Thief III Goes Gold!

[DrSpike]

Alas, the innocent Ludd is thus corrupted by the foul and evil Skanky, who must be blamed.

yeah mine too

[Jamski]

/me condemns such behavior *

-Jam

[Skanky Burns]

/me finds this thread ironic.

[DrSpike]

We're the indie team behind Thief4.

[H Tower]

So is poly still slow for all of you since your bandwidth seems to strangely low?

[loinburger]

I just got a copy from Best Buy. I'll report back on it tomorrow, if I'm sober by then.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by H Tower
So is poly still slow for all of you since your bandwidth seems to strangely low?

The demo is rather large, 440 megabytes.

[Skanky Burns]

Speaking of the demo, http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthr...threadid=38619
Mirrors for the demo.

[pg]

let's hope this game doesn't need any patches...

Multiple sources tell us that all is not well at Deus Ex & Thief 3 developer ION Storm. Apparently some 20 - 25 people have been laid off at the Eidos owned Austin based developer. That's not all though as Warren Spector is said to be leaving the company as well. If we receive any more details we'll be sure to post them.
Update: Other sites have confirmed with Eidos that people have been let go, though Eidos denies that Spector is going anywhere.
Update 2: More details are coming in. It looks like people leaving/being laid off is just the start of it, as the company is also changing names..and going PS2 development only.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/32037

i also read the game doesn't run on win98 so you've been warned.

[Skanky Burns]

Yeah, the game doesn't run on 98. It have very high hardware requirements anyway, so people whos computer can handle the game are probably running XP anyway. Warren Spector left due to a "difference of opinion". I haven't heard anything about the other layoffs but hopefully the people axed were from the Deus "We can't program to save our lives" Ex team rather than the Thief team. PS2 only doesn't even make sense - Thief III wasn't even made for PS2.

[Skanky Burns]

Apparently one of our enterprising young thieves somehow managed to get himself stuck inside a chest. Taffer.

[Jamski]

/me is running win98 *

/me cancels his "order" quickly *

Dammit

-Jam

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Grey Mouser
In the interests of providing useful information prior to the release of Thief: Deadly Shadows, here are the Official System Requirements:


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
WINDOWS 2000/XP (ADMIN RIGHTS REQUIRED)(95/98/ME/NT NOT SUPPORTED!)
INTEL PENTIUM® IV 1.5GHZ (AMD ATHLON XP™ EQUIVALENT)
256MB SYSTEM MEMORY
100% DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE SOUND CARD
3GB FREE HARD DISC SPACE
MOUSE AND KEYBOARD
CD-ROM DRIVE REQUIRED
EAX Advanced HD Supported - requires SoundBlaster Audigy range of soundcards.

****LAPTOPS ARE NOT SUPPORTED!****

SUPPORTED GRAPHICS CHIPSETS:
ATI RADEON 8500
ATI RADEON 9 SERIES (9000,9200,9500,9600,9700,9800)
NVIDIA GEFORCE 3TI SERIES
NVIDIA GEFORCE 4TI SERIES
NVIDIA GEFORCE FX SERIES
NVIDIA GEFORCE 6 SERIES
GRAPHICS CARD MUST SUPPORT PIXEL SHADER 1.1!

UNSUPPORTED GRAPHICS CHIPSETS:
NVIDIA GEFORCE 4MX (460, 440 & 420)
NVIDIA GEFORCE 4 GO
NVIDIA QUADRO FX GO
NVIDIA GEFORCE NFORCE2 & NFORCE3


Note that although it is not specifically stated for the specs, the game will not run on any current on-board video chips, such as 'Intel Extreme Graphics' and whatnot. Just so you know.

[alva]

Wow, that's an awfully lot of people out of the picture, not a very good move IMHO.

[Jamski]

Very poor move, I'd say. They could EASILY provide options for lower specs, especially with the graphics. Nearly every game has a whole range of graphics and sound options these days. *sigh*

No Thief III for me

This is the first game I see that won't run on '98.

-Jam