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Posting over on the official Battlefield Heroes website, senior producer James Salt has revealed that the free-to-play multiplayer action title will now be releasing in 2009.
“We have received lots of great feedback from our beta testers. So much so that we are now ready to enter our next phase,” said Salt. “On Friday evening (6pm CET) we will be closing down the current Closed Beta and moving our focus to polishing the backend. So for a while there will be no closed beta available to play. We expect to re-open the beta early next year.”
So, no more Battlefield Heroes this year, but what exactly has the development team been up to?
“Well, the obvious answer is that we’ve been hard at work on the beta,” said Salt. “To give you more detail, part of what makes Battlefield: Heroes unique is that it is equal parts game and website. On the game side, we’ve been listening to feedback from the lucky beta people, who have been a tremendous help to us in balancing the gameplay, squashing bugs and improving the overall quality of the game.”
He added: “We have also been working hard on the parts of the beta that aren’t the game. Sound weird? Let me try and explain: You know the old saying about icebergs being 10% above water, and 90% below? Heroes is a little like that. There’s the 10% game part you can see, and the hiding 90% is what we call the ‘backend’. The backend does a lot of things. From running the website’s features and looking after the items you have, to collecting the results from each Heroes game and matchmaking players into games.”
Salt also gave a special thanks out to all the beta testers, noting that their feedback has been an “invaluable”.
