ChessBoxer 36 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Don't games usually go Gold like 2-3 weeks out from the release date? If it has gone Gold please enlighten me but this kind of worries me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigOlBrain Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Don't games usually go Gold like 2-3 weeks out from the release date? If it has gone Gold please enlighten me but this kind of worries me. ← Good question. But I think they only need about a week after gold to get it on the shelves. Could be wrong but Bethesda did it that fast with Morrowind from what I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPSIXDELTA Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 yeah its a pretty quick turn around.i woud say that the game has either gone gold in the last day or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W1ngsh0t Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 It would make me feel better to see an Official "Gone Gold" announcement ... March 8th is less than two weeks away and I am not getting a warmfuzzy feeling yet ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMC Maggot Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Don't games usually go Gold like 2-3 weeks out from the release date? If it has gone Gold please enlighten me but this kind of worries me. ← I was wondering the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysander Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 someone posted this as a review copy of ghosts, is this gold? http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10008669xn.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigOlBrain Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 someone posted this as a review copy of ghosts, is this gold? http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=10008669xn.jpg ← Where did they post it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lysander Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 (edited) I don`t know for original source, it could be fake. Edited February 24, 2006 by Lysander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W1ngsh0t Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 "Priint Review" and "Review Build" don't sound GOld to me ... but I am just guessing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Bad news, our usual source for gold info is now offline. Gonegold.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigOlBrain Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Bad news, our usual source for gold info is now offline. Gonegold.com ← That was a good site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiolab Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 why 2 disks one for multi and the other for single player its gotta be fake right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB Crush Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Excuse me, did I miss something? Isn't the "launch" date now the 17th? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPSIXDELTA Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 (edited) Excuse me, did I miss something? Isn't the "launch" date now the 17th? ← ubi razz, i believe on the ubi forums, stated that yes the xbox version is pushed to the 17th, but that the xbox360 version is still on for the 9th [Text Fixed - Please dont post in ALL CAPS] oops. sorry about that, didnt even notice i posted all caps. thanks for fixing, wont happen again. Edited February 24, 2006 by OPSIXDELTA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingotnw Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 The UK version and america X-Box versions slipped. The american 360 version is still the 9th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clum-Z-Boy Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 (edited) "Priint Review" and "Review Build" don't sound GOld to me ... but I am just guessing. ← I may be wrong, but "Review Builds" are the discs some priviledged gaming magazines get when a company wants extra publicity for their game, and they let magazines review the game before it ships, hoping for a good score. Thus, the discs don't have any of the official packaging or labels. Of course, the guy could've very easily just printed the lables and stuck 'em onto some blank CD. Edited February 24, 2006 by Clum-Z-Boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sup Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 It's not gold yet, they'll tell us when it is. This doesn't foretell a delay, though. Games go gold very close to release all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 It's not gold yet, they'll tell us when it is. This doesn't foretell a delay, though. Games go gold very close to release all the time. ← Actually, Ubisoft and some other companies have a bad habit to announce that a game has gone gold sometimes weeks after it really has. This is done more for PR reasons: i.e. it's sounds better for a press announcement to say "the game has gone gold and will be on store shelves next week" than "the game has gone gold master and will be out in 3-4 weeks. I don't claim that what's below is entirely accurate, as I'm not a game developer, but it'll give you an idea of how "gone gold" announcements aren't really that important. For console games, e.g. for the Xbox/360, a gold master has to get approved by Microsoft before it can get pressed. Then it has to be packaged and shipped to stores. This process actually takes weeks. If Microsoft rejects the gold master because of bugs etc, then the developer has to tweak it and resubmit. So it's not in the best interests of the PR dept to tell you the game has gone gold until after the initial batch of discs are pressed, packaged and sitting in trucks to be distributed. Generally speaking as far as I know, a game typically goes gold master a month before it hits store shelves. That's why you often see a patch on release day for PC games. So for all we know, both GRAW console and PC have already gone gold master, but Ubi PR will not want to tell you yet. In the end, what really counts is when you see the game on the store shelf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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