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Skanky Burns
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Skanky Bastard Quartermaster
Aug 2001
time: 14:15
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Originally posted by Osweld
I don't understand why everyone is always so outraged and surprised when a game is released later in some parts of the world, it happens with pretty much every game and it is deffinately nothing new, nor is it unique to the gaming industry, for that matter. |
That is a stupid statement. I suppose you really dont mind watching everyone else on the forum playing Civ 3 once its released, while you sit there, still waiting for it to be officially released in your country, not for days, but for many months...
But then again, that would never happen to you, would it?? Even if the release in Canada was later than in the US, it would be very cheap for you to order it and have it delivered from the US. However, for other countries in Eurasia, Australia, etc, the added expenses of shipping, customs, import tax, stamp duty, conversion rates, can easily double the price of the game for us.
So that leaves us out in the cold. We can either pay almost double the cost for others, still receiving the game 10 to 20 days later, or we can wait many months for it to be released locally at the same price others paid months ago...
[Sarcasm] Gee, what could possibly be unfair about that situation??[/Sarcasm]
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:15
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Originally posted by Osweld
It happens with pretty much every game and it is deffinately nothing new, nor is it unique to the gaming industry, for that matter. |
Exactly right.
The delay in getting game to Europe and the rest of the world is not due to any hidden agenda against people outside the States. It simply refects logistics.
The game designers have a deadline for providing the product to the manufacturer. The manufacturer has a deadline for getting it to stores. The U.S. comes first because it is a big market. The game is then shipped to Europe, a process that can take weeks if it actually gets sent by sea.
As well, all the written material for the UK version probably has to be converted into the Queen's English.
That takes time.
By the way, I'm in the same boat as those in Europe. I won't get the game until November.
No point complaining.
Last edited by Tingkai on 29-08-2001 at 07:57
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:15
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sorry, double post
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General Ludd
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Minion of the Dominion
Aug 2001
time: 05:15
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Originally posted by jerkwaterbox
but you are not a citizen of the counrty that is exporting it either. what gives you the right to get it ahead of everyone else? because you speak english? because you live closer? because they don't translate the game to canadian english?
i don't understand why it needs to be translated to UK english, it is not so different that people will not understand it. I think that the US version could be released to the UK at the same time as it is to the US and that it could also be released to all the other mainly english countries around the world.
as for other language versions i do not know. diablo 2 was released world wide i believe at the same time. |
I wasn't trying to sound superior for living in North America or anything. But this happens with everything and everywhere, it's just the way things work and I'm no expert on the subject, so I won't pretend to know why. It's probably case-specific, anyways.
Just because I live in North America doesn't mean I get everything right away, heck, back when I still played console games I'd often have to wait years for games they are already playing in Japan. That is, if the game was even going to be exported in the first place.
By the way, the Canada-US border is the largest ungaurded land border in the world, we pretty much share the same market and things move in and out of our countries pretty freely. Still, sometimes we get a delay with TV shows and Movies, which is pretty odd considering that most of the time they are filmed in Canada.
Also, there sometimes are Canadian versions of games, I don't think that is very common anymore, though.
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Vrank Prins
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Haarlem, Netherlands
Sep 2000
time: 05:15
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Originally posted by Paul L
You can try buying it in The Netherlands, it's less far away and we always have the UK version of games here. |
When I bought CIV-II about 5 years ago in Den Haag (the Haque for anglo's) I think I bought a european (?!) version. You could choose between either english, french or german text**.
I don't know if that's going to be so in the new CIV-III. But if it is, I think that's going to be the version for sale in the Netherlands. Somehow I expected a delay like this to happen. It usual does with new programs/games which are going to be translated.
**I would like that, because when I play a game for the first time I sometimes switch from the english to the german text to understand things better. There aren't too many games which are translated in dutch.
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Vrank Prins
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Haarlem, Netherlands
Sep 2000
time: 05:15
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
and with a game as innocuous as Civ3, I really can't see a problem... |
If a translation into french and german is made, the introduction in europe will be delayed for about two months, you can be sure of that !!
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28-08-2001 19:57
) and I understand your problem.
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