Even the Atari site is announcing the Sept. 23 release date

[Daedalus]

1st post,

first of all congratz to the developers on a fine game which no doubt will please many for just as many hours.

secondly i'd like to complain abit;

i've spent some time now looking up release dates, in the US, all is fine and dandy with most dates being correct (23 sept).

in EU on the otherhand; the only consistent date i have found is 31-10-2008 (if they have listed one at all) which is more than a full month later than the US release which is astounding. Other websites are totally oblivious that this game is being released in about 1 month to their consumers.

I don't really understand where this month delay comes from, ok they have to change some copyrights and use British English instead of the american english variant but there is no way that that can take a month.

also, i have noticed that in EU there is a collector's edition available, not seen this on any US site.

I'd kindly request an update on the discrepancy between the us and eu release (which in most cases is a week and a half).

-Daed

[Imperial Dane]

It's a bit more than that daedalus, it's the end of the next month Which is a wee bit overdone.. and so far the Only collector's edition i have seen seems contained to the eastern part of Europe.. But whatever the case i do hope the release isn't that staggered or that delayed..

[Daedalus]

yeah i know, what i meant with the week and a half statement was that with other staggered releases they arrange the dates so that it's never more than 2 weeks apart, as to not lose too much press coverage

[Imperial Dane]

or well.. generally avoid the fans feeling differently treated with largely staggered releases.. It's not really fun having to wait for such a long time, plus spoilers are also a large factor as well as some people just can't put warnings on or anything and might end up ruining it for others.

[Daedalus]

True, although on the positive side there will most likely emerge an English fansite from the staggered release with mechanical info on how the numbers work ingame.

is that worth waiting another month? not really...

sucks that it's 31-10 EU release since Red Alert 3 and Fallout3 will release then which will affect sales negatively and with Wrath of the Lich King releasing the 13th of november alot of people who play WoW (that play othergames...) won't be able to cough up extra cash so they can pick it up.

oh well, maybe it's a bad joke on their part and they push the release forward a fortnight (to half october or earlier).

-daed

[Imperial Dane]

Well i fear that if i have to choose between Fallout 3 and kings bounty.. that fallout 3 might win.. In any case, it would be strange if the release was staggered in such a way. Suppose there is nothing to do but await word from 1c on this

[Lord_Loffen]

Ordered it from amazon.com now. will arrive here in norway between 26 to 30 september it said