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The funny thing is that to a degree Blood Bowl, and the whole GW catalogue of miniature games, is BORN for RMT. Their tabletops requires you to spend real money on improvements for your team.
The GW MMO would be the first MMO where every character starts off either grey or white and every colour costs a $1 to use. Someone needs to take a speeded up blood bowl concept (like 15-30 min games)
This is the important bit. I played BB matches that lasted 4 hours. I'm not really looking to recreate that experience online.
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Falconeer
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That's not the case with this videogame. Half that time, take away some more, and you'll be closer to the real thing. And there are ways to force speedups in leagues without maiming the 100% original formula.
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I'm sure that if this doesn't suck I'll be able to get together at least 4 people from RL for a league, hopefully more. Then I can contact the two game stores I have history with from when i was younger and have them put up a 3x5 asking for players/league to join. Plus f13 before everyone /quits? Should be pretty damn fun. Games need to be 2hrs or less though, or I guess you could play one half per night.
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HaemishM
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Games are about 1- 1 1/2 hours long.
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Aez
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Hoping for a f13 league.
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Modern Angel
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So what's the deal with the release of this? It's remarkably opaque... or my headache is preventing me from seeing it easily. The best I could see is that a digital download release is sometime in June with the box coming out later?
Also: absolutely no Starforce. That is confirmed.
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Prospero
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Sounds about right. The publisher sucks at getting information out. Astorax rants on a regular basis about their evils. Apparently no Steam release either, which makes me
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HaemishM
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No Steam release? FUCK.
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Prospero
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I just poked around a bit, and they have released games on Steam before. Methinks they will do what Samwise suggested when we were chatting about it last week; milk all the money they can out of their own download site, and then make it broadly available.
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I just want the 360 for pretty solo play, and the DS for Dwarf Shenanigans on the go. The Stunty Doctors will live again! And if Lizardmen are finally interesting, Dinobots United.
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Hoax
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This is the most hyped I've been about a game in quite some time.
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Modern Angel
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This is the most hyped I've been about a game in quite some time.
Same. I saw a 6/18 release for the digital. Is that confirmed?
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Falconeer
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Hype hype hype wantz wantz wantz. Release date, it says a lot that the only Amazon featuring it is the French one (developer is French). You can't find it on Amazon.co.uk or Play.com either. So, maybe june 18th will be France stores and download only for everyone else, but right now I'd say it is confirmed.
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From what I can glean from their website the physical release will be in france on the 18th and that day world wide digital release will occur as well. If you want the 360 version or physical PC version that should be out in the US in early september.
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Falconeer
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Preorder up (Digital download only). Get it there and play crush right away on the 26th of this month. Remember the f13 league. I am tempted of putting up prizes, you know? As in stuff you win and I send straight to your place... mmmmm...
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Xeyi
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The UK download price is £40 I'm interested in this but I'll wait until the boxed version comes out, it'll be almost half the price. I don't think I've ever avoided buying a game purely because of the price before, but then I've never seen a PC game priced this high before either.
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Ingmar
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The UK download price is £40 I'm interested in this but I'll wait until the boxed version comes out, it'll be almost half the price. I don't think I've ever avoided buying a game purely because of the price before, but then I've never seen a PC game priced this high before either. Maybe they let the GW minis guys set the download price.
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Hayduke
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No Steam release? FUCK.
edit- nevermind.
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« Last Edit: July 04, 2009, 06:56:03 PM by Hayduke »
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I'll wait for the Steam or Boxed version.
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schild
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Tell me about the resolution situation.
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Tell me about the copy protection situation.
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Modern Angel
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Some form of SecuROM on the boxed version, Steam and other releases in September. Resolution dunno. Bought mine for a flat 49.99 and I would say if you saw the price change try it again; it looks like they were having some issues with exchange rates or something which was changing the prices in the lead up to pre-order/release but those seem to be sorted.
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schild
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September? Meh. Too much stuff coming out around then. Shame.
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Xeyi
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Bought mine for a flat 49.99 and I would say if you saw the price change try it again; it looks like they were having some issues with exchange rates or something which was changing the prices in the lead up to pre-order/release but those seem to be sorted.
It's still £39.99 here, which is something like $66.
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Modern Angel
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That has to be with VAT. If you're in Europe, you get charged VAT. My condolences.
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Xeyi
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Yes it is with VAT but so is every other game, and every other game is cheaper (with the possible exception of the EA store ) However I'm sure they've calculated that they will make more money from the high price than they will lose from borderline interested people like me, who may be put off.
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Falconeer
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Blood Bowl is live, and beyond cool.
Resolution, I don't know what to say: my monitor is a CRT and doesn't support 1920 res, but the option is there in the dropdown menu.
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Modern Angel
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It's honestly everything I ever wanted. You know how we're always like "oh, if only a GW game would come out that's just the tabletop game in a computer so I don't need to buy miniatures" and all that? Yeah, this is that game.
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Jain Zar
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Has the 360 version come out yet?
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Falconeer
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Totally agree with Modern Angel. I keep saying that this is just perfect if you are into Blood Bowl. Can't wait to play with it someday and see if the realtime thing is even remotely fun, but honestly I don't have the slightest interest in it.
So, f13 League wise, how many are getting it now? I have a feeling that it will be much easier to try something like that on September, with the major international release, but if we are even only 5 or 6 it might be fun to do a trial run.
Who got it? Account name please, so we can friend-up in game. I am Falconeer there.
P.S: It's download only for now, and honestly I know nothing about copy protection. I can I tell if there's Starforce/SecuROM/ScrewYou or not?
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schild
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I'd pick it up if they'd just released on Steam and I had the money. Seriously though, they're going to be limiting their customer base with this silly crap.
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Modern Angel
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So wait until September.
No really silly copy protection stuff that I can see. There's a supposed limit on time for your download link in your email before it expires but they've stated that you can get another when it does via a quick email. Or burn the .bins you received. Some people got worked up over it but meh... European companies are obsessed with doing weird shit like that and Cyanide are good people. Trackmania's version irritated me more and it pales in comparison to Spore's nonsense.
Download was flawless once I got my email and I went at abou 1.8MB/s from across the ocean.
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Der Helm
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Who got it? Account name please, so we can friend-up in game. I am Falconeer there.
Just bought the pre-order today. I know almost nothing about Blood Bowl, but this looks like fun. Have not created anything accountlike yet, will do once I get home. Is it downloadable right now or does that start at midnight ?
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Modern Angel
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You can download and play immediately. I've been playing since last night.
Viator here. Add me.
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Der Helm
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So, what is that timer that is counting down on the pre-order page for then ?
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