Nerjyzed Studios Plays into Stereotypes with BCFx Delays
The problem with Nerjyzed Studios setting and missing multiple release dates for Black College Football: The XPerience isn’t that eager consumers don’t have what they’ve waited nearly a year to play. It’s the fact that the game makers have communicated nothing to the niche fan base it is hoping will support it.
If Nerjyzed is waiting for other schools to come on board and allow licensing to appear in the game, tell folks that. If there are additional components to the XBox 360 edition that need to be fine tuned, tell folks that. If the production line at the factory was at Stillman College and thinks they may be coming down with the swine flu, thus holding up production, then tell folks that.
But for goodness sakes, don’t let people who have reserved the game sit back and wonder what the heck is taking so long. Middle of June, end of July, middle of August, now late September. Seems like its a new date every time I go into the GameStop to pick up my copy on the date I thought BCFx would be released on.
Some people will read this and say I’m being too hard or unreasonable with a new gaming franchise. I don’t think I’m being hard enough. I have half a mind to list names, email addresses and phone numbers for people associated with the project so that they can be held accountable for the delays on such a highly-anticipated title.
It hurts me to think that a game about black college football has met a fate that black culture carries and perpetuates on a regular basis. It’s all right if we’re late; you have to excuse a people that’s been held back from where it has wanted to go for so long.
No press releases, no statements to the media, nothing. No Twitter updates since May, around the time they said everybody could check for the game on June 16. Just empty release dates and smirks from the whitecashiers every time I try to go get my copy of BCFx. Yeah, I’m sour. This is not just my game. This is history for black college football.
If I’m not important enough to be told why the game hasn’t come out or won’t come out, then perhaps the game isn’t worth my money or my expectations.
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I don’t even think it is exclusively a lack of closing the deal. They just aren’t talking to their consumers, yet probably are hoping we still purchase the game.
They have to do better than this. Scheduling, development, all around, the fans deserve better than what we are getting (or not getting).
I’m starting to feel a little bitter about this game. I feel like I am standing in a registration line all over again at my HBCU. Waiting in vain for a game that I am only buying to support Nerjyzed Entertainment for addressing a void in the video game sports industry. I would just like to know what is holding this title up from releasing. I just walked out of my local Game Stop, where some sad salesperson just referenced the folks at Nerjyzed as “idiots” for pushing the date back to not conflict with a major release. This game has moved because of conflict with NCAA Football 10, Madden 10, and now is in line with Halo ODST. The game has also dropped in price by 20 dollars since the initial release date was set. Maybe it’s the marketing department at Nerjyzed that’s having trouble, but someone needs to get it together.
There’s a special talent called “Closing the Deal”. Some poeple have it, others need to work on it. Nerjyzed apparently has all the great ideas and creative energy in the world, but something is missing to actually close the deal. We’ve all been there. Sometimes you just gotta take a shot of whiskey and go for it.