Gone Gold!

rflagg · October 24, 2002, 16:43

Civfanatics confirmed this morning from Infogrames and Firaxis that PTW has gone gold! Should arrive in stores by Nov. 1st.

http://www.gamespydaily.com/

FrustratedPoet · October 24, 2002, 17:20

So it has....

Good news.

-proletarian- · October 24, 2002, 18:07

Alrighty.....

Jon Shafer · October 24, 2002, 18:10

Well, with my EB pre-order, I wonder when I'm gonna get it.

Hopefully before my roomate gets Grand Theft Auto 4.

ixnay · October 24, 2002, 18:13

Nice. So it should be arriving at my door in a week or so.

WarpStorm · October 24, 2002, 18:18

WooHoo!

Immortal Wombat · October 24, 2002, 18:22

All stores, or American stores?

FrustratedPoet · October 24, 2002, 18:35

grrr .... double post.

FrustratedPoet · October 24, 2002, 18:36

The EB site for the UK still lists the release date as 23rd November over here, which would make sense since a Firaxian said it would take 3 weeks for the game to be in Euro stores. Since they don't have to translate it for us I would have hoped it'd appear sooner, though.

-proletarian- · October 24, 2002, 18:49

Why pre-order? Nothing beats that feeling of going out to the mall, walking into the local PC merchant, spying the new box on display, picking up your copy.....

I'm strange about those kind of things.

FrustratedPoet · October 24, 2002, 19:00

That's true proletarian. I tend to agree with you, but sleeping in late and finding it waiting on the doormat when you go downstairs would be pretty awesome.

-proletarian- · October 24, 2002, 19:08

Quote:

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
That's true proletarian. I tend to agree with you, but sleeping in late and finding it waiting on the doormat when you go downstairs would be pretty awesome.

Gee, I never thought of it that way.....-drools-

ranskaldan · October 24, 2002, 19:24

Nov 1st!

WarpStorm · October 24, 2002, 19:37

*cough* *cough* I think I feel an illness *cough* coming on

monkspider · October 24, 2002, 20:46

I agree with Warp, I do believe that I may be the recepient of an unintended illness that day.

Jon Shafer · October 24, 2002, 21:14

Hmmm... a Friday eh? If I get it Thursday, that's no problem. I'll have already taken my test in German, and I think I can skip civ in the morning since it's easy...

jdd2007 · October 24, 2002, 21:18

Quote:

Originally posted by -proletarian-
Why pre-order? Nothing beats that feeling of going out to the mall, walking into the local PC merchant, spying the new box on display, picking up your copy.....

I'm strange about those kind of things.

what about the feeling of seeing the fedex guy drive down your street and (in front of your surely jealous neighbors!) walk up to your house and ring the doorbell? surely that gives a rush as well

ok, im pretty strange too

I am Ruler · October 24, 2002, 22:08

wow wow wow wow (speechless)
wondering when it will reach the south east asia

Zero · October 24, 2002, 22:24

Quote:

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
That's true proletarian. I tend to agree with you, but sleeping in late and finding it waiting on the doormat when you go downstairs would be pretty awesome.

Quote:

what about the feeling of seeing the fedex guy drive down your street and (in front of your surely jealous neighbors!) walk up to your house and ring the doorbell? surely that gives a rush as well

ok, im pretty strange too

I just recently hugged my fellow UPS guy when he delivered my new notebook. Looks like when he comes again Im gonna have to kiss him....

I just love the idea of being able to squeeze in one or two turns between my classes instead of reviewing notes for next class... b!tchin!!!~

The Rusty Gamer · October 24, 2002, 23:49

When's it coming to New Zealand?

Tassadar500 · October 24, 2002, 23:57

I need to wait untill it gets realeased because i have a macintosh.

Sarxis · October 25, 2002, 02:13

w00t?

ikilledmybroker · October 25, 2002, 06:36

I hope teh UK version will actually ship with a manual. Homm4 just shipped as a CD in a DVD case with an electronic one.

Anybody know if the UK version will come with dead tree or not ?

WarpStorm · October 25, 2002, 07:35

Quote:

Originally posted by Nuclear Master

I need to wait untill it gets realeased because i have a macintosh.

This may be a problem. I hear that it uses MS DirectPlay for it's net play. I don't think that works on a Mac.

dashstar1972 · October 25, 2002, 08:03

This isn't directed personnally at Americans but it is just infuriating that the rest of the world always comes second. I really appreciate it when a company makes the effort to have a simultaneous release, thereby showing they value their international customers as much as the US ones. At least, you'd think the English-speaking nations would get it at the same time - what sort of localisation could be required? Civilization to Civilisation? Well, I'd live with the Z. OK, enough

WarpStorm · October 25, 2002, 08:14

Talk to that French company Infogrames. I hear they do the localization and handle all releases. I'm sure Firaxis would love for all localities to be supported ASAP. They'd get paid sooner.

Nikolai · October 25, 2002, 09:36

Wooo-hooo!

I just came home from school, opened the Internet, and at least!

I really look forward to November, althought I guess it'll be a while before little Norway gets it...

Oh, mighty Firaxis, when, oh, when?

TheStinger · October 25, 2002, 10:15

They should be able to release in english speaking countries at the same time

Amadan · October 25, 2002, 11:39

Yea!
Just in time for my birthday!

It does seem odd that they can't (won't?) do a simultaneous English release in both US and Europe.

Jon Shafer · October 25, 2002, 12:03

There's a lot more that has to go into transferring a game from one country to another, and they finished bug-fixing not too long ago, so it's not surprising it will take a bit more time to transfer from the US to eslewhere. Like WS said, that's Infogrames' territory, not Firaxis'.