Civ 4 release date pushed up

[Dale]

...... or trying to break it so all unexpected bugs are ironed out too.

Dale

[MarkG]

all bugs are unexpected

[Robert]

I am a developper and I frequently do say that the product I'm working on is finished before due date.
For sure since the cIV people most obviously are already having plans for the first expansion they want to start working on.

If it's finished, it's finished.
At a certain moment you stop making changes anyway to prevent the occurance of new bugs.

[Senethro]

MarkG in addition to the in-house testers, aren't there something like 100 beta testers taken from the public including some members of the 'poly forums?

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Senethro
MarkG in addition to the in-house testers, aren't there something like 100 beta testers taken from the public including some members of the 'poly forums?

If anyone would know that, Markos would. I'm sure that he gets some perks as owner of this site. j/k.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by CyberShy
I am a developper and I frequently do say that the product I'm working on is finished before due date.

how many multi-million 3-years-long projects have you worked on, finished them earlier than schedule and went to deliver it?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
If anyone would know that, Markos would. I'm sure that he gets some perks as owner of this site. j/k.

i know soren's favorite coffee flavor!

and yes, it's been noted a couple of times that there is a testing group of civers....

[Harovan]

I hear Coracle and Libertarian are among them.

[Robert]

Originally posted by MarkG
how many multi-million 3-years-long projects have you worked on, finished them earlier than schedule and went to deliver it?

I've been on one and we didn't finish it within the actual time schedule
And no change in hell that we would have let the producer have launched it before the actual due date if it wouldn't have been finished.

It's always like: It must be finished november 1st, then it's finished november 10th. But if the producer comes and asks: " Can it be launched october 15th" while it's not finished, we say: "No, our contract says we have untill november 1st"

if it's finished, we have no problem with that.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Indeed, who's unhappy with the earlier release, is free not to buy it until the first patch. If he has the patience to sit it out, that is.

Considering I would be buying the game just so I can mod it into a SMAC2, then yeah, I can wait. One of the reasons I was originally going to hold off buying the game immediately was because, as the patches roll out, why they may effect areas that that the cIV---> SMACX mod team had already worked on, meaning we'd have to go back and redo those same code modules again ( or at the very least ensure that the patch hadn't effected those modules already worked on.....).


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[Aro]

Originally posted by Krill

Hey, what does everyone here think of paying $50 to be part of the beta test?

But I'll not pay more than $80!!!


I know, I'm desperate!

[Kataphraktoi]

so we'll just have one more patch

as with darsnan,im only getting it to mod. wouldnt fork over .01$ to beta test

[MarkG]

what was the last game you didnt patch?

[Kataphraktoi]

but have more? havnt you played games that you had to get patches just to play? IIRC there was one that needed a 40 meg patch even! thats just

i returned civ3 when i bought it. it didnt have mp,IE unfinished.and when ptw came out,it didnt even run out of the box. only conquests worked

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by MarkG
what was the last game you didnt patch?

I think the point I was trying to make was that if a person was buying the game for the ability to mod it, then it makes even less sense now to immediately buy the game (what with the higher likelihood of another patch coming out), as patches are gonna play bloody heck on a mod'ers work in progress.


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