live in the UK so I wont be able to get my hands on The Real Ghostbusters box set. Hopefully Sony will psuh themback into a 2008 release. It just makes no sense they will make just as much money releasing it this year and the blu-ray separetly next year!!! ARRGGHH!! i have never been so dissapointed and angry at the same time!!!!
I had a feeling, since everything was going so smoothly, there was going to be a “catch” with this game somewhere along the way. I don’t know all the ins and outs of the entertainment industry, but this just seems so crazy. You don’t hear this kind of thing happening to highly anticipated movie. It makes me wanna ditch my Sony PS3 and get the Xbox instead…. although, I don’t care much for Microsoft, either! Dang!
Bad move on their part. The one game I was going to buy this fall is now delayed until further notice? By the time it’s released I’ll probably have forgotten about it, I mean, I’ve already lost interest after hearing this news.
Honestly, delays are nothing new in the video game world and are often times good things that can give a good game that extra polish to become a great game. I can wait. I mean you really haven’t experienced delay agony unless you were following Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Yikes.
WAIT!!!…i’m very confused right now..I just went on Activisions website and so did my brother and Ghostbusters the video game is listed as launching on October 31st, 2008…can someone explain this to me please.
You know, there really is no guarentee that the delay (if it winds up happening) means that the game can get extra polished…
It all depends on how much money the team has left to continue developing and whether or not the person who greenlights their budget is willing to fork out more cash for the duration of the delay period. Even if they did then there’s still no guarentee they’d give them enough cash to allow them to develop for the whole delay period.
If the delay happens, it’d be nice to think they could use that time to finish things off… but it’s not set in stone that they’ll have the cash to be able to do it, and then they might have to finish up part way through so they can be set to work on their next project.
Dylan reminded me of a very important point. It was our excitement at the original Zootfly videos which helped to win over the case to make a Ghostbusters game… so it could be argued that they owed us better then to suddenly taunt us with the notion they might delay the game until next June.
But then, cynically, this is Sony and they’re doing what they’ve always done to us, buttf**k us long and hard.
Dominic:
The RGB set from Time Life is going to be set to Region 0, so if you can get a multi-region DVD player then that’s the problem half solved.
And to solve the other half, all you have to do is find a US resident who is willing to order sets for UK/European fans and ship them here. There’s at least one guy on GBN who is making this offer, and AJ on GBFans is trying to get something set up through his site to also serve the UK/Euro market.
Anyway… despite my intense hatred right now… I guess I have just one thing left to say and that’s to call for some patience, as despite how utterly bastardly it is a thing that Sony’s considering doing… they haven’t actually made a decision yet… so we’ll have to just wait and see, and hope they see common sense and release the game in October as originally planned.
What does Aykroyd have to say about this ???? This is BULlSHIT…ACTIVISION YOU SUCK !!!!
I am totally PISSED, as the rest of you all are as well. I agree, they are shelving it just because they can. Hell of a time to buy out the companies that were making the game. They just wanted a piece of one of the biggest games of all time. Yet they would rather put out shit like “crash bandicut and spyro the fucking dragon.” and toss aside this wonderful game until the anniversary. They are fucking retarded, just put it out and make yer zillions.
Oh, before I forget:
Troy:
This delay, with the exception of the Hardcover, outstrips every other delay the 88MPH comic had… I don’t recall any of the actual comics running 10 months late.
Doodle Vandal Chris:
The big announcement, as mentioned many times before was the RGB box set… it just didn’t happen to be all that big to us as we’d known about it for ages.
Take a look at this evryone, curious…………………..
“Troy:
This delay, with the exception of the Hardcover, outstrips every other delay the 88MPH comic had… I don’t recall any of the actual comics running 10 months late.”
Funny – I’m still waiting for the hardcover I ordered two years ago.
Um….Ok, so this week, I have gone from panicked, to relieved, to genuinely frustrated to…to this…. what the hell is this?
Its now become like a bad remake of a Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck bit
With the part of Bugs played by Activision, and I am Daffy, with, my beak is sitting backwards on my head and I am blinking and quietly looking at the audience breaking the 4rth wall.
I no longer feel like I have ANY idea whats going on, and I’m not sure Sony Activision or anyone else does either.
Sorry Bucky, didn’t mean to step on your toes, there must be lag on the posting with my computer. Apologies.
No worries m8.
omg im gonna go kill someone this game better not be delayed a year if it is omg me and thousands will protest this!!!!!!
This is fuckin’ bullshit. The fuckin’ game dosen’t need 2 be delayed U fuckin’ pricks. The game is 95% complete. Just tell siera to publish the fuckin’ game and get it out by October.
Troy:
Um… did I not mention “with the exception of the hard cover”?
I’m pretty sure I did. With the exception of the hardcover delay, the game’s potential delay would be longer than any of the delays that affected the four separate issues of Legion.
Ben-
The difference between the two is that I’m actually going to get the GB Video Game eventually…
…oh yeah… I went there.
There’s no comparison between that crappy hardcover and this video game. This is potentially much worse.
Comparing the fucking hardcover that we all got screwed on to this is the stupidest thing you can do.
Look, this news obviously isn’t new either.. sure this may be speculation, but there’s a reason why the panel at Comic Con was just abruptly canceled.
Sony probably doesn’t have anything planned next year for the 25th anniversary, and given the Blu-ray release and that deluxe gift set come October what else can they do? They had the game AND the Blu-ray/DVD re-release all set for the Fall with a bunch of other fluff.. I mean it’s justifiable, I just don’t think it came about at the last minute here.
I’m sure this is been in the back of Sony’s mind since the first release date was given, if not when the game development began.
Some comapny would have picked this up regardless, I think it just depends where the rights lie since the games is based off of a property.
I really think you’re all over-reacting.
Seriously.
It’s a delay.
It’s a year.
So what. It’s still coming out.
I say everyone just barrage Activision with angry emails and phone calls…lol..just kidding I suppose I can hold out for another year..but there is still no official word just yet..so here’s to hoping
My lord guys, calm down. You are all screaming and swearing like somebody just shot a loved one. I want this game just as much as you guys do, but things happen. We have waited so long for something amazing like this video game to come along…years we’ve waited…what is a couple more months? We will get the game, its going to be great and well worth the wait. Now lets all calm down and ease up off the “Caps Lock” key.
I gotta say boys as much as I think this bullshit sucks asshole right now. I have a feeling this report is fucking a terrible rumor because if you think about it ign had the rumor about acitivision not wanting to publish the game the day we all read it, so how does a shit ball website like this fucking have an answer but not a huge massive company like IGN.
Hey i kno i said this earlier but I’ve been checking the activision/blizzard site and the regular activision site and both say the Ghostbusters will be released on October 31st, 2008..maybe it’s wishful thinking but I agree with GBFAN and others..this may have been created by Activision to create more buzz over the game..I mean let’s look at these facts: The media for the game is at an all time high like look at comi-con..if there were any chance that it was being pushed back a year they wouldn’t have had the demo there at all..and also like i said the release date on activision’s site is the 31st..so maybe this is all one big marketing strategy to get a look at how well the game may do….( sorry this is such a long comment)
More relevant then ever… Seriously guys, games get delayed all the time… Half life 2 or the episodes anyone?
hey Patrick
Just want to say A men brotha to your comment. I mean seriously who in the right business sense would grab such a huge title like this and say oooo well now we think the anniversary would be better to release the game. That doesnt make sense to me at all and personally I went to school for marketing that was my major and to see this bullshit it makes no sense. If i was sony i would have the game come out in October and then release the other shit on the 25th Anniversary. But hey who am I to say about this situation obviously our opinions dont matter.
Glad to see that I’m not the only one on here who thinks we should all calm down just a smidge.
A big shout out and heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s trying to be positive in the face of “a disaster of Biblical Proportions”.
“Seriously guys, games get delayed all the time”
Sure games get delayed all the time, but at least they get delays for good reasons. The problem isn’t the delay itself, it’s that its looking like if there is a delay then its just because, not to work on it further. Delay it for as long as it needs to be, not any more than that. So if not having a publisher makes it so the game has to be delayed only 2 months, then don’t release the game in 7.
Ghostheads: Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t Since 1984
I honestly don’t mind a delay if they make the best out of the situation though, I’m just not convinced that they will.
blah blah complain blah blah.
Relax Gang, I’ve been waiting for something like this since 89, as I’m sure all of you have. Whats another couple months? Look at the bright side, I for one will not have to spend 50-60 bucks that I don’t have for another few months… and those of you who have already paid won’t even notice that you paid for it by then
We’ll have TONS of Ghostbusters related stuff to keep our minds occupied til then.
Exactly, thank you Mav – if things were going according to plan, a Fall of Ghostbusters stuff was going to cost a person up to $500, easy. This takes the pressure off those worried about the big cash demand looming in October.
“a Fall of Ghostbusters stuff was going to cost a person up to $500, easy”
Yeah, now its only gonna cost up to $440.
Where are you getting $440 from – are you buying the RGB DVD made of gold?
@ Mavrick’s post,
Just think, if you just watch one episode of the Real Ghostbusters dvds a day, theres 147 days worth of Ghostbusters right there! Almost five months worth!
Unless someone goes really hard core, and only watches it on Saturday mornings
And by the time you finish, hey look there’s a game.
*I agree with Chris on the $$$ end, however:
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*”Go Get ‘Er Ray!!”…
*Cheers.
“Where are you getting $440 from – are you buying the RGB DVD made of gold?”
Oh god I have to save for that too? I ahte all the special special extra special editions they put out every three or four years!
; )
“Where are you getting $440 from”
I got it from subtracting the games $60 from your “up to $500, easily” comment. So I suppose the real question is, where are you getting the up to $500 part.
It’s the crazy buy it all number (which applies to me and presumably a few others, or I’ll feel sad and alone)
$180 for the RGB DVDs
$20 in comics
$20 Kubricks
$40 new DVD 2-set
$60 Blu-ray
$140 for a next gen, Wii, and DS copy of game
Which I quickly rounded to $500, because I was in a hurry, and there’s a margin for no stuff to pop up, and the NECA slimer.
So, take out the DVDs, Blu-ray, and games, that’s halved, for me.
Even if you were only intending to buy a Blu-ray set and one game (let’s say PS3 – you’re buying the Blu-ray, so…) that’s $120 you don’t have to worry about until next year.
But that’s not the main point, that’s just trying to put a smile on this whole thing, which has frankly been blown way out of proportion. The point is that two days ago, an alternate universe split off, and in it, the game is dead. Count your blessings, keep your fingers crossed, and instead of raging at every “hang in there, it’s not canceled”, show a little patience. There’s a fine line between showing your support for a project, and a group of decision makers going “why they hell do we bother? it’s not worth it – can it.”
If you guys want to be mad, be mad – it’d be nice if you knew what to be mad at, but whatever – you’re making things that are complex sound simple, and things that are simple and making them way more complex than they are.
You made me feel worse knowing that in some alternate universe the game is definately coming out in October… sniff
All joking aside though, like I said, I don’t mind a delay myself as long as they don’t just sit on it until it’s released. If it means getting costumization on the rookie though, tweaks to make it better or an even more indepth co-op mode then I’m all for it.
Amen Hannibal : )
Well, I can tell you they’re not going to sit on it – the teams are still working away at the games.
In the long run, I’m betting it work out better. Won’t be quite as exciting a Halloween, but it’ll be a pretty good anniversary year.
I would love to have the game delivered on time. I was even going to take my vacation time and get payed to play it for a week. But if it does get pushed back till the 25th anniversary, at least I’ll have more money for The Real Ghostbusters DVD set and a new Blu Ray player.
i was watching mtv in the uk last night when mtv news came on and said that Ghostbusters 3 is rumored to be released staring Seth Rogan i have found some info on the net here is the link!!!!!! http://www.dreadcentral.com/story/exclusive-new-ghostbusters-closer-than-we-think
It’s a pretty bloody funny time for Sony to suddenly start caring about the anniversary, they didn’t exactly pull out the stops to release anything on June 8th, 2004 on their own accord… hell, their ‘celebration’ wound up being a year late.
I appreciate you guys who are trying to calm things down, but people need to vent and if that means having to deal with a few days of swearing, blanket statements and blind fury so it’s worked out of the system then it’s the price paid for being a participant of a world-wide community.
But please, could we not say “just a couple of months”, seeing as ‘couple’ usually means two to three where as from now to June is over half a year, not quite the same thing…
Who said a couple of months?
And on the one hand, sure, people can use a good venting – but this is the Internet, where it leads to a stampede of anger. What should be disappointment turns to stupid, pointless, rage. It can’t be helping any one.
And Jamie… no. Just no.
Plus, I ask you all to link properly, not just paste big long strings.
Here’s a thought – imagine you’ve been working on a game for nearly two years. Finally, the game is public and everyone is cheering you on. And then a vague press release turns it all to anger and bile…
…I’ll tell you now, from first hand experience, grunts on the ground take it to heart. Even if the anger it pointed upwards, they’re the ones taking it hard that you’re not excited anymore, you’re angry.
So, everyone got it all out? Anybody still can’t cope with waiting? Perhaps if we could just suck it up a bit and go back to thinking positive thoughts for the game devs, who, historically speaking, are probably working days that are way too long to have to listen to our sob story.
“I have to wait for my dream game!”
“So, I’m in the office 16 hours a day and my family doesn’t know what I look like!”
I think we all needed a day or so to digest the ‘news’ and get over the initial disappointment of a potential later release date. But, at least we all know…it IS coming. We just have to be patient. Maybe the developers are flattered that we’re so excited and ‘foaming at the mouths’ with anticipation for this game! lol
Cas:
Matthew R and Maverick .
For anybody at Terminal Reality or Redfly with a possible second spare to read all of this, let is be made clear that we love you guys for building this game for us! Let’s hear it for the developers people!
True.
The game looks great!…unfortunately now we have to wait.
I’m a poet.
I’ve calmed down somewhat since yesterday..lol…the only thing that is keeping me thinking it’s still coming out in october is the fact that Sony is “potentially” thinking about releasing it with the 25th..there really is still no official word about the release of the game.
Yet again we meet an upset. It seems like everytime we get our hopes up we are once again let down. Is there no hope for ghostheads?!?
It makes since to set the release of the game on the 25th anniversary, but come on, there has already been tons of folks pre-order the game, myself included. That should tell them something, HELLO! We want this game!!!
Lots of let downs from activision new thing. I think after the game FINALLY gets released I’m just gonna boy-cot ativision…probably sony too. But, what do you do?!? Just sitting…and waiting…to one day be a ghostbuster…
Yep. It would be nice to get an official announcement.
I think, not that my opion matters, that sony should save the blueray (and maybe some other merchandise) for the 25th Anniversary and release the game as close to the original release date as possible.
Too beautiful to be real…
I´m sad, I want this situation to be finished. I want my game now.
This is FUCKING BULLSHIT we were like two months away from getting the game and they pull this stunt. How come everything GB related always gets the shaft
Ok Fellas, so I know we have stopped panicking now and begun a more level headed line of thinking to this. But I think we may be better off than we thought. Check it out
Ghostbusters Call Us…
The article specifically states that the disc that arrived to some many game reviewers was [i][b]overnight airmailed[/b][/i]. Further more there is a new release date on the letterhead that says [i][b]Spring 2009[/b][/i] These facts leave the writer of the article feeling that the outcry over what was happening was definatly heard and these discs were in fact sent to quell fears while still being a bit vauge as a spring 2009 release could get pushed to June 2009 but I digress…
So the high note hear is a Spring 09 release would put it well before the June Summer release we were freaking about, and still give the developers some more time to play around with graphics and whatnot while giving us a bit more time to save for the little things, like a next gen system, a high def wide screen ; )
0,0 Wow, I can’t believe that nobody’s thought of this yet, but…. can William Atherton still be considered the one and only “dickless” in light of a stunt like this? I think that honor now goes to whatever member of the Activision/blizzard board pulled this from their lineup and sent it out into the world to make someone else oodles of $$$. XD
Everything was going along fine until dickless here shut us down….
100 POSTS!
MOST OF THEM ANGRY!
(sigh)
Well, 98, after I deleted Dave’s two test posts – you tried Dave, that’s all I can ask. And you almost had it.
Lanny, the anti-spam system flagged and held your comment, due to the addresses and links. Which is a good thing – I’m not comfortable with PC being the springboard for harassing Activision or Sony when we a) don’t know all the facts and b) don’t know who to contact.
Sony’s the IP holder – they can’t MAKE a publisher keep or take the game. Given all the GB stuff coming, I’d say they’re just as disappointed in the shift as we are. What’s bugging them going to do?
And as for Activision, yes, it looks like they’re dropping the game, but at the same time, all parties have said they’re working to help it land someplace else – that’s not the normal state of affairs. Activision could have cut it and walked away.
So, since we don’t know anything, what can we say to them that doesn’t make us sound like idiots who are completely removed from the facts of the matter?
I’m not saying you can’t post that, but that’s better on the boards, not here in the comments.
Sorry Castewar, didn’t mean to add to the general downer mood going around, and I kinda feel bad that the 100th or so post was another semi-bashing one. Just been trying to lighten the mood a little. I know i’m not part of the regular Ghostheads community here, and I didn’t mean to be reflecting badly on everyone, and if I did then I’m sorry.
Everything I have found still says 08….dunno where this story came from.
Haha I think Dem’s post is pretty appropriate…
Don’t get me wrong – disappointment is totally understandable. But there’s a point where we have to shake it off and wait to see what happens. There’s even room to write polite letters saying how much you’re looking forward to the game and you hope they get it all sorted soon.
But we have to be careful about it turning in just pointless, fanboy rage. It’s not helpful, it’s not healthy, and it’s kind of undignified.
We’re ghostheads – we’ve waited decades for this stuff. And while it sucks, we can wait a little longer, particularly if the wait only makes things better.
Hang in there guys – like I’ve said before, this story could have ended in “Game canceled, team laid-off.” Now THAT would have sucked (and been worthy of anger.)
Well said castewar! Thanks for those words, it is good to be reminded from time to time of our manners. And you are right, there is a lot of space for us to THANK Activision for not simply ditching the game altogether. I for one (after some thought) am grateful that they are caring enough for our beloved Ghostbusters to make sure it finds a good home! Thanks for the thoughtful words sir!
I will vent my rage on the
term “ghosthead.”
Well rage away – tradition however thumbs its nose at you.
Hey Guys just want to give you a heads up my local gamestop has been getting blown up with phone calls about this bogus shit rumor. The guy me and my girl that they had to call their main office to find out the deal and gamestop got a ahold of there sources and they all said the same thing we are all thinking that this game is not delayed till next year. Now to be honest with you who the fuck has heard of this shit bag of a mag but to be real with you like iv said before in previous pots how the fuck do these guys which are not even as big as ign or gamespot.com get this information and if it was tru wouldnt you have seen this all over the internet just like we did with this publishing bullshit cause activision are a bunch of dumb fucks.
Staggering elocution.
This was just posted on Game Informer.
*Sorry Chris – Got alittle carried away there ;P…
*Cheers.
So GBFAN the game isn’t delayed till next year??…is it still coming out in October???..I told you guys that I saw October 31st on the sctivision website>
GBfan79,
punctuation is your friend.
& yes, nothing “official” has been released. Hopefully we get the game sooner than later.
Tradition will thumb its nose at me, sure, but reality thumbs its nose at anyone who calls themself a “ghosthead.” Can’t one be a fan, with out the retarded nickname?
And besides, Traditionis over-rated… sorry “Fiddler” fans.
“Can’t one be a fan, with out the retarded nickname?”
Sure, just not a good one.
;p
Seriously though, it’s a personal preference to pay respect. Half the time I say Ghostbusters, because, no duh, it’s a no brainer. When I want to mean “hardcore” I use Ghostheads – because that term goes back a loooong way to the fandom before the internet transformed it, helped it blow up.
You don’t want to be a Ghosthead, don’t be. Take your pick – but there’s a specific reason behind the one you think is retarded – you don’t have to respect it, but at least respect that others respect it.
# Ben King July 31, 2008 1:30 am
A lot of people were originally praising the fact that Activision’s name was gonna be on this, but so far all that buyout has done is confuse and piss us off.
Yes, count me in that lot. That was, of course, until I knew that Activision was going to pull this shit.
I think the 25th anniversary in June 2009 is the perfect time to release the game and the blu-ray and dvds, but they should have just made that the release date all along. To keep stating Fall 2008, and then a mere 3-4 months away push it back for no LEGITIMATE reason, is pure bullshit. If there were production issues, I could understand, but this is a game that is already almost two years in production and NEARLY completed! It’s a sure money-maker, so it’s not like Activision could claim that it’s a “risky” venture. Activision is simply tagging and bagging it because they CAN. And because it’s Activision, a company that made serious bread on the franchise 20 years ago, and for which the Ghostbusters franchise and its video games helped them probably more than it helped the Ghostbusters franchise itself, is just adding insult to injury.
# Demonicfury373 July 31, 2008 5:36 am
That, and perhaps they can use the extra time to come up with a really kick-ass package deal. I dunno about everyone else but after seeing the concept art I want a book!!
A “deluxe” edition with a hardcover book featuring concept art and other stuff would TOTALLY kick ass. Only if they assured that that would happen would it make up for this whole debacle.
# Logo Lou July 31, 2008 6:36 am
Soooo many game are good, but could have been berr if they had a bit more development time but were forced out to meet a release date.
Ummm, Lou, there was no set release date to “meet” for this game in general terms. It’s not like there’s a movie release to tie-into that they just HAD to meet. They could have said all along that it would be released in June 2009, and none of use would be pissed. Hell, they could have given June 2010 as the release date, and all would be copacetic.
# Verdic July 31, 2008 6:50 am
I think Activision is making a huge mistake here. Not only are the underestimating the value of the Ghostbusters Franchise. (Over Crash Bandicoot and SPYRO!? You’ve gotta be kidding me.)
It’s not so much that they think Crash and Spyro have a higher value – at least I *hope* they don’t think that, otherwise they really are certifiable – it’s that they now OWN Crash and Spyro lock, stock, and barrel. They’re more concerned with properties that they OWN rather than licenses, barring that “high valued” Ice Age license (I’m still perplexed as to how THAT makes more sense to keep than Ghostbusters).
Not sure if this is true, Gamernator is reporting that the rumor is that “Activision’s pull-out had something to do with a certain cast member’s whopping 50% share in profits for the game, contractually from the off. If this turns out to be true, it may become hard for Vivendi to re-sell it to a new distributor.” Obviously, if that’s true, we all know who that cast member is. Hint: his initials are BM (and no, it’s not Mr. Bowel Movement).
# Jey July 31, 2008 8:51 am
Finaly, we got the “Big” Comic Con Announcement…
Yeah, that’s a nice sarcastic way of looking at it
You know, I always heard that the “big announcement” was going to be a GB3 CGI trailer. I wonder what ever happened to that. Maybe that and the game swapped release dates, which is why the game is now pushed back.
# Doodle Vandal Chris July 31, 2008 9:38 am
I suppose this does explain the lack of “the big announcement” and the cancellation of the panel at SDCC… what are you folks thoughts on that?
Yeah, I always thought it was odd that they canceled that panel simply because Dan and Ernie couldn’t be there. As long as they had all of the GAME people there, then they still could have had a decent panel. Not a TOTALLY ROCKING panel, as would be the case with Dan and Ernie’s presence, but still a decent panel.
# Ben King July 31, 2008 1:12 pm
But then, cynically, this is Sony and they’re doing what they’ve always done to us, buttf**k us long and hard.
Man, sometimes we think so much alike… though I wasn’t EXACTLY thinking of buttf**king, just that general concept of what it represents
# Troy July 31, 2008 2:58 pm
The difference between the two is that I’m actually going to get the GB Video Game eventually…
No, the difference is that the hardcover was put out by a company that didn’t know jackshit about how to run a business, and the game is now owned by a company that…nevermind. They ARE the same
By the way, this IS me calm. I can wait out a delay. I have other things to keep me occupied. But I still think this is bollocks (to steal one of my favorite British words).
# castewar July 31, 2008 7:36 pm
are you buying the RGB DVD made of gold?
Holy shit, Chris! You mean there’s going to be a Gold Special Edition release?!?
# Ben King August 1, 2008 1:48 am
It’s a pretty bloody funny time for Sony to suddenly start caring about the anniversary, they didn’t exactly pull out the stops to release anything on June 8th, 2004 on their own accord… hell, their ‘celebration’ wound up being a year late.
You know, they say that each of us has a twin somewhere in this world. Ben, I’m starting to think that you’re my twin. It’s like almost everything you say is EXACTLY what I’m thinking – pretty much word for word!
# castewar August 1, 2008 10:40 am
100 POSTS! MOST OF THEM ANGRY! (sigh)
Probably not the way you wanted to achieve that great feat, huh?
A few comments on two articles that were linked to…
# Ghostbusters on Xbox 360 Calls Us
What’s really interesting is the spring 2009 release date printed on the fact sheet. Is this truly the new release date? It’s the first time we’ve heard of it, but unfortunately the sheet itself is not dated.
The pic is too tiny to see much of anything, but I didn’t see any “Spring 2009″ date listed anwhere in the paperwork shown. You’d think for such an important “fact” the author would have taken a close-up of it on the fact sheet.
# Ghostbusters: We Get Our Mitts On A Playable Demo
Conveniently, the creature left a traceable path of ectoplasmic residue in the air, which we were able to follow into a large library after equipping our Paragoggles.
Now I’m convinced that someone (I hope it’s Terminal Reality and not Dan Aykroyd) decided to rename the Ecto-Goggles into the Para-Goggles. Either that or the Para-Goggles are an ADVANCED version of the Ecto-Goggles. When the game is finally released, I hope there’s an explanation for this. For a game that is having so much attention to detail paid to it, to rename a piece oft he equipment is just nuts!
(Chris, please delete the other duplicate post. I forgot to close one italics code. You know, you really should add a preview to these comments.)
Surely if any one cast member demanded 50% of the profits for the game in return for his involvement everyone else would have just told him to go fish and hired a new voice actor.
Was the SDCC big announcement not the release of the blu-rays? – it wasnt exactly unexpected but i’d have thought that it qualified on a corporate level.
Has someone actually stated (bungie/MS style) that the ‘big announcement’ is still forthcoming?
Wow. . . . .my comments actually sparked some debate, both positive and negative.
I’m kinda impressed. Typically I don’t get listened to very much. Cool! ^-^
I only used the term “Ghosthead” in reference to fans because I caught someone over at the Ghostbusters Message Board use it in terms of fandom and I figured that was the correct term. Personally I’ve been a fan since I was a kid (’85 to be exact. Child of the 80′s Woohoo!) and while I’m not as hardcore as alot of people (still want to build my own pack and gear someday, cost permitting, for shits and giggles) I’m glad that I was able to have a place to voice my opinions and say my peace. Thank you PC for that.
And I seriously hope someone publishes or releases something with all that concept art in it. Being a Design/Tech major it’s really stunning to see some of the atmosphere they captured in those drawings, and we all know that that’s only the tip of the veritable PKE-laden iceberg.
(Particularly fond of the one featuring a solo ‘Buster fighting off giant squid-like tentacles with one creepin’ up behind him.)
“Has someone actually stated (bungie/MS style) that the ‘big announcement’ is still forthcoming?”
*It was the Real Ghostbusters Dvd set…
*Cheers.
I’m still not conviced it’s delayed because I’ve been to gamestop.com..release date hasn’t changed…activision.com..release date says October 31st..the ghostbusters game site still has the Activision tag and the trailer that still says, “This Fall…Who ya gonna call?”…I mean looking at all this and looking at the fact that they are still giving websites/magazines a hands-on preview of the game ( which if I were delayed till next year why would they still do that) and that they were promoting the heck out of the game at comi-con I stil think it’s coming out in October and it’s possible that a sub-division of Activision is publishing it and not the main Activision branch….I just what an official word already!!
To Patrick
Hey man I just want to say its about fucking time someone said that also because i have been thinking the same thing this whole time. And in fact i did see someone mention the halo marketing bullshit with them saying that they will cancel the game when you know damn well microsoft needed that first party game to kick its system off. Another thing also to add to this we would have all been seeing this rumor on IGN, GameSpot, N4G and all sorts of sites and I acutally read the ariticle im not convinced at all there is no damn concrete evidence that this game is delayed. You know to tell me this info landed on that jerk offs desk? the fuck makes him more important that someone paid to do just video games like g4 tv and ign.
ok, i agree. after thinking about it a little, and being away from the computer a few days to calm myself, we need some concrete signed, stamped, sealed, and delivered from the big head honcho at activision or something saying the game is offically on hold til then. and until then, i’ve got my fingers crossed, and prayers that we get this game in oct as promised for the past year.
Thanks GBFAn and Barry..I’m glad I’ve some people who agree with me….Fingers Crossed
“We need some concrete signed, stamped, sealed, and delivered from the big head honcho at activision.”
If only someone had thought to say that first thing. Oh wait…
Not to alarm those clinging to the retailer release dates, but they don’t change those dates until they get something official that says otherwise – and they’ll happily take your money in the meantime. So, it’s a good point, but not the saving grace you think it is. You’re misinterpreting it to mean something it doesn’t.
I hear what your saying Caste but you need to remember this game is going to be one of the biggest games and for them to have another publisher announced was huge and we all seen it online but for someone to say its going to be delayed? i dont think so sony wouldnt spend millions of dollars to fucking sit there and say ooo well i guess we should release it in june there not retarded ass microsoft now.
From what I can take away from your impenetrable post, you think you know;
1) The role Sony is playing in this equation
2) The money they’ve spent.
3) The way corporations think and operate.
4) And that the game will be huge.
Which means you’re guessing.
1) Sony Consumer Products shopped the license around to game companies. Sierra got it. Sony as a game console maker and game developer didn’t. They might not have even cared.
2) Everything spent on developing this game was going through Vivendi/Sierra/Activision. SCP’s investment is small.
3) Regardless of who’s spent what, money spent doesn’t mean anything to a corporation, particularly to one that just came on stage after the project was started. Money spent can be written off – money not being spent is always better than money being spent.
So, I know everyone likes to think “Oh, well, a lot of money has been spent, and the game is close to done, why not finish it?” That’s human logic – that’s not corporate logic. If a corporation was organizing the second coming, they’d cancel it in a second if a spreadsheet said the t-shirt sales weren’t going to be enough.
4) We’d like to think so. But we don’t know that. We’re assuming. Corporations don’t assume – the stare at numbers and projections and talk and talk and talk and if they think the numbers mean it’s not worth their time, they’ll drop it.
AND ALL THAT SAID, WE STILL DON’T KNOW ANYTHING OFFICIAL, SO WHAT’S THE POINT?
Maybe I should lock the comments. I’ve never had to do that before.
*To add something constructive here: Paul – Another interesting euipment name change in the last article you posted the link to:
“Once dazed, you can lure them toward a Muon Containment Trap”
*”MUON Containment Trap”?!…
*Odd…
*Cheers.
Well Caste from your retarded ass post in a form which is not nessary at all what you need to understand is that when it comes to corporate shit hmmmm lets see do you want to jepradize having pissed off fans or do you want to find some way to get one of the biggest titles out on the market and then worry about who is going to publish it later? However from a person who owns ps3 such as myself I would want to get this game out to start pushing some more systems because there are other big titles comming out for this system as well, now i dont know if you support xbox cause lord knows theres alot of xbox fan fags out there but needless to say its not just about corporate shit were talking about here in this room were just talking straight common sense as to why the fuck wouldnt you want to just fire this game out and make some serious bank towards the holiday.
Ok….Caste and GBFAN..calm down…I understand that we’re all frustrated over the possibility of this being pushed back..I mean you’ve read my comments and my theory…there will come a time when we will hear an official word..there really is no use debating and getting angry with each other..I understand both your points..and i personally agree with both sides…but let’s just wait until we hear something more official…like for instance look at the strategy guide thing…now that’s not official but it does beg the question, “If this game is said to be pushed till 2009 why is prima taking reserves and setting a release date for oct.21st??”..like i said..not official but it does add to my belief that the game isn’t pushed back to 2009.
No I agree you right deff shit is getting out of hand we are all frustrated, just gets so gay when things you are looking forward to the most just all of sudden gets side tracked over something so dumb in our eyes. Yeah I also agree with you as well pat we should just wait to see what happens if we here an official word or not. Sorry Caste for comming at you just this whole thing is pissing me off and just want to play the game we all have been waiting for such a long time.
P.S good point pat with the strat guide
Hey Guys just want to post this from greg miller from ign it was just posted today.
I don’t care that this game doesn’t have a publisher. Right now, IGN’s still got it set for an October release, and that’s good enough for me. I was put on this Earth to play this game, and I’m not going to let Activision’s decision to leave it in limbo affect me. Yesterday, I got a Ghostbusters demo disk in the mail and a number of IGN staffers stopped by my desk to give it a try. Just about everyone said it was fun and better than they expected. How does this title not have a publisher? Are you listening, EA? Anyone?!
The point is simple;
We have no details. Everybody is getting whipped up over “what if?” and it’s a lot of what-if. Things are afoot, and we don’t know much of anything for sure. And then people start pulling stuff out of their butts, and that gets picked up as fact by others, and so on and so on.
I feel like I’m pissing into the wind trying to respond to every half-informed, unsubstantiated freak-out scenario you guys have. And do you have any idea how many of you that is (including my email?) And this is the week WENN decides to float the Ghostbusters 3 is getting made crap again. It’s insane.
I called for calm, and a lot of you didn’t… so I get to take shots. That’s just the way it has to be, or I will go insane here. If you’re going to stand up and shout, try and make sense or know what you’re talking about. Because crap that doesn’t help clarify things, you run the risk of catching my ire.
Between the messageboards and here, everyone should have had enough time to vent. But anything beyond this is pointless. Better to lock this up and wait for more, actual news.
Sorry castewar, but I just have to say it, Sony and Activsion astounds me, but I shouldn’t be to surprised, big fucking business does that kinda thing to the consumers. *Shakes head*
Sad really, cause game looked like it’d make up for all those bad Ghostbuster games that Activision (ironic, no?) published back in the day.
You didn’t really have to say it, but again, you’re preaching to the choir – we all know what you mean.
However, everyone needs to stop personalizing this. For a starters, I would recommend everyone stop tossing Sony into their curses – Sony is the IP holder. If their publisher walks, like this, they have one option – they shop it around. That Activision is involved in helping it find a new home is a big deal.
I think this needs to be broken down into little chunks. So, everyone focus on the question, not the big picture as you think it exists.
What ido you think Sony’s role in this is and given the turn of events, what do you think they should do?
(and keep it short – simple, direct answers – this isn’t school. There isn’t a word count to meet.)
Where does Sierra fit in all this? I mean until recently the game had their name on it. Now I realise that they are a part of vivendi which is now a part of activision but maybe, just maybe is it possible (and if it’s not enlighten me please) that Sierra could publish the game independently without the Activsion brand? They had the rights all along so if Sierra could get the game out themselves wouldn’t that be easier than starting form scratch with a completley new company?
Now the idea of the game being pushed till next year could be the most aggravaiting game delay I’ll ever experience BUT remember it hasn’t been confirmed. Correct me if I’m wrong but right now this seems like Sony are trying to formulate an attractive Plan B IF they can’t resolve this publisher issue in time for it’s proposed release. (or worse yet this year) This was one quote from one person at Sony and it was the vaguest info you could imagine. As angry as the IDEA makes me, it’s not confirmed yet. We just have to be patient and very very HOPEFUL.
What do I think Sony should do? Find a publisher then get the game out. Simple! Well no it’s not that simple of course but I think they should release the game ASAHP and if they want to put a 25th anniversary sticker on the box then there’s no reason why they can’t do that whenever they feel like it and get the game on the shelves. I’m serious they COULD put the game out this year or from Jan 09 AND promote the 25th anniversay if they wanted. It wouldn’t technically be true but everyone would get the idea and understand the marketing behind it. We’ve all been around and seen this anniversary marketing stuff a squillion times and there are MANY times when the anniversary is fudged ever so slightly to meet certain deadlines/holiday seasons etc. It’s no big deal
OK, we’ll start there – you had it, and then lost it when you kept on going.
Sony’s only option right now is find a new publisher. SCP is not in a position to produce and distribute a game. To that end, I’m amazed at the number of people that think SCP is somehow “evil” in all this. SCP got this off the ground – this wouldn’t be happening at all if they hadn’t believed in the product in the first place. So calling them evil is just ignorant.
Where you skidded off course was about them getting it out by the end of the year – this is unlikely. Unless there’s something behind the scenes we’re not aware of, if they found a new publisher tomorrow, it would take them months to get it all sorted. It’d take months just to sort out the contracts, nevermind sorting out finishing development (new publisher will want to evaluate development to date and make any changes they want), producing the product, distributing, and marketing it.
So, that answers that – next one. What is Activision’s role in this and what are their responsibilities? And again – brevity equals clarity. There are no points for padding.
Look caste iv been reading some of your posts and I gotta say yeah it makes sense. However, that isnt the point im trying to make right now, what im trying to say is that you really dont need to talk to us as if we have no brain or any intellect ability. All were trying to do is have a positive out look, of maybe having the game make it out this year. No one needs a fucking person like you to sit here and dictate us like where little school children. You, apparently have the answer to everything. If that is the case then we should be all asking you.
Activision’s role is owner of what was Sierra and their responsibility, I guess, is trying to find a new publisher who they can pass the game onto who can then get it published.
GBFAN79,
I’ve gotten a little bit tired of your bashing here, without Castewar we wouldn’t have this awesome site for news and to comment on so cut him some slack would you?
Maybe he’s coming off like a school teacher, but that’s only because he has a better understanding for these things then a lot of us.
Yes, if you think I’m talking down to you individually, then that smarts. But I’m not doing it because I think you’re all stupid – I’m doing it because you’re all individuals, with individual theories and misunderstandings of different facts and innacuracies. And all it does is get us where we are – everybody fearing the worst and screaming about it. And again, if you’re going to scream about it on my site, then I get to respond.
And, before we go on, “I think this bullshit sucks asshole right now. I have a feeling this report is fucking a terrible rumor ”
Is technically positive, but really… not really.
Besides I’m not talking to those who have finally come around to waiting for more info or keeping a positive outlook. I’m trying to help walk us all through some common errors.
Case in point is thinking Sony Consumer Products is the same as Sony’s gaming arm. They’re not, and so anyone wondering why Sony doesn’t just publish themselves is barking up the wrong tree. Also, those calling Sony “evil” (and you know who you are), are doing so because they misunderstand SCPs role in this deal, and just what they can or can’t do.
Regarding Activision, you’re pretty much there Ben, but what we all need to remember is that we don’t know the details of Sierra’s agreement with Sony – there may be details about what happens if one side or the other pulls out, but more than likely the agreement allows for the publisher to mostly walk away, with no responsibilities in the matter. Activision, as the owner of Sierra for now, has even less, so if the reports that Activision is working with SCP to find a new home for the game are true, then that’s fairly impressive.
But at the root of this is people’s misconceptions that they are owed this game – we are not. A release date is not a promise and a promise from a corporation isn’t exactly worth a lot anyhow. It does not matter to a corporation how long we’ve been waiting for something like this – if they don’t want to make it, they won’t. So, again, that Activision is participating in finding the game a home with another publisher is a big deal.
So;
At best, Activision is exceeding what you can normally expect from a corporation. At worst, they’re just doing what corporations do.
And regardless, SCP has been a champion of this game for years now, and that hasn’t changed – also, they can’t just make the game come out. The market is not magic. A nearly done game is not a few days aways from a shelf.
Caste I applaud you..you’ve basically put everything into one statement and you’ve actually made me feel better about this whole thing rumor or not…If the game gets released in October (Which i still hope it does) that’ll be awesome…but if I have to wait a couple weeks, months what have you for the game..I will..because either way we will one day be able to strap an unlicensed nulear accelorator to our backs…lol
And real..quick something positive making me think the game is still happening in October…Sierra still seems very confident about an october release so maybe that “unnannounced fifth title” in the activision line-up may be ghostbusters…Caste check out activison .com and you’ll see they have ghostbusters on the list..and being released on October 31st, 2008..i kno I’ve said this alot..but I just want some feedback..ya kno..does anyone else think like me…lol
The trouble with anything on the Activision site is that it won’t be changed quickly – the website maintainers don’t change a thing unless they get the say so from above, which in turn is waiting for orders above them, and so on. So until the final ties are cut – or if Activision figures out exactly what their final role will be in the production of the game – the date will probably stand. On the plus side, they probably won’t let it sit there until October – one way or another they’ll deal with it before then. And at that point, we’ll have a much clearer idea of what the plan is for the game.
I know the dev team is working pretty hard, either way. When the game was due for October, they were going at it hard, no doubt. And if it gets pushed, they will spend that time adding to what they already have – adding extra polish and shine wherever they can.
True..I thought it was bad that we the fans were being kept in the dark about this..it really stinks that the devlopment team who’s making the game is being kept in the dark about the fate of the game.
I found an article..my link! …in the article the author said that at comi-con when he first heard the news that activision may drop publishing the game…he took the extra step and asked ryan french about it at comi-con and french said that the october release date is sticking….interpret this anyway you want but i found it interesting.
Well jesus that just doesn’t make sense. If the panel was canceled because of the delay then how HOW could Ryan French not be aware of it? I repeat if the game was already dropped or even in danger of being dropped by the time Comic-con rolled around how could French not know about it? Futhermore why wouldn’t they cancel the demo booth? You know the one I’m talking about right? The one with ACTIVISION BANNERS PLASTERED ALL OVER IT!! Just WTF happened here?!
No clue Chris..but after reading that article..I am partly convinced that activision is still publishing the game or maybe Sierra is still publishing it..if anyone would know that the game isn’t being released in october Ryan French would and if you read it he said himself that the october release date is sticking.
I sure hope that the game doesn’t get canceled, but if anyone should know, it’d be someone other then Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis (who I can imagine are both probably damn well annoyed by all of this as well) that worked on the game.
I just hope that its all rumors, and Caste, I know that you said we’re not owed a decent Ghostbusters game, but I think you should replay the NES one and then rethink that, what a POS that was, so bad, so very, very bad.
I just hope it doesn’t get delayed for the anniversary, I mean, June is 10 months away, compared to the 2 months of this coming October.
lol Agreed, in a perfect world, we’re owed a new game.
Hey guys I don’t you seen it on ign but they even think its a bs rumor by a nameless rep hahahah check it out
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/896/896422p1.html
GBFAN79 he’s not exactly calling BS per se, just pointing out the vague nature of the statement and the anonymity of the rep who made it.
Everyday this turns into more of a CSI investigation. Like I wrote above the idea that activision would know before (or even during) comic con that they were not going to publish it and to still go ahead with the demo booth just floors me! Not to mention keeping Ryan Fremch in the dark about the game being dropped and delayed! Doesn’t make sense
It makes a fair amount of sense – Just like Sony Consumer Products isn’t the same as the other arms of Sony, Activision isn’t the same thing as Sierra. I’d imagine people high enough at Sierra may have known things were in flux, but you don’t then go to comic con (paid for by Sierra, not Activision) and say “Hey, things might change!”
All i know (based on the footage i saw) is that activision’s logo not sierra’s was all over that demo presentation.
Yes, the merger had started well before then, hence the Activision logo. But it was still being handled by the Sierra group. Ryan French, for example, is a Sierra producer. I’m just saying it’s not hard to believe the big boss wasn’t telling the subsidiaries everything right away. And if they did, it serves no purpose for the guys at Comic Con to tell the public.
# Lanny D. Crepit [aka "Ectofiend"] August 2, 2008 6:37 pm
*To add something constructive here: Paul – Another interesting equipment name change in the last article you posted the link to: “Once dazed, you can lure them toward a Muon Containment Trap” – ”MUON Containment Trap”?!…
I must have either overlooked that or thought it was a blaster/trap hybrid, like the Skeptec in RGB “The Treasure of Sierra Tamale”. Hopefully the goggles and trap in the game are advanced versions and not the equipment we’ve all known and loved for the past 24 years. That would make the new names easier to accept.
# castewar August 2, 2008 10:03 pm
What do you think Sony’s role in this is and given the turn of events, what do you think they should do?
Sony Consumer Products should get Sony Computer Entertainment (of America and worldwide) to publish the game. Simple and to the point.
# Chris August 2, 2008 11:06 pm
Where does Sierra fit in all this? I mean until recently the game had their name on it. Now I realize that they are a part of vivendi which is now a part of activision but maybe, just maybe is it possible (and if it’s not enlighten me please) that Sierra could publish the game independently without the Activsion brand?
Sierra hasn’t been a game company is quite a while. From the day the game was announced, Sierra was nothing more than a brand. To put it more simply, Sierra is a NAME and nothing more. At the time of the game’s announcement, the Sierra name was owned by Vivendi; now it’s owned by Activision. In all likelihood, now that Activision owns the name, it’ll be retired and never used again.
So, to answer your original question, where Sierra fits is nowhere as they are slowly ceasing to exist.
# castewar August 3, 2008 5:31 pm
The trouble with anything on the Activision site is that it won’t be changed quickly – the website maintainers don’t change a thing unless they get the say so from above, which in turn is waiting for orders above them, and so on.
Buy who ordered Vivendi’s games to appear on Activision.com and the Activision logo to be added to the US GB Game site in the first place? Why order those changes to be made if you haven’t decided what you’re going to do with your newly bought properties?
# Patrick L. August 4, 2008 6:31 am
if anyone would know that the game isn’t being released in october Ryan French would and if you read it he said himself that the october release date is sticking.
He could have simply been lying to keep up appearances. A remark Ryan made to a Comic-Con visitor is hardly official. If he had said it on an official forum, like the Game panel, then it would be considered official.
Of course, it’s possible that word of the game’s fate simply didn’t trickle down to him by that time. Chris mentioned this in his comment from August 4, 2008 8:52 pm: …Activision isn’t the same thing as Sierra. I’d imagine people high enough at Sierra may have known things were in flux, but you don’t then go to comic con (paid for by Sierra, not Activision) and say “Hey, things might change!”
How is SCEA publishing this game themselves a simple solution?
I very much doubt they’ve got the licensing in place to produce Xbox360 or Wii games and i think it becoming a Ps2/3 exclusive at this stage would possibly upset a few people too.
I’m from Australia and stop in at EB games pretty much everyday on the way to or from work. I stop in today (August 6) and for the first time EVER, I see Ghostbusters dummy boxes. I was there the day before and they weren’t there, I asked the guy in the store when those display boxes came in he said “we only just got ‘em”.
This is the first retail promotion the game has gotten in this country to date. Why now? You can give me the “late mailing” excuse just like the disc mystery but like I said August 6!
Whose name was on the box? Sierra. Don’t know what to make of that. Was there a date on the back? Afraid not (damn!)
There were two things that caught my eye:
1) The logo on the box was the NEW logo, the one with the “shadowy” no ghost symbol and the “un-logoised” letter “o”
2) the game was rated. I don’t know about america but here in australia games don’t get rated until wheels are seriously in motion towards it coming out. Hell we don’t get the dummy boxes unless they’re really coming.
I’m trying not to make TOO much of this but there is definetly something afoot if this were JUST put out.
One other thing, I only saw dummy boxes in the Wii and Ps2 section. When I asked why there wern’t any for the other formats the guy said “we don’t always get ‘em all right away”
Chris..it actually works the same in America I worked in a game store for about a year..and we only got dummy boxes just before the game was ready for release….same goes for the rating thing…Now I am convinced that my theory about this being a marketing strategy is true…but I don’t wanna make to much of this…but it’s still very interesting.
hey guys hope everyone is doing well he is a little insider of what adam sessler thinks about activisions decision and he makes alot of sense.
look for your self
http://www.g4tv.com/thepile/videos/27623/Sesslers_Soapbox_Gamings_New_Evil_Empire.html
Parick L what do you mean by a marketing strategy? Strategy for what?
Chris…A marketing strategy where they cause all this commotion in order to judge how well the game is gonna do by looking at the reaction of the fans..it’s been done before…like when GTA IV was ready to come out the company said that they were gonna push the game back another year or something..and when they saw how outraged people got they were able to judge that the game was gonna do extremely well.
Yeah i don’t know about that. I don’t outright believe the game is coming out on schedule nor do I outright believe that it’s being delayed at all. All i know is what i’m hoping. I hope that everything that’s happened in the last week and a half is a ‘false alarm” but I doubt it would all be a marketing ploy. GTA IV had a lot of bugs that needed to be tweaked but couldn’t have been done in time, hense the delay. Plus no one needed to gauge whether GTA IV was going to be a hit, it’s GTA for christ’s sake, it was a sure thing from the start.
That said there is quite a bit of speculation going on right now on the gamespot forums from a number of gamestop employees who (still) strongly believe the game is coming soon and have full knowledge of what’s been going on. One in particular says that the name of the games publisher changed in their database FROM activision to sierra. He claims he checked on august 4 and it had changed which made him believe that activision has handed over the reigns to sierra. He also CLAIMED that his manager knows someone in the industry (doesn’t everyone) who strongly believes the game is till on track for oct.
Don’t know what to believe? it’s the internet who does?
True chris…I guess I thought of all thought because I was just clinging to some kind of hope that the game wasn’t gonna be delayed..now that i think about it..my theory is kinda far-fetched…and actually your comment has made me feel a whole lot better..and i kno what your saying about gamestop employees beliveing the game is still set for october because the store near me..the guys there told me the same thing about sierra last night..now i’m feeling a little more confident about it coming out in october.
Just got the following email from game.co.uk
“Dear Mr Joad
Thank you for the following order placed with GAME.
Order number(s):
********/*
As you may already be aware, the UK release date for Ghostbusters has changed to 01-Mar-2009. Changes to release dates are relatively common in the videogames industry and are unfortunately beyond our control.
Don’t worry, your order is still live and will be despatched prior to its release date via your chosen method of delivery.”
not looking too great for the octoberists.
Hey there, just checked the Game website and they do indeed have Ghostbusters tht video game down for release on the date as said above. But…………. only the xbox 360 version when i last checked. Wonder why that is. Maybe the others are playing catch up or something i don’t know. Seems the most logical solution to me. It’ll be interesting to see if only the sony games stay on course or if in fact all the games will soon follow suit.
Just thought it was weird thats all.
All this second-guessing is driving me nuts! When the hell are we gonna get some offical word on this!?
Bucky are you from the UK or States? Cause We still have October 21st here in the states
To bucky
Hey also i went to the website game.co.uk or something and if you notice doesnt the release dates look staggered like ps2 and wiii come out in oct sony in nov xbox and pc in march idk what their plan is
GUY I HAVE OFFICIAL WORD FROM MARK RANDIEL FROM TERMINAL REALITY THAT THE GAME IS GOING TO BE PUBLISHED. NEW IGN UPDATE!!!!
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/897/897111p1.html
To GBFAN79
Yeah i am from the UK. I did notice the sporadic release dates of the different versions too. I just put it down to Game not 100% knowing when the games were coming out.
By the way Game website has also put the pc version down for next year too. I wonder if the ps3 and ps2 version will come out 1st followed by the others next year with a different publisher. Much like The Orange Box did with EA.
Release dates on game.co.uk changed again…this time..the ps2 and ps3 version will be released in october…the wii and DS in november..and the pc and 360 version on January 3, 2009..interesting..it’s times like this I have the wii, ps2, ps3, and 360…and I reserved copies for those systems…so either way I may be getting a copy in october..lol
I just wish we’d get some news on this, other then “Ghostbusters will be published” Yeah, but by who, and when is it due.
Ugh, all I know is that Activision ****ing sucks for all of this, f you Activision.