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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 1:57:06 AM   
Grotius


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I am sorry, I just do not get the lingo of about 90% of the WiTP posts. I am sure this is due to my low intellect. With that said, I am unclear of what is fact and what if fiction on the release date? If anyone responds to this, can you please dumb down the response for me with a time frame? Thank you.

Balto, Matrix does not set "release dates" per se, but they have intimated that they hope to release AE by Q1 2009, meaning by the end of March. They'll also tell us when the game goes "gold," which will mean release is fairly imminent. Again, Q1 2009 isn't a "release date" that is set in stone, so it could always be later. But that should give you a sense of the time horizon.

Me, I want it soon, but I'm glad the team is spending so much time working on the AI. As someone who plays both PBEM and AI, that's important to me.

FYI, Erik Rutins and David Heath are two of the "official" Matrix voices on things like release times. If you see a post by one of those guys, pay particular attention. :)

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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 2:57:05 AM   
balto

 

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Status: offline 		Grotius, that is awesome response.  Thank you very much.

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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 3:40:29 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Grotius

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I am sorry, I just do not get the lingo of about 90% of the WiTP posts. I am sure this is due to my low intellect. With that said, I am unclear of what is fact and what if fiction on the release date? If anyone responds to this, can you please dumb down the response for me with a time frame? Thank you.

Balto, Matrix does not set "release dates" per se, but they have intimated that they hope to release AE by Q1 2009, meaning by the end of March. They'll also tell us when the game goes "gold," which will mean release is fairly imminent. Again, Q1 2009 isn't a "release date" that is set in stone, so it could always be later. But that should give you a sense of the time horizon.

Me, I want it soon, but I'm glad the team is spending so much time working on the AI. As someone who plays both PBEM and AI, that's important to me.

FYI, Erik Rutins and David Heath are two of the "official" Matrix voices on things like release times. If you see a post by one of those guys, pay particular attention. :)


At the risk of having flaming arrows lobbed at me, at this point I think 2Q is the best we can hope for. The posts we are getting from the AE team seem to indicate that they are still debugging. I am sure they will not send the product to Matrix for review until they are comfortable. Once in matrix hands there will be some time delay for final review/approval, packaging, release run up, etc. Still I suspect we will see one of the largest 1st day sales for a traditional wargame of any type in a very long time. At $50 a copy, I suspect Matrix will gross 25 grand or more within hours of the release. It could be a lot more

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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 4:10:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oh crud, I’ll have to start another scenario.. So you know what that means… As soon as I get in the middle of it AE will come out…     

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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 4:24:54 AM   
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Oh crud, I’ll have to start another scenario.. So you know what that means… As soon as I get in the middle of it AE will come out…     


If thats the case, would you please hurry and start another scenario!

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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 5:04:25 AM   
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Oh crud, I’ll have to start another scenario.. So you know what that means… As soon as I get in the middle of it AE will come out…     


If thats the case, would you please hurry and start another scenario!


AH, subscribing to the "if you take your umbrella it won't ran, but if you forget it ...." theory. I like. Ok everyody start a new scenario right now. Only sure way to get AE to us ASAP

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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 5:39:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Heh, I in fact started a new AI game at the dawn of the New Year to help hasten the approach of AE.

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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 7:01:36 AM   
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RE: New Years Update - 1/14/2009 4:32:53 PM   
Lecivius


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Status: offline 		I'm trying to get my head around weekly updates on a game that can take years to play...when everything works right!  I'm content with what tidbits we get, because in all seriousness if it were me doing Beta on this that's all I could deliver.  The beta folks do this as a passion, not a job.  My thanks and appreciation go out to folks like that 

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RE: New Years Update - 1/16/2009 8:16:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have it on good authority from an email I found in the men's room that was apparantly written by the second cousin of the night watchman at the first national bank of Jedburg who claims to be indirectly related to a grad student in the nanotechnology department at Georgia Tech that, as luck would have it, once dated the ex-wife of an AE playtesters dog trainer that Terminus has no concept of irony and should be taken at his word.

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RE: New Years Update - 1/16/2009 10:33:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Vettim89 said "... The posts we are getting from the AE team seem to indicate that they are still debugging. I am sure they will not send the product to Matrix for review until they are comfortable. Once in Matrix hands there will be some time delay for final review/approval, packaging, release run up, etc. Still I suspect we will see one of the largest 1st day sales for a traditional wargame of any type in a very long time. ..."

Egad!  He's right.  We'll crash the poor server as we all try to buy AE.  Won't that make us grumpy! 




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RE: New Years Update - 2/5/2009 5:27:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I waited a year before I started a new grand campaign.  I got to the middle of 1943.  I bought a new computer.  Now I'm wondering if I should wait to start again.

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RE: New Years Update - 2/5/2009 8:36:56 AM   
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How patient are you?

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RE: New Years Update - 2/14/2009 3:59:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not very as I tried to start a new game, but am having some graphics issues that I posted in the tech support thread.

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