Englishmen!

[Earl Uhtred]

I don't know about the rest of you but I'm not willing to wait however many months for VIC to start appearing in British shops. Now many of us ordered HoI through a shop in London and got it within two days of the American release for a very reasonable price - payable by D/D, which was nice cos I refuse to have a credit card. Only problem is that I've forgotten the name of this establishment. Anyone help?

 

[unmerged(11593)]

snuggs,

are u sure this wasnt stategic plus? i remember people goin to pick HoI up at there offices. I have preordered with them by creditcard, not sure about dd tho.

I have their phone number if u want to give them a bell.......

02089778088

 

[Earl Uhtred]

Originally posted by DAVEH
snuggs,
are u sure this wasnt stategic plus? i remember people goin to pick HoI up at there offices. I have preordered with them by creditcard, not sure about dd tho.
I have their phone number if u want to give them a bell.......
02089778088

Fantastic, that's the one, thanks mate

They took D/D for HoI and delivered, bless 'em.

EDIT: SE Durham eh? We belong to the same bishop Jarrow here.

 

[unmerged(11593)]

we may have the same bishop, mate.. but i think it possible our football colours are different

back on strategic plus, iirc one of their lads posted on the hoi forum to tell us when our copies were dispatched and to welcome people in the area to pick copies up.... very rare level of customer service in the age of call centres and answerphones.........

 

[unmerged(8394)]

I was able to get HoI through "Game" on day of release. So I expect Victoria will be the same

 

[unmerged(11593)]

LS

was this the uk version tho? we refer to getting the us version sent over, which i think will be out a few months before the uk version.

 

[Earl Uhtred]

That's right, I'll always remember the day HoI arrived - Nov 30 - because I'd moved house only the day before Koch must have lost a fortune by not releasing it until this spring.

 

[Havard]

Originally posted by snuggs
Koch must have lost a fortune by not releasing it until this spring.

Which is kinda strange, seeing there's no translation and stuff...

 

[unmerged(8394)]

it was the UK version. But surely there going to release it same time!

 

[stnylan]

Originally posted by LordSutty
it was the UK version. But surely there going to release it same time!

HoI was published in the US 5-6 months earlier than in the UK iirc, so don't bet on it. Not that Paradox can actually do too much about that, if the publisher they 'pick/persuade' to publish the game in country xyz decides to wait. Leastways, as I understand the situation.

Edit: reworked the point slightly to make it clearer.

 

[Havard]

Originally posted by stnylan
HoI was published in the US 5-6 months earlier than in the UK iirc, so don't bet on it. Not that Paradox can actually do too much about that, if the publisher they 'pick/persuade' to publish the game in country xyz decides to wait. Leastways, as I understand the situation.

The publisher decides the release date, yes..

(and they surely doesn't work together...)

 

[Richard Hakluyt]

It all seems rather 20th century to me

Anyway, my advice is to use the strategic plus people. They will charge £41, but that doesn't really matter.

 

[Sparrow]

I'm just waiting for the day games go gold and I can then download it from the website instead of waiting a month for the box.

 

[valisk]

It all seems rather 20th century to me

Yes, and highly bloody inconvenient, Paradox should offer a full download from their site, like the Championship Manager download that I see advertised on Yahoo sport from time to time. That way I don't have to burn with frustration waiting to get at their games.

 

[BiggN]

"I'm just waiting for the day games go gold and I can then download it from the website instead of waiting a month for the box."

Here, Here!
Paradox I beg of you to cancel your publishing thing with those guys and sell the game yourself ... online ... you will probably make as much if not more money and we will love having the game for what? a few days already!

.... I can dream that they would listen to me and do this can't I?.....

-BiggN

 

[unmerged(5934)]

Gentlemen, you sohuld be ashamed. In the future, as long as you are in Victoria's fora you will refer to yourselves exclusively as 'Britons'.