Catacombs Release Date [Here]

GimmlyTheDorf

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Goa have just announced in the friday news the release date to be March 24th I find this quite gutting tbh as they said it be befor winter. Winter realy ends at the start of march so good job there on time and they tell us a release date of a offical expension 1 month befor hand ?. Isnt that a bit late and I see the GM that posted in 1 of the release date threads about gameplay.co.uk etc being crap that goa hasnt told any1 when the release date is is full of shit. You think them gameing websites quessed it ?.

Friday news - http://daoc.goa.com/news/view_news.php3?id_article=2958
 

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lol I have to laugh. Once again the British are screwed over. Traditional to release games on Friday...what a load of bollox. They could very easily release it on the Thursday. Do they think we are that gullable?
 

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as the other guy said stop moaning, this happenes all the time! moan moan moan
 

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semanon said:
lol I have to laugh. Once again the British are screwed over. Traditional to release games on Friday...what a load of bollox. They could very easily release it on the Thursday. Do they think we are that gullable?


Not just any Friday, but GOOD Friday...

If they haven't got distribution sorted and lots of copies in the shops then there won't be many people from the UK playing catacombs until Tuesday :clap:
 

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Omg Ffs We Get It A Day After The French And The Germans I Must Kill Myself Now!!!

bah can't write all in caps anymore ;)

(ok ok so it's a good thing but it sure kills the satire)
 

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semanon said:
lol I have to laugh. Once again the British are screwed over. Traditional to release games on Friday...what a load of bollox. They could very easily release it on the Thursday. Do they think we are that gullable?
British stores will get it on the same day as continental stores however there's an arrangement between retailers that they will issue new releases on Fridays as it gives them the maximum sale time before weekly charts are released. Nothing we can do about that unfortunately
 

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Requiel said:
British stores will get it on the same day as continental stores however there's an arrangement between retailers that they will issue new releases on Fridays as it gives them the maximum sale time before weekly charts are released. Nothing we can do about that unfortunately

You guys do realize the release date is Good Friday in the UK, which is bank holiday!
 

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GimmlyTheDorf said:
Winter realy ends at the start of march

Says who? It is clear that you do not live in Sweden, Norway or Finland. March is a really good winter month. May is when the spring starts :cheers:
 

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Semanon is correct Friday 25th March is a public holiday in the UK and the majority of stores will not be open.

Could you clarify Requiel with the UK distributers when the game will be available to buy in a UK shop?
 

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If its similar to the Tribes 2 release (was on a bank holiday Friday), then hopefully it should be a Thursday.

Can't believe that this issue wasn't checked beforehand. :p
 

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semanon said:
lol I have to laugh. Once again the British are screwed over. Traditional to release games on Friday...what a load of bollox. They could very easily release it on the Thursday. Do they think we are that gullable?


Tjo Tjo the British. They don't want the Euro. They set their traditional to release games on Friday. And now teh whine because the Rest of Europe gets it earlier?

hihi

j/k
 

GimmlyTheDorf

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Otho said:
Says who? It is clear that you do not live in Sweden, Norway or Finland. March is a really good winter month. May is when the spring starts :cheers:
So its euro but its mostly for the British,Germen,French its a english server they gms said UK so why would they condiser them on the release date ? When they said befor winter they ment in the UK
 

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GimmlyTheDorf said:
So its euro but its mostly for the British,Germen,French its a english server they gms said UK so why would they condiser them on the release date ? When they said befor winter they ment in the UK


yes riiiight, lets have the entire europe release date pushed a week coz one contry have a holiday then.. im not sure if i should cry at your stupidity or laugh at your arrogance.. yes they said UK. NO they did NOT ONLY mean brittain! yeah ok, u have to wait a whooping 24 hours to get the game then the rest of the europe.


and yes we WOULD have to wait a entire week, why? coz UK refuses to release a game other then on fridays..... so what would u rather do? wait 24 hours or a fucking week?
 

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Ctuchik If cata is released on the Friday, most UK players wil not receive the game until the following Tuesday. Fri 25 Mar 05 and Mon 28 Mar 05 are both public holidays in the UK.
 

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Funny that people want it so badly.. must be a good sign.
 

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u got to realise that most shops will probably be open on good friday.

offices and banks will be closed
 

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GReaper said:
If its similar to the Tribes 2 release (was on a bank holiday Friday), then hopefully it should be a Thursday.

Can't believe that this issue wasn't checked beforehand. :p

Their French what do you expect! ;)
 

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Adoctor said:
u got to realise that most shops will probably be open on good friday.

offices and banks will be closed

Some will be and some won't, post will defo not be delivered on Friday or Monday. So those who order via Amazon and Gameplay will not receive it till Tuesday.

Anyway they release the game in the UK with the HOPE that the shops open? It smacks of GOA not doing their homeowrk tbh.
 

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Was the same shit with ToA, its not GoA's fault UK got some wierd rules..
 

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I'll say it again.
The UK stores will be getting it on the same day as the continental shops. We aren't deliberately making the UK wait an additional day. There is an arrangement between UK retailers that they will release new products on Fridays regardless of the official release date which we have no control over. I have no idea how this works when the Friday is a public holiday.

The release date has to be that week for a number of reasons. Partly because we have to co-ordinate with a lot of different companies in a lot of different countries to get stuff on shelves, partly because we aren't going to sit on an expansion which is ready to go when we could be selling it and our players could be enjoying it and partly for technical reasons regarding patching the servers.
 

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yeah, really looking forward to all the idiotically over powered classes it brings. longer it takes to get here the better.
 

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Heh. These whines again. I remember them well from SI and TOA releases.

Turned out that lots of the retailers sold them anyway if you asked, but just didn't stick them out til the Friday. Plenty of the mail order places sent them early too.

Darzil
 

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Kagato said:
yeah, really looking forward to all the idiotically over powered classes it brings. longer it takes to get here the better.

only really one that's idiotically overpowered ;)

rest are just normally overpowered :)
 

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Kagato said:
yeah, really looking forward to all the idiotically over powered classes it brings. longer it takes to get here the better.

the question is if they are made OP to pwn in pvp, or to easier manage the catacombs questing ;)
 

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Hmmm, it would appear the UK retailers have a cozy little setup going.

I would remind them that the internets is a fine tool for fucking that sort of behaviour over.

The same thing ihappened to DVD releases.

OOH if we hold back international release they just import them, or worse still!!!! DOWNLOAD THEM ILLEGALLY ..oops
 

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semanon said:
Ctuchik If cata is released on the Friday, most UK players wil not receive the game until the following Tuesday. Fri 25 Mar 05 and Mon 28 Mar 05 are both public holidays in the UK.


yes ok whatever, 4 days then. still better then a full week tho, isnt it? not by much but still better....
 

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