DemaSked Delayed

The sad truth came today that the DemaSked service will be delayed until 2005. There is much concern among the community as it was previously stated that elements would be avialable at launch.

"Introducing a new concept is never an easy task. Instead of launching the first phase of demasked with limited functionality, we are focusing expanding the scope of our licensee relationships and overall distribution platform. This will allow for increased consumer reach and product functionality. Although demasked will still be a gradual deployment, in terms of functionality, this news gives us the opportunity to convey much more about demasked and it's unique experience upon launch."

"Launching weak would allow someone else to pick up on our momentum, and that is something that has been cause of concern since certain companies have taken interest."
Chad

Chad went on in the Warp Pipe forums to comment:

Das Scotter: I wonder if Chad would be good enough to tell us if we should just forget about DeMasked for a little while, or if we can look foward to more bits and pieces of information well into 2005.

Chad: In a perfect world, not a single detail would be spared. However, in the dog eat dog environment that is the video game industry, that is not possible

Since Chad started working on the Gamecube's online many other companies have taken interest on the service. Now with a much larger service of DemaSked which is expected to no longer manipulate games it would be easy for other companies to expand on an unfinished project at release. (No companies have been identified yet.) Don't think of this as a bad thing, instead think that something much bigger that is coming. Although it is a let down for DS fan, but with recent news of less DS's coming and it only launching 2 months from 2005 this in the big picture is not that big a deal. Keep your eyes and ears open for more news, and I will try to reach Chad for an interview on this subject. If you have any suggested questions please post them in the comments below. DEMASK!

Source: DS Advanced

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