TWI's view on what a beta is has never changed.

And now we enter my favorite time of month, the "Tripwire doesn't care about us" time of month that rolls around pretty much every month, brought to us usually by the same core group.

You know that "time of the month" has come around for these people by the following posts:

1) Why are there no screen shots (looks at all tripwire social media and forum announcement section....)

2) Why don't we have a release date? (Because as we've stated multiple times, we aren't ready to make that announcement yet beyond 2011. But yes, we have one firmly planned out)

3) Why can't I be a beta tester (If you have to ask, then you probably won't make it into any phase of the beta other than phase 3 which is the large closed beta with thousands of keys)

4) Why aren't their any videos of you playing!?!?!?!?!?! (Because we don't test the game in cooked builds with all the graphics turned to high very often as it takes days to get that set up where the team would rather be working on making the game. The same goes for screen shots. We take those every time we do a cooked build and release them over time so there is a fairly steady stream of media)

Thank you for taking this opportunity to learn something about your fellow forum users who experience "that time of the month". Please be considerate of them and point them towards the answer they are looking for (found in multiple locations, but this post now has all of them in one!).

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/s ... stcount=41

Confirmation that they do have an internal date firmly set and a nice truthful jab at the trailers and media we've been watching lately from other games.

They are feeling the pressures of gamers not getting the news that they want and obviously feeling the pressures of other games coming out this year.

I still think they would be better off releasing this game in qtr 1 or 2. They would have a lot less competition the first part of the year instead of going up against EA and Activision this fall.

Who cares. EA and Craptivision will turn out the typical featureless swill they always do. It's more than sales numbers, it's about quality. The fact that Blops broke sales records should prove the troubling state of the world's education systems.

Seriously though, I doubt "pressure" from the mighty EA and Activision has little to do with the post. They are probably just having a little fun. I like those guys because they have balls of steel and they don't give a f*** about what the big guys have to say about it.

Its rather that they are getting somewhat fed up of getting the same posts every time there is some silence before the storm. TWI will very likely bring out some new info and material over at GDC, meaning that they are saving up on info and news in the period before GDC.

Anyway its more likely that RO will release in late spring than in the fall/winter. Personally I'm expecting the game to release in may or june (although July the 19th makes sense as that is the start of the battle of Stalingrad).

Normally releasing a game just before the summer holidays is not the most ideal as people would spend their money on their vacation. But for a lot of people these days the summer holidays are one of the few moments when people actually have time to play games. You could see that steam noticed this by monitoring player activity and resulted in doing the summer sale campaign last year.

Just before the summer holidays there generally aren't a lot of big company title releases, which is advantageous for a game like RO, as even with their ramped up marketing budget they cannot go against EA and Activision in terms of marketing. A late spring early summer release should keep RO:HOS at plenty of space from BF3 and COD8.

The summer often coincides with the release of new video card hardware, perhaps allowing for HOS to become bundled with some video cards. Its clear that HOS will lose potential sales if they release in fall/winter, but if they release in late spring/summer things should be pretty OK.

(Note personally I do not think that releasing in Fall/Winter is dangerous because the other games are better, but rather that the marketing won't be able to reach people, resulting in the game becoming overlooked).

Completely agree i hate that time of year i have lodes f free time but yet no new games to play

Is there anymore JG kool-aid left?

TRTL...go flamebait on some other forums...stop polluting here at Bash

TRTL, you know, there is a thing these days called, "If you don't have anything good to say or contribute to a conversation, it is best that you don't say it".

Not hard, very simple.


/end-lecture

Sorry, I take my comment back. Just get a kick out of these guys. Nothing personal, it's just a game. Have fun.

TRTL you go on about people using double standards all the time yet u say HOS will be bad but you seem to know BF3 will be good. I saw this statement as combating people who can't separate the Indie dev's from the main stream devs. They also can't separate HOS's marketing techniques from main stream techniques it is a pity they have to do this for these people they should just leave them to wallow in their trolling but i suppose you need all the sales you can get