The game will likely be released in accordance with the following calculation.
Y=201x
Y=release year
X=random number greater than 5 and less than 10.
Y=201x
Y=release year
X=random number greater than 5 and less than 10.
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After HoI3 and the outcry caused by its numerous bugs, paradox put their act together and adopted a policy of releasing games more or less playable from day 1. I hope that they will remain true to this policy, even if that means that we will keep drooling on this forum for another year.
However changing your announcement policy doesn't make us forget the announcements already out there and i really wish that when you realized that you have still much work to do on the project somewhere around march or april, you could have shown a bit more finesse in your communications.
Like a lot of others around here, I am patiently waiting for release, whenever that occurs.
However, my ability to wait patiently is affected by my need for more scraps from Podcat's table - screen shots, more info - ANYTHING and OFTEN.
You see, the last game I bought and played (and I am still playing) is HOI3. That game has left me unable to play much else as other games just don't attract my attention or desires like they once did. Paradox has ruined my life.
I now find myself floating from 1 day to the next, checking the forum several times a day, searching for any bit of new information or a tasty screenshot or two.
I just can't help it, I keep telling myself I can handle it, but I am deluding myself. Just one more look on the forum there might be something, just one more look before bedtime...
Heart racing, I log on, and if there is a post from Podcat, or Dark Renown, then the excitement flows, but then, the hammer blow as you realise it is just a small text reply, rather than a juicy screen shot or 2.
Downwards goes my morale, sleepless nights follow, the depressing situation almost too much to cope with. Then as I awake in the morning, there is a chance, just a small chance, that there is something on the forum, that maybe Podcat could not sleep and felt compelled to post some juicy screenshot. I race through to breakfast, fire up the laptop and log on...only to go through the whole cycle of disappointment all over again.
For the sake of my sanity, my health, my marriage, my relationship with my children and my friends, please before I lose it all, just one more screenshot before bedtime....I can handle it..
It will not be out this year. Alpha has been approved, but there is at least six months + holidays before we can have the earliest possible release.
When we have a fixed date, we'll tell you.
We haven't given any new release date except for "when its done" for now. We shouldnt have annouanced the project so early, and in the future you wont see paradox titles announced before alpha.
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6 or more months of my forum addiction, I might go MAD, what am I to do......I can't take it anymore..
My wife or HOI what is to be, one I get immense pleasure out of, the other is my wife.
You can help save this poor soul from it's torment, more screenshots, animations, even a little video or two.
I promise, that will see me through, just a regular dose of screenies, I can manage then.
It will not be out this year. Alpha has been approved, but there is at least six months + holidays before we can have the earliest possible release.
When we have a fixed date, we'll tell you.
Congratulations to all of the team on getting the Alpha approved.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Now we move forward. Stop the bitching about what happened with announcing the game too early, and enjoy the more regular DDs and info from the youtubers and other media that get given access to the game.
btw. I almost dropped my cup on that wife remark
To all who have HoI3 TFH and have burned out playing it for whatever reason checkout some of the great mods. Be careful they can be addicting.Once I was like you, but I have discovered BlackIce mod in the subforums a few weeks ago, and consider myself a recovering hall-wanderer.
Now we move forward. Stop the bitching about what happened with announcing the game too early, and enjoy the more regular DDs and info from the youtubers and other media that get given access to the game.
It will not be out this year. Alpha has been approved, but there is at least six months + holidays before we can have the earliest possible release.
When we have a fixed date, we'll tell you.