First Dutch (p)review found

[Oranje]

If you want to practice your reading skills in Dutch: have a look.
http://www.gamespot.nl/Preview.cfm?id=126&kind=pc

The game gets a pretty good judgement.
It's a reasonable review, although also somewhat inaccurate, but certainly has no negative impact.

People interested in the genre, would certainly look for more info if they read it.

I'm afraid I have no idea whether this site has a large hitrate.

greetings, Oranje

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Common sense is the set of prejudices acquired at age eighteen.
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Woohoo, the more press the better!!

 

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Sorry to disappoint you, but the dutch preview is a translation of the english preview which can be found on www.gamespot.com ;
however it is a site which contains many hits
So perhaps some dutch (P)reviewers will notice it and starts some (P)reviewing of there own.

Duke Egmond

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Finally after all these Swedish and German reviews a non-English review that I can actually read (slowly admittedly ).

 

[Oranje]

Sorry guys,

Just wrote an email message to the dutch publisher asking them if they could maybe put just a tiny little bit of effort into marketing their product.
Sofar, their own website is absolutely dead (hasn't changed in about 6 months) and there's still not a single online shop in Holland where you can order the game, it's a little surrealistic.

Any way, here goes, in dutch (should be ok if you read afrikaans as well, Great Me )

Hallo,

Zoals U ongetwijfeld weet (maar de rest van Nederland helaas nog steeds niet) komt over een week of 2 EU uit in Nederland.

Waarom is er nog nergens iets van te vinden op Nederlandse sites?
De enige (p)review die ik tot nu toe gevonden heb is die bij gamespot.nl , maar dat is gewoon een vertaling van de Engelse site met dezelfde naam.

Niet één online shop biedt een pre-order mogelijkheid aan, terwijl dat gebruikelijk al een paar maanden tevoren kan voor andere titels.

Zelfs op uw eigen site staat helemaal niks, die is al minstens een half jaar zo dood als een pier.
Ik zou toch denken dat een beetje marketing niet verkeerd zou zijn, maar kennelijk lukt dat niet zo erg tot nu toe.

Misschien een idee om op korte termijn (morgen of zo?) minstens een berichtje op uw site te zetten.

Een Nederlands forum zal wel teveel gevraagd zijn, maar een link naar de officiële website lijkt me toch wel het minste.

Volgens mij verkijkt U zich op de potentie voor dit spel.
Mijn eigen website, die aan EU gewijd is, trok in de goed 2 weken dat ie
online is, al meer dan 5.000 bezoekers, zelfs zonder te zijn aangemeld bij de grote search-engines, en ondanks een volslagen gebrek aan publiciteit voor het spel.

Snap er niets van, zijn er überhaupt review versies naar de grote gamesites en -magazines gestuurd? Heb ook nog niet één advertentie gezien tot nu toe.

Nou ja, ben benieuwd of ik een reactie krijg.

vriendelijke groet, Paul Vermaas
P.S. een link naar mijn site mag U ook wel opnemen.


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greetings, Oranje
Link to my EU fanpage, includes a FAQ section

Common sense is the set of prejudices acquired at age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

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[Oranje]

They answered my email, wow!
in dutch ofcourse, and I won't put you through reading anymore language you can't understand by posting it here.

Essentially they apologize for the somewhat messy release effort sofar, said that review copies will be sent to magazines and game sites this week.
A couple of big advertisements will be placed in gaming magazines.
They're working on a new website,

Most surprizing news is that the game will be sold at a rather low price.
Don't know if that makes me happy though.



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greetings, Oranje
Link to my EU fanpage, includes a FAQ section

Common sense is the set of prejudices acquired at age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

 

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Hello Oranje,

any news about Belgium in their answer ?
I didn't find anything until now.


Hoogachtend,
Crusader

 

[KRonn]

Quote from Oranje:
'Most surprizing news is that the game will be sold at a rather low price.
Don't know if that makes me happy though.'

Hmm, How much is it being sold for? Maybe I'll fly to Holland if it means saving a few dollars!

 

[Oranje]

Crusader,

Sorry, no, and I forgot to ask.
you can always drop them an email yourself ofcourse, at vincent@hdinteractive.nl

KRonn, just 22,70 Euro, or a little over 21 US$. Probably to compensate for the high gasoline prices over here?

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greetings, Oranje
Link to my EU fanpage, includes a FAQ section

Common sense is the set of prejudices acquired at age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

 

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Well I hope the marketing of this game will be really well; allthough the cheap price doesn't comfort me alot.

(it is reminding me of a2 racer :eek

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To rule is to look forward
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Probably to compensate for the high gasoline prices over here?

No it is to decrease copying of the game.

But we will get more players because this.

 

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Personally I believe making software cheaper isn't making copying less likely, because there will always be copying, because it always remains cheaper, it doesn't matter how much cheaper. Secondly the profits will go down for Paradox, for I believe it doesn't stimulate sales to such an account that the price reduction will be overcome, so it is a bad judgement

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To rule is to look forward
-Some Latin guy-