Hughesie 0 Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Thank you to those of you who have been patient and not hassled about the demo and release date over the last few weeks. We now have some firm news so..... We are on track for going into manufacture during the coming week, hopefully sending code off for disc testing on Monday, which would lead to going into manufacture late on Friday night. If this all goes to plan, then the demo will be released next weekend on Saturday night/Sunday morning UK time at midnight, and, again, if this all goes to plan, the game will be released in the UK and in as many other territories as possible on October 20th. I will provide a full list of release dates in each territory in a couple of weeks when we know how the manufacturing process is going. I have just confirmed the same information with our partner for the demo, the News of the World (for those who don't know the paper, it's the biggest selling Sunday tabloid paper), and it will appear in the newspaper along with a first look of the final packshot in the paper that comes out tomorrow (Sunday). The packshot will hopefully be available on Sigames.com on Monday - I am still awaiting the final file myself! The demo will be available in 2 versions. The vanilla version will include the English and Scottish quickstarts, and English language only, with limited assets (logo's and player pictures etc). This will be available from the News Of The World's website in conjunction with Play.com, to try and maximise the bandwidth available. The link to this will, of course, be on sigames.com when it's released at midnight. The strawberry version will include extra quickstarts, and extra languages (to be confirmed), with more assets. This will be available initially as a torrent only, also at midnight, from www.sigames.com. For those that don't know about torrent technology, we will release a guide towards the end of the week, with some suggestions of free torrent downloading software to download. The reason for taking the route we have this year is simple - it's very frustrating for people to struggle when downloading a demo, and our bandwidth just cannot handle all of the traffic that happens when the FM demo becomes available, which leads to frustration of people not even being able to get on the website because the server dies. This way we are hoping that the website stays up, and everyone can get the demo in a timely fashion. It also means that people can set the download up when they go to bed on Saturday night, and should be ready to play on Sunday when they wake up. We fully expect mirrors to be available on Sunday too, but we will mainly be reliant on websites who have staff working at weekends for this to happen, with the exception of sites like rapidshare who we will upload to on Sunday morning when we should have time (as Saturday is going to be rather busy getting the files made, verified, tested, torrented etc). I will keep everyone updated this week via http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums?a=...2752#3502042752 in case anything changes during the week, but this is the current plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg 6 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Just playing this now, I like it... So far I have a 100% record with the toon... Transfer budget is under £200k.... What you think of it so far Jimbo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Just playing this now, I like it... So far I have a 100% record with the toon... Transfer budget is under £200k.... What you think of it so far Jimbo? So far so good, some nice features like the prematch team talk and the oposition team view at ht to give specific player instructions. I like !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg 6 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 This aint even the real deal Jimbo.. ''As many users have pointed out, an incomplete version of the vanilla demo was leaked this afternoon. Any threads talking about the demo before it is officially released tomorrow will be deleted without warning. I know those of you who downloaded it are excited, but it is NOT the finished demo.'' Thats from the SI MD, Miles Jacobson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menace13 0 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Anyone care to give me a link, can't find it no where! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg 6 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 It aint out yet, I managed to get my hands on a leaked copy and passed it on to Jimbo. Will be out midnight tomorrow.... or PM me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 8 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 http://www.sigames.com/news.php?type=view&...article_id=1248 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 8 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 http://www.thedugout.tv/community/showthre...5744&page=2 if need be. 45% downloaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Can't say I can see any difference between the leaked copy and the official one yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 8 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 only played one game so far and have duff tutoring Kazenga LuaLua. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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