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No age rating on discs caused Lair Europe release delay

Posted Nov 13, 2007 at 06:56PM by Ryan C. Listed in: Lair, News, Games Tags: Sony, Factor 5, SIXAXIS
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For those of us in Europe who were disappointed with the sudden delay of Factor 5's Sony PlayStation 3 exclusive, Lair, here's some news that might explain why we won't be riding dragons with the SIXAXIS just yet: the delay may have been caused by the game discs themselves having no age rating printed upon them. Ouch!

This tidbit of bad news comes directly from employees at UK video game retailer GAME. As required by law, all game discs should have an age rating printed on them - and it seems that someone in the manufacturing side of Lair forgot to slap the age rating on the discs themselves. The entire shipment of Lair then had to be pulled back, thus causing a phenomenon in the video game industry that can be charitably described as a brief delay, and uncharitably described as a very irritating annoyance for gamers.

While we don't have any confirmation from Sony if the age rating issue is indeed the main cause of the delay, it jives with the rumors that have been circulating ever since news of it broke out - i.e. a manufacturing issue. Here's hoping that Sony resolves the problem posthaste - either by reprinting discs or slapping small stickers onto the current ones.

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   by mreverdred01 - 2007-11-13
 » Poor Factor 5
The guys that worked on Lair keep on having the worst luck and messing up in the most random ways.

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   by CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS - 2007-11-13
 » Doh! Slap Small Stickers On Them?
I hate playing games with stickers on them. It messes up the game balance when spinning in the drive which is not good for your disc drive. I remember along time ago when Blockbuster started putting stickers on their game discs that stated they were their property and when I realized why my Playstation was making a terrible noise when spinning the disc, I took the game back and complained. I asked for a copy without the sticker and they told me they couldn't do that. I then told them that I am not renting anymore games from them until they stop putting stickers on the discs because of the issue. Later on I noticed they did stop putting stickers on the discs. I would rather someone write with a felt tip marker on them or put a ink stamp or something.

   by Yaz - 2007-11-14
 » Shame the delay...
...wasn't due to improvements to the gameplay.

I hope Factor 5 learns from their big mistakes with this game.



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