Just ordered Civ4 from Amazon UK

[Wise Ass]

DP

[alva]

Originally posted by H Tower
When you're desperate for CIV news, you'll do almost anything, up to but not neccessarily camping out in front of Firaxis' building to keep track of how many hours Soren works per day.

I think you don't want to know how many hours a week he's doing at the moment.

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by alva


I think you don't want to know how many hours a week he's doing at the moment.

I certainly hope it's at least somewhere in the vicinity of 40. From what I gather, he's the one that can do the most to help the game at this point with the AI tweaks

[Wise Ass]

I'm sure that number is well above 40. It's crunch time and from what I understand about the industry is that you can expect 50-60 hour weeks and 70-80 hours aren't out of the question either.

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Wise Ass
I'm sure that number is well above 40. It's crunch time and from what I understand about the industry is that you can expect 50-60 hour weeks and 70-80 hours aren't out of the question either.

Hence the "at least"

[Boris Godunov]

Does this chieftan work for Amazon, perchance?

[volcanohead]

No connection with Amazon, I've been a chieftan since 2001, lurking... I will be upset with Amazon if (or more probably, when) they push back the release date.

However, in the very remote chance this date is correct I will be very content indeed.

Obviously Tom's is not a reliable source, it's simply interesting that they support the amazon comment; probably got it from there themselves.

What do you think the minimum required time is before final release when they will confirm the release date? A month?

M

[Solver]

September 30 is ridicilous by any means. That's only a month away. That means that the game has to go gold, that is, be finished, two weeks from now. Given that there's basically no official civ4 site, no massive advertising campaign yet, and no word whatsoever about civ4 being close to finishing, I find the notion that it can be done within two weeks ridicilous.

Besides, all those September, October and November dates provided by retailers are being pulled out of their rearsides. The official Civ4 site by Firaxis says "winter 2005", and that is the ONLY official word there has been on the release.

[volcanohead]

It's actually slightly worse, Amazon say 28th September not 30th...

Looks increasingly likely that Amazon are simply lying. I will send a very nasty email to them in the case of a November release, a full month after that which is quoted.

I wonder if the publisher's get upset with this misinformation? Probably not as they just get more cash themselves.

In any case will update when there is a change in the quoted date from Amazon, or when the game arrives whichever is the sooner.

M

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Solver
September 30 is ridicilous by any means. That's only a month away. That means that the game has to go gold, that is, be finished, two weeks from now. Given that there's basically no official civ4 site, no massive advertising campaign yet, and no word whatsoever about civ4 being close to finishing, I find the notion that it can be done within two weeks ridicilous.

Besides, all those September, October and November dates provided by retailers are being pulled out of their rearsides. The official Civ4 site by Firaxis says "winter 2005", and that is the ONLY official word there has been on the release.

In every recent(ish) interview Firaxis has done, they've said November.

[inca911]

Originally posted by volcanohead
Looks increasingly likely that Amazon are simply lying. I will send a very nasty email to them in the case of a November release, a full month after that which is quoted.

They don't care. Save yourself the effort.

[conmcb25]

I just saw something over at gamespot saying it was delayed until december 2005.......

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by conmcb25
I just saw something over at gamespot saying it was delayed until december 2005.......

No?

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/civilizationiv/index.html

Do you have a link?

[Dis]

Originally posted by conmcb25
I just saw something over at gamespot saying it was delayed until december 2005.......

that's cool. just long as it isn't december 2006.

[Solver]

Delaying a game isn't neccessarily a bad thing. An extra month of polishing work can make all the difference in the world.

I'd rather get Civ4 in late December or even in January 2006 than get a game that clearly needed more work before it's released. Too many publishers press their release dates, and as a result, too many games are released that are lacking only a few weeks of work - which is then delivered in a patch.