Official European release date

[remconius]

The official release of Civilization 4 in Europe is between October 28th and November 4th.

Holland and Belgium are scheduled for November 3rd.

I received this information from the official Take2 office in the Netherlands.

On the press release announcing the game went gold, there were two email addresses. I decided to send and email. It went all through Take2 sales organization, see transcript below. Pretty funny they think I am some kind of vip, lol.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Warner Guinée (T2 Benelux)"
To: remconius
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: European release?

Release in eu is tussen 28 okt. En 4 november. Why? Als ik vragen mag...

Warner Guinée
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Product Manager
Take Two Interactive
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

-----Original Message-----
From: Remconius
To: Warner Guinée (T2 Benelux)
Sent: Wed Oct 19 18:38:38 2005
Subject: Re: European release?

Hoi Warner,

Bedankt voor je antwoord.

Weet je ook of deze datum ook klopt voor andere europese landen zoals Engeland?

Alvast bedankt,

Mvg,
Remconius

----- Original Message -----
From: Warner Guinée (T2 Benelux)
To: remconius
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: FW: European release?

HI Remconius,

Via via is je mail weer bij mij terecht gekomen.

Ik ben de verantwoordelijk productmanager voor 2K Games in de Benelux.

Civ 4 valt dus ook onder mij.

De release in NL en Be is op 3 november.

Als je nog vragen hebt, hoor ik t wel,

Groet,

Warner Guinée

Product Manager

Take 2 Interactive // Benelux
The Netherlands
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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Ben Wyer-Roberts (2K Games)
Verzonden: woensdag 19 oktober 2005 17:24
Aan: Warner Guinée (T2 Benelux)
Onderwerp: FW: European release?

Hi Mate

Could you get in touch with this guy Remconius and advise him on your launch for Civ As you will see he has been in contact wit hone of the senior guys (James Ankner) so it is well worth making sure this guy has all the info he needs

Cheers

Ben
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From: Ben Wyer-Roberts (2K Games)
Sent: 19 October 2005 16:21
To: James Ankner; Marcelyn Ditter (2K Games); Jason Bergman (2K Games)
Cc: Karl Unterholzner (2K Games)
Subject: FW: European release?

Hi All

I will get Warner Guinée to contact Remconius to give him a full update on Civilization in Europe. Warner will also be able to put him onto a contacts list that means he will get addition up to date information on any Civ related activity in his home country.
Many thanks

Ben

Ben Wyer-Roberts

International Product Manager

2K Games

London
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From: Jason Bergman (2K Games)
Sent: 19 October 2005 16:03
To: James Ankner; Marcelyn Ditter (2K Games); Karl Unterholzner (2K Games)
Subject: RE: European release?

It's a couple of weeks after the US launch, I believe.

Karl would know for sure. Karl?

-jason

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Jason Bergman
2K Games
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From: James Ankner
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:06 AM
To: Jason Bergman (2K Games); Marcelyn Ditter (2K Games)
Subject: RE: European release?

Jason/Marci - do you know the answer to this?

Thanks,

Jim

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From: Remconius
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:45 AM
To: Jason Bergman (2K Games); James Ankner
Subject: European release?

Hi Jason and James,

(Your email addresses were on the Yahoo news item)

Congratulation on the gold status of Civilization IV!

Together with the community we are very eager to get our copy of the game as soon as possible. We know the US release is Oct 25th, but I live in the Netherlands. I was looking at the option to order from the UK, but I am not sure if it is worth it as the release dates of other countries are not known.

Can you please tell me the official release dates for the Netherlands, UK (and other European countries)?

I hope you have a moment to answer this question. I will post the information on the various community forums to help out other eager Civ fans.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Kind Regards,
Remconius

[Myrddin]

Amazon UK is now saying November 4

[Harrier UK]

"Warner will also be able to put him onto a contacts list that means he will get addition up to date information on any Civ related activity in his home country. "

Nice one Remconius. So you will no doubt now be one of the first people to hear about things such as patches.

[MarkG]

Amazon UK has gone nuts and is showing the game as shipped(!) with "Availability: usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks"

[Timmer]

Originally posted by MarkG
Amazon UK has gone nuts and is showing the game as shipped(!) with "Availability: usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks"

Make that 1 to 2 days now....

This can't be right, right ? Right ?

[Timmer]

Never mind, if you don't follow the link on the
main CIV IV page, but do a search on amazon UK,
it still says nov 4th...

[MarkG]

the link is fine, Amazon re-updated their entry

/me goes to update the news item

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Myrddin
Amazon UK is now saying November 4

Well, my birthday is November 9th, so I suppose November 4 will be good enough...

[marioflag]

they will be localized version or english vers.?

[PN2]

Buy it at play.com instead

If you ordered it from amazon UK cancel and buy from play.com instead. Only £18.

[Nikolai]

It seems like the official release date in Norway is Nov 4th, but the shop I've preordered at still claims to have the game Oct 28th, so I guess some of the Net shops have connections.

[GeoModder]

I'm starting to think that only for a few hours it will be possible to purchase the game on the 28th, before the publisher pulls the shops back in line.

[LzPrst]

I just want to add... Why isnt the game released at the same time in Europe? Why does the software industry treat us as second class customers!?

If we werent all such junkies I'd suggest a boycott of buying civ4 until after christmas, just to hit 2k with poor last quarter earnings.

Not only that but the game is almost twice the price in norway compared to the US and UK. whats up with that? We're supposed to live in the globalized international age but buying a game from the US will cost almost as much as the game itself in shipping alone, not to mention apalling duties tolls and taxes just to make it worse. Please tell me what european country encourages international trade so I can move there.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by LzPrst
I just want to add... Why isnt the game released at the same time in Europe? Why does the software industry treat us as second class customers!?

In all fairness, I had a game last year (from an European publisher) and here on the continent we had it months before it hit NA due to the slack of the distributor there. We're not that bad off in that respect.

Not only that but the game is almost twice the price in norway compared to the US and UK. whats up with that? We're supposed to live in the globalized international age but buying a game from the US will cost almost as much as the game itself in shipping alone, not to mention apalling duties tolls and taxes just to make it worse. Please tell me what european country encourages international trade so I can move there.

Next time the issue comes up in Norway, vote to join the EU... will do wonders in the toll aspect.

[Llama]

Originally posted by GeoModder


In all fairness, I had a game last year (from an European publisher) and here on the continent we had it months before it hit NA due to the slack of the distributor there. We're not that bad off in that respect.

Ok, so that's one game... Sorry, but this kind of thing really annoys me. is about all I can do (and probably the most effective thing too).