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Pirates Date Change!

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skadog

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Bluesnews.com has an article regarding Pirates! date change: Nov 22nd. Check it out www.bluesnews.com or <a href="http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=27054" target="_blank">http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=27054</a> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />
 
Thanks fer de update mate,kinda sucks,but was to be expected,better tew 'ave de game made right de first time <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
I think it's more of a marketing/publishing decision than a fixit/developers decision. Take a look at all of the tittles that are going to be released about the time of the original date...

World of Warcraft
Half Life 2
Medal of Honor Pacific Assualt
Joint Ops : Escalation
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

These are some pretty big ones and I am sure there are many more due on that date. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" /> and to be honest if I had to choose just 1 game out of the lot I would probably had gotten HL2 over Pirates! Fortunately thats not the problem for me and I could afford a few pieces of eight to get at least 2 games that day.. Well I'll have pleanty to do while I am waiting a few days for Pirates! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dev.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":d:" border="0" alt="dev.gif" />
 
World of Warcraft
Half Life 2
Medal of Honor Pacific Assualt
Joint Ops : Escalation
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

got them 2 mounths ago <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eek:" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />
 
Word of Warcraft on November 16th? I doubt that. Blizzard hasn't announced any release date yet.

I will buy me Pirates! and Vampire and maybe WoW (wich I expect in Dezember). Don't care about the rest.
 
<!--QuoteBegin-skadog+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skadog)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think it's more of a marketing/publishing decision than a fixit/developers decision.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Hi skadog, hi everyone,
Yes, it's true that there are a lot of big November releases, but I'd put Pirates! up against any of them no problem, and from a publisher's standpoint we'd certainly rather have the game out and available as quickly as possible for the holidays. But in this case, it's a question of preserving the quality of the game. We want to allow as much time as possible for stomping out bugs. It was decided that we'd be better off taking a few extra weeks to do this before shipping it. Our operations crew has scheduled some overtime/weekend work to compress the time between receiving a gold master and producing finished product, so that we'd only lose a week on the ship date itself and so we'd make it out for the Thanksgiving shoppers.

November 22nd is the new official launch date. Limited Edition preorders are still available until then.

Best,
Jeff Foley
Atari
 
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" /> Jeff, niceta seeya! Thanks for the info...

Are the US preorders getting the nice `t-shirt` that are in the German preorders? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
Yar! Jeff Thanks fer de official update <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Jeff_ATARI`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jeff_ATARI)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--`QuoteBegin-skadog`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skadog)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I think it's more of a marketing/publishing decision than a fixit/developers decision. [/quote]

Hi skadog, hi everyone,
Yes, it's true that there are a lot of big November releases, but I'd put Pirates! up against any of them no problem, and from a publisher's standpoint we'd certainly rather have the game out and available as quickly as possible for the holidays. But in this case, it's a question of preserving the quality of the game. We want to allow as much time as possible for stomping out bugs. It was decided that we'd be better off taking a few extra weeks to do this before shipping it. Our operations crew has scheduled some overtime/weekend work to compress the time between receiving a gold master and producing finished product, so that we'd only lose a week on the ship date itself and so we'd make it out for the Thanksgiving shoppers.

November 22nd is the new official launch date. Limited Edition preorders are still available until then.

Best,
Jeff Foley
Atari[/quote]

If this is the reason, I have to congratulate Atari, as they have learned from previous mistakes (The Temple of Elemental Evil comes to my mind). I am sure everybody will agree that it´s better to wait a couple of weeks, or even a month, than having a buggy game.
 
I am inclined to think it's NOT an Atari decision so much as a Firaxis decision. It's in Atari's best interest to get the game out asap to maximize holiday sales. And I would bet money that Atari gave Firaxis "veto" power to delay a release if they wanted to for quality assurance reasons. Would seem that with Sid's clout, Firaxis might be able to call more shots than your average development house.

So, nothing against Atari, but I bet the wise decision in this case was made by Firaxis.
 
Given the "quality" of the Civilization III mess, I'd give them all the time they need to get the bugs out. The only thing worse than a delayed game is an `on-time` unplayable piece of crap.
 
Well, I think it was said elsewhere that if Sid doesn't give the green light, than it doesn't go... So... I think whenever it is released, it will be quality.
 
In Germany Pirates! will be released on December the 2nd! Since the German version is multilingual (looks like one version for whole Europe) this could mean that the release Europe wide could be December.

And I found a new Trailer on 3D Gamers, but nothing new in there.
Just in case someone is intrested:

<a href="http://www.3dgamers.com/games/pirates/downloads/" target="_blank">http://www.3dgamers.com/games/pirates/downloads/</a>
 
Well with so many game companys pushing games out the door before they are ready I would like to thank Sid and the rest of his crew for waiting... what ever the reason. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> I'm sure it will be a great game!
 
Oh boy! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":c" border="0" alt="mad.gif" /> I went through this last year at this same time waiting for "`X-2` The Threat" to be released. First it's Nov.4 then the 16th, then the 20something, finally around the 4th of Dec.or so it showed up. Worth the wait, but I hate waiting......of course this will be a great game and the wait will be quickly forgotten as soon as it's installed. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-skull`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skull)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Thanks fer de update mate,kinda sucks,but was to be expected,better tew 'ave de game made right de first time <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />[/quote]

A week or two delay is something acceptable Skull . It better than not knowing when the game will be availble like POTBS , SeaDogs 2 , Captin Blood and many others . <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":c" border="0" alt="mad.gif" />
 
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