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  • #1

    Tentative release date, Quarter 4 2001, what do you mean?

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    ---From the Adrenaline Vault Website--- Saturday, February 17, 2001 - 11:27 am CT
    Civilization III Gets Release Date
    Infogrames has announced a tentative release date for what promises to be one of the most anticipated releases of 2001: Firaxis Games' Civilization III. According to an updated release list the publisher sent the Adrenaline Vault, the title is slated for Quarter 4 2001, in time for the Christmas shopping season. The promotional machine on this title should be fired up around E3, so watch for the first tangible details and images to start appearing in a few months.



    An explanation, please!
    'We note that your primitive civil-^
    ization has not even discovered^
    $RPLC1. Do you care^
    to exchange knowledge with us?'^
    _'No, we do not need $RPLC1.'^
    _'OK, let's exchange knowledge.'
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  • #2
    not sure what your question is, but for starts, here's something...

    quote:

    ten·ta·tive (tnt-tv)
    adj.

    1. Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional: just a tentative schedule.
    2. Uncertain; hesitant.


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    • #3
      well, I meant: Is this confirmed? is it going to be the actual release, or some kind of sneak peek, etc? What does firaxis say?
      'We note that your primitive civil-^
      ization has not even discovered^
      $RPLC1. Do you care^
      to exchange knowledge with us?'^
      _'No, we do not need $RPLC1.'^
      _'OK, let's exchange knowledge.'

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      • #4
        What this means is that we probably won't see Civ3 this year but somewhere in the spring/summer of 2002.
        Skeptics should forego any thought of convincing the unconvinced that we hold the torch of truth illuminating the darkness. A more modest, realistic, and achievable goal is to encourage the idea that one may be mistaken. Doubt is humbling and constructive; it leads to rational thought in weighing alternatives and fully reexamining options, and it opens unlimited vistas.

        Elie A. Shneour Skeptical Inquirer

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        • #5
          Or even in the fourth quarter 2001 (Oct-Dec 2001)
          ...unless it's the fiscal fourth quarter - then Jul-Aug 2001...but figure the odds on that

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          • #6
            It probably won't happen, but a quality civ3 released this summer? I would die from the excitement.

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            "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
            -Thomas A. Edison

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            • #7
              My absolute worst fear is that they'll shoot for a Christmas release and patch until summer...so unless the game is throughly pounded on and tested by Christmas time, PLEASE keep this thing in the over for a Summer 2002 release. Thank you.
              I've been on these boards for a long time and I still don't know what to think when it comes to you -- FrantzX, December 21, 2001

              "Yin": Your friendly, neighborhood negative cosmic force.

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              • #8
                I'm guessing for a christmas release too.
                I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                • #9
                  Well, if that's the case, I'll probably wait until the first patch or so and then buy it on discount around June or July. Unless, of course, the loyal Apolyton folks find nothing wrong after a month of real-world play.
                  I've been on these boards for a long time and I still don't know what to think when it comes to you -- FrantzX, December 21, 2001

                  "Yin": Your friendly, neighborhood negative cosmic force.

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                  • #10
                    damn capitalist companies and their f'in christmas releases. well, if this game gets push like CTP I and II were, i shall declare it the absolute death of the gaming industy as we knew it. i was/am hoping that firaxis will not release the game under christmas presure, but instead will release a sold quality game like its predicesors.

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                    "Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
                    -Michael Sinz

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                    • #11
                      I agree with Yin .. my worst fears are also the Christmas release .. because its a deadline based on Marketing .. and not quality of code.

                      All I ask is that Firaxis take their time .. and produce the best game they possibly can.. You have an awsome task when you consider that I bought CIV back in 1992 .. and played it for 5 years before getting a PC, and buying CIV2 .. and played that now for 4 years ..

                      Will I be playing CIV3 in 2005/6 ??? I hope so.



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                      "Wherever wood floats, you will find the British" . Napoleon

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                      • #12
                        The strange thing is that Firaxis says nothing, because this news item not only predicts something, but also makes references to the companies. Perhaps the update is so close that they'll say something then. In any case, the date to start playing Civ III for me is when I upgrade my computer, which may well extend into the next decade.
                        'We note that your primitive civil-^
                        ization has not even discovered^
                        $RPLC1. Do you care^
                        to exchange knowledge with us?'^
                        _'No, we do not need $RPLC1.'^
                        _'OK, let's exchange knowledge.'

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                        • #13
                          That the announcement is made by Infogrames, not Firaxis, worries me too. Sounds more like a marketing ambition than a developers best estimate of when the game will be ready. Still, Infogrames have a better rep than companies like Activision when it comes to not pushing for premature release. Hopefully they recognise that Civ (& Civ II) did not become all time best sellers by having two months of good sales figures before slumping into obscurity.
                          To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
                          H.Poincaré

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                          • #14
                            Well spoken Grumbold!

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                            • #15
                              I don't know about you guys, but every Sid game I've owned has been top quality. Are you really that worried?

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                              "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
                              -Thomas A. Edison

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