New Release date

[Last Conformist]

19th Nov '05.

And yes, it will be a buggy pre-Xmas release. That's how it works.

[GeoModder]

Well, for those willing to pay twice or triple, they can buy the inevitable sequels/expansions and have the 'finished' product in the end and about the same timescale.

The rest can start to mod happily a year sooner that way.

[Paddy]

shame that they do not just do the job right.

if they came to my bar, I am sure they would not like my girls to give them a glass with 1/3rd beer and the rest water... then tell them they can buy the rest of the beer in 5 minutes....

we sell beer... 1st time, 2nd time... last time

finished product.

[Alex]

But you don't have to fabricate the beer, do you?

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Alex
But you don't have to fabricate the beer, do you?

no matey, not at all. here in Australia we have special pools that God created called billabongs.

a billabong is a place where iced cold beer flows up from the great Dwarven Breweries that are to be found in the centre of the earth.

most of the oldest pubs in Australia were built over a billabong, thus cutting down the need to transport the product.

what we had a problem with was the cloth needed to dry the gut glassware that God had waiting for us in special "Heaven Class" cases when the first settlers arrived. Yeah getting good cloth certainly took a while. Here I must admit that various patches were to be found throughout our first century on this island of paradise.

so I may be a tad tough on these programmers and various support and operational staff that are required to take a concept, sit at a computer in an air conditioned office for an unknown number of work hours and write code. nor am I considering that they have the ability to eat good food, get a pay check and play sports, ride bikes, go skiing, sit in pubs, watch the Dodgers, surf the net, play the never to be completed Civ III, assist in aid centres for the handicapped, watch movies on massive screens at multiplexs, even enjoy a nice cup of cocoa.

yeah my expectations of when I go to the shop and pay my money to the bloke at the counter for my next fix of Civ are certainly unreasonable...

fancy expecting it would be ready to play and not need a patch - opps my error.

[DrSpike]

Beer is easier to balance than Civ.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
19th Nov '05.

And yes, it will be a buggy pre-Xmas release. That's how it works.

That is why some in Hollywood own their movies, so some studio can not scr3w with them.

[Modo44]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot
shame that they do not just do the job right.

You know how it works if the programmers are not the ones actually setting the deadline... Did they ever in game development? I mean after 1991... Or do you remember any patches for Civ1?

[Paddy]

hehehe

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Beer is easier to balance than Civ.

Depends on how much you've consumed already.

[The Pioneer]

I remember when I first bought Civ 3 on the first day that it was out here in Germany. I am not saying it was a perfect game but I never regreted buying it immediately and I will do the same for Civ IV and ....CIV X and all the others in between, if I am still alive

So long....

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by The Pioneer
I remember when I first bought Civ 3 on the first day that it was out here in Germany. I am not saying it was a perfect game but I never regreted buying it immediately and I will do the same for Civ IV and ....CIV X and all the others in between, if I am still alive

Yes, I remember that day too. I rushed to the game store to get the game, finally. I'll buy Civ IV as soon as it's available - and, honestly, I don't do that for many games...

[Alex]

Of course I'll rush to the game store to buy Civ4... Civ is the only game that has that power over me...

Now, if they would release SMAC 2, I'd be camping in front of the store a week before the release...

[Joseph]

The latest from EB Game to me.


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[Wise Ass]

I find it funny that they moved the date a single day. I'm going to go ahead and take the 17th since I don't think that anyone else has it.

Some one asked about the Tuesday release thing and the answer is that most video games do not have what is called a "Hard Street Date" they can be put up for sale as soon as the product is available. However some games, most recently madden 2006, do.

I work at a best buy and once we have information from the publisher we get a date in our inventory system (which is still subject to change) but it isn't in there yet. My guess is that Take2 isn't giving Firaxis a must deliver by date, or they are flexible with it.

Though I Firaxis prefers pre-Christmas releases it is not alway more profitable in the industry. Usually there are just as many releases in January as there are in November and December. A January release when you know it's coming means that the younger crowd will save Christmas money for a game that they know is right around the corner. Not to mention that Fall winter releases come with a lot of competition as September usually has a lot of releases as well (back to school and all, we all need a reason to avoid doing homework).