**EMPIRE TOTAL WAR**

i love steam, but ive decided not to purchase through it because;

a) £45 for the Special edition : £10 more than a boxed
b) No Pre-Load
c) It will take a night to download the game if it is approx 14-15gigs in size

i shall relax with a few beers and play some DoW II skirmish tonight then stroll to the shops and purchase a 'hard-copy'
 
The lot from Jersey have certainly got their act together - ordered Monday morning, arrived today! How many hours?!
 
RobPot said:
The lot from Jersey have certainly got their act together - ordered Monday morning, arrived today! How many hours?!
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Really? I used to well up with a tears a bit when I seen "jersey retailer" in the dispatch emails :)

Just screwed my order by forgetting to update my payment details on big A to my new card... instead of a dispatch email I just got a revise order one QQ
 
just had a look in the high street shops for this....seems to be still on pre-order status. Supermarkets seems to be selling it though although i'm not sure if they sell the special forces edition as well...anyone know?
 
Yep...been reading the forums and it appears that if you bought the game instead of downloading you cant activate and play until tomorrow. Darn. Wish I had read that first, would have bought the download one instead
 
Would make sense if Retail activation was not untill ACTUAL release day.

There has to be some "Carrot" to pre-order on STEAM :)

You buy retail, you get the best of both worlds as you still activate it on your STEAM account.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Would make sense if Retail activation was not untill ACTUAL release day.

There has to be some "Carrot" to pre-order on STEAM :)

You buy retail, you get the best of both worlds as you still activate it on your STEAM account.
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Yeah, its just a pity that the box is sitting there on my desk now tempting me, but I cant play it until tomorrow :D
 
Hahaha...check this out for bizarre.

Here is the activation details for the US.

If you have purchased Empire as a digital download...You will be able to activate your digital copy and play Empire on Wednesday 4th March from 10:00 CET / 01:00 PST.

If you have purchased a boxed copy...You will be able to activate your boxed copy and play Empire on Tuesday 3rd March from 18:00 CET / 09:00 PST.
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And here are the details for europe

If you have purchased Empire as a digital download...You will be able to activate your digital copy and play Empire on Tuesday 3rd March from 18:00 CET / 09:00 PST.

If you have purchased a boxed copy...You will be able to activate your boxed copy of Empire and play on Wednesday 4th March
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Sooooo...allowing for timezones, it appears that our boxed copies will be activated at Midnight tonight.
 
Here we go, this clears things up. Thats ok then :D



They changed it abit last night in a press statement. Here's the full statement:

"There is no pre-load for Empire: Total War. Due to the staggered release times worldwide, preloading is not possible and as such, Empire will begin loading at the time of release. The current release schedules for the game are:

Tuesday, March 3rd - 1800 CET / 1700 GMT / 0900 PST
* North American & Canadian Ship Date
* Steam Authentication Servers activated for North American & Canadian Retail customers.
* Steam Authentication Servers activated for all European and other Worldwide retail and digital download customers.
* Game available for sale and download for European and other Worldwide digital download customers.

Wednesday, March 4th - 1000 CET / 0900 CET / 0100 PST
* Worldwide street date.
* Game available for sale and download for North American & Canadian digital download customers.

In brief, the game will authenticate for customers at 1800 / 1700 / 0900 Tuesday and allow for European players to start playing then. North American and Canadian customers will be able to start playing at 0100 Wednesday.
 
Just bought the Special Edition for 27.91 delivered - the cheapest I could find from any online retailer. Haven't played the demo yet as I don't want to spoil things. Just have to finish Fallout 3 now to make time for it!
 
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