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Polish site XGP described yesterday that Xbox customers have received refund notices for Microsoft’s STALKER 2. As it turns out, not only is Xbox abruptly reimbursing latest pre-orders, but it has also taken off the ability to make new pre-orders from the Microsoft Retailer.
The site speculated that this could signify a further more hold off in the match (most likely due to the problem with Ukrainian developer GSC Activity Environment), and the news promptly unfold amongst the lots of followers waiting for STALKER 2. It did not support that. The game’s Steam webpage now has December 2023 is shown as an expected launch day.
To make clear the situation, Zakhar Bocharov, PR and Company Progress Manager of GSC Sport World, commented:
We experienced to postpone the launch date to 2023, as announced through the expanded Microsoft E3 Clearly show. Microsoft refunds money for game pre-orders devoid of a certain release date – this is the correct technique. The sport will be accessible for pre-order on Xbox as before long as we announce the correct release date. December 23 is the equal of a placeholder right until we’re prepared to put up a new release day. STALKER 2 will be released in 2023 at the minute.
In accordance to the progress workforce, there ended up no additional delays. True, STALKER 2 has by now been postponed quite a few situations. A sequel to the legendary open up planet initially person shooter was initial declared in 2010 and was scheduled for release in 2012, but that version was canceled and even GSC Game Planet was officially disbanded in December 2011.
However, in late 2014, the studio was reformed to get the job done on the Cossacks 3 real-time strategy, which introduced in September 2016 for Pc. In 2018 it was yet again introduced that STALKER 2 was in development, with a release scheduled for 2021.
Nonetheless, at E3 2021, the sport was postponed to April 28, 2022. In January of this calendar year, GSC Video game Environment postponed STALKER 2 back to December 2022 and then back to the general day of 2023.
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