[Tim Brooks]

Now I'm thoroughly confused! On the one hand the game has gone gold, and on the other it hasn't? Or just hasn't been announced? (why wouldn't you announce that?)

Becuase we are not gold. Who told you the game has gone gold?

GOLD: The sending of ALL production pieces to duplication.

We have to have final cd and manual cover art, the final manual with editing and proofreading, game code in CD production format, additions for Shrapnel tie ins to CD and manual, paper buys/ CD buys completed, shrinkwrapping purchased and scheduled, and probably a few more things I don't even know about... Then this all has to go on its merry way to 3 different vendors. Once they receive the pieces they schedule production (cd is one vendor, manual is three vendors in and of itself: cover, guts, and binding - and then the shrinkwrapper, of course) and give us 'completed by' dates. We then determine how to have this shipped back to shrinkwrapping for assembly and wrapping (ground, overnight, etc). Then the final product comes to us, is inventoried, coded, and sent to fulfillment. Here it is shelved, and entered into inventory. Now we are ready to ship...

As you can see it is a process. On a positive note, we received the gold candidate cd yesterday, it will be tested and made ready for stamping today. And should head out to the duplicator tomorrow, barring any troubles. However, the manaul we don't have yet but should have it today, and it still has to go through proofing, editing and additions. Sometimes this takes a day or two and sometimes a week. Once the manual ships, we announce gold as all pieces are in place for production.

[ October 22, 2003, 08:58: Message edited by: Tim Brooks ]