The Brick Rat Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 Found this posted on Lugnet: LEGO® Universe Won’t Arrive This Year (2009) By Brian Crecente- Feb. 17, 2009 Online multiplayer game LEGO® Universe won’t be coming out this year as planned, the LEGO Group told Kotaku this morning. “Within the company we have made a strategic decision within LEGO to make a delay of LEGO Universe. It will not be coming out in 2009,” said Mark Hansen, director of business development for the LEGO Group. “The reason is, we have a luxury right now, the business is going good. We have products launching that are not digital, the physical products, with them going so well we don’t want to take focus away from them.” While Hansen couldn’t say if the game would come out even in 2010, he was adamant that LEGO Group remains committed to the online multiplayer game being developed by NetDevil. “This is something LEGO is very committed to,” Hansen said. “We see it as a major growth.” It’s likely that LEGO Group’s annual earnings report next Monday might shed a bit more light on which project they don’t want overshadowed by LEGO Universe. It’s possible that more details about eventual timing for the game could be hinted at then as well. The delay means that NetDevil will have more time to both work on the original concept and also potentially add new ideas to the game before it ships, Hansen said. “There will be additions,” he said. “But we are holding exactly to the plan we had when we started game development. (NetDevil might) create more content and alignment with the products we have on the shelf.” At least initially that won’t include the LEGO bricks that use different IP like Batman, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Hansen said. But that’s not totally off the table. The hang-up would be getting the owners of those properties to sign off on the rights, he said. Something that’s often a difficult proposition. Hansen said that while the game has been delayed, development is progressing nicely. In fact LEGO Group released two new pieces of art to Kotaku that were created using 100 percent game assets. One shows pirates the other shows a robot of sorts being attacked by people with swords and spears. “We like the results very much,” Hansen said. “The NetDevil relationship is very, very strong. The commitment to bring it out is as well.” http://kotaku.com/5155014/lego-universe-wo...rrive-this-year -end of report- Quote
Skipper 24 Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 (edited) Well that's a shame . I was looking forward to trying the game out but I guess now it will be even better when it comes out, if it ever does. Where the pics on the link in game shots? Edited February 18, 2009 by Skipper 24 Quote
CopMike Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 Official news from TLG will come next week. FYI there´s nothing dramatic going on. CopMike Quote
JINZONINGEN73 Posted February 20, 2009 Posted February 20, 2009 Nuts. Next week I'm getting a laptop that can actually support online games like Second Life. I was kinda' lookin' forward to getting in on this one from the debut day. Quote
Skipper 24 Posted February 20, 2009 Posted February 20, 2009 This news is also on the LU homepage. Quote
WhiteHexagon Posted February 20, 2009 Posted February 20, 2009 They heard about the upcoming release of WhiteHexagon and panicked Quote
Cardinal Brick Posted February 25, 2009 Posted February 25, 2009 If the reasoning posted on Brothers Bricks ie that Lego don’t want to distract people from real brick as they’re selling so well is true I have no problem with a delay. It’ a shame but it isn’t the end of the world. Quote
Brickaholic Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 And right when I get DSL! Maybe it'll come out next year... Quote
bugefun Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 It is sad that it isn't coming out in 2009. But I will stay interested in it. In fact, I even made a youtube account for only official LEGO universe videos and it has at present 25! They include the trailer and LUP event videos in HD. It's username is LEGOUniverse1 Quote
Brickaholic Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Welcome to EB bugefun! Go on over to the "Hello, My Name Is..." forum and introduce yourself. Quote
bugefun Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Here is something about the delay. The day Kotaku said it is not coming out in 2009 I wondered how LEGO would break the news. I went and looked at the FAQs and they still said 2009. A few days later they released the official announcement. It made it sound very positive. Most of the comments on it said "awsome!" A lot of the people didn't even read it all the way. There were a lot of comments saying "So, what date in 2009 will it come out?" I looked at the FAQs to see what they said. The one about the release date was deleted. About half of the FAQs avoid the question by saying things such as "More information will be released closer to the public premier in 2009." When they deleted the FAQ about the release date they fixed a couple removing the "in 2009." but most of them still said 2009. A few days later they added a FAQ about the release date saying the release date will be released in late March. They fixed a few more of the things saying 2009 but there are still a lot there. So, now we wait until late March which is the release date for the release date. Quote
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