Damn GP2

Why is it that the Germans have got GP2 before the British. No offence to the Germans, they are cool people, but they beat England in Euro 96 and now they have got GP2 before us!!! God help Microprose, they are a mainly UK company and they decide to bring the game out in another country first, WHY??? Maybe John Wallace may have the answer to this question Andrew Easter

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>>Why is it that the Germans have got GP2 before the British. No offence >>to the Germans, they are cool people, but they beat England in Euro 96 >>and now they have got GP2 before us!!! God help Microprose, they are a >>mainly UK company and they decide to bring the game out in another >>country first, WHY??? >>Maybe John Wallace may have the answer to this question >> Andrew Easter >I think Andrew has solved the mystery. >In Euro 96, the trophy was the release of F1GP2. >Thank God Brazil was not at Euro 96, hehehe.....

... and to further support my theory, they have now given the next release to the winner of the British GP, Canada. If my theory is correct the next country to get it should be Mexico due to the winner of the Toronto Indy !!! Maybe you guys in the UK and the US will win some gold medals in the Olympics in the next couple of weeks and be rewarded with the release of F1GP2 !!!!! Tony Borges Toronto, Ontario

: :>God help Microprose, they are a :>mainly UK company and they decide to bring the game out in another :>country first, WHY??? :> :>Maybe John Wallace may have the answer to this question : :Believe it or not, Germany was the biggest and most loyal customer for :F1GP. Simply taking care of previous customers seems to be the reason :(although it may be to do with a deal with German distributors). : :Whatever it may be, one thing that it certainly is - history. There's no :point in complaining about it now, and I'm not going to lose any sleep :over it. It'd be great to have the shrink-wrap of GP2 now, but it's only :three more days (two now!). We've waited for (heck, is it THAT :long??!?), we can wait for two days. : Oh, that's easy for you to say, you've been playing the beta, moan, gripe, complain. :Cheers! :John : :PS - If anyone has got this far and is about to hit their reply button :and say "Oh, that's easy for you to say, you've been playing the beta, :moan, gripe, complain", well, you're too predictable ;) : Ken

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> Why is it that the Germans have got GP2 before the British. No offence > to the Germans, they are cool people, but they beat England in Euro 96 > and now they have got GP2 before us!!! God help Microprose, they are a > mainly UK company and they decide to bring the game out in another > country first, WHY??? > Maybe John Wallace may have the answer to this question > Andrew Easter

Hi! Its because they consider Germany their biggest market. They sell more games there as a single country than anywhere else.. TT

> Believe it or not, Germany was the biggest and most loyal customer for > F1GP. Simply taking care of previous customers seems to be the reason > (although it may be to do with a deal with German distributors). Biggest market in Europe, too. Heard some rumors that 'official german distributor' won't ship until thursday. There seems to be some other distribution channel for the 'Karstadt' markets (and some other software shops). Hey, its us who loose sleep ... :-))) Just try to relax two more days - the weekend will be quite hard for you. In Germany, all of us is playing the nights away durin' a normal working week. Stefan ---

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>Why is it that the Germans have got GP2 before the British. No offence >to the Germans, they are cool people, but they beat England in Euro 96 >and now they have got GP2 before us!!! God help Microprose, they are a >mainly UK company and they decide to bring the game out in another >country first, WHY??? >Maybe John Wallace may have the answer to this question > Andrew Easter

I think Andrew has solved the mystery. In Euro 96, the trophy was the release of F1GP2. Thank God Brazil was not at Euro 96, hehehe..... Tony Borges LGA/EWR Area Manager, West Wind Airlines http://www.interlog.com/~tborges/tborges.html Toronto, Ontario

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>... and to further support my theory, they have now given the next release to >the winner of the British GP, Canada. >If my theory is correct the next country to get it should be Mexico due to the >winner of the Toronto Indy !!! >Maybe you guys in the UK and the US will win some gold medals in the Olympics >in the next couple of weeks and be rewarded with the release of F1GP2 !!!!! >Tony Borges >Toronto, Ontario

Tony, Nope. If we are using that criteria to release the product, then us Yanks will be seeing GPII around the year 2000. P.

Believe it or not, Germany was the biggest and most loyal customer for F1GP. Simply taking care of previous customers seems to be the reason (although it may be to do with a deal with German distributors). Whatever it may be, one thing that it certainly is - history. There's no point in complaining about it now, and I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. It'd be great to have the shrink-wrap of GP2 now, but it's only three more days (two now!). We've waited for (heck, is it THAT long??!?), we can wait for two days. Cheers! John PS - If anyone has got this far and is about to hit their reply button and say "Oh, that's easy for you to say, you've been playing the beta, moan, gripe, complain", well, you're too predictable ;) _________________________________ __ _____| |_____ __ ________| |__| :| John Wallace | |__| |________ \ :| |::| :| Team WW Racing TSW | |::| | / > :| |::| :|_________________________________| |::| | < / :|__|::|____/ * Sim Racing News * \____|::|__| \ /______:/ \::/ http://sneezy.dcn.ed.ac.uk/simnews/index.htm \::/ \._____\ http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~harmon/simnews

> ... and to further support my theory, they have now given the next release to > the winner of the British GP, Canada. > If my theory is correct the next country to get it should be Mexico due to the > winner of the Toronto Indy !!! I can tell you that your theory isn't correct. Today (july 18th) GP2 is available in the Netherlands! Erik