Tomorrows Update

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by zapatista

going gold means the final "master' version of the to be released product has been compiled, and has been sent to the manufacturing plant that will press the cd/dvd's. the term is used to differentiate in time the point up to which further fixes and changes are possible, and when the product has been finalized (but not manufactured or shipped yet)

And if Im not mistaken the master disks at one point were "gold" in color

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Oldschool61

And if Im not mistaken the master disks at one point were "gold" in color

Actually I think that's a myth. Not 100% on that ... at one point I was pretty close with some game devs and I asked jokingly about the gold discs. I was told that they were very unremarkable CD's (at the time) with the game title written on in black pen just like the rest of us normally do. It gets sent to Q&A and then off to the production house where they churn them out by the thousands with all of the fancy stickers and logos and such