Empire: 2009

**The Blind Samurai** · 06-09-2008, 03:51

true too true but who knows

**Husar** · 06-09-2008, 04:34

Read on a german page that Sega announced the delay.

**Polemists** · 06-09-2008, 04:46

yes, most Sega fan sites are saying same thing, Sega just realized a list of release dates and Empire is slated for 2009

Here you go,

http://www.seganerds.com/2008/06/06/...pcoming-games/

It's early 2009 but still.

Is this really that shocking? Honestly I'd be more shocked if any developer managed to release a game ahead of schedule or on time.

Plus with the lack of information and lack of a actual empire website, i'd say this sounds right.

Guess you can just come back in Dec, since I doubt CA is going to release anything beyond interviews, wallpapers and screenshots till then.

**Martok** · 06-09-2008, 08:04

Originally Posted by Polemists

Is this really that shocking? Honestly I'd be more shocked if any developer managed to release a game ahead of schedule or on time.

Yes, actually it is that shocking. With the exception of a 1-month delay of STW's Warlord Edition/Mongol Invasion expansion, CA almost never pushes back release dates by any significant lengths of time. In fact, they've had a tendency the last few years to release games around the scheduled launch date, regardless of whether said game is truly ready for release or not (hence why Rome & M2TW were both so buggy when they first came out).

So given all that, yes I am (pleasantly) surprised that Empire is actually being delayed.

**CBR** · 06-09-2008, 08:32

Things must be really bad if they are gonna break the tradition of a release/year heh. Or maybe Sega is not interested in another RTW ~~beta~~ farce

CBR

**PBI** · 06-09-2008, 08:48

That's what we have to hope, I think, that they've realised how annoyed people were by the bugs in M2TW and RTW and this time have decided releasing a finished product is more important than meeting a release date. The alternative is that they have been overambitious in their aims for Empire and as a result it is a horrendous mess of code which will be nowhere close to even being RTW finished by November.

I hope it's the former.

**pevergreen** · 06-09-2008, 11:29

I hope they have a close beta and they invite me

**Elmar Bijlsma** · 06-09-2008, 17:49

Originally Posted by Martok

Yes, actually it is that shocking. With the exception of a 1-month delay of STW's Warlord Edition/Mongol Invasion expansion, CA almost never pushes back release dates by any significant lengths of time. In fact, they've had a tendency the last few years to release games around the scheduled launch date, regardless of whether said game is truly ready for release or not (hence why Rome & M2TW were both so buggy when they first came out).

So given all that, yes I am (pleasantly) surprised that Empire is actually being delayed.

Rome TW was delayed for a full year, for all the good that delay did us. And that is exactly why I'm weary of labelling this as good news. If they are already aware at this point that it won't be in shape to be released prior to the holiday season then I would argue it's suffering from more then a few minor niggles. And 3-4 months of programming time always go by quicker then one would think.

**Sgt. Harper** · 06-09-2008, 20:08

that article makes me sad... well kinda but now i will have an extra while to save to buy a new pc that will run it, and then there's christmas as well :)

though on the sega site it still said november though...
obviously they havnt updated that section yet though right?