IIRC for both RTW and M2TW they managed to send out a demo about 4 weeks before the game was released. Now we are looking at 2 weeks or less. Does not bode well IMO.
CBR
and the official home page say it will be released in march not a date in march (but i could be wrong on this one)
it seem that i was wrong it say on the preorder page that it will be released in 3th of march (through steam)
http://www.totalwar.com/empire/gameinfo/pre_order.php
Last edited by Merak; 02-17-2009 at 14:58. Reason: just for being wrong
Oh I'm pretty sure I understand why. Call me pessimistic or a cynic but based on the vids seen so far they are still busy getting battles to work properly. Remember how the first M2TW demo had bugged movements and CA actually released a second demo some time after that with some fixes.
It seems to me that the release delay was not done to make it more polished but it was simply time needed just to get it sorta OK.
But all that is of course guesswork and we will be a lot wiser in 2 weeks time.
CBR
Last edited by CBR; 02-17-2009 at 15:21.
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and conceals from the stupid,
the vast limits of their knowledge.
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You may be correct, but I just find it hard to believe that there wasn't some type of go/no go meeting in late January and they took a look at the remaining items list/bug list*** and figured that they needed to delay a couple of weeks until March 4th to finish/polish and squash the bugs. I mean, how can experienced game developers not know that their baby is far from ready?
And could they really think that getting it, "sorta OK" would be acceptable?
***But then again, I am always kind of shocked that what must be major known bugs are allowed to slide by. And how do we know that these bugs are known? Because it takes the gaming public all of about 1 day to identify them.![]()
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