Nobody on MP yesterday evening. I haven't tried it today (I'm at work...).
I will try again tonight.

No idea what kind of server it is or if the game is hosted by one player.

gonna check my local E-Plaza in a few hours, they usually sell new games a day early if you aks them nicely... if that doesn't work I'll go bring 'em an Ice cream. And if that don't work all hell is going to break loose in that store! It's gonna be worse than that awesome game called minotaur in a chinashop!

What???

Dispatched yesterday? I also ordered from Amazon.co.uk. The page still says 'dispatching soon, dispatch estimate 3 Sep 2009' :confused:

However, my delivery estimate is 4 Sep 2009 - 7 Sep 2009 - I chose Priority Express delivery :-P

Well this morning I cancelled my order from sendit and re-ordered with shopto. Got a dispatch email from them already. Wish I'd done that yesterday.

Now for the annoying part. Shopto's warehouse is 2 miles from my house. It will go god-knows-how-many-miles in the post and when they ring the doorbell tomorrow and no-one is there it will go back to the depot. I will then have to drive 3 miles to pick it up!

that's called corporate efficiency... My dad works at Sony logistics europe, and everytime he wants to buy a sony product with staff-discount, it has to be mailed from the warehouse where he works to the other side of the country, scanned there, and then sent back to his workplace to take it home... it's bullcrap really...

Well, my order status with Gamestop has switched from "backordered" back to "open". Hoping that means I'll get it tomorrow, I'm having it overnighted. :/

Also, if you look at Birds of Prey on Gamestop, it says "Usually ships within 24 hours" instead of the usual "pre-order ships on the 2nd". So it's definitely available!

Same date for me but I use regular shipping. Usualy it takes 3 days to my place with regular mail so I hope we will get them soon. Can't wait any longer....argh...the pressure!!!1!eleven! ;-P
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I am at Gamestop right now waiting for the UPS truck to arrive. I'll brag the moment it is in my hands.

going to the store NAO!!!

will report back ASAP.

My local HMV had a load of copies standing up behind the counter on plain show. I was about 3 feet away from em. Would they sell me one? Would they eck!

Just got my call, going to GameStop now...

Luckay!!! I'm still waiting.

just went to pretty much every game store in my city, and noone knew what I was talking about, none of them even listed it in their computers! :o

definately importing right now...

How is it, is it only Germany that has a confirmed 30 sep. release date or is that for rest of europe too? If so, i will definately import from uk.

Got mine!!!

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/o...t/CIMG0107.jpg

you bastard!!!!!

nice!

Called Gamestop and got the typical uninformed employee.
"IL-2?"
Yes, it comes out today.
"the sheet says the 8th"
Your sheet is old. I got a text from the pre-order system yesterday AND your website says today.
"I don't know anything about it"
Great. I'll be in at 1.

What are the chances I get that tshirt? I've never gotten any of that stuff from this store before. Just a lot of "do you have anything to trade in today?!"

Gamestop is pissing me off. Their website says that il-2 is shipping, and my order still says back-ordered even though i have overnight shipping. I just sent a email to the customer service, hopefully they can tell me what is wrong.:(

also I can't change orders and get it from Amazon.com, because amazon doesn't list a ps3 version. Only the ds and xbox 360 versions. AAAHHH

Finally!
 

Items dispatched on 3 Sep 2009:
Delivery estimate: 4 Sep 2009
1 package via UPS

:grin::grin::grin::grin::grin::grin:

money for greatest game ever still sitting in bank in some1 elses name

ordered on amazon.co.uk, paid for overnight delivery, and now they claim I'll receive it the 7th or 8th, and they won't let me change it anymore:evil:

OMG... Having to do the tutorial is painful.

What? As posted above mine was just shipped and is expected to arrive tomorrow (also via amazon.co.uk). :confused:

Good luck mate!

No Sir, having to sit at work and know that you are playing the game is painfull :mad:

On my way to pick my copy up from Gamestop.:-P

Spot on. Sorry. Well you can look forward to a long arcade tutorial when you finally get it.

Hey the longer the better.;)

Now you guys that have the game already, DON'T BE SELFISH!!! Take a break from the game and give us some details. lol

No Xbox at the office, so I'm going to fly this bad boy around for the next few hours:
http://gallery.me.com/dstroud/100104/Il2

I see it listed, but currently unavailable. They have 9/8 on that, 9/15 on the 360. Weird.

I don't mind the wait, I mind having paid 27 euros for overnight delivery and getting the game delivered 4-5 days later:mad:

Simulator training was fun. Got to finally fly a Hurricane. Bombing on simulator is not impossible... Just really tough.

Just got my copy from gamestop! Posting from my mobile! Woo! ;)

I got my copy!!!!

My order from Gamestop.com still says "Backorderd". Not quite sure what is going on there. I ordered in friggin' April! Apparently they did'nt order enough copies to go to stores and fill all pre-orders.

I cancelled that and am getting ready to run across town to the mall.

Looking at My Copy at Work :(
 

We'll I've got it! Unfortunately I'm still at work... Feeling Ill all of a sudden...

Quick- get off of the computer! You're contagious and infecting the rest of us. Oh God, this is terrible. I have so much work to do.

i must check if mines been posted yet

Yeah. I was mistaken earlier and mine still says backordered as well... I reckon I'll give customer service a quick email, too. Maybe they'll give me credit or something. :D

play.com status still says "packing"!!!!

I swear to god, blood is going to start pouring from my ears!!

Got mine!

Something is wrong over at play.com! Mine also still says packing. They usually (99% of the time) post new games on tuesday so they arrive 1 day before release!!!!!

If it hasn't arrived by tomorrow I am going to buy one in the shops and return the play.com one back to the shop (still packed for a full refund). This way I will only pay for the reduced internet price!:cool: (I really hope this works)

Im glad you can resolve this, but me however have kinda used the last of my cash so purchasing it tommorow isnt an option

I reckon it will arrive monday. DAMN PLAY.COM

it's 19:51 in the uk at the moment, anyone know if amazon ships items the same day when ordered before 21:00, like some other webshops do?

I think they only do next day delivery on items ordered before 16:00 (or something like that), sorry.:(

Same here. I checked the local gamestop and they don't have any copies. Just have to wait for my pre-order to ship.

This is werid....all the gamestops in my area (dayton ohio) only got 1-2 copies of this game. Most of them were sold out already, luckly i got mine :) with a T-shirt too, the dude made me pronouce the game before he would give it to me.

Just talked to Gamestop and they said come get it, even though I never got the call. Adios mofos, see you in the game.

Cocknobs!:(

I made a guy at a gunshow do 5 pushups for a concealed carry holster :grin:

I really dont think you want to try that Doctor, most retailers of games these days have a policy for returns that says they dont have to offer a refund on a game unless it is proven to be faulty, exchanges or vouchers is what they usually offer, I should know, I used to be a branch manager for Game.

Thanks for the advice. I will make sure I ask them about their returns policy before I do anything. I don't normally get that excited about new games, but this is different. I need this!

Just picked mine up from Gamestop (of course now I'm back at my office & have to wait 3 hours to play it).

Good thing he didn't make you pronounce Ilyushin-2 Sturmovik:-P

Got mine! …and a pretty nice IL 2 T Shirt…:grin:

I had to pronounce it several times and they still didn't have a clue what I was talking about... I felt like the nerdiest of nerds, wanting a game that apparantly noone has heard about:confused:

Just got mine... no preorder just dropped in on Gamestop...

They gave me a T-shirt too...

Good bye wife......

Just got back to my game room with a copy of IL 2: BoP in hand.
I preordered from GameStop and they gave me two T-shirts.
I didn't notice there were two T-shirts until I got back home but when I was handed the T-shirts I thought; "Shit man! This is one heavy duty ******* T-shirt!":cool:

My wife picked it up for me from Gamestop, I have slight feeling of some kind of issue will come up very soon and have to leave work early ;)

can I have one:-P

There is a God, and He loves Gamestop.

So I called gamestop about my order still not shipping even with over night. They just refunded my overnight shipping :grin: Hopefully they can figure it out.

BTW, anyone with the game in their posession, can you tell me if in single player your soviet wingmen and pilot speak in cool russian, or in english with some stupid accent slapped on top?

Does anyone who preordered from Amazon have any idea on when we should get it?

I'm growing impatient(crazy), but it will be worth it for the P-47D and Ta-152H-1.

Awesome my order just shipped finally! Can't wait to play it tomorrow.:grin:

THIS GAME IS AWESOME!!!!!!

Just got done with a 2 hour session.... and I've only scratched the surface of this game. There are HOURS of gameplay to be had.

Don't wait, go get it NOW.

My gamestop order has shipped too. I'm stoked, I'll be playing tomorrow! :D

They speak in actual Russian. Hard to understand since I don't read or speak Russian, so I just put the audio subtitles in. Now I know what their saying, but really it's just the same stuff in Russian as it is in English :(

You lucky bastards, i have to wait for my copy here in germany till next week (UK Import) suuuuuuuuuucks!

Same here but its already on the way to Germany, I used tracking via DHL and its on the way from UK to Germany so maybe I will be a lucky bastard and it will arrive tomorrow. *die hoffnung stirbt zuletzt*
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Any Aussies managed to get the game yet?

Play.com

STATUS Packing:

kin HELL!

in stock at game on Monday...sent my local branch an email and they were pretty quick with returning...I have it online pre order so who knows...

EBgames has it listed the ninth and anywhere online still listing it as the 3rd has got delayed or similar up
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It is well worth the wait. By the way the BF109E-3 and Hurricane fly's great. The scores are right-on but i would give it a 9.5.

Picked up my copy from HMV on the way to the office this morning. First time I've paid full price for a game in quite some time. Now I have to sit here staring at it all day! It's not all bad though. The wife is out tonight!

Does anyone know where there's a full plane list?

Are you uk based, because I thought the p47-d and ta-152 were only available from pre-ordering with game?

I just spent 12 hours in a non stop session. All I gotta say is. "WOW!"
The Ace Edge HOTAS works flawlessly with BoP and I'm very tired, I can't see any more.
A very satisfied Lights Out.:cool:

Gamestop says it's on it's way here to Bishop. Man, what a ride they have waiting them, and how much will I be there for receiving it!

I'm in NZ, and the OZ supplier told me THEY don't even know when it's coming to them, so the 7/9/11 dates are purely speculation and it's likely to slip another week. They should've said this earlier so we could import from the UK. Once again, we get shafted.

Its why I feel so f*****d over...a uk import would easily make it sometime after the weekend AND with exchange it would've been $65au ish inc postage..
If this is what it's like down under I'm only importing from now on...and talk about missing the boat...it's Fathers day and there's shed loads of gaming daddies - LIKE ME!
TOTAL MELONFARMERS! if mine ain't sent Monday I'm importing...period..
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Sad weekend....shipped yesterday from amazon UK to Germany will be here on tuesday...
And this weekend my wife is not there and I would have the whole nights to play when the children are in bed.....:mad:

That´s live....;)

enjoy you play!
Stefan

Play.com still says "packing" its been saying that for three days now, and with it being on the release day i would have thought they could have atleast posted it!

:mad::confused:

I hear you mate. I've sent a rather terse email to Allinteractive..

Just checked the status on UPS and they say it's delivered!

Now only 7 hours and 320 km separate me from a weekend full of dogfights and strafing runs! - Or I could pretend to be sick and leave work early :grin:

i am the same, phoned them up and they said it would be going out monday. I tried to cancel but they said it's too late. Going to go out and get it at lunch time and return the play.com one, when they eventually ship it.

I'm never using play.com again.

i know how you feel, i have heard that there mey just be a postal strike (dont quote me on that) but play.com really needs to book their ideas up

yes unbelievably disappointing, i preordered with tesco online and yesterday i decided to cancel it and order with play.com because tescos hadn't even started picking the order yet. my order is the same status as everybody elses. i am going buying it over the counter tonight and will send play.coms back when it eventually arrives. i usual receive games from play.com on release date (my batman collectors thingy arrived on time last week)

I've just been down to blockbuster and picked it up on Xbox360 for £29.99

Bonus. My play.com order was for PS3 version so I may end up keeping that one too to give me options. I was put off the PS3 version though after hearing about the tearing still evident in the final build, which is why I went Xbox this time.

anyhoo, I'll be playing on it tonight and I'll never use play.com again.

Bloody royal mail strike is holding up my copy.

Ditto

Mail strike in UK? FFS!

The game has representations of Britains Finest Hours and nowadays you can't get a friggin letter delivered. Striking in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the great depression...Postman Pat you are a c**t!:x
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Ugh, really?

My copy was shipped by GAME on Wednesday, which means I was expecting it on Monday. But if there's a strike on, that might not happen…

Now it's going to be even more hellish looking at all the (German) copies of the game on the shelves here.

(Hmm, maybe I'll just pick up a German PS3 copy while waiting for my Xbox 360 game to arrive…)

I'm from the U.S. and ordered it from our Amazon which came with the 2 extra planes also.

I can wait, but any information would be great.

Ah, ok, our amazon gave us jack shite for pre-ordering (as usual)

Saying that though, they are good for delivery- postie has just delivered as i type:grin:

Hope yours arrives soon pal

Royal Mail are always on strike, they see it as a free holiday.

Its quite insulting to people that they are striking when there is alot of people who can't get any jobs.

Royal Mail can get to f***.

Woke up to find that my copy will come at around noon. Looks to be a good Labor Day Weekend :grin:

Every game I have ever ordered from them has turned up a day before release. This is of course apart from IL2 due to a postal strike and once before also due to a postal strike! They are usually very good and this wiould appear to not be their fault.

Believe it or not, I don't work for them. I just wouldn't want you to be put off what is usually a first class service.

:(

Right..

Since my order from play.com (uk) is on status 'Packing' for two days now i decided to get the ps3 version, play that for some time. Once the 360 version from play would arrive i would just wrap the ps3 version in a nice paper and give that to a friend. He isn't much of a console gamer, but does own a ps3 and is really into WWII history. Esp the russian side of things. Great plan isn't it?

No shop in Amsterdam even heard of BoP. Some of the better ones suggested i really meant il2 1946. At most of them i just ended up staring at the face of some youngster with a question mark painted over his face. While texting all of this to a friend he suggested a place on the edge of town. They often have the lesser known titles. And sure, it was listed on the website!! Spend about an hour in dutch public transport, not fun. And indeed, they heard about BoP!!! Sadly it didn't came in today. When it would arrive... they had no clue.. *sigh* Spend another hour back in public transport empty handed.

Not wanting to do a 'Dennis' here, but i fear the sales for BoP in the netherlands won't be that high =( It's really impossible to get here it seems. Been roaming the intern3tz for some time and only a handfull of independent shops sell it in the netherlands. Shame really.