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"There is no pre-load for Empire: Total War. Due to the staggered release times worldwide, preloading is not possible and as such, Empire will begin loading at the time of release. The current release schedules for the game are:
Tuesday, March 3rd - 1800 CET / 1700 GMT / 0900 PST
* North American & Canadian Ship Date
* Steam Authentication Servers activated for North American & Canadian Retail customers.
* Steam Authentication Servers activated for all European and other Worldwide retail and digital download customers.
* Game available for sale and download for European and other Worldwide digital download customers.
Wednesday, March 4th - 1000 CET / 0900 CET / 0100 PST
* Worldwide street date.
* Game available for sale and download for North American & Canadian digital download customers.
In brief, the game will authenticate for customers at 1800 / 1700 / 0900 Tuesday and allow for European players to start playing then. North American and Canadian customers will be able to start playing at 0100 Wednesday.
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-=Cartoon=-
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 08:54 Post subject: |
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is there a reason for staggered release dates around the world ??
:S
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 08:56 Post subject: |
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yes - thay want everyone to be able download it quite smothly - but 24 hrs isnt enough for few thousand ppl downloading ~10 GB game ....
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 09:24 Post subject: |
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Krokis
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 10:05 Post subject: |
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clone is good option for the "preloaders at steam"  they will get it much faster from p2p that from steam afaik ETW sels better that DOW 2 - and is 3-4 times bigger in size
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 10:07 Post subject: |
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| Newty182 wrote: | How longs a piece of string..
This is a piracy forum btw, u don't have to lie and pretend you are going to buy it.  |
I beg to differ.. Theres a line between piracy following a well defined set of rules and piracy no matter what.
Obviously piracy stays piracy no matter how you justify it, but i consider this a kind of honour amongs thieves thing: you keep to a moral standard, even if that standard is in conflict with the currently accepted laws. Thats how i see it. So before the usual copyright evangelists come in here guns blazing, stop even trying to convince me how im a criminal anyway, cuz i'm not. I might be in conflict with the current laws, but laws are just that.. rules that change over time, rules that are changed because they stop being sensible / maintainable.
To make the above clearer: I buy all the games i play, that is play and not just try then throw it away.
Furthermore, laws/rules are / were set by the rich and elite and usually limit what the *poor* or common folk can do. Copyright rules are no exception to that. Trust me when i say: it is very well possible, that the world we live in now will be forced to change well within the span of our lives, because the current system of institutionalized slavery can only go one way on the long run. Uhmm.. i guess i strayed a lil off topic here.
Anyway:
In a world where there would be fully functional limited time trial versions of all software, where digital distribution would be the commonly accepted form of delivery, where DRM would not force you to suck your own d*ck, while sticking your thumb up in your a$$ to play what you paid for.. Well: in that world there would be no demand for pirated versions of games either. No real demand at least.
Anyway.. people do not have to *pretend* they buy games, because they in fact buy the games they like.
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Orion66
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 10:09 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 10:13 Post subject: |
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top of this page - EU can activate it today later - no matter DL or box now steam refuse all activation anyway
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 11:53 Post subject: |
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of boy ... a few more hrs, max 1 day ...... jees, i barely slept last night because all i had in my mind was ETW ))
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mole
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 12:27 Post subject: |
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Empire: Total War (preorder EU) 39,99 EUR
Total 49,99 EUR
Credit card type Visa
Card number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Confirmation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date Confirmed Tue Mar 03 02:58:15 2009
Nice to see the $10 extra, NOT!
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Surray
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 12:29 Post subject: |
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| mole wrote: | Empire: Total War (preorder EU) 39,99 EUR
Total 49,99 EUR
Credit card type Visa
Card number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Confirmation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date Confirmed Tue Mar 03 02:58:15 2009
Nice to see the $10 extra, NOT! |
yeah.. caught me by surprise when I bought Left 4 Dead too.
Pretty lame.
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 12:30 Post subject: |
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| mole wrote: | Empire: Total War (preorder EU) 39,99 EUR
Total 49,99 EUR
Credit card type Visa
Card number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Confirmation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date Confirmed Tue Mar 03 02:58:15 2009
Nice to see the $10 extra, NOT! |
Why did you get charged an extra 10 quid?
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dsergei
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mole
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 12:34 Post subject: |
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| gingerninjaaaaaa wrote: | | mole wrote: | Empire: Total War (preorder EU) 39,99 EUR
Total 49,99 EUR
Credit card type Visa
Card number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Confirmation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date Confirmed Tue Mar 03 02:58:15 2009
Nice to see the $10 extra, NOT! |
Why did you get charged an extra 10 quid? |
Baleur wrote this thread on STEAM forums :
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=814437
EDIT: I was in a GAME shop today and they want 50.06 EUR for it, strange to see that STEAM is cheaper
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 12:36 Post subject: |
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| mole wrote: | Empire: Total War (preorder EU) 39,99 EUR
Total 49,99 EUR
Credit card type Visa
Card number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Confirmation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date Confirmed Tue Mar 03 02:58:15 2009
Nice to see the $10 extra, NOT! |
http://img6.imageshack.us/my.php?image=43469817.jpg 49.99 it was from the beginning
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mole
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mole
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 12:55 Post subject: |
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| mole wrote: | | gingerninjaaaaaa wrote: | | mole wrote: | Empire: Total War (preorder EU) 39,99 EUR
Total 49,99 EUR
Credit card type Visa
Card number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Confirmation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date Confirmed Tue Mar 03 02:58:15 2009
Nice to see the $10 extra, NOT! |
Why did you get charged an extra 10 quid? |
Baleur wrote this thread on STEAM forums :
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=814437
EDIT: I was in a GAME shop today and they want 50.06 EUR for it, strange to see that STEAM is cheaper |
50 euros????Flmao, tell them to suck youre sagy ball sack.
I paid 23 quid(which is a good price) from
http://www.thehut.com/hut/home.dept
About 30 euros.
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dsergei
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 12:56 Post subject: |
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What if a post on Steam forum says that the moon is made of cheese? How is using a proxy different from going to the US and buying something with your account? How will Valve "find out"? And why would they ban you?
Use the gift trick to be safe?
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mole
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 13:05 Post subject: |
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Well since I paid for the game on STEAM Im stuck with this setup but now you other guys from Euroland know what to do, buy from store or from STEAM
41.41€ is the cheapest" BIG STORE" price Ive found
37.09€ is the cheapest mailorder Ive found
Sweden
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 13:09 Post subject: |
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buy store - you wont get it from steam fast ;/ dont support this shitty platform and enjoy all goodies from box version
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Baleur
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 13:16 Post subject: |
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| gingerninjaaaaaa wrote: | | mole wrote: | Empire: Total War (preorder EU) 39,99 EUR
Total 49,99 EUR
Credit card type Visa
Card number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Confirmation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date Confirmed Tue Mar 03 02:58:15 2009
Nice to see the $10 extra, NOT! |
Why did you get charged an extra 10 quid? |
Because they are fucking scammers, thats why. Yet there is nothing we can do. Nothing the "little man" can do. We cant sue them, nothing would happen. Sue for 10 bucks? Their big corporate lawyers would pwn us.
Again and again the corps keep raping us with their avoidance of simple laws, yet piracy is considered a crime, while Steam isnt even though they charge more than the game costs? And you cant even talk about it on the forums without risk of being banned 
Sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship, doesnt it? But oh wait this is the internets, there are no laws here, even for real stores.
Fight the power! \o7
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 RAM: 4gb Kingmax DDR2 800mhz Video: Asus GeForce 250GTS 1gb Sound: Asus Xonar.
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mole
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| Posted: Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 13:18 Post subject: |
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On the STEAM ETW page it says:
"Förköp i dag och få Rome Total War Gold Edition utan extra kostnad."
means: preorder today and get Rome Total War Edition for free
My bill didnt mention anything about RTW and I cant see the game on my STEAM games page
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