This is something that got buried in the recent Titanfall BR stuff, but it's common knowledge that Titanfall 2's release date was a disastrous one, sandwiched between much larger games. What is not common knowledge, but what I've heard vague rumblings of before, is that it was Respawn's leadership that chose to launch where it did. As per this Twitter exchange, I now have somebody reputable backing this up.
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(Jason's reply)
EA as a publisher catches shit for this in a lot of threads, but it seems that Respawn's higher ups were very confident in it's product. It was a great game and reviewed well so I could see how that would happen. Something not mentioned in this exchange, but which I heard before (very very very) indirectly was that West and Zampella (the founders) have fairly sizeable egos, which considering their role in the creation of Call of Duty and the MW subseries is at least partly justified.
Please note I'm not an insider or anything close to it, it's just shit I hear around and that came from the same folks who are themselves also not insiders and who might have just heard it from Jason on a podcast at some other point in time or something.
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Straight from the horse's mouth
(Context tweet)
(Jason's reply)
EA as a publisher catches shit for this in a lot of threads, but it seems that Respawn's higher ups were very confident in it's product. It was a great game and reviewed well so I could see how that would happen. Something not mentioned in this exchange, but which I heard before (very very very) indirectly was that West and Zampella (the founders) have fairly sizeable egos, which considering their role in the creation of Call of Duty and the MW subseries is at least partly justified.
Please note I'm not an insider or anything close to it, it's just shit I hear around and that came from the same folks who are themselves also not insiders and who might have just heard it from Jason on a podcast at some other point in time or something.
Edit:
Straight from the horse's mouth
My understanding is that Respawn wanted that late October/early November slot to go up against Call of Duty.
Battlefield 1, on the other hand, wasn't supposed to come out in the same month. I believe it was originally planned for earlier but had to be delayed, and by then it was too late for Titanall to move.
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