[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by goodman

I ordered it in January, it was supposed to release in April, this better be one hellacious game for all the waiting they have made us do. But, that being said, i have a feeling it will be...

Was Janurary an offical date though? sounds more like a generic fictional E-Tailer release date based on speculation rather than offical announcements

Its all a bit silly getting annoyed at companies for not releasing their games on time though. Even those of us who've preordered titles have entered into no financial agreement - if they never release the game, we'll be refunded our money as if nothing ever happened. They have no obligation to us to release games, its just in their financial interest. There is no rational reason why we should get annoyed because they're holding the game back to finish it off and released a polished product. Release dates are rarely concrete even when they're offical, and should never be taken as a strict "right, X game is going to drop through my post-box on XX/XX/XXXX". Thats not to say it doesn't annoy me that I can't play Doom III and Half-Life 2 this very second... but at least they have perfectly legit reasons for holding the release back. Now... holding back the European release of Deus Ex 2 was just criminal: not only did UK gamers have to needlessly wait 3 months for the game to be "localised" into a language we already spoke, but the mound of bug-fixes the put into what ammounted to a terrible, terrible game meant that the North Americans who got the game were effectively unpaid Beta testers. Hell... Deus Ex 2 just makes me... mad, mad mad!