Civ 4 release date pushed up

[Kataphraktoi]

the estimated date or did take2 tell them that?

[Nikolai]

Re: Pushed back a month?!?

Originally posted by DKDiveDude
A few days ago I got an email from EB Games saying that the delivery date of my CIV IV had been pushed back by the publisher to mid November.

Damn.

On the contrary, we got to know a few days ago that the publishing date has been moved forward a few weeks from November to late October.(that's what this thread is all about btw)

[MarkG]

Pushed back a month?!?

not true

[DKDiveDude]

Re: Re: Pushed back a month?!?

Originally posted by Nikolai


On the contrary, we got to know a few days ago that the publishing date has been moved forward a few weeks from November to late October.(that's what this thread is all about btw)

All I know is what EB Games wrote me:

"Thanks for pre-ordering from EBgames.com! As an added benefit to ordering from us, we’ll keep you informed of ship date changes. We are writing to let you know that we have changed the projected ship date for Civilization IV to 11/15/2005. The publisher did not provide us with a specific date so this is our best estimate only and should not be considered firm. We will update this date again as we receive new information. As always, EBgames.com will not charge your credit card until we ship your order."

And regarding your comment about what this thread is about. Yes I can read! Also why I thought the notification from EB Games was important in this thread!

[Maquiladora]

Nothing to celebrate... yet.

[MarkG]

DONT BELIEVE EB GAMES AUTOMATED MAILS

a couple of days ago we had two people recieve mails from EB with two different dates on the same day....

[Nikolai]

Re: Re: Re: Pushed back a month?!?

Originally posted by DKDiveDude
All I know is what EB Games wrote me:

As Markos said, don't trust them.

And regarding your comment about what this thread is about. Yes I can read! Also why I thought the notification from EB Games was important in this thread!

Now, now, calm down. It was a joke.

[Dinner]

This could mean one of two things. Either the game is much more polished then they thought or (more likely) they want to release it at the very beginning of November so the intial sales rush slows down and supplies in stories are rebuilt up for the Christmas buying season.

I think the second is more likely and that the big issue is getting it on the shelves for the full Christmas buying season even if lopping off a few weeks or months of development means the game is released in an unpolished state. More then ever I am glad I have not pre-ordered. If it is buggy and unfinished (like Civ3 was) then I will not be buying until after several patches have been released and then only if people I trust give it good reviews.

[MrFun]

Indeed, I am going to try to wait a month or so after it's released, and come back here to read what others who will have already owned the game, have to say about Civ IV.

If a lot of them will be demanding a much needed patch upon reading these future posts, then I might wait even longer, until that patch is fully available.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Oerdin
This could mean one of two things. Either the game is much more polished then they thought or (more likely) they want to release it at the very beginning of November so the intial sales rush slows down and supplies in stories are rebuilt up for the Christmas buying season.

No, it means Take-Two is having a very, very poor fiscal year (ends Oct 31) due to the Hot Coffee fiasco and wants to use Civ4 pre-order sales to save it. It's not a coincidence that this news coincided with the announcement of a US-only pre-release special edition...

That said, we know Firaxis have been polishing the game for over 2 months already, with another month or so to go. I suspect that pushing up the date 2 weeks isn't gonna make *that* huge a difference.

[Drakan]

24th March 2006 AMAZON UK

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Can someone please confirm me this is a mistake.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Zero
Call of duty - 0ct 25
Quake 4 - Oct 18
Soul Cali 3 - Oct 25
Wild Arms: Alter Code F - Oct 25
F.E.A.R - Oct 18
AOE 3 - Oct 18

6 games totalling about $300.... Civ 4 just became unaffordable.

Other games?

[Drakan]

Yes the expansion pack tor Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion. 16 GBP 27th September

Aswell as Star Wars Battlegrounds II in October-November IIRC.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Drakan
Can someone please confirm me this is a mistake.

I can. So can most others.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Drakan
24th March 2006 AMAZON UK



Can someone please confirm me this is a mistake.

Yes, the correct date is 24th March 2007... common mistake by amazon