Everything has been said and there's only so much point in spectulation. I
think we can all wait another week and a half.
The best hope we all have for a July 28th release is that this date has been
promoted just about everywhere, including Autosport magazine in big letters
on a competition page.
Such marketing will attract the more casual sim racer, who most likely won't
be using this newsgroup to keep in touch with the current situation. To
these people a date is a date and if they see a launch day published, that's
the one they'll all pick to go to EB, Game, ***, HMV or wherever.
The long and short of all this is that, having so blatently promoted July
28th as European launch day, Hasbro/Microprose are going to have massive
amounts of egg on their face if they fail to meet the deadline.
You can bet that, if the game isn't yet finished, there are some bleary eyed
guys and gals in that development team.
This has to be everyone's best reassurance that the date will be honoured.
But then I seem to remember kids in EB with tears in their eyes because
Donkey Kong or whatever failed to make it on time as promised and
publicised.
At the end of the day, a sim with this potential doesn't come along every
year, so we may just have to be patient.
As a bit of preventive medicine, I'm currently spending a good deal of
available sim time developing my racing technique (or lack thereof) in GPL -
this game's so deep that I can immerse myself in it if there are any GP3
delays.
Just think though. After all this hype what if it all turned out to be less
than the total package we all expect? Surely not...
The best hope we all have for a July 28th release is that this date has been
promoted just about everywhere, including Autosport magazine in big letters
on a competition page.
Such marketing will attract the more casual sim racer, who most likely won't
be using this newsgroup to keep in touch with the current situation. To
these people a date is a date and if they see a launch day published, that's
the one they'll all pick to go to EB, Game, ***, HMV or wherever.
The long and short of all this is that, having so blatently promoted July
28th as European launch day, Hasbro/Microprose are going to have massive
amounts of egg on their face if they fail to meet the deadline.
You can bet that, if the game isn't yet finished, there are some bleary eyed
guys and gals in that development team.
This has to be everyone's best reassurance that the date will be honoured.
But then I seem to remember kids in EB with tears in their eyes because
Donkey Kong or whatever failed to make it on time as promised and
publicised.
At the end of the day, a sim with this potential doesn't come along every
year, so we may just have to be patient.
As a bit of preventive medicine, I'm currently spending a good deal of
available sim time developing my racing technique (or lack thereof) in GPL -
this game's so deep that I can immerse myself in it if there are any GP3
delays.
Just think though. After all this hype what if it all turned out to be less
than the total package we all expect? Surely not...
Stephen