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This is the old release date, the Gold status is currently projected as September 1st and the release date is delayed until the early autumn. You can read the whole information here.

Justin

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Oh, wait. It says September 22, doesn't it? I'm a bit dislexic. 9/22, not 8/22. Oh well. I guess I'm confused and disappointed because of the dealy, and the fact that the Malfador website has only a few screenshots and no other info at all. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ September 01, 2003, 21:23: Message edited by: Wydraz ]

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The same thing hapenned to dungeon odyssey. I doubt they will break the traditon http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That seems strange, because when you read PC Gamer and the other gaming mags, they get demos of games sometimes months ahead of the release date. NOw, that may be the policy at Malfador, but I can't see releasing a demo after the game comes out as sensible in a business sort of way. You want to entice people to buy the game by teasing them with the demo. That's why I bought SE4 Gold, but that was only after I found out about the game by reading a review in a magazine.

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so, the demo's septemper 22? i was thinking 1st, because that's when the gold Version is. oh, well.

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That's because those companies have to release demos early because of the retail angle. And not all companies do that. In fact some do the opposite and force you to buy it first before putting out a demo several months lately.

Our philosiphy is we want the demo to be code-wise just like the final game so you get a 100% guarantee that the game will play like the demo does. Major publishers can't always publish it.

Also we have a much longer shelf life cycle. Major publishers have to sell their games in the first few months or they loose their shirt. In our case our sales don't even start to peak until at least 6 months in a release. Sometimes longer.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That seems strange, because when you read PC Gamer and the other gaming mags, they get demos of games sometimes months ahead of the release date. NOw, that may be the policy at Malfador, but I can't see releasing a demo after the game comes out as sensible in a business sort of way. You want to entice people to buy the game by teasing them with the demo. That's why I bought SE4 Gold, but that was only after I found out about the game by reading a review in a magazine.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My friend emailed malfador and Aaron replied that the demo would be out the 1st or 2nd week of septemper

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Since you put it like that, it does make sense. It did seem that SEIV Gold became more and more popular as time went by, just from what I was able to tell from the forum Boards. Let's hope that PC Gamer or some other company does an early review so more people will find out about it as soon as possible.

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demo,
demo,
Demo,
DEMO!,
DEMO!...

(feel free to join in the chant until MM relents and releases the demo...)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">good idea!
demo,
demo,
Dmeo!,
DEMO!,
DEMO!...