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Old October 1, 2001, 20:51   #1
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will civ3 be out first in Asia and Australia? (REMEMBER SMAC...)
What do u think.. two years ago, when SMAC was released.. it was available FIRST in Australia , and Asia. I think that the reason this happened is that Electronic Arts wanted to increase sales there, therefore they released it early to avoid eager people to copy the game (you know, sometimes it takes months for a game to be released there, so for many people it looks easy to copy it, even if its only to give a quick look at it)

p.s Forgive my poor english
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Old October 1, 2001, 20:53   #2
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no. firaxis doesn't want to get hurt.
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Old October 1, 2001, 21:01   #3
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It's possible, many games were released in Aus/NZ first. I don't know the reason..
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Old October 1, 2001, 21:45   #4
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Re: will civ3 be out first in Asia and Australia? (REMEMBER SMAC...)
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lemme guess.. u play shogun?
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Old October 1, 2001, 22:15   #5
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As much as id like them to, i doubt it. New company distributing it, and most shops here still havent heard of civ 3
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i think we would have known about this if it was true
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Everyone goes to Indonesia, gets the latest games for a few dollars (I mean about US$2.50 - US$10.00), brings them to Australia and then makes a lot of copies of the games and sells them to their friends. It happens a lot and the only way to stop it is to release them here early with a lot of fancy stuff to make the packaged game look better. And because Australian DVDs, CDs, Movies, etc. are of a different system to the USA, UK, Japan, etc. the people in those countries can't do it. I don't know the story about NZ systems or what they do.

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lemme guess.. u play shogun?
this is offtopic, but, Nope.. actually I played a lot a game called Nobunaga Ambition 2 for the NES (Koei, 1989)... it brings me good memories
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The release date I have for CIV3 in Australia is November 19.
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The release date I have for CIV3 in Australia is November 19.
Someone posted a while ago that it was November 6th.....anyone know really what's going on?
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And because Australian DVDs, CDs, Movies, etc. are of a different system to the USA, UK, Japan, etc. the people in those countries can't do it.
Australian DVDs are in a different "Area" to US DVDs (Although you can get Multi-Region DVD Players) and Australian videos are of a different system to the USA (VHS/Pal versus VHS/NTSC - but you can buy VCrs that will play both)

But CDs as used in Australia - both Data and Audio, are in the same format as elsewhere inthe world. That's how we can buy CDs over the internet from U.S sites such as Amazon.com etc.
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The release date I have for CIV3 in Australia is November 19.
Bloody typical! Nov 19 is the day after my wedding. So, how long is a reasonable time after your wedding to start playing computer games again? No doubt my fiance's estimate will be about a month after mine!

Bugger!!
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So, how long is a reasonable time after your wedding to start playing computer games again? No doubt my fiance's estimate will be about a month after mine!
You'd want to wait at least an hour after the wedding before starting a game of Civ 3

I do feel sorry for you tho
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Surely you could get in a few turns on a Laptop during the speeches ?
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Surely you could get in a few turns on a Laptop during the speeches ?
Gee, you're game I'm thinking about a week after the honeymoon should be safe, and even then under the guise of installing the game
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Old October 4, 2001, 02:03   #16
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Release date for my local shop says 20th of October. They're usually pretty good with their stated release dates, but I think this one will be pushed back unless it goes gold pretty darn soon . Whatever happens I'm pretty sure we'll get it at about the same time as the US.
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Re: will civ3 be out first in Asia and Australia? (REMEMBER SMAC...)
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What do u think.. two years ago, when SMAC was released.. it was available FIRST in Australia , and Asia. I think that the reason this happened is that Electronic Arts wanted to increase sales there, therefore they released it early to avoid eager people to copy the game (you know, sometimes it takes months for a game to be released there, so for many people it looks easy to copy it, even if its only to give a quick look at it)

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No, i think it will be released in central europe first...

if they dont want it to be pirated first, they would release in central europe... becose u know [or not ] how the situation looks here...anyway i plan to buy orginal
BUT if orginal will be released here 1 year after U.S release i'll buy even a pirate to play! [and when DaGame will release i'll buy mayby LE [posters & other stuf]

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