Regarding the Mighty No. 9 release

To the fans eagerly awaiting the release of Mighty No. 9,
 
Unfortunately, we have an announcement that will be very disappointing to all of you. In preparation for the February release of Mighty No. 9 we have been working hard with our partners to resolve any network issues and porting work necessary to publish Mighty No. 9 on the various platforms. However, the issues relating to the network modes were more critical than expected, and it has become apparent that we will need to delay the game from its February 9th release date. We have been working up until the very last moment to resolve these issues in order to make the February release, but it has become clear that we no longer have enough time to fix the issues and have everything prepared for release.

The reason for the delay is rooted in bugs inside the network modes, and specifically problems with matchmaking. There are two large reasons for this problem, one of them being the large number of platforms supported (the solution for each platform is slightly different) and the other stems from the fact that the engine we are using is no longer being updated which means adjustments for matchmaking and online code are being made manually (actually reprogramming parts of the engine by the dev team themselves). Unfortunately, this is all a result of miscalculations on the part of us, the development staff. As a result, our fans who have been looking forward to Mighty No. 9 have been forced to wait for over half a year longer than expected, and for that we are sincerely sorry. I want to take this chance to apologize personally, and on the behalf of the development staff.

Over the end of the year break and the beginning of 2016, the development staff has been working on these issues non-stop without break, and thanks to their hard work the end is in sight. We continue to make progress to resolve these last issues that have been holding up the release of the game on the different platforms.

Because we are constantly working on it in cooperation with all our partners, we want to wait and make sure that everything is confirmed to be ready before giving a new specific release date. But we expect it to realistically be in Spring 2016.

For this 3rd delay of the game, we have no excuses for disappointing our fans and especially our backers once more. We want to take this chance to express our sincerest apologies to everyone who has looked forward to the release.

Although we are far past our original release date, the release of Mighty No. 9 is still right around the corner. We are all working hard to make sure that we can finish and release the game to all of our fans as quickly as possible, and ask once more for your support of this project that we have created together over these last few years.
 
Keiji Inafune

Comments

Mighty No. 59556 Rueake's picture

Could you not release the

Could you not release the game without the network modes, essentially just the single player, and patch the network stuff in later?
Mighty No. 56936's picture

Take all the time you need

Do you want them to release an incomplete/buggy game that offers online co-op but that feature doesn't work for a varierty of ports?  No? Then just wait until its fit for release,there has been plenty of games released that have been rushed to completion and require patches to fix and I for one would rather have a completed game.

Shantae's kickstater was funded around about the same time and offers various ports aswell, that doesn't even have a date yet but I don't see people complaning about it.

Sure,a release date shouldn't have been mentioned for MN9 since it leads to disappointment but the fact that the developers choose to make the game be the best it can be instead of rushing it out half finished says alot. Plus they normally give us something like last time we got to play afew levels @.@
Mighty No. 45443 Zuuley's picture

I KNOW RIGHT?!

"Shantae's kickstater was funded around about the same time and offers various ports aswell, that doesn't even have a date yet but I don't see people complaning about it."

I KNOW, RIGHT?! I have no idea why WayForward isn't getting dragged through the mud as comcept is. At least Mighty No. 9 has a TARGET release date!
Mighty No. 12225 signal's picture

Wayforward hasnt set up a

Wayforward hasnt set up a definative release date for their game. They havent constantly talked about other media for their game (shows movies merch etc). They havent Delayed their main game 3 times (two delays for the sake of a tacked on multiplayer)
.....need I go on?
Mighty No. 44668 Mario-kun's picture

Why don't you launch the game

Why don't you launch the game without the online mode and then include it via update since this is what is delaying the release of the game? Frustrated
Mighty No. 50124's picture

I shouldn't have backed this.

I shouldn't have backed this. I don't even want to play it anymore.

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