Rebirth release date. - Part 2

Shootist · Post by **Shootist** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 14:25

Len5 wrote:Let's see how quickly we get to 100 pages again.

For the love of God, why?

shea · Post by **shea** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 14:29

This is what i got from Sainsbury's

Thank you for your email about the X rebirth item and your request for information about the release date.

I have now investigated this matter and can confirm that all the information we have on our web site about the release date of this item is accurate at the time of writing. We have received no indication that this release will be delayed in anyway. I trust that this clarifies matters for you.

I would like to thank you for taking the time to contact us and we hope to see you online again soon. For further assistance you may call us on 0800 328 1700 and one of my colleagues would be happy to help.

eladan · Post by **eladan** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 14:42

shea wrote:We have received no indication that this release will be delayed in anyway. I trust that this clarifies matters for you.

The support process:

Support person 1: "Anyone know anything about whether the release date for Rebirth is accurate?"
Support person 2: <Shrug>
Support person 3: "Dunno. Haven't heard that it's not."
SP1: "So, it hasn't been delayed?"
SP2: <Shrug>
SP3: "Nobody's told me if there's been a delay."
SP1: "Good enough. I'll tell him that we have received no indication that it has been delayed in any way."
SP2: <Shrug>
SP3: "Sure, whatever. Never heard of Rebirth anyway."

In other words, as has been mentioned before, nobody knows when it will be released. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 16:16

Cycrow wrote:ssshh. dont tell them about the EgoBox, its supposed to be a surprise

I thought that was the Ex-Box... but you never know with these working titles.

Post by **Cycrow** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 16:51

Gazz wrote:
Cycrow wrote:ssshh. dont tell them about the EgoBox, its supposed to be a surprise
I thought that was the Ex-Box... but you never know with these working titles.

i guess u didn't get the memo about the name change

Toramo · Post by **Toramo** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 18:01

Cycrow wrote:
Gazz wrote:
elexis wrote:CBJ means that one day we might get a console that is actually good.
It could also mean that secretly a console is being developed specifically to play X games. I'm not saying that this would be very likely but if you're making up conspiracy theories, you should at least create interesting ones. =)
ssshh. dont tell them about the EgoBox, its supposed to be a surprise

Is it me or moderators are trolling this thread !
I understand why it is so easy to reach 100 Pages

Hum ... Euh ... and so, is it possible to plug a keyboard and a mouse on this new console ?

@shea : hey we found a new sherlock holmes here

thank you for the information anyway !

@eladan : you made my day ^^

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 18:40

How do you troll something that is basically a Marco Polo game?
There are no great insights to be gained from playing it. You just do it.

Besides, "Gazz" is the name of the troll I played for many years in some MMO. It stuck so trolling is hard to avoid now!

Fallent · Post by **Fallent** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 22:54

CBJ wrote:
delray wrote:It's not 2013, is it?
We're still on track for a release this year.

That terrifies me. 2013 still has a looooong way to go

Nikola515 · Post by **Nikola515** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 23:14

Is the game planned to be released before or after december(if everything goes ok without any setbacks)

I probably won't get an answer but is worth to ask

Fallent · Post by **Fallent** » Wed, 27. Feb 13, 23:53

Nikola515 wrote:Is the game planned to be released before or after december(if everything goes ok without any setbacks)

I probably won't get an answer but is worth to ask

CBJ said this on the previous page,

"I can tell you that, as with all other retailer release dates you may see at the moment, that is wild guesswork rather than insider information. Remember that retailers just want you to place a pre-order, and that in general asking people to place pre-orders for something without at least some kind of placeholder date doesn't work terribly well."

That was in responce to a December release date question. My interpretation of that is X:R will be released sometime this year before December.

Hope others got the same impression because that's a hell of a long time away!

Nikola515 · Post by **Nikola515** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 00:22

I hope it's before that but the way are things now it's not going to be any time soon....We dont't even know if game can run at all...Or what stage of development it is on....And plus game marketing thing....It might be 6 or 7 month all together

They might release it on christmas

Anyway if game is almost done or close to being done I think deepsilver would give them permission to give us some info on it to start advertising a little before release

Unles they are planning to have advertising commercials on every major tv station or internet page(highly unlikely with their budget)...
I'm not asking becuse someone guessed release date to pre order game it's because i personally believe that it's going to take that long....
And I hope I'm wrong

Sorry bad English

Fallent · Post by **Fallent** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 01:15

From the lastest Newsletter just before Christmas.

"Everybody on the team is looking forward immensely to the release, but we can't yet give you an exact date. We can only beg our fans to please be patient for a little while longer. - Bernd"

"patient for a little while longer" sort of gives me hope for an April release date and way before end of the year.

Nikola515 · Post by **Nikola515** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 01:55

Me too but if it's going to take that long to get game done i don't care as long as it's worth of waiting

I just don't want it do end up like Duke Nukem

As long as we know that game will come out soon and not soon(like one year or two later) im ok with that

Voyadjyer · Post by **Voyadjyer** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 04:40

let's be honest with each other. egosoft can move release in any moment for another year without any shame, as it did twice. that's why they do not give us a release date, to avoid any obligation. was in 2011, was 2012, now 2013, and I am afraid will be 2014. we can not believe the promises egosoft, because they do not even tell what stage is the development of the game. it is quite possible that they are now the engine sawed. a scenario, the sound, the story only on paper. and before the release can go a many many years

theeclownbroze · Post by **theeclownbroze** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 05:48

nah rebirth will have either a release at the start of the summer holidays (late may - early june or july) or showcase the hell out of rebirth at either E3 or gamescom and then release the game After that.

when CBJ said that they were changing the release date to 2013 he said that due to added work they had to delay

when rebirth was announced the game was already in its beta, or at least looked like it considering the player ship and all the assets we saw in the game were already there, the highway lanes were already working, it seems the A.I was beautiful and path finding was worked around by making NPC's "on rails" when near very large space stations to avoid collisions imo the graphics where already up to standards or beyond it!, 2012 was a year of imo heavy closed beta testing and more adding/ subtracting of assets, by august they were doing all the voice acting e.g co-pilot yisha, they also had a crap ton of voice localisations that had to be done English/German/ and other languages maby? they maby even completely redesigned the "1 playership" only model, probs deepsilver made them do so coz they think it wouldn't sell well after most of the customers did not like it?

idk, does it cost money to showcase your games at game expo's such as E3, pax and gamescom?

Fallent · Post by **Fallent** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 06:19

June/July release date?

After Gamescon in August?

I obviously hope not and it's alot sooner. Since X:R is PC only and the next Generation consoles come out at the end of the year, I would of thought they would want it released before they lose alot of sales to them.

LTerSlash · Post by **LTerSlash** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 08:41

CBJ wrote:
delray wrote:It's not 2013, is it?
We're still on track for a release this year.

CBJ you know what is the problem? something is odd, for a release this year:

1) No one even knowns what is X:R outside this forum, there are more people crying for FS3 now that Deep Silver owns Volition, while all those understands what X games are, but very few of those does know what X:R is...

2) Still No Steam page

3) No videos aside from that short teaser 2 years ago.

I can understand that no release date or details about the develoment process could be given, but the marketing department is really failling here, the media blackout must stop, for a 2013 release the information is already overdue it takes time to "roll the word" around internet and on this genere the process is slower.

Freespace 2 had a similar media blackout while is was on develoment, it ended as one of the best games in the genere, but still failed because of it.

So yeah, im corcerned.

elexis · Post by **elexis** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 08:55

1) Part1: Not surprising, given that there has been delays in production since the original announcement and that DeepSilver has no interest in a marketing campaign at this time (I would hazard a guess that the game will reach closed beta before marketing starts) Part2: Do you have proof to back that up?

2) So?

3) See 1.

Post by **Cycrow** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 10:07

LTerSlash wrote: 1) No one even knowns what is X:R outside this forum, there are more people crying for FS3 now that Deep Silver owns Volition, while all those understands what X games are, but very few of those does know what X:R is...

same was true for X-BTF, X2, X3 Reunion, X3TC, and X3AP
people not interested in the genre simply dont know, nor care about games like this

also no one, even on this forum knew about X3AP a week before it was released

LTerSlash wrote: 2) Still No Steam page

Steam pages dont usually go up until theres a confirmed release date and close to release, there are a few execptions, but these are mainly just the big name games.
Many games only get a steampage once they are released.

LTerSlash wrote: 3) No videos aside from that short teaser 2 years ago.

This was no different from the other games, marketing for X3TC didn't come out until close to the release date. X3AP happened a week before it was released

Voyadjyer · Post by **Voyadjyer** » Thu, 28. Feb 13, 10:34

advertising campaign is not running because the product of advertising is not ready. usually begin to campaign for half a year before release. from here can be seen that the game we will see not soon.

egosoft.com

egosoft.com

Rebirth release date. - Part 2