Funcom has announced that its open-world survival MMO will not be released on PC as originally planned, but a little later.
In an announcement on Steam, Funcom revealed that it has delayed the release of Dune: Awakening by three weeks. Here’s the studio’s reasoning: “Dear Sleepers, these are exciting times, we’re getting closer to launch, and we’ve just launched a massive preview beta with hundreds of journalists and content creators playing early parts of the game and publishing their coverage on April 25th. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been steadily gearing up, releasing the Character Creator & Benchmark Mode in February, launching pre-orders in March, and continuing to release new livestreams, videos, and details to keep you informed. We want to thank everyone for sharing our excitement. It’s been a pleasure reading all of your comments on the various community channels.
Our ongoing Persistent Closed Beta also continues in full force, with regular updates, and the feedback we’ve received from our beta testers has been invaluable in helping us ensure we’re launching a quality game. We have a very active Discord with our beta testers where our developers can interact directly with them to make sure we are making Dune together: Awakening a better game. Thanks to this process, we’ve found that with a little more time to cook, we can implement a lot more of the feedback we know is important to our beta testers.
As a result, we are moving the release date of Dune: Awakening to June 10th, with Head Start launching on June 5th. This is not a decision we took lightly, we know everyone is very excited to get playing, but these three extra weeks will give us the time we need to make improvements that will lead to a better experience from day one. We’re also excited about the fact that this will allow us to hold a large beta weekend next month, where even more of you will have the opportunity to play the game and give us your feedback. We will have more information on this soon. Dune: Awakening is a beast of a game. It’s multiplayer survival on a massive scale, and we’re making gameplay and technical advances that have never been seen before in the genre. We want to make sure we nail the landing,” Funcom wrote.
That’s why they’ve moved the release from May 20 to June 10 on PC, and those who paid for the more expensive version will be able to play from June 5.
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