Limited Edition is available to UK!

[jad]

Originally posted by sgrig
Anyone know the UK release date for CivIII?

From memory, 16th November.

J

[Slocombe]

Originally posted by volcanohead
I hate to gloat, but... IT'S ARRIVED! The BTE from amazon.com, paid through the nose for express dhl, and it worked! Good luck to everyone in Europe, waiting for their copy...

Where are you, Volcanohead? And when did you order / with whom?

[volcanohead]

Long story, I ordered originally with amazon.com back in september, and then when I saw that they weren't delivering to Europe I cancelled and went to EB. This was on the 30th October if I remember well. There was a problem with EB because of my UK credit card (I'm a Brit living in Sicily), so I decided to have a go with Amazon US anyway... on the 1/11 I saw that the game was being shipped in America, and I sent an email to Amazon (with some fear) saying was there a problem with my order? Next day, 2/11, I got an email that Civ 3 had been sent from Amazon via DHL, and would be with me in the following few days - and here it is!!

Now, implications of this are peculiar - I suspect Amazon doesn't know what the hell it's doing, and some of their people realise there's a block to European delivery of this game, and some do not. I guess it comes down to luck. But, it must be in _their_ interest to get the sales, so I imagine they don't like this embargo from infogrames at all.

In any case, the game will be in UK on 16th. I just couldn't wait!!


Again, good luck to everyone waiting for Civ 3 - I do hope it's worth it after all this!