Release Date!

[Skarphol]

I think SOW:BOB will be distributed on a DVD. The box says "PC CDROM".
Doesn't look very real to me.

Skarphol

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Skarphol

I think SOW:BOB will be distributed on a DVD. The box says "PC CDROM".
Doesn't look very real to me.

Skarphol

When SoW finally will be distributed I think it will happen by steam or something like that.
No one will be interested in DVD any more in three or four years...

[Supah]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

When SoW finally will be distributed I think it will happen by steam or something like that.
No one will be interested in DVD any more in three or four years...

Hmm ok. Now I know you did those awesome looking railroad objects so you probably know more then us. You serious about those three or four years?

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Supah

Hmm ok. Now I know you did those awesome looking railroad objects so you probably know more then us. You serious about those three or four years?

with DVD? Yes.

[virre89]

I'll bet my own head on that this is false.

First of all, no marketing strategy whatsoever and no videos or nothing.
We've also already heard from people involved it won't be until earliest 2009.

If it were true i'd personally let you baserape me for eternity.

However the day it comes out, will just be like an unreal day.. i'd even skip sex no matter what , i kinda think SOW is the flight sim's verison of Duke Nukem ForEver.

"When it's done"

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

with DVD? Yes.

Lanz Bulldog tractors Foobar ?

Do we get to drive them ?

[JG53_Valantine]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

with DVD? Yes.

If you're talking about download only rather than a "disc" of some shape or form - I think you are very much mistaken.
As someone who has had numerous problems with downloaded games (steam and EAlink) I would certainly hope that publishers wouldnt perform that move.
It will also alienate a fair bit of the market as not everyone has a fast net connection or unlimited bandwidth so they would be shooting themselves in the foot to do download only.
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[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by JG53_Valantine

If you're talking about download only rather than a "disc" of some shape or form - I think you are very much mistaken.
As someone who has had numerous problems with downloaded games (steam and EAlink) I would certainly hope that publishers wouldnt perform that move.
It will also alienate a fair bit of the market as not everyone has a fast net connection or unlimited bandwidth so they would be shooting themselves in the foot to do download only.
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Well there are also a lot of people (at least in Australia) that will not buy the IL2 1946 DVD because of problems with the DVD protection software interfering with other stuff on their system.

There is no ideal solution.

[JG53_Valantine]

Ah, the Old Starforce issue? same with Silent Hunter 3 - It's easy enough to remove the drivers that installs on your system after the install.
I experienced problems with it myself with SH3 on my old PC as the DVD drive was rather old and I also have Daemon Tools installed for several Disc images (legal use) and Starforce didn;t like that!

Moving back onto topic with the release date of SOW - I would hope to see it some time in 4th Quarter 2008 but in all realistic scenarios it is going to be put back into 2009 at least - based purely on the lack of updates/ official news/website.
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