No Joke: GOLD Thursday, 9/9 P.D.T

**Tamur** · 09-09-2004, 03:35

Originally Posted by tommh

...all about marketing. Those folks don't associate with devs much. I really don't know how they come up with it...probably something to do with reading entrails.

Haha! I KNEW it!

**Red Harvest** · 09-09-2004, 04:36

He's close on the "entrails" comment. Problem is that they are reading their own entrails...think about it for a second...OK, hint: where is a typical marketing person's head typically to be found?

Oh, crap. I just realized my wife is in marketing now.

**discovery1** · 09-09-2004, 05:30

Hmmm, possibly this is good news. Then again, they seem to be in a hurry, so they might release a sub-par product.

On the console side it has to do with localization for different TV scan rates (or at least thats part of it).

What? RTW on consoles?

**USMCNJ** · 09-09-2004, 05:51

in a hurry? the game looked finished 12 month ago, they've been working on it for 4 years. I'm expecting a grade "A" product. (and i better get it, or..)

**sdrga** · 09-09-2004, 07:22

Activision is in California. That's PDT and that'll be the source of the announcement.

PDT is 7 hours behind GMT. 19 hours behind New Zealand time. Sorry, those are the only international time zones I know. I may be off an hour or so.

I think the announcement will occur between 10AM - 1PM (just a guess) PDT which would be 5 - 8PM GMT or 5AM - 8AM Friday, New Zealand time.

Here's a good link to figure what time it is now in California: www.worldtimeserver.com/ use the list on the left and pick California.

One thing's for sure: whenever the announcement is made on Thursday PDT it'll be the same time everywhere: NOW

**Puzz3D** · 09-09-2004, 10:50

Somebody monkeyed with the run speeds in the demo, and the result of that is I won't be buying the game when it's released. I'll wait and see what people who do buy the game have to say about the tactical battles because spending $50 (usd) to have the frustration of trying to co-ordinate 20 units that move too fast is not for me.

**English assassin** · 09-09-2004, 14:35

Somebody monkeyed with the run speeds in the demo, and the result of that is I won't be buying the game when it's released. I'll wait and see what people who do buy the game have to say about the tactical battles because spending $50 (usd) to have the frustration of trying to co-ordinate 20 units that move too fast is not for me

Abso-bloomin-lutely. I find MTW slightly fast, but bearable. If RTW is any faster I won't bother: it'll just be another clickfest.

**RTKLamorak** · 09-09-2004, 15:52

Originally Posted by Puzz3D

Somebody monkeyed with the run speeds in the demo, and the result of that is I won't be buying the game when it's released. I'll wait and see what people who do buy the game have to say about the tactical battles because spending $50 (usd) to have the frustration of trying to co-ordinate 20 units that move too fast is not for me.

Out of interest Yukki, do you kno the run/walking speeds of STW/MI compared to MTW and RTW? MI felt a LOT faster than MTW to me, MTW feeling to slow when i first played it but i did eventually get used to the pace. RTW is a definitely a lot faster than MTW for sure, but im not sure how much faster it is than MI?