Will anybody else not be able to play for a few days?

[Maleficus]

Well, play.com is still tracking my order as "packing", which apparently means payment has been processed and item is being readied for dispatch.

It has said this since 6am yesterday morning when i ordered it, and it's now 8am the following morning.

That's nothing. I once ordered an MP3 player from Amazon, and it was 'ready for dispatch' for about a week.

Eventually I had to cancel my order and buy it from Currys instead.

[Ishmael]

Don't worry, you're not alone-i don't get mine until Friday, and then I have a dentist's appointment directly after school. Do you realise how long dentist's appointments drag out without having to wait for something like this?!

[Greyblades]

Ouch. I'm glad i got my seasonal dentist appointment out of the way on monday.

[Sir Beane]

Game has still not arrived. Rage building. Destruction... imminent.

[Dayve]

Right, according to play it has been shipped, along with Left 4 Dead which i ordered at the same time. It says wait 3-5 days for delivery. It's now down to lady luck. I could get it tomorrow morning-early afternoon, or i could get it next Monday. You just never know with the Royal (pain in the ****) mail.

I suppose the worst thing that could happen, aside from it only coming next Monday morning, is getting a package tomorrow or Friday, hoping it's Empire, then seeing that it's Left 4 Dead, because Play ship all games seperately.

[Polemists]

For me it's up to the weekend. If this thing can get over the sea before saturday sunday I can get it by saturday. If not, then it get's slim.

Assuming it ships late on the 4th , 5th to get out of states, usually a day to euro 6th, and hopefully here where I live on 7th.

Of course if it gets delayed another 3 days in there, but i'm hoping it does show up :)

[Hosakawa Tito]

The good news; my order shipped this morning. The not so good news; delivery date is March 10. they'll be coming round the mountain when they come

[PBI]

My copy is supposedly due tomorrow, but I'm hoping I may get lucky and recieve it today since there's a huge Amazon warehouse right here in Swansea.

I am trying to resist reading all the threads that say things like "OMG I HAVE IT" and "OMG IT AWESOME"

Yes I really must stop reading those, no good can come of it. Either they make me depressed because people are raving about how good the game is and I don't have it yet or else they make me depressed because people are saying the game isn't good or doesn't work.

Don't worry, you're not alone-i don't get mine until Friday, and then I have a dentist's appointment directly after school. Do you realise how long dentist's appointments drag out without having to wait for something like this?

I too have a dentist's appointment on Friday, and I haven't been flossing.

I expect pain.

[Polemists]

There you go,

Go out and floss until ETW shows up at your door. No breaks, just keep flossing

[Fisherking]

Mine isn’t here yet either…

Any time between tomorrow and when ever…

If it had come by air I should have had it today…if it comes by oxcart then it has maybe reached Rouen…

[Polemists]

Mine comes by prority international carrier and even then it gets stuck in customs...you just can't win sometimes.

But i'm still hopeful for the 7th...even tho it hasn't shipped yet.

[Gargravarr]

Well my work colleague's copy arrived yesterday, spent the day gloating and laughing as mine hadn't arrived THEN was able to activate it and run it last night. Kept sending me text messages on how good it was DAMN ANNOYING!!! However, mine is now here and sat on my desk as I wait for the work day to drag to an end and I can then join the millions of others trying to register it this evening. TBH I suspect that those who are not getting it till later are actually going to be better off as by then steam should've calmed down a bit and activation will go smoothly I fully expect to be very frustrated by this evening when I am STILL trying to install it and keep getting told that steam is busy and to try later(There is always a silver lining folks)

For those who have ordered it just remember to keep you chin up and look forward to a trouble free install with no holdups due to all those annoying people (me included) who are trying to run it tonight. I suspect a lot won't be able to even install until tomorrow or even later. Now that IS frustrating having the thing and not being able to use it!!

[Polemists]

Yes, that is one advantage of getting it later is that steam should be cleared up by then.

Although at this point i'm coming down with a deadly case of fanwantitis, where I'm willing to rant against anyone who says anything bad about the game because I want it so badly to judge for myself

[Grumfoss]

Garg. I hope you don't have too much trouble installing the game tonight.

I'm sorry that I gloated but It was to good an opportunity to miss
I will try not to send you too many texts on how good the game is. I will be looking forward to our MP battles...

Good luck

[Fisherking]

Thanks Monk!

Enjoy, and thanks for thinking of us.


What was your difficulty setting, by the way?

[Monk]

Thanks Monk!

Enjoy, and thanks for thinking of us.


What was your difficulty setting, by the way?

Hard/Hard

Wouldn't have it any other way.

[Meneldil]

Homework, essay, papers... I definitely won't be able to play for more than a few days.

I might even wait to be back in France (late april) before finally buying the game.

[Fisherking]

The post came,

But still no game

So it is back to the demo for me!

[Dayve]

Mine was delivered today between 11am and 11:20am, shipped from play.com on the 4th.

Left 4 Dead still hasn't arrived though, and that was shipped on the same day.

[PBI]

For me, a cautiously optimistic review from Monk is worth more than a hundred 9/10 magazine scores.

From what people are saying about the AI though, I may have to jump straight in on H/H or even VH/VH, it certainly seems as though difficulty has a big impact on AI performance, from what I hear Medium probably won't be worth bothering with. Does anyone know if difficulty still has an effect on AI unit stats at all, or is it all about the AI?

I am also seriously reconsidering my choice of first faction to play, I was going to start as Britain but I'm reading so many thrilling accounts of breathtaking life-or-death campaigns in continental Europe that I'm thinking I may have to start there. Building a huge continental empire as Britain would seem somehow wrong, much more British to simply intervene here and there to maintain the balance of power while building up an empire overseas. I'm seriously tempted by any one of either France, Sweden or Austria.

My copy is due today. Here's hoping there'll be a bundle of joy waiting for me when I get home from work.