---Release Date---

[Michael the Great]

Hi there ppl at the .org,as I've been away for quite a while
and I was wondering if CA hasn't mentioned a release date for Rome:Total War.

Thanks
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[Praetorian]

No Michael, they didn't. But ask them, I'm sure they'll reveil the releasedate to a great guy like you, after all, everybody named Michael is great http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif



-Michael

[Michael the Great]

Yes yes of course,now,why didn't I think of that?? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Praetorian]

It's known that some Michael's are greater then other Michael's.




-Michael (http://rtwempire.thebattlefield.net)

[Knight_Yellow]

roughly

christmans to july

somewhere inbetween there

[Praetorian]

April 4th, 9 am 23 minutes and 39 seconds.

[Praetorian]

Dang, I just heard it got delayed till april 4th 11am 18minutes and 54 sec

[some_totalwar_dude]

That's what you get if one of the developers gets sick and has to spend the next 2 hours in the toilet http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Balamir]

Darn I really did think this was an official announcement of the release date. Bah just a michael, what more could i expect http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

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[Michael the Great]

Well by the way things are looking right now,I'd say Christmas or January 2004,I can (almost) bet on that.
Oh, and yes,some Michaels are greater than others(of course)
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[Sir Moody]

well amazon.co.uk believes the game will come out the 5th of April 2004 (this would be a British release date)

[Knight_Yellow]

we havent actualy had CA saying it would be late.

and sitting on a game is very very expensive, thats why so many rushed games with numerous bugs come out.

ala MTW with the severe MP problems and VI with the 56year bug.

plus enter the matrix etc.

i reckon chrsitmas to february.

[Nowake]

I guess that CA will surprise us by releasing it at Christmas. After all, they are preparing this game since before Medieval.

[Balamir]

lets hope that is true but Id rather have the game a bit late but without bugs.

[A Nerd]

check ebgames.com...last time I was there they said 3/15/2004

[Knight_Yellow]

Quote[/b] (Balamir @ Sep. 14 2003,14:18)]lets hope that is true but Id rather have the game a bit late but without bugs.
ill take the bugs with 3 month cut in release

[Spino]

I for one do NOT want Activision to rush this one out the door. If I have to wait until the end of next Spring to play RTW then that's fine with me. A premature release implies more bugs, more hassles and a less capable AI opponent. No thank you.

I can't believe that some people actually mind playing with bugs, especially those of the showstopper and annoying-as-all-hell kind.

[Aelwyn]

I agree with K_Y. I want it sooner, but I don't agree with some of what he said, I want it sooner without bugs. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Nowake]

Quite the idealist type, huh? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/pat.gif

[Vanya]

GAH

Any software developer/engineer worth his salt will tell you this...

1. There are no such things as "bugs", only unintended features.

2. There are two types of features all products must include: 1) Those intended to "wow" you, and 2) those intended to get you to buy the upgrade. What you call "bugs" are often type 2 features. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

3. Calculating a release date involves careful tracking of several key celestial bodies and extrapolating certain relationships between them and their impact on Earth. Doing so involves equations longer than the whole text of War and Peace, with more variables than your mother's meatloaf. But in the end, after all the math has been hammered out, and all the unknowns have been pinned, it always comes down to the same end result: TWO WEEKS. It will be out in TWO WEEKS.

GAH

[Sir Moody]

Quote[/b] ]
1. There are no such things as "bugs", only unintended features.


lol u just quoted my Programming lecturer from uni - this was his first line from our first lecture


Quote[/b] ]3. Calculating a release date involves careful tracking of several key celestial bodies and extrapolating certain relationships between them and their impact on Earth. Doing so involves equations longer than the whole text of War and Peace, with more variables than your mother's meatloaf. But in the end, after all the math has been hammered out, and all the unknowns have been pinned, it always comes down to the same end result: TWO WEEKS. It will be out in TWO WEEKS.


ROFL

[goscho]

It's easy to calculate the time needed to end a project.
Compute by yourself how mutch time you will need to end the tasks. Then multiply it x 2.

This is a very good forumula, which works not only for me but also for many others software developers.

The "TWO WEEKS" suggestion by Vanya is having also a great importance. The first week is to create something working (no matter how many crashes you have or how mutch feautures are not implemented). The second week is for testing and implementing these feautures, who are not so important to be coded in the first week.
In the most case after two weeks you are on a place, where you should be after the first week : It works if you can see the idea behind the application, not how many crashes you have trying to test it. Then you need at least one week to have really something working.
At the moment I'm at the end of the fourth week of a such "TWO WEEKS" periode. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Cheers