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AFL 23
1943

AFL23 PRO TEAM Announcement
While best efforts have been made to release AFL23 Pro Team for 28 May, unfortunately there is a short delay as we await approval from platform holders.
We thank you for your continued patience and will update on progress at the earliest opportunity. big ant twitter

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1944

Shocked.

This has never happened to Big Ant before.

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1945

Bruh id rather wicked witch at this point

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1946

BA will we get the 2024 ANZAC and Indigenous Round kits eventually in a future update? It would be awesome if possible :blush:

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1948

what an absolute joke

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1950

The fact we are in May of 2024 and proteam is delayed AGAIN. I don’t even know how an Australian company can do this to people it’s actually sad.

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1951

What does that mean? Like the update was pushed through but waiting for the platforms to do it? Or still waiting for testing approvals from the platforms?

1953

I think that is what it means. Won’t surprise me if it’s the PlayStation authentication that’s holding back the update. (It’s happened several times with other devs) so we will have to wait and see. Hopefully we will get the update possibly in a fortnight

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1954

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This was posted 13 months ago. Then tumbleweeds.

Thirteen months.

Then the night before the supposed release date of a mode where these legends still haven’t actually been confirmed yet, the old “our communication is fine, check Twitter cough cough I have a cold” spiel before a delay announcement, cut and run.

Bravo.

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1957

hey lads, first time back here since september. just saw the twitter post and thought i’d come back for a scroll! good laugh knowing that absolutely nothing has changed accountability wise from this company lmao - can’t wait for their rugby game…

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1960

I’d imagine approval for an update where microtransactions and online matchmaking are included would take a lot longer so they can ensure it doesn’t fall too much under gambling etc. No idea if that’s the cause or not but certainly something to consider

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1962

Well given the events that have happened over the last 12 hours, it would be a really good opportunity to show some footage/glimpse into what we can all expect after this ‘short delay’

If its purely a delay with store approvals everything your side should be ready and it would be relatively easy to show people what they are waiting for.

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1963

surley we get some sort of update today

1965

No way this is the actual announcement for a delay or is this just :poop: talk?

1966

Is there still an update for this dead game today??

1967

probably not, and probably wont get a update soon on when pro team is releasing

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1969

Personally I don’t think BA are at fault for the delay to Proteam, It’s probably Sony holding up the update (Sony are very picky with what comes to the PlayStation.). Won’t surprise me if BA have had some problems dealing with Sony.

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1970

Big Ant had at least a year to get everything lined up for launch. And that’s not even taking into account the original launch date.

Why is Big Ant never at fault?

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1971

Agree that it’s likely the third party being the blocker.
I guess for the nature of this game mode, they’d have more hoops to jump through than a regular update.

@JoeyJoJo Maybe BA could’ve given more lead time to the platforms for approval… we don’t know the process from the outside… t’s probably an unforeseen delay… but it doesn’t sound like it’s 100% BA at fault… so just relax!

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1972

My issue is that every time there’s a delay or another piece of bad news Big Ant blames everyone but themselves, then they cut and run and their only Interaction on here or Twitter is to delete or block people wondering WTF is going on.

One day a tornado will take out their offices and it’ll be a case of the boy who cried wolf. Sure mate. A tornado. And Xbox copies are stuck on a boat in the Suez amirite?

I reckon there would a lot more goodwill if they were open and upfront. They would have known there was going to be a delay well before they announced it the night before the supposed release date. They’re following the exact same pattern as with all the other delays. Leave it to the last minute, push out a few words on Twitter, disappear.

How have they been communicating the Rugby delays?

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