Med2 Preview Event... the answers

[Polemists]

though I agree considering the demo questionable fiasco, I am curious what going "gold" soon will mean, March 2007?

[Maizel]

though I agree considering the demo questionable fiasco, I am curious what going "gold" soon will mean, March 2007?

Going gold means that a game is at the point in its development that no major changes will be made to the game, everything is pretty much ready. usually the only step between a game going gold and shipping is quality assurance and some tweaking.

[Bob the Insane]

Going gold means that a game is at the point in its development that no major changes will be made to the game, everything is pretty much ready. usually the only step between a game going gold and shipping is quality assurance and some tweaking.

Actually it is step beond that... Going gold refers to the build that will actually be shipped...

[Polemists]

Haha I knew what the term going gold meant. My meaning was I am curious to see if when they say the game is going Gold "Soon" what time frame that soon will be. CA hasn't exact been doing to hot on dates and info for the game so far.

[Mount Suribachi]

I wouldn't want them to have a fixed date for going gold. The game should go gold when its ready and all the bugs have been eliminated, NOT when it meets some fixed arbitary date just to satisfy some unknown people on the internet who think a lack of fixed dates = incompetence.

If we have to wait till Christmas before the game is released, I'll actually be happier as it means they'll have spent longer tweeking/polishing/fixing the game.

[Lanfire]

Lol they are already doing the tweaking and stuff the game is nearly finished nearly ( gold ) i think they are ready in about 3 weeks.

[rory_20_uk]

Call me cynical, but in modern games, going "gold" means that the publisher wants the game out (be it close to a major season, or they think it should be ready). The game is then released, and those that buy it prepare themselves for the multiple (and sometimes massive) patches.

The compilation pack that is released often a year or more later (the "gold edition") IMO is the developers tactictly saying that is when they thought that it was ready for release.

[Polemists]

I don't know, I personally think when it goes gold it will be ready. They don't need to put dates not be incompietent but why tell people all words like close, soon or what have you if you can't deliver. If you need another month, just say I need another month. Dosn't take a genius to know fooling people is when you get in trouble

[JR-]

going gold is when you provide the gold-master CD/DVD to the manufacturer for mass production.
it's that simple.
playing around with this definition would just be dishonest on CA's part, were they to do that.

OT: any news on the modding answers?

[TB666]

Gold happens around 2-3 weeks before release date.
And since the release date is set for 10-14 november, the game should go gold around 1 november.

[JR-]

hi Soulflame,

could you post a list of your modding questions which were never answered please, there may be an opportunity to re-ask them.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

I was suprise there no were MP Questions answered, unless I was to blind to see it. Did you get any answers about MP, since I like MP more then SP??