Deep Silver and Egosoft announce X Superbox

enenra · Post by **enenra** » Wed, 3. Nov 10, 20:47

softweir wrote:
Locki wrote:I bought the superbox through Steam ... but the serial number given by them was for X3TC ... so I've got now 2 X3TC serials on my egosoft profile and no superbox. I'm really very disappointed by Steam.
You get the same effect when you buy a boxed Superbox, which makes me think it is a forum problem, not necessarily a Steam problem.

The Superbox is registered correctly, it's just that regular users don't see it show up as a registered Superbox yet - there isn't an unique symbol for it, either right now.

kadiir · Post by **kadiir** » Sat, 6. Nov 10, 00:29

vladk wrote:Just got my copy (I'm in Canada, ordered from UK).

Interesting - I just tried to order it from the US and ship it to a relative in Canada and I was denied

GeminiFire · Post by **GeminiFire** » Wed, 10. Nov 10, 23:05

Eureka!!!

My SB arrived today, after a long multi-stop journey. The box is in fair condition, but not bad enough for me to try to get it back to Amazon UK.

For those trying to get a copy to America:
1) Amazon UK has these but will not ship them outside of the UK, so one must engage an agent to forward it. (worked for me, but took 3 weeks and will end up double price. (with extra money to my "agent" for her troubles)).

2) Also, it appears that a couple for British Gamers are selling these on Ebay and shipping international. They are charging base price and shipping seems reasonable.

3) Lastly, to order a german version from Egosoft (with English discs), and download an english copy of the encyclopaedia (per ES).

I am looking forward to exploring my new goodies tonight...

Yipppeee...

GF

Progress-M · Post by **Progress-M** » Wed, 10. Nov 10, 23:14

Grats! Long wait over hehe

kadiir · Post by **kadiir** » Thu, 11. Nov 10, 00:35

GeminiFire wrote:2) Also, it appears that a couple for British Gamers are selling these on Ebay and shipping international. They are charging base price and shipping seems reasonable.

Hmm, they either sold out or it's the one that doesn't ship across the Atlantic. Ah, well, at least I was able to buy the Steam version.

Kapakio · Post by **Kapakio** » Thu, 11. Nov 10, 01:27

GeminiFire wrote:1) Amazon UK has these but will not ship them outside of the UK, so one must engage an agent to forward it. (worked for me, but took 3 weeks and will end up double price. (with extra money to my "agent" for her troubles))

Not completely true. Amazon UK will ship to most of European countries, but unfortunately not to US

BeidAmmikon · Post by **BeidAmmikon** » Thu, 11. Nov 10, 18:48

I've bought the Superbox in the UK (if it matters). Thanks to Egosoft for including my Screenshot Blender and two poems in it.

Now then. In the folder
"Tools/English" I see 7 weird files:
Asteroid Seeker, Exscriptor, MK3 Trading Log, Savegame Manager, X3 Model Viewer, X3 Ships Database, X Universe Wizard.
All of them are 0 bytes in size, they have no extension, and their description is "File". The Properties menu won't open at right-click on any of them, and double-click doesn't open any of them.
What's (wrong) with these files?

kadiir · Post by **kadiir** » Thu, 11. Nov 10, 19:40

Weird.

On my Steam install all of those except for X3 Ships Database are directories (the database is an Excel (xls) file).

\Steam\steamapps\common\x-superbox bonus\Tools\English

Asteroid Seeker by exogenisis
Exscriptor by Whimsy
MK3 Trading Log by SymTec ltd
Savegame Manager by mrbadger
X Universe Wizard by Orca42
X3 Model Viewer by exogenisis
Xadrian Complex Calculator by kayahr
X-PicBlender by BeidAmmikon
X3 Ships Database v2_0 by V2200.xls

BeidAmmikon · Post by **BeidAmmikon** » Thu, 11. Nov 10, 19:53

Dammit, something was wrong with the DVD then - I re-inserted it and now I see those "files" as directories instead, and can open them

Weird.

Zaldar · Post by **Zaldar** » Fri, 12. Nov 10, 23:44

So I bought it from steam and my god I wish my other games had as pretty openings. THANK YOU for not neglecting this part. Even the first game the opening is better and much more mood setting than many new games out now. I just hope I can get the throttle on my joystick to work with it correctly... (check out my post on that please).

The boxed copy does that come with the encyclopedia in an actual book??? I didn't think any companies were still doing things like that...sorry if that has been answered all ready don't have time to read through 29 pages. If that is true I will buy the box again keep the manuals and such but give the games away...

vukica · Post by **vukica** » Sat, 13. Nov 10, 04:02

Zaldar wrote:So I bought it from steam and my god I wish my other games had as pretty openings. THANK YOU for not neglecting this part. Even the first game the opening is better and much more mood setting than many new games out now. I just hope I can get the throttle on my joystick to work with it correctly... (check out my post on that please).

The boxed copy does that come with the encyclopedia in an actual book??? I didn't think any companies were still doing things like that...sorry if that has been answered all ready don't have time to read through 29 pages. If that is true I will buy the box again keep the manuals and such but give the games away...

Yeah, the boxed version comes with printed x-ecyclopedia. It even says it may be expanded in the future so you can actualy add new pages in the book.

And it's a pretty nice box indeed. Some would say it's a...

...wait for it...

... Superbox!!!

Zaldar · Post by **Zaldar** » Sat, 13. Nov 10, 23:24

does this superbox come with printed manuals and might it explain why I can't get the throttle on my extreme 3d pro to register...?

vukica · Post by **vukica** » Sun, 14. Nov 10, 00:19

There are pdf manuals in the download section. I don't know anything about throttle issues. Try troubleshooting section or something.

Hemmingfish · Post by **Hemmingfish** » Sun, 14. Nov 10, 06:38

I picked up the X Superbox here in Australia about a week ago. I love the bonus stuff, especially the music.

In other news, this means I finally have X3 =D

Zaldar · Post by **Zaldar** » Sun, 14. Nov 10, 20:35

Hemmingfish wrote:I picked up the X Superbox here in Australia about a week ago. I love the bonus stuff, especially the music.

In other news, this means I finally have X3 =D

I have post been up long time now it seems with no responses sigh...

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Sun, 14. Nov 10, 20:41

If you have a problem with one of the Superbox games you would be better off asking in the relevant Tech Support forum.

wooaa · Post by **wooaa** » Tue, 16. Nov 10, 23:11

i bought the superbox off of steem, but i cant get the enciclopedia. i regesterd my copy of TC. do i need to run it first? when i go do the download section of the site, it sais i have not regesterd the nessesary game to download the enciclopedea.

Post by **CBJ** » Tue, 16. Nov 10, 23:51

Try logging out of the site and back in again, and make sure you visit the downloads page after you've logged in.

wooaa · Post by **wooaa** » Wed, 17. Nov 10, 00:29

tried. no dice.

wooaa · Post by **wooaa** » Wed, 17. Nov 10, 00:42

by doing some diggin on the STEAM forms, i found out that the coad nessisary was in the TOOLS section. why in all that the xenon hate would that be there, so out of place that it takes a guy 5 hours to find it. but it is downloading now so if noting else goes worng i will have a good 300 page book to read.

egosoft.com

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Deep Silver and Egosoft announce X Superbox

I may have to buy this twice

Re: I may have to buy this twice

heh