The Navy Seal
Emperor
I'm wondering if any of the stores have released BtS in the US because it's the 23rd? As far as I know were not going to get BtS until tommorow.
Does anybody in the us have BtS yet
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wilcoxchar
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Noone has gotten it yet because the 23rd is the SHIPPING date of the game.
joseph1944
Chieftain
July 23, 8:11 PM Pacific, no game.
sela1s1son
King
Not yet, but I have all the phone numbers of stores in a two hour drive's distance away!
I'm thinking this expansion will be worth every sweet penny it is being sold for if they did any of the concepts (IE corporations, espionage) competently let alone if they did it well.
I'm thinking this expansion will be worth every sweet penny it is being sold for if they did any of the concepts (IE corporations, espionage) competently let alone if they did it well.
thecommonnate
Theocrat
Nope, no BTS. And quite mad quite frankly. Do not trust the people that tell you "you can come pick it up whenever."
JZ Temple
Chieftain
My local EB Games called, my pre-order of BtS will be in the store by noon tomorrow. Remember that the 7/23 date is when the game will ship from distributors, no one will likely have it in before the 24th, or later, depending on whether they use overnight or two day air, or even five day ground delivery. EBG uses overnight for "A" list games like Civ4 BtS.
I want to express solidarity with the US players who don't have it yet. I think if they can release Harry Potter on exactly the same hour all over the world then Firaxis should be able to release BTS in at least the same week.
It must be torture. The good news is that it's worth the wait.
It must be torture. The good news is that it's worth the wait.
E/B's site says it arrived today 7/23. I went to two of their stores and it didn't. Had some poor guy at Best Buy rummaging around in the back and digging through tote boxes trying to find it for me. I was able to get Warlords on its release date that way but no luck this time.
The girl at E/B did at least tell me that they will have it tommorrow. BB's site says 7/25 and Wally World's just says sold out online.
So I guess I'll sleep tonight. Get up tomorrow and renew my search.
The girl at E/B did at least tell me that they will have it tommorrow. BB's site says 7/25 and Wally World's just says sold out online.
So I guess I'll sleep tonight. Get up tomorrow and renew my search.
The release date for a game is the SHIPPING date, not the date you'll have it in stores. For some games(movie-based games, AAA titles) there will be a set street date, in which case everyone should have it available that day because it was shipped in advance of that date...but for everything else, the release date is the shipping date.
Landstander
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I worked at a Borders during the last Harry Potter release - trust me, the reason we can stay open all night and make such an event out of it is because we sell more books in that one night than we do in a week! Sadly, BtS, and games in general, are not quite that profitable.
I'm praying that I get the game from Amazon this Wednesday (as they f'ing told me when I paid for it!!). I've cleared that night just for BtS, and if it's not here I may consider Steam (though the version of Warlords I got from Direct2Drive didn't work with store-bought Civ4, so I am hesitant).
Shawnosaurus
Esoteric Idiot
I am in the USA and I have it installed and playing right now. I bought it from direct2drive.com 
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I am in the USA and I have it installed and playing right now. I bought it from direct2drive.com
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what?? how?? The download button isn't even showing up for me..
jkp1187
Unindicted Co-Conspirator
I am in the USA and I have it installed and playing right now. I bought it from direct2drive.com
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It says it's still on Pre-order. Can I actually download it now?
Shawnosaurus
Esoteric Idiot
Beside pre-order is "send info" click that, you get an email with download link. Follow the link and download. The menu there has your regcode and everything.
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omg.. I start downloading, leave the computer for an hour ... come back and it's at 1.63/1.64GB complete and it had stopped downloading!! grrr....
Says it can't find a mirror to use.. every few minutes it jumps to life and then dies right away -_-
Says it can't find a mirror to use.. every few minutes it jumps to life and then dies right away -_-
I have the same message on my answering machine. I was hoping they'd have it earlier than that.
I checked Wal-Mart tonight when I got off work and they said they won't have it until Thursday. They said even though it's a new release, since it isn't a big release, they won't push for it early.
Edit: I'm already expecting the flood of US posters tomorrow once they get it.
woody60707
Deity
I DL it. Been playing it all night (it's almost 6AM now). About to go back and start the game again.
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