Dear Dan Magaha, please let us know!

[campmajor!]

Re: any bets?

Originally posted by LaRusso
when do you people reckon dan will
1) reply to this thread?
2) put up a new website?
cmon, our favourite game of guessing.

Well:

1. He won't reply at all.
2. One month before the release date. Whenever that may be...

[Fidel]

my personal guess

1) one more week
2) one more month

[yin26]

I'd just like to reiterate here: Open heart surgeons pass out at the idea of editing HTML. You guys ask too much. TOO darn much...

[Fidel]

re-formulate

cmon yin, give us your answers no 1 and no2 respectively

[yin26]

O.K. You realize, of course, he'll likely go against whatever I post just to try to disprove my prophetic powers, but here it goes:

1. Never.
2. Mid/Late-August.

[Robert]

that last answer from Yin sounds serious......

I go with him for Dan never going to reply to this thread,
I think the site will launch early august.

[MarkG]

you guys probably realise of course that if they are actually going for an october release and they have plans for a site related to the multiplayer features of the game, then Dan has LOTS of work

in the very end, he didnt have time to visit the forums for some two weeks and you expect him to have time to put any kind of notice in the site about what's going on?

[Robert]

I think Apolyton isn't really that important to Firaxis.
Only about 1% of their customers come here (and that's pherhaps already a little bit overdone)

[Zealot]

Originally posted by CyberShy
I think Apolyton isn't really that important to Firaxis.

I disagree with you, Cybershy. Otherwise neither their webmaster would "spy" on us, nor their programers would care!
And we both know they have posted several times.
Dan used to surf the boards a lot! And I perfectly accept that Firaxis is flooded with work, because they want to "give" us the game before christmas, and that means working 3 shifts of 8 hours/day!

But what the heck is reserved for www.civ3.com is something I would like to know...

[MarkG]

Originally posted by CyberShy
Only about 1% of their customers come here (and that's pherhaps already a little bit overdone)

how did you come with the 1%? we currently have around 90,000 unique visitors each month according to Hitbox. smac sold 500,000 copies

[senowen]

Originally posted by MarkG
how did you come with the 1%? we currently have around 90,000 unique visitors each month according to Hitbox. smac sold 500,000 copies

Are you saying we represent 18% of Firaxis' customers and they are ignoring us? I guess they know that we will buy the game no matter how badly they treat us. They are the dealers and we are the crack ho's, I suppose.

"Come on, just one more hit, I'll suck yo..."

[MarkG]

Originally posted by senowen
Are you saying we represent 18% of Firaxis' customers and they are ignoring us?

i dont think they are ignoring us. it's far more probable that they have a pr plan on how much information to publicise and at what rate until the release. and if the release was scheduled for october and now it has been pushed back 4-5 months, we're simple into a "hole" of the pr plan....

[death_head]

That's what happens when you organize...long live Game-development anarchy!

[tniem]

O.K. first of all my predictions:

1. never
2. some update in early August, Civ3.com sometime in early October


Look if the game is coming out in October there pr should be rolling. Yeah they have had an ad, one ad. So what

I think the longer we go without an update the more likely this is going to come out in the spring. If no update by August 3, I will not even consider Civ 3 before Christmas.

[Zealot]

1. I think Dan will post. Might not be in this thread, but he will tell us when civ3.com is ready and open to the public.
2. September.

The ad on the game magazine is from september. Wich means that in mid october there might be a delay for some more months, but since the release date was only sheduled for October (and published only on september )the majority of the world won't mind for a delay!