Hellwig describes the focus of the extra time as being on adding "more icing on the Tropican cake" and to "add as many of the community requests for enhanced features and gameplay as possible into the release version of the game." What has me flapping my hands in mild panic is that two months really isn't long, at least when it comes to addressing the kind of fundamental design stuff that, in my experience of playing thousands of games oh god I'm so old, often makes the difference between 'good' and 'very good'. Which is admirable, and I'd always much rather this sort of approach than doggedly sticking to a release date because you've already paid for all the adverts to come out on a particular day, as we've seen happen a few times, particularly for big multi-platform stuff. "Combining my own opinion and the response we had from thousands of dedicated beta players around the world, Kalypso has decided to postpone the release of the game for another couple of months to March 29, 2019." But, in my humble opinion, it is not enough to like a game – I want to love it! And Tropico 6 is good, but not very good, or outstanding. "Over the holidays, I have played Tropico 6 for many hours and really liked what I saw. The open letter about the delay from Simon Hellwig, MD of Kalypso Media Group, is unusually frank, as these things go - you couldn't catch Ian Blizzard or Susan Ubisoft talking like this, y'know? (The total bastard in me came very close to running "Tropico 6 is not very good, says its own publisher" as a headline). So he claims, "Tropico 6 is good, but not very good, or outstanding. The reason? It just didn't make the grade in its current state, reckons the boss of publisher Kalypso - this particular getaway was looking a little more Ryanair than Virgin Atlantic. Caribbean management'n'despotism sim Tropico 6 has just suffered its second delay, missing the January release date it was eyeing, after failing to appear in 2018. Bad news if, like me, your response to dry January was going to be supping pre-mixed Aldi pina coladas at your desk while your monitor beamed sun-kissed beaches into your daylight-starved eyeballs.
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