Best of the Net CD presell giveaway

Jeff_ATARI · Sep 22, 2003, 12:48 PM

Dear Civ Fanatics,

I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed participating in the forums and interacting with each of you as we count down to the release of Civ Conquests. Hopefully, you've enjoyed seeing all of us from Atari, Firaxis, and Breakaway poking our heads in here to keep you updated on our work.

Now it's our chance to give something back to you. Actually, it's also a chance for you to give something to yourselves.

This week we're announcing the new "Best of the Net" Bonus CD, which will be given away FREE to customers who pre-order Civ Conquests at selected retail outlets*. It contains some of the best Civ-related work created by our growing community of Civ fans. Several entries are from frequent contributors on this forum, such as the excellent DyP mod, the terrain mods from Warpstorm and Snoopy, the single player and multiplayer strategy guides, and six of the most recent "Game of the Month" scenarios (complete with everyone's scores). In fact, even the idea of having a Best of the Net CD was initially proposed on these forums (thanks to Ray Turkhan), and that was what set the wheels in motion for this giveaway.

The CD's menu prominently displays a link to the civfanatics.com site as one of three fan sites that contributed heavily to the content on the CD. (A big congratulations and thank you goes out to all those mod authors that we managed to squeeze onto the CD.) In addition to the fansite related content, the CD includes new soundtracks from Civ Conquests as well as some of the preview artwork and screenshots released for the game.

I would like to personally invite each of you to take advantage of this presell offer. But I want to emphasize that this is not just about me doing my job as a brand manager for the product. This is about giving the mod-makers here a foot in the door to make this happen again and again. This marks the first time that we've released a Best of the Net CD, and I have several people here at Atari watching the results closely. If we have a significant rise in pre-orders for Civ Conquests, it gives me ammunition to feature fan-created content in our future releases.

So, then! If you already know you're going to pick up Civ Conquests, why not help support fan sites such as CivFanatics(and the dedicated modders who post here) by making a trip to the store and placing a pre-order for the game. It's always a struggle for brand managers to quantify the effects of a strong fan community base, and to make sure the fans' thoughts, comments, and contributions are taken into account. In a way this is a referendum to show the world (both at retail stores and within Atari) that we should continue to use fan-created mods as a pre-sell giveaway, and that a strong fan community should be rewarded for their support of a game such as Civilization III.

Best,
Jeff Foley
Atari

* Retail outlets currently include: Electronics Boutique, GameStop, Electronics Boutique Canada, and Future Shop.
Online: EBworld.com, GameStop.com, and Amazon.com.

Gamestop has their online link up already at: http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=645419

If you pre-order the game online, you will get the pre-sell CD with your game when it ships. If you pre-order the game at a retail store, they should have the bonus CD there to give you, as early as this week.

As of this date the presell is not available outside of North America, but we're hoping to change some retailer's minds.

MarineCorps · Sep 22, 2003, 01:09 PM

Intresting very cool indeed.

And to think that someone thought you didn't listen to us

Lucky for me my local mall has EB games in it so my job tonight: convince my parents to take me there tommorow

Now all I have to do is take out the money from the bank that I have been saving for conquests.

Thanks for the news. Now I have an incentive to pre-order it. Not to mention where to buy it.

aaglo · Sep 22, 2003, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jeff_ATARI
Dear Civ Fanatics,

As of this date the presell is not available outside of North America, but we're hoping to change some retailer's minds.

That I wouldn't call a bad idea.

Is there somewhere a DETAILED info of what is in, or will that be known only to the persons getting this cd?

LouLong · Sep 22, 2003, 02:25 PM

Jeff, please sort things out with Amazon (for instance) in other countries as well. Language here is not the pb, even in France (

) we can play even in English, but please do a fine job as a marketer and let us poor old Europeans the bonus CD.

Pleeeeaaaasse !

spincrus · Sep 22, 2003, 02:35 PM

Great idea. It will definitely save us from some huge effort to download every single unit/mod/blah out there. It's a pain to hand-pick them, download it on a slow internet connection, and even if you have a good internet connection, still might be troublesome.

So I would say, this is actually a follow-up to the project which TETurkhan has already started, by having a "Net Art" folder on everyone's computers to decrease filesizes. If this is it, great great job.

JimMac99 · Sep 22, 2003, 02:46 PM

Great idea Jeff, but I also ask you to try to persuade international outlets such as Amazon UK to run the offer. (I am on a slow dial-up with a contract which cuts me off after 2 hours! Downloading some of the larger mods is just not feasible)

Do that, and you've got another pre-order

Jeff_ATARI · Sep 22, 2003, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by aaglo

Is there somewhere a DETAILED info of what is in, or will that be known only to the persons getting this cd?

Good question, aaglo --
The sites where this will be advertised have a fairly generic list which covers all the content. But I'm sure folks here would appreciate a more detailed list. Here's what we've got:

Featured Scenarios
American Civil War 3.0
AU Mod
The Balancer
Double Your Pleasure 2.0
Double Your Pleasure 1.0
Firepower Mod
Player 1 Mod
Storm Over Europe
Games of the Month from civfanatics.com (GOTM15 through 20)

Terrain Mods
Snoopy's Terrain
Warpstorm's Watercolor Terrain

Strategy Guides
Single Player Strategy Guide
MultiPlayer Strategy Guide

Audio Files
Civilization III: Conquests Music
Main Menu Music
Japanese Music
MesoAmerican Music
Modern Music

Civilization III Music
European Ancient Music
Greco-Roman Ancient Music
Middle Eastern Ancient Music
Native American Ancient Music
Asian Ancient Music

Civilization III: Conquests Sound Effects
Ship Enslavement
Unit Enslavement
Sacrifice

Art Files
(numerous images from E3, press tour, and box, many of which you've already collected here)

Screenshots
(screens released to all the press for various Conquests)

Patches
Civilization III Patch v1.29f
Civilization III: Play the World Patch v1.27f

Web Links
Corporate Sites
The Official Atari Website
The Official Civilization III Website
The Official Firaxis Website

Fan Sites
Apolyton Civilization Site
Civilization Fanatics' Center
Creative Design Group Community

Enjoy!

Jeff Foley
Atari

arkammler · Sep 22, 2003, 04:07 PM

I just got mine.

player1 fanatic · Sep 22, 2003, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jeff_ATARI
Featured Scenarios
American Civil War 3.0
AU Mod
The Balancer
Double Your Pleasure 2.0
Double Your Pleasure 1.0
Firepower Mod
Player 1 Mod
Storm Over Europe
Games of the Month from civfanatics.com (GOTM15 through 20)

All important MODs as far as I've seen.

MarineCorps · Sep 22, 2003, 04:25 PM

Curses!!! I can't get mine until this weekend. I like the fact that some Scenarios are going to be on there, some of those I have wanted to download but since I have dial-up it would have taken me 3 hours for just one.

Louis XXIV · Sep 22, 2003, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by arkammler
I just got mine.

How is it?

arkammler · Sep 22, 2003, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Louis XXIV

How is it?

I did online with the link Jeff had in his 1st post.

Louis XXIV · Sep 22, 2003, 04:47 PM

Ah, OK.

Chieftess · Sep 22, 2003, 08:53 PM

Guess who wrote the Single Player Strategy Guide?

I think I know who probably wrote the MP Strategy Guide. (we weren't told who wrote what in the beta BTW).

Even *I* don't know if there's a mini-credits on that CD.

CivGeneral · Sep 22, 2003, 09:04 PM

I just noticed this today.

I thought you get the CD on the day you get C3C.

Packer-Backer · Sep 22, 2003, 09:09 PM

Where can you preorder C3C? I was at Circuit City recently and I didn't notice anything, I have seen a few preorder setups for other games before. And could you please clarify things about the CD, thanks.

So they just give the CD when you preorder C3C?!

Gingerbread Man · Sep 23, 2003, 12:56 AM

Hmmm, if this doesn't come out for Australia, I may preorder it from the US!

PLEASE keep us posted to any international outlets that are giving away this CD, especially ones that ship overseas.

Elden · Sep 23, 2003, 01:16 AM

Will there be any way to get this without Pre-Ordering? i.e. as a special edition or some such ???

LouLong · Sep 23, 2003, 01:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by player1 fanatic

All important MODs as far as I've seen.

TAM (strange since it was in PTW) and MEM (but for unit copyright issues I believe) are not in.

I haven't heard of AU mod or Firepower mods before.

aaglo · Sep 23, 2003, 01:49 AM

Jeff, thank you for answering

AU stands for Apolyton University - mod. It's a good one, very much tested too.

Sep 22, 2003, 12:48 PM	#1
Jeff_ATARI Atari Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Beverly, MA Posts: 118	Best of the Net CD presell giveaway Dear Civ Fanatics, I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed participating in the forums and interacting with each of you as we count down to the release of Civ Conquests. Hopefully, you've enjoyed seeing all of us from Atari, Firaxis, and Breakaway poking our heads in here to keep you updated on our work. Now it's our chance to give something back to you. Actually, it's also a chance for you to give something to yourselves. This week we're announcing the new "Best of the Net" Bonus CD, which will be given away FREE to customers who pre-order Civ Conquests at selected retail outlets. It contains some of the best Civ-related work created by our growing community of Civ fans. Several entries are from frequent contributors on this forum, such as the excellent DyP mod, the terrain mods from Warpstorm and Snoopy, the single player and multiplayer strategy guides, and six of the most recent "Game of the Month" scenarios (complete with everyone's scores). In fact, even the idea of having a Best of the Net CD was initially proposed on these forums (thanks to Ray Turkhan), and that was what set the wheels in motion for this giveaway. The CD's menu prominently displays a link to the civfanatics.com site as one of three fan sites that contributed heavily to the content on the CD. (A big congratulations and thank you goes out to all those mod authors that we managed to squeeze onto the CD.) In addition to the fansite related content, the CD includes new soundtracks from Civ Conquests as well as some of the preview artwork and screenshots released for the game. I would like to personally invite each of you to take advantage of this presell offer. But I want to emphasize that this is not just about me doing my job as a brand manager for the product. This is about giving the mod-makers here a foot in the door to make this happen again and again. This marks the first time that we've released a Best of the Net CD, and I have several people here at Atari watching the results closely. If we have a significant rise in pre-orders for Civ Conquests, it gives me ammunition to feature fan-created content in our future releases. So, then! If you already know you're going to pick up Civ Conquests, why not help support fan sites such as CivFanatics(and the dedicated modders who post here) by making a trip to the store and placing a pre-order for the game. It's always a struggle for brand managers to quantify the effects of a strong fan community base, and to make sure the fans' thoughts, comments, and contributions are taken into account. In a way this is a referendum to show the world (both at retail stores and within Atari) that we should continue to use fan-created mods as a pre-sell giveaway, and that a strong fan community should be rewarded for their support of a game such as Civilization III. Best, Jeff Foley Atari Retail outlets currently include: Electronics Boutique, GameStop, Electronics Boutique Canada, and Future Shop. Online: EBworld.com, GameStop.com, and Amazon.com. Gamestop has their online link up already at: http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=645419 If you pre-order the game online, you will get the pre-sell CD with your game when it ships. If you pre-order the game at a retail store, they should have the bonus CD there to give you, as early as this week. As of this date the presell is not available outside of North America, but we're hoping to change some retailer's minds.

Sep 22, 2003, 01:09 PM	#2
MarineCorps Tradition Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cape Cod Posts: 8,186	Intresting very cool indeed. And to think that someone thought you didn't listen to us Lucky for me my local mall has EB games in it so my job tonight: convince my parents to take me there tommorow Now all I have to do is take out the money from the bank that I have been saving for conquests. Thanks for the news. Now I have an incentive to pre-order it. Not to mention where to buy it. __________________ Hmmm, Civ mod hosting. Free hosting for your mod. No waiting times for downloads. Instant forum set up Storm Over Civ

Sep 22, 2003, 02:25 PM	#4
LouLong In love with Rei Ayanami Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Fontainebleau FRANCE Posts: 7,385	Jeff, please sort things out with Amazon (for instance) in other countries as well. Language here is not the pb, even in France ( ) we can play even in English, but please do a fine job as a marketer and let us poor old Europeans the bonus CD. Pleeeeaaaasse ! __________________ SCENARIOS : THE GREAT ARMADA (TGA) \| THE FALKLANDS WAR (TFW) \| THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (FIW) \| THE SPANISH RECONQUISTA (RCQ) \| THE BOER WAR (TBW) CONQUESTS MAP DIRECTORY \| CONQUESTS SCENARIO and REVIEWS DIRECTORY \| My Civ stuff (maps & units) \| PBEM newbee guide \|

Sep 22, 2003, 02:35 PM	#5
spincrus sol invictus... Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Turkey, Austria, USA Posts: 1,079	Great idea. It will definitely save us from some huge effort to download every single unit/mod/blah out there. It's a pain to hand-pick them, download it on a slow internet connection, and even if you have a good internet connection, still might be troublesome. So I would say, this is actually a follow-up to the project which TETurkhan has already started, by having a "Net Art" folder on everyone's computers to decrease filesizes. If this is it, great great job. __________________ I used to be a modder like you, then I took an arrow in the knee. , , , , , , BNW (What? No BNW icon? )

Sep 22, 2003, 04:25 PM	#10
MarineCorps Tradition Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cape Cod Posts: 8,186	Curses!!! I can't get mine until this weekend. I like the fact that some Scenarios are going to be on there, some of those I have wanted to download but since I have dial-up it would have taken me 3 hours for just one. __________________ Hmmm, Civ mod hosting. Free hosting for your mod. No waiting times for downloads. Instant forum set up Storm Over Civ

Sep 22, 2003, 02:46 PM	#6
JimMac99 Warlord Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Belfast. N.Ireland Posts: 128	Great idea Jeff, but I also ask you to try to persuade international outlets such as Amazon UK to run the offer. (I am on a slow dial-up with a contract which cuts me off after 2 hours! Downloading some of the larger mods is just not feasible) Do that, and you've got another pre-order

Sep 22, 2003, 04:07 PM	#8
arkammler Chieftain Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Perryville, MO Posts: 98	I just got mine.

Sep 22, 2003, 04:47 PM	#13
Louis XXIV Le Roi Soleil Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Norfolk, VA Posts: 13,506 Gender: Male	Ah, OK. __________________ Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy -Ben Franklin

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Sep 22, 2003, 09:09 PM	#16
Packer-Backer Conservative Christian Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 763	Where can you preorder C3C? I was at Circuit City recently and I didn't notice anything, I have seen a few preorder setups for other games before. And could you please clarify things about the CD, thanks. So they just give the CD when you preorder C3C?!

Sep 23, 2003, 12:56 AM	#17
Gingerbread Man Dark Magus Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ooorstrailier! Posts: 2,078	Hmmm, if this doesn't come out for Australia, I may preorder it from the US! PLEASE keep us posted to any international outlets that are giving away this CD, especially ones that ship overseas.

Sep 23, 2003, 01:16 AM	#18
Elden is back! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 1,004	Re: Best of the Net CD presell giveaway Will there be any way to get this without Pre-Ordering? i.e. as a special edition or some such ??? __________________ “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind” - J. F. Kennedy

Sep 23, 2003, 01:49 AM	#20
aaglo Furioso! Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Planet Baal Posts: 8,191 Images: 1	Jeff, thank you for answering AU stands for Apolyton University - mod. It's a good one, very much tested too. __________________ R.I.P. Stormrage, my partner in Green Warhammer Fantasy mod 2.5 for Civ3Conquests - HistoriCanada - Civ3-mod about canadian history My Civ3-unitsMy all other Civ3-graphicsThings for me to do. It's not an optical illusion - it only looks like it... Last edited by aaglo; Sep 23, 2003 at 02:48 AM.

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