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I just ordered one from the U.K.

Since then I did some web searching and it looks like it will be released in the U.S. in a week or so.
 
What did you search for, TLF?
 
I searched Alpha Centauri Complete.

There is a store called wowcd or cdwow that has it for $8.99 and says available in 7-10 days.
 
My order from TheHut.com (UK store) is delayed because they ran out of copies. Got it for $9 shipped, though.
 
My order from TheHut.com (UK store) is delayed because they ran out of copies. Got it for $9 shipped, though.

Dollars or Pounds?

Just curious.
I got mine for 5 plus 4 shipping, but that was in Pounds.

Depending on how they value the conversion it could be 12 to 18 dollars.
I think the pound is about $1.30 now. It used to be $2 about a year ago and some companies still use that exchange rate.
 
My credit card was charged 9 USD.

I purchased AC Complete during some mega games sale a few weeks ago. Shipping was about 2.50 GBP. The whole order came to 6.08 GBP, which Google informs me is about 8.95 USD. My credit card company might issue an additional fee for purchasing an item in a foreign currency, though.
 
The lesson may be that you need to get a card with a different bank.

I bought something from Germany a few months ago and there was no added charge.

I'll post back when I get the cc statement for this.
 
Alpha Centauri complete $9.00
Fee from credit card company $50.00
Learning to order products that come from the U.S. Priceless

:lol:

Actually, no addt'l charge has appeared on my account yet. But I've been told that the maximum is 3%. So I'm looking at an extra $0.27 tops.
 
3% sounds reasonable.
There is probably a bit of extra processing to do, but I' pretty certain there are no internation phone conferences going on th accomplish the exchange.
It's most likely a completely automated process.

I'm just hoping for Russia4Lifes' sake that he is making a speculative joke and hasn't really been charged $50. There is that big LOL face after all at the top of the post.
 
Amazon UK, 6.49GBP total, I'm really happy I can finally get that game, and I'll be raising silent prayers for a remake of it one day in CIV style...
 
I just received my copy of this in the mail.

There is a copy protection warning on the back of the case.

"Notice: This game contains technology to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual drives."

Does anyone know what type of copy protection this is and what the potential problems with it may be?
 
I"Notice: This game contains technology to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual drives."

Good thing I haven't installed yet; thanks for pointing that out. Small print always gets ya.

Since I own a valid copy, I think I'll acquire the game through alternate means. Certainly not going to put any junk DRM on my system.
 
There is a copy protection warning on the back of the case.

"Notice: This game contains technology to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual drives."

Does anyone know what type of copy protection this is and what the potential problems with it may be?

Certainly not going to put any junk DRM on my system.

Does anyone have further information on the DRM?
 
The DRM on the new issue is SecuRoM. One that has complaints and some litigation. There are several slightly different versions of SecuROM being used on different games.
 
I do not have deatail infro in my memory. Various allegation, some with more support than others. Some specific to particular versions of SecuROM and some specific to certain other software of hardware. You will just have to google it up
 
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