to french speaking players...
 

You can evaluate your favorite game on ciao.fr here :

http://www.ciao.fr/Space_Empires_IV_gold_PC__298407

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Voilà
Une évaluation très positive http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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La meilleure pub pour SE4 a été de le faire essayer...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Sûr. L'essayer c'est l'adopter. Mais tant qu'à faire autant lui donner un petit coup de pouce. Je suis effaré de voir à quel point il reste méconnu en France (A l'inverse de cette daube de MOO3...).

Ah, ça fait du bien un peu de language compréhensif dans ce forum... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Yes, SE:IV is so obscure in France... I don't even believe any of our magazines spoke of that jewel. They must have been too busy praising MOO3.

Erh, it is a thread for "French speaking players", but does that mean we actually have to speak that language? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif *Runs away whistling*

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As in the rest of the world....until they started playing it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Problem for SE4 : it is web-buy only game in a non EU country. And from a company that made very little if no advertising for it in France.

So all french players here learned of it by accident/forum lurking....or the MOO3 disaster.

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hi, welcome to the forums. i have cheese. and hammer's.

um, did i say hammers? *hide's the hammers* nope, no hammer's here.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What do you mean by "in a non EU country"? Shouldn't it be in a EU country? Or in a non English-speaking country? Sorry if I don't make much sense, but I have been quite puzzled by this part. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Yes, knowning SE:IV when you are living in France is a matter of sheer luck, random lurking, or visiting sites dedicated to games not widely known. And it is next to impossible when you don't really pay any interest to X4 games.

Erh, Nark, thanks for the offer but... I hate cheese with a passion, so you should not be speaking of that evil aloud. But I might be interested in hammers though, if I was to launch my campaign against cheese... I will have to think over it.

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bu-bu-bu-y-y-y

*faints*

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you have a problem with something bough from a EU country, you can have hope to get your money back, and you have quite a strong legislation protecting the customer.

Or more exactly, most people think so, as reality is quite different.

More, it is easier to compare prices within EU, and you don't have bank commissions to buy something in US$.

edited to add this point :
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">don't think about the cheese, just think about the wine you'll drink with it.

[ September 05, 2003, 20:06: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

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He meant that the game is made and sold by companies in a non-EU country (the USA).

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can have hope to get your money back in the US too. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ September 05, 2003, 20:07: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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Thanks Unknown Enemy, I was far from understanding what you initially meant. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif And yes you are of course right, it might draw away some people which could have been interested.

Fyron, I gather the game is sold in stores in the USA? That would be so more convenient, but hey, when you don't have enough customers for a given game, it is quite a problem.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tragically, it is not.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am sure you can.
It is just EU people have little knowledge of US system.
People just think that if something goes wrong with a EU company, they would sort their problems more easily than with a US company.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And from a legal point of view it's true. But IMHO american companies are very more concerned about their image on the web, so it's easy to threat them with bad publicity on the web when you are not satisfied with what you have bought, to have your money back http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

About the topic : don't forget to post your opinion on ciao.fr...

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It is very easy to get your money back for a faulty (or even just unwanted) product in US stores (not even anything to do with the web http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif ). Just go in, say this is broke, and you get a refund. Some stores only do store credit, especially on things like opened CD products and such. But that is nearly as good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif If it isn't opened/used, you can usually get a cash refund on it. Not all stores are the same, but the vast majority have no hassle refund policies. And I don't think it has anything to do with some draconian laws... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ September 09, 2003, 08:21: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]