MoO3 hits the stores - Seen it being SOLD? Post here

[Palpatine]

Amazon.de send out the game today. So i will have it in 11 hours... .

*Jumps for joy*

[rhofman]

Thanks for the nicely formatted race strategy guide Dmitry.

[Corentor]

Originally posted by bhaight
I contacted both EB's here in London, Ontario, Canada and they are also saying the 27th. However, I contacted Future Shop here in London and they are saying maybe by tonight. I hope so.

I'm in the waterloo area. Post if you did get it from Future Shop, the one at K/W might have it too then.

thanks.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Dmitry
Need MOO 3 manual? Here it is

And something interesting to read

Might want to edit your post before Markos sees it.

[MitchDev]

Originally posted by Osweld


Might want to edit your post before Markos sees it.

Why?

On IGMoo they've posted tons of links to people hosting it, and most of those sites are down due to overuse of bandwidth...

But I've got my copy of the manual and the read me...

Strategy Games do NOT need this much backstory...

[Arnelos]

The Washington D.C. metro area is completely devoid of the game

Best Buy says it's still being shipped
EB doesn't have a clue
CompUSA is equally clueless, but at least they could (like Best Buy) offer a list of stores and number of shipments
Walmart has the nice little price tage and shelf space reserved for it, but everyone I talked to in person or on the phone was completely clueless

Do I have to do this every single day until someone miraculously gets the game or would it be possible that they could just tell us what day they expect the shipments to come in?

[Ammortal]

I think this was a rotten thing for the publisher to do. They made it sound like the game would be available worldwide today (the 25th). I knocked off work to go buy their product only to be informed if wouldn't be available until the 27th.

I don't care about ship dates, I want to know when the game will be in my hands. Thanks a lot Infogrames for being misleading and wasting my time.

[Corentor]

Originally posted by Ammortal
I knocked off work to go buy their product only to be informed if wouldn't be available until the 27th.

Don't you phone ahead???

[Lord of the Isles]

The manual is ?

Originally posted by Dmitry
Need MOO 3 manual? Here it is:

Thanks for the manual; it will keep me busy until I get the game .. *please, I want it NOW*

I had to ask though: did you scan a hardcopy manual to produce the pdf file or did it come like that on the game CD? If it's the latter, it seems very amateurish (2 pages reduced to be side by side) and worries me as a sign that things were rushed at QS or IG.

If the former, then even more thanks for your work.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by MitchDev


Why?

On IGMoo they've posted tons of links to people hosting it, and most of those sites are down due to overuse of bandwidth...

But I've got my copy of the manual and the read me...

Oh, I guess it is not a problem then. I remember that they didn't want the manual for civ3 being passed around.

Strategy Games do NOT need this much backstory...

Everygame needs backstory, the more the better.


I have to say, it's probably the best manual I've ever seen.

[General Ludd]

Re: The manual is ?

Originally posted by Lord of the Isles
If it's the latter, it seems very amateurish (2 pages reduced to be side by side) and worries me as a sign that things were rushed at QS or IG.

It is the one that comes on the CD. Try zooming in.

[sandtyger]

My girlfriend has promised me the first one out of the box when she gets it in at the software distributer that she works for.

They were expecting it in today, but due to bad weather on the East coast (Damm you Mother NATURE! Damm you all to hell!) it's been delayed by one day.

Mmmm...software at cost....what could be better.

-Brendan

(who thinks that his girlfriend doesn't quite realize the Pandora's box that she's gifting onto me)

[Tuberski]

Wla-mart here in Texas says tomorrow. Price: $49.33.

.33?

ACK!

[Dracil]

My EBGames here at Berkeley (which just opened last Saturday) says 1PM tomorrow (26th)

[Lord of the Isles]

Re: Re: The manual is ?

Originally posted by Osweld

It is the one that comes on the CD. Try zooming in.

I am zooming in, and I really appreciate having it.

But even though I really don't care for eye-candy, and I'll approach this game with an open mind (not to mention trembling fingers ), it's a pain that we can't get a sensibly formatted pdf manual. What other explanation can there be except that the release was rushed?

Ok, *takes deep breaths*, manuals are minor things. But I'd be ashamed to produce something like that in a beta copy of a game, never mind the finished product. Look at it this way: surely the manual source at QS was stored in a sensible format. I mean, they surely didn't keep it all on post-it notes and suddenly think: "Heavens! the release is in 3 weeks, we'd better think about typing this stuff up". And I can't believe that whatever format they stored it in couldn't have been used to create a nicer pdf file than the one we have.

I suppose that it might be a deliberate decision to produce it the way it looks. Sort of an old-manual-found-on-a-derelict-space-freighter kind of thing. But it's hard on my old eyes. And I've only moaned about the format; the font they've used is another problem.

But to repeat: game play is all and I'll forgive QS/IG totally if the thing plays well.