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May 17th!
bedrock1977
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I got this email from GameSpot today, it's one of those subscription emails that sends their newsletter to your email. Funny thing is that it has a section called "Most Popular Games" and lists:
Most Popular Games
1. The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Release: 2011-08-01
2. DC Universe Online
Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment | PC | Role-Playing score: 7.0
3 Dead Space 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts | PC | Action score: 8.5
4 Rift
Publisher: Trion Worlds | PC | Role-Playing release: 2011-03-01
5 World of Warcraft
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment | PC | Role-Playing score: 9.5
6 Star Wars: The Old Republic
Publisher: Electronic Arts | PC | Role-Playing release: 2011-05-17
7 Earthrise
Publisher: Masthead Studios | PC | Role-Playing release: 2011-02-04
8 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Publisher: Rockstar Games | PC | Action score: 9.0
9 Venetica
Publisher: Atari | PC | Role-Playing score: 6.0
10 Dragon Age: Origins
Publisher: Electronic Arts | PC | Role-Playing score: 9.5
Rankings based on total unique users from yesterday.
Why would they list that as the date... and it's a Tuesday when most new games do come out? Did they booboo and give the actual release date???
Played: DAoC 6 years, WoW 2 years, Ultima/EQ 1+ years, AoC/Aion/Rift/SWTOR a few months
Tried: Warhammer, EQ2, Vanguard, Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Runes of Magic and many, many others...
Currently Playing: DAOC
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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
R.A.Salvatore
I'm seeing a conflct of info here. The OP is saying gamespot is saying this. While artemisentr4 is saying gaemstop.
I'm curious which one has it spelt wrong. easy to get those two mixed up.
Either way, it could be the release date but i'm not going to wait on it. When BW/EA state the release date i'll take that as rule. Other sites could be trying to create interest in their website or guessing.
Help me Bioware, you're my only hope.
Is ToR going to be good? Dude it's Bioware making a freaking star wars game, all signs point to awesome. -G4tv MMo report.
I hate seeing these kinds of threads. Retail outlets have NO inside information on when games will be released, they guess based on what information they do have and roll with it. This is NOTHING NEW and retail outlets have been doing it for years. If you want a reliable release date, go to the original source, and all they're saying for now is Spring 2011. This is along the same lines, no this is not the release date, Gamespot doesn't know any better than anybody else does. If they knew the actual release date they'd make a huge deal about it.
yeah but I remember around Nov/Dec 2010 before their was an offical release date for Rift, Gamestop had it's release date set as March 1st. A lucky guess?
Yes, in a nutshell that's exactly what it was. Being a gaming news/review site they'd make a big deal about it if they knew the actual release date, especially if they knew it before anyone else. They have the advantage on guessing because they've done it for years and by now it shouldn't be surprising if they end up right sometimes.
on their site it says 1/2/2012 .
Hmmmm i am seeing a deeper conflict, OP says Gamespot, artemisentr4 says gamestop, and Whilan says gaemstop... I personally believe in Gemspat.
Sorry could not resist
Guess enough times along the way and one of those guesses is bound to get it right, or close enough.
It's a way to sell preorders. That's all at this point.
Oh they have a lot of info on release dates; They just aren't all accurate.
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It's not a "lucky" guess. It's just the date Trion probably gave them when they asked them about the release date, ofc they never made it public (Trion) until they were sure about it. Hitting the exact day and month is more than a lucky guess, don't you think?
I wouldn't buy into it. GameSpot and such are notorious for putting out false release dates to get preorders.
Place holder dates are just that, they list a certain date just for GP reasons. When City of Heroes: Going Rogue was coming out you would find a different date on every website out there for pre-order reasons. They never changed them either until after the official date was announced, even though a couple at least were almost a month past the dates they listed before that announcement.
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
Wow if this is true, talk about stealing sub from Rift, release right when people starting to decide if they should sub forthat game.......woah
ps: World of Warcraft can go away, how the hell did that game score the same score as Dragon Age
Dragon Age is infy better than WoW as a RPG
How much WoW could a WoWhater hate, if a WoWhater could hate WoW?
As much WoW as a WoWhater would, if a WoWhater could hate WoW.
I own the same crystal ball as they do, only mine tells me a different date.
Sometimes I really hate you people...
Sometimes retailers DO get information before the rest of us, it happens all the time.
Sometimes these dates ARE accurate.
Sometimes they are not.
Argueing for or against this date is kind of pointless, because we all have no way of knowing into which category this fits.
So does anyone have a general date/month for this game???
No, but I would suggest keeping an eye out for info coming out at PAX in March. An absolutely HUGE convention would be the perfect place to announce it with all the free advertising they would get from it.
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
I would not be surprised if this was correct, or at least close enough to being correct!
I hope that is all speculation,because this game will have had only 3 years maximum development time,not nearly enough.This is why i asked in another thread,if Bioware is going to put in the effort a MMO deserves or treat it as another single player game.I said this becuase EA is not known for being too lenient on costs,they fire /release employees at the first sign of profits slowing down.
Also if the date is true,how can ANY dev give a "guarantee" release date?What if there are bugs or known game issues?Does that mean the developer doesn't care and will release the game anyhow?That is exactly what i pointed out when i heard FFXIV had a guarantee release date,i knew that meant problems.A developer MUST finish the BETA phase,then make any neccessary changes,then and ONLY then announce a release date.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
TOR's development started late 2006 or early 2007. When the official site went live on Oct 2008 there was a statement there stating that the game was already more than one and a half year in development.
Hey, Rift is 6th.
But in case of MMOs this is me, 8 years ago.
As pointed out the development of this game began somewhere near the end of 2006-early 2007.
Testing began in june of 2010
Also the date they have...is guessing, the only official statement is the one EAs and BW are giving.
EAs is between april 1st and December 31st (they have stated it will release this year, another words no matter what it won't be pushed back to 2012)
BW has stated they are shooting for spring 2011.
These are the only two official ones. Everything else is speculation and guessing until more evidence comes out.
Help me Bioware, you're my only hope.
Is ToR going to be good? Dude it's Bioware making a freaking star wars game, all signs point to awesome. -G4tv MMo report.
LOL, correction....... it began at the end of 2005. December to be exact when Gordan Walton and Rich Vogal began using the few writers they had to begin fleshing out the stories for SWTOR.