What is with the release date please?

[Biggs]

I wanna know why in the US, the UBI site says 4/26 and STEAM says 4/19...

at least you Europeans have ONE definitive release date....

[ElAurens]

What does "fairness" have to do with this?

Or the rampant nationalism so many of you are spouting?

This is a business transaction taking place in the twenty first century, we are not waiting at the docks in New York for a load of sewing needles coming across the Atlantic via clipper ship.

There is no reason why the downloand version should not be available to the entire world market on day of release.

And no reason for a month's difference in the hard copy version either.

For a bunch of folks that pretend at being so technologically savvy, you sure cling to some pretty old ideas about marketing in the modern world.

It comes out April Fools Day

[Biggs]

At this point I could care less about the fact that there is a month separation between the Euro/US dates.

I just want to know why the Can/US/SouthAmeri release date is still in this state of confusion....

Which date is correct? Why the hell is it so hard for Ubi et al to figure that out?

[Robert]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Oleg said it takes about 20 days to translate it from UK to US English. Also there is the household voltage difference and all the game-code is in metric as well.

That add up to a lot of work for the devs to make it North American ready.

You know, for a half second I thought, "Makes sense." You bastid!!!! LOL Good one, speculum.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Oleg said it takes about 20 days to translate it from UK to US English. Also there is the household voltage difference and all the game-code is in metric as well.

That add up to a lot of work for the devs to make it North American ready.

Thats a load of bs, UK and US english translation? Give me a nother one (I am half Australian/half American (US). There is like 0 need for translating any english, especially since well, its based in the UK!!!

Also Kil->Miles should not be any problem at all because the planes instruments were all in kilometers right? SO what the hell are they changing? Are they changing the panels? Are they changing the on screen UI-which is easy to do because you just meed to put a modifier in with the equation for kil->mil reading.

ANyway makes no sense.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

What does "fairness" have to do with this?

Or the rampant nationalism so many of you are spouting?

This is a business transaction taking place in the twenty first century, we are not waiting at the docks in New York for a load of sewing needles coming across the Atlantic via clipper ship.

There is no reason why the downloand version should not be available to the entire world market on day of release.

And no reason for a month's difference in the hard copy version either.

For a bunch of folks that pretend at being so technologically savvy, you sure cling to some pretty old ideas about marketing in the modern world.

You are correct, of course. In the ages of downloads, it's not a question of logistics!

But you're forgetting a 'minor' detail: We also have different laws. E.g. your very own ESBR-rating-agency, which demands to receive and test games before they are distributed in the US.

So if you want to bash somebody for a 4 weeks delay, I suggest you start looking in your own yard. Especially if they need 4 weeks to do so for every software that does not originate from the US...

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Thats a load of bs, UK and US english translation? Give me a nother one (I am half Australian/half American (US). There is like 0 need for translating any english, especially since well, its based in the UK!!!

Also Kil->Miles should not be any problem at all because the planes instruments were all in kilometers right? SO what the hell are they changing? Are they changing the panels? Are they changing the on screen UI-which is easy to do because you just meed to put a modifier in with the equation for kil->mil reading.

ANyway makes no sense.

He was joking dude. It is ridiculous that there is a 3 week difference between European and the Americas'(NA,CA,SA) release. It makes no sense what-so-ever beyond Ubi being cocks at this point.

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by machoo

It comes out April Fools Day

Sir, I will have you know that it is not just April Fools Day, it is also the RAF's anniversary.

[kingpinda]

Actually it was mentioned that the translation team was really considering differences between: British carburettor, American carburetor and the like.

So a translation... between UK en US seems plausible albeit nitpicking.