SE5: It\'s out and yet it\'s not
 

EB Games shipped my order and will arrive tomorrow, yet Malfador/SF is saying 10/16. What happened here with this release? Was EB supposed to wait until the 16th but they decided to release it early? And if it is ready then why is SF waiting until the 16th to release on their site?

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As an Australian I can tell you it is definitely out, seeing as how I've had it since last tuesday. It is a subject of some debate as to why we got it while it is not available in NA.

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Can you tell us about the quality of the manaul or PDF,does it go into great detail about what everthing means.

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Well I'm not a great one for looking at a manual unless I am stumped over something

The manual is pretty standard. Specs, explanation of how things work etc. Being a SE veteran most of it is just stuff I know seeing as how SE5, albeit improved, is basically the same as SE4 with a few changes. 77 pgs BW, pretty standard.

Now the PDF manual. Wow. I only just checked as you asked but it is almost 300 pages. Starts out as the manual but then has colour pictures of all the components, facilities, ships, technology, races etc.

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Well, it's not out yet in Canada. Over the last couple of days, I went to several different stores that sell games but nobody had it. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

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It will be out monday, but I doubt many stores will actually carry it. Ordering from EB games or Gamestop is your best shot of getting the full version early.

I just hope the patch gets released soon since the demo is bug and CTD ridden....

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Well,

Don't hold your breath for today (Monday) either.

I just received a call from my EB games where I pre-ordered SEV, and they told me that while it was supposed to be here today - it didn't come in the shipment. THey don't know when it will get here. Perhaps Wednesday they said.


Anyway - just the news form Pittsburgh, PA.

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How did those lucky Aussies get it?

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ITS HERE!!! ITS HERE!!!! ITS HERE!!!!
ups has just delivered this featherweight brown box into my hands that says its from ebgames....i am opening the brown box now...i see bubble wrap and some paper...there is a box...it says (deep bass annoouncer voice) SPACE EMPIRES V exclusive bondus edition includes SEIV deluxe. YEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. it is now 11:28am i have 2 minutes left on my lunch...now i have to walk back to work and dream about playing this game for the next 8 hrs because i have to work 4 hours overtime today.........AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH. will let ya'll know tomorrow how i like it......sniff sniff...work sux.

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First Australia and now Texas. Well, I guess it's getting closer to Canada. And we're the distributor!!!!

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I just called all the EB-Games and Game Stop stores in SE Michigan and none of them have the game in stock and none of them have the ability to order it in either. It could have been pre-ordered but once released there is nothing they can do. They all claim that, other than pre-orders, they just get what the company ships them. ebgames.com shows none in transit to the stores as well.

Sounds like the best bet is to mail order it.

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So much for switching to SFI for a retail presence. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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SFI are crap.Their website has nothing about ordering the game,while at the same time Aussies are playing with the game now.

The lack of any decent marketing plan has been typical SFI.They have done nothing,I recall some small gamespot preview many years ago.Very poor.

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Let's see, how much would mail order cost? $39.99 from EB Games USA, + handling + tax. They don't say how much the handling and tax are.
International shipping to Canada (3-5 business days) is $14.99.
And there will be a duty charge to bring it into Canada.
Then there's the exchange rate to Canadian dollars.
It's probably going to be somewhere in the $60 - $70 range.

I'm going to wait to see if it's in stores at the release date of October 16th.

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No duty between the US & Canada - NAFTA.

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EB games has shipped it to England today. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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If only that were true. North American Free Trade Agreement is subject to tariffs and duties whenever one side feels like it. Take a look at how the US decided to screw Canada over with our US exports, such as lumber and beef recently. NAFTA is meaningless, since it's violated whenever either side wants to. Duties and tariffs are charged all the time when it shouldn't be.

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And has not shipped to Arizona. What the..?

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Arizona... It's like a whole 'nother country. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Curse you, Gamestop/EB Games! The Gamestop in Irving knew NOTHING about SE5, and the EB Games at the Parks Mall where I have SE5 reserved hasn't called.

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Gamestop in Lennox Center
2160 N Coit Rd
Richardson, TX 75080
(972) 699-7711

NE corner of Coit and Campbell
The people there had never heard of it, but found out about it on the computer. They talked very confidently, but I was seriously reserving judgement. It came in though, so something worked right.

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SEV arrived today from Gamestop and was waiting for me when I got home, so I can personally confirm the early release date for EB Gamestopware, Etc. It's now installed, so excuse me if I don't spend any more time on this post.

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Maybe for industrial-scale stuff like that, but I've ordered retail goods from Canada before - including PC software - and never had any duty charged.

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Yeppers, just got mine installed too! v1.00, and it seems to be working fine.

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Damn straight!

Go Wildcats.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I have been looking for it in stores around here but cannot seem to find it. Hell the store employees don't even know what I am talking about. That is depressing to say the least.

NAFTA is evil. A canadian firm sued the US because we banned the chemcial they used to sell to CA oil companies because while it did lower emitions, it also contaminated the water supply. Go figure.

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On Saturday I used the Gamestop web site to check store availability, and of the 20 or so Gamestop or EB stores within 30 miles none had it and only 3 or 4 were showing it "on the way". I called the closest one, and they said that they actually carry very few PC games and only get the ones expected to be big sellers (which pretty much rules out TBS outside the Civ franchise, eh?).

So, I called Gamestop & ordered it with overnight delivery. Shipped UPS overnight yesterday, arrived in town at "zero-dark-thirty" today, and I should have it in hand tonight!

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Just got an email confirmation from Ebgames.com - Its been shipped and should be here in Boston today! Woot!

I called the local ebgames on Friday, they said it was supposed to be in the store that day, but it had not been shipped to them yet, didn't know why.

Oh well, I'll be playing it tonight, so, Woot!

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I hope SE5 is worth it, as i just ordered it from Gamestop for $99.98 (with shipping fees to Brazil), and customs taxes of another another $49.99 in a total of $149.97...

If the brazilian customs works as always, in around 3 or 4 months i will receive the game... by them i hope the patches released make it a better game than the demo...

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Got it...

Useless Parcel Service delivered it to the wrong address & I had to hunt it down in the 'hood.

Making the first edition of my "house rules" mod now.

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Ouch. It will be worth it in the end, though. Keep in mind SE:IV had what, 84 or 92 patches to make it what it is today; I forget what the current version number is.

EDIT: current version is 1.95, so 95 patches...

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I got a call, it will be at GameStop this afternoon. Hurray!! NA Texas location.

This GameStop also said that they carry few computer games. I looked around in the store, but could only find XBox, and other Console type games. I saw no PC ones, let alone an Amiga game.

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Checked the tracking number and mine is on the UPS truck for delivery as I type! I purchased from EBgames on line yesterday with overnight delivery. will be a long day of work.

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The latter is hardly surprising, given that I can't find any mention of a new game release for the Amiga more recent than 2000.

My first two home computers were Amigas.

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95 VERSION numbers, not 95 patches. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif SE5, for example, is up to 1.06 without having a single patch released yet, and I suspect the actual patch will be 1.07 or 1.08.

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you poor fools my first computer was a vic20 and then my mom and dad got me a c64

i had an amiga 500 and a 2000

the best one a had was my 386 with windows 3.11 ah the memorys of THAT @#$%^%^&*(&^%$#@ nice windows 3.11 and SMOOTH it ran http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

and then came windows 95 WOW what fun that was http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
windows 98 better faster (more bugs) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
windows 98SE oooo had that till 3 years ago then I got WINDOWS XP with my new 1.4g computer (the one i'm using now) slaped another 512k in to bring it up to 1g of mem and playing WOW for the last 6 months now.

so theirs my life in a nutshell http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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No doubt because Commodore went out of business in 1994, and the last actual Amiga (as opposed to AmigaOne, which is a PowerPC) was made c. 1996. Not much potential in porting new games to 10-years-in-the-dustbin-of-history platforms.

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http://storefront.steampowered.com/M.../SE5Manual.pdf

The SE5 manual. Enjoy.

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I loved my C64. My dad gave it to me when his employer gave him a lunch box 286. I was the only kid I knew with a computer at college back in those days. I played the heck out of Wizard's Crown, F15 Strike Eagle, and Gunship.

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Wizards Crown:Eternal Dagger was my favorite game on the C64, I stayed up for 3 days straight playing it one time.

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Ah, the C64 - actually mine was a C128, but for games that made it a sort of big footprint C64. Bought mine in 1985 to play F-15 Strike Eagle. Also loved RFTS, Pirates!, Gunship & Empire. Had to step up to a 286 PC to play Battlehawks:1942, so I gave the C128 to my little sister.

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I was playing Colonization last night on my Amiga4000 while waiting for SEV to arrive. There is still a users group here in Dallas. http://www.amigamccc.org/ There are others around as well. I don't have any games for my Amiga One, but I am still hoping. A port of SEV. Hmmmmmm.

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I called and GameStop was unboxing their day's shipment. It has arrived! I went down to the store and picked it up. I came back to the office and was able to install it and see that it will run before lunch was out.

It appears that SEIV Deluxe is on the same disk as SEV. They both can install at the same time. This means it is not just extra disks being sent out, but extra space on the CD being used. The default setup path then does not go through Shrapnel as before. I guess that is the reason.

They got in 3 copies. You can't play just one! Me talking about and ordering it must have helped. Anyone for a road trip to Richardson Tx USA, come on down!