Collectors edition found!

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by whatnot

WoW! A random glance at the 1C forums despite not being friday and this nugget of information was posted here!

It looks very real to me and I'll be eating my shorts with zap if this collector box part is a fake! March release would be awesome I hope it sticks!

I'm kind of offended however if this is indeed the way we find out the release details after lurking on the forums for years for any scraps of information on this! But if the story sticks I can live with it!

What's the source for all this anti-ubisoft talk? I haven't had too bad experiences with them, please enlighten me..

I don't know why you would be offended. Oleg did hint that the sim would come out early in 2011. You can't blame him for being very vague on the subject. If he says anything about hoping to have SOW completed in any time frame, it always comes back to him as endless whines and diggs about promised release dates.

Ubisoft DRM has drawn much flak, and hopefully they will have found a better way to protect their investment. Unfortunately its a sign of the times. I'm sure the biggest whiners here would do the same thing if it were their monies were being stolen.

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I don't know why you would be offended. Oleg did hint that the sim would come out early in 2011. You can't blame him for being very vague on the subject. If he says anything about hoping to have SOW completed in any time frame, it always comes back to him as endless whines and diggs about promised release dates.

If there is a firm release date, collectors boxes, publishers and everything in place that signals concrete last steps on the release I would have expected a friday update with drumroll and fireworks saying that your wait is over etc.

If this is just a hoax of smoke and mirrors like we have seen over the years with people being able to pre-order since 2007 then it's a different story and we're up for a nasty surprise. I wonder how I get so worked up on this rumour as we've seen waves like this come and go over the years but there are some aspects in the air to make me think this might be it.

1) The synchronized update on several sites almost simultaniously
2) Identical and believable pics, IL-2 naming, release dates, collectors boxes etc.
3) Sandy bridge processors hit the stores just a few days ago
4) Tree not here yet saying it won't be out till 2012 despite the topic that should set forum-whine-emergency bells ringing in the his cave
5) etc

[JG52Uther]

If its a hoax its a very elaborate one,and I can't see the point at this late stage.

[smink1701]

Yes it is coming and it's about friggin time.

Now have a world class day

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

If its a hoax its a very elaborate one,and I can't see the point at this late stage.

I agree.

This can mean only one thing: My order for SB 2600K with GTX 580 and PCI-E SSD juiced with some Ripjaws is going out soon!

Really interesting to see what happens with the friday update!

[Chivas]

Not likely a hoax, considering the sim is in the optimization stage, and Luthier mentioning optimizations are going very well.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by whatnot

4) Tree not here yet saying it won't be out till 2012 despite the topic that should set forum-whine-emergency bells ringing in the his cave

Tree got banned as his input was no longer needed, we all know how he would respond and it was felt that his time could be best spent doing something more constructive than regurgitating the same whines over and over again

[Krt_Bong]

Originally Posted by Dano

Tree got banned as his input was no longer needed, we all know how he would respond and it was felt that his time could be best spent doing something more constructive than regurgitating the same whines over and over again

LOL, and he's over at SimHQ trying to get sympathy

[Flanker35M]

S!

Will buy the Collector's Edition for sure, if there would be one with Bf109 manual

[Qpassa]

As I said in my Squad. forum