Release date changed

[Siko]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Its called optimistic wild speculation.

Pot calling kettle over?!!

[Siko]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Ubishop now says release 31st March.

Damn right you are too - that's not too bad i guess.

Shame I am away for a week with work so will miss the 31st (having booked off the 25th for a celebratory Geekfest)

Originally Posted by Siko

Pot calling kettle over?!!

Ive been far far more right than wrong - thats what is most annoying about me.

[davewill22]

hi guys,

i pre ordered through game.gamesplanet.com. Which is GAME's download site, it has changed to the 18th of April.

Order is now getting cancelled (if i can)

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by BigPickle

I thought the 25th was given as a solid date, or do you mean that they made changes after they gave out the 25th date to the games industry? Doesnt really make sence to do it that way round, by that I mean if you keep tweaking and tweaking all the way till the date your game is ment to go gold couldnt that just go on indefinately? Besides apparently it went gold last week according to a russian games site.

They are working on the sim fixing bugs etc until they decide enough is enough and it goes gold. If the game went gold last week, there still wasn't enough time to send it to the publishers and have them release the product for March 25th. The publishers need atleast three weeks or more to press and ship the disks.

[furbs]

so that would mean the download shouldnt be delayed then?

Originally Posted by Chivas

They are working on the sim fixing bugs etc until they decide enough is enough and it goes gold. If the game went gold last week, there still wasn't enough time to send it to the publishers and have them release the product for March 25th. The publishers need atleast three weeks or more to press and ship the disks.

lol, and to think all of us have been blaming Ubisoft when all along it was Oleg holding the release dates up. Its great to have an insider on here, give us a shout Chivas when its ready to go gold.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by furbs

so that would mean the download shouldnt be delayed then?

Its obvious at this point the publisher isn't interested in releasing the download before the hard copy.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

lol, and to think all of us have been blaming Ubisoft when all along it was Oleg holding the release dates up. Its great to have an insider on here, give us a shout Chivas when its ready to go gold.

Its obvious that publisher can't release the product until after the sim goes gold. There has been no gold annoucement other than the rumored gold release in russia last week. Like I said before the publisher needs a few weeks or more before they can publish and ship the product. Thats if they don't decide not to do more testing with their own people which sometimes happens.

You keep patting yourself on the back for predicting delays to the release. Delays are the most obvious prediction a person can make with gaming software.

[PhantomLord]

Originally Posted by blampars

The argument there was Europeans have to wait a month for U.S. movies, so it's even as far as U.S. possibly having to wait a few more weeks to play the game. There's a large difference in entertainment factor there. Not to mention I don't know of any movies (personally) that have a rabid fan base of people and forums, waiting 5 or 6+ years for it to be released. Regardless, I don't see why anyone has to wait longer than the other. <insert release date here>, 12:00am Russian time, release the thing internationally. Done deal, everyone's happy, nobody has to wait longer.

I'm not dissing the game, not dissing UBI (at the moment), and definitely not dissing Oleg or the 1C crew. Merely just expressing my displeasure at having to wait another month to play this game that I've been waiting so long for, that's had a target release date up until approximately a week from release.

Come on guys... i just made a small joke. Maybe i missed the right smiley or the "irony" tags.

I second the things about the long lasting fun of games (especially this one). I dont wanted to compare the entertainment factor of movies and games . I´m into IL2 from the very beginning (beta) until now (1946) and i´m really confused and annoyed about UBI´s "tactic" here. Silent Hunter 5 was the same dilemma...

Anyway... dont crucify me
But if you want to... just wait till i´ve played CoD at least one time