When something goes wrong in a commercial transaction between a creator and a customer, the morality of the situation is rarely complex. Lay out the facts of the situation clearly and few people will disagree with the final assessment; in the cold light of day, the party who’s being greedy, or unreasonable, or over-entitled, or a combination of all of the above, isn’t usually hard to identify. while the vocal over-reaction of a (thankfully small) band of game consumers to various titles in the past couple of years has generated a backlash against the “entitled gamer”, the reality is that few game companies have anything like a spotless record in terms of dealing with their consumers. we may sympathise with the developer forced to ship a product it knows to be buggy, or the publisher who pulls support for an online title after a relatively short amount of time, but the party truly deserving of sympathy in these situations is the consumer.

“I’m simply not sure that a lot of people in the games industry actually understand the value decision involved in buying a piece of entertainment that costs

South Park: The Game has been delayed until the first quarter of 2013.

Following in an ever growing line of game suspected, but failing to make it to a 2012 release, South Park: The Game has been officially suspended until next year, with THQ releasing the details via their annual earnings report.

Announcing that the title will see a final quarter released for the fiscal year, this means that we can expect to enter the world of South Park by March 31 at the latest, whilst January 1 marks the earliest possible date to head on down to South Park.

In bright news, a new PC version of the game has also been announced to go alongside console releases; surely a dream come true for the potential mod community likely to add more mayhem into the town than even Matt Stone and Trey parker could produce.

South Park: The Game will see you take on the role of the new kid in town, with a number of character types leading you through an array of adventures as you interact with the town’s more familiar faces.

In development by Obsidian Entertainment, South Park: The Game is set for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in early 2013.

South Park RPG Delayed Until 2013