ciV Release Date

[Abaddon]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/50100/

Originally Posted by Steam Website

Available: 1 September 2010

This game will unlock in approximately 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days and 11 hours

Not sure if we have a thread on this already? This is from the Steam Store.. an online, download to drive kinda place. I don't know if anywhere is pre-sale hard copies yet?

[Lord Olleus]

Release date is Fall 2010, and I guess that Steam just picked a random date and fall and called it that.

[Dale]

I wouldn't put much weight in the truth of that. The only thing that may be for it is that Firaxis released their last few around that date.

[Camikaze]

Originally Posted by Lord Olleus

Release date is Fall 2010, and I guess that Steam just picked a random date and fall and called it that.

Well it's not really a random date; it's just the first day of the northern hemisphere autumn. I'm guessing that they just converted 'Fall 2010' to 'first day of Fall 2010' for the purposes of displaying a date.

Wasn't Civ4 an October release?

[Thorburne]

Most often, when a game is just giving a general time frame (like a particular month or "fall"), stores will usually put it to a specific correlating date. For example when they say "October" but don't give a specific date, the stores will usually list it as being released on October 1st. They will then change it to the official date once it is released. While I don't know the exact reason why companies do this, I always assume it is because their databases only have specific dates (not general times) for the release date field. In other words, they can only list their releases as mm/dd/yy, not "Fall 2010".

In this case, I think Steam did pick the wrong date to put in there because, though September is the first month of Fall, the date that they picked is still technically Summer since Fall doesn't start until the equinox, around the 21st.

I think a more likely date for release (assuming it holds to a fall launch, and, if I am not mistaken, Firaxes is usually pretty good on there dates) would be around the end of October or early November. At the latest I would see it being released would be just before Thanksgiving.

[Quintillus]

Originally Posted by Thorburne

I think a more likely date for release (assuming it holds to a fall launch, and, if I am not mistaken, Firaxes is usually pretty good on there dates) would be around the end of October or early November. At the latest I would see it being released would be just before Thanksgiving.

That would also match up perfectly with the Civ3/Civ4 Vanilla release dates, which were in late Oct/early Nov depending on what region of the world you lived in. But the actual date is probably still in flux a bit, depending on how long it takes to polish up the game. An awful lot can happen in eight months to make a specific target date hard to keep to. Better give a large target than a precise one and have to delay later.

[leif erikson]

Just checked and it is already listed on Amazon for pre-order at $49.99.
It doesn't provide a release or ship date however.