Rise of Rome Released Delayed

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:45 pm

Basically as soon as I can get someone from Digital River to put the file live it will be released!

Lupus · Post by **Lupus** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:48 pm

Sounds good. Thx for the good work

BTW, another question. On the screenshot of the army list, the Illyrians are listed. Does this mean, you put it into RoR, because the feature list says otherwise...

Zonso · Post by **Zonso** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:51 pm

iainmcneil wrote:Put it this way - if you want to pre-order you better do it very very soon!

Only down side is we've not got the LOS changes or AI upgrades in yet. We spent all week polishing the core features so the team are going to work on those over the weekend. The good news is its look very cool

LOS changes and AI upgrades were core features to the expansion for me as well. The poll you conducted was split down the middle regards releasing early or not and I'm assuming most of those wanting it early jumped on the beta opportunity anyways. I pre-ordered in large part because of the above promised features. It seems extremely odd to me that those are not considered 'core' features in the expansion now and we are expected to get them in a patch? Color me cynical I guess.

Scutarii · Post by **Scutarii** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:09 pm

Dont like wait an extra week to find after this THE SAME SITUATION no LOS and no IA improvements important features in the release until today when arent important and dont affect the release... i see that delay the expansion was inecesary because we see the expansion and the patch to expansion, next time dont take me (dont talk for other members) as a fool.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:10 pm

It wont delay when you get those features, we are just releasing what we have already complete to this who wanted it.

It is not what we wanted but we also did not want to make those who wanted the digital army generator (the core feature) from getting their hands on it. Ideally it would all have been done in January - that was the planned release date! The problem with games is you have to keep iterating until its fun & balanced - its not an application where things can be left just good enough. Good enough is not good enough in a game. People only play them for fun. The team have worked frantically for 6 weeks to get it all done and I think you'll be very happy

Paisley · Post by **Paisley** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:15 pm

i see that delay the expansion was inecesary

The delay in the expansion was clearly necessary because the 'core' product was not in fact ready for release last week.

Scutarii · Post by **Scutarii** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:18 pm

The problem is that i vote for delay the expansion to have ALL IN ONE FILE, dont like have the expansion of the expansion and when somebody have a release date is for the FULL game with ALL features announced and i think that after people accept a delay isnt elegant release the game in the same form that was not accept one week before, for me this is another Beta not the full release sorry but is my point of view.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:27 pm

Everyone is entitled to their view - but the quality of everything in the game is finished, not beta, so I disagree with you 100%, but that's ok

Paisley · Post by **Paisley** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:28 pm

Well I'd rather have had everything in one bundle too. But that's clearly not going to happen now. But it's still a better situation than we'd have got if an 'unpolished' army builder had been released last week.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:33 pm

We would never release if it was not ready. Last week we underestimated the number of small polish tasks and overran. We certainly had no plans to release until the features in the game were polished.

Paisley · Post by **Paisley** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:39 pm

That's what I thought. But I think the fact you're going ahead with just the army builder now has created some confusion in people's minds as up til now I think everyone assumed the delay was because of the AI/LOS rather than tweaking the core. I'm not unhappy but I would have preferred an update on what the delay was in an ideal world (but I do realise you have better things to do than hang around posting on forums all day).

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:02 pm

Just for the severely confused, i.e. me, will I see anything released this weekend?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:10 pm

To clarify :

Rise of Rome is releasing today at 7pm.
LOS & AI changes will be added later
The reason we did not release last week was because the core digital army generator & MP games had minor issues we wanted to sort out before release.

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:10 pm

Go to the news section, release will be 7pm GMT

There is alsp patch 1.1 released as well

petergarnett · Post by **petergarnett** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:13 pm

Thanks for the prompt reply - now how do I get the kids & my wife out of doors by 7PM !!!

Paisley · Post by **Paisley** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:15 pm

Is there not a local slaver you could sell them to? Pay for the new release and make a profit to put toward future releases.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:21 pm

FYI - If you are getting Rise of Rome you do nto need the patch - it will include everything.

SRW1962 · Post by **SRW1962** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:46 pm

You know I am as anxious as anyone to get my hands on Rise of Rome, I have all sorts of plans for campaigns etc. with my mate as we play against each other on my pc (with a 40" screen no less. it looks as good as real figures!). But I do accept that these things can't be rushed and I don't see the point of anyone giving Iain a 'hard time' over this. If not for him and his team we would not even have the game anyway, so despite my 'need' to have the expansion I don't think its fair to complain because of the slight delay we have had to put up with, it is a quality product and absolutely one of a kind.

Having said that, if it wasn't so popular and downright addictive, people wouldn't crave it so much, so I guess Iain you should feel flattered that people care so much as to complain about a delay or two.

Amenophis · Post by **Amenophis** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:46 pm

hi,

on your startpage, ROR is available now, but i still get no email for my prepaid preordered ROR. release ist at 7om - what is that in german timezone?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:11 pm

Just 45 more minutes to wait!