Renting the game for a year from D2D is not my cup of tea, this have been delayed so long it will be on sale soon anyway, might as well wait a little longer I guess ...

zaidman007 Wrote:

WolfDK1984 Wrote:

Gen.Armando Wrote:http://www.direct2drive.com/8468/product...3-Download

Direct2drive seems to have it

There is the magic mention

This product is available for purchase worldwide.

EDIT: Keep your ear for now

It works for Denmark.. installing now...;-)

Wooohoo Downloading with 35MB/S

100% positive ? no shit ? plz reply quickly !

No shit.. Look your self: Cliky

quite unclear , but i can finally put my hands on Tropico 3 (and also found out i had a credit card with 50 in it attached to the account )

Happy to see you will finally get to play the game because, trust me, it Is good

zaidman007 Wrote:quite unclear , but i can finally put my hands on Tropico 3 (and also found out i had a credit card with 50 in it attached to the account )

Unclear???

Its a Shrinked Image.. just clik it;-)

WolfDK1984 Wrote:

zaidman007 Wrote:quite unclear , but i can finally put my hands on Tropico 3 (and also found out i had a credit card with 50 in it attached to the account )

Unclear???

Its a Shrinked Image.. just clik it;-)

i know , just you can put the cp of you as background for the download , to be 100% sure . anyway , im buying it now ! :-)

This is bull****.

Where is this a problem? In the UK? It's available on Steam in the US.

Dan Wrote:Where is this a problem? In the UK? It's available on Steam in the US.

What about everywhere else in the world. Why are you withholding it from the Australians and the New Zealander's and everyone else? Or is the only important thing that the Americans have it?

TheLastRifle Wrote:

Dan Wrote:Where is this a problem? In the UK? It's available on Steam in the US.

What about everywhere else in the world. Why are you withholding it from the Australians and the New Zealander's and everyone else? Or is the only important thing that the Americans have it?

I'm asking so I can find out where we need to address this problem.

Naturally we want to make it convenient for people to play this game, and if there's an error on Steam that's putting negative attention on Kalypso Media and costing us sales, we want to fix the issue right away (regardless of who is to blame.)

TheLastRifle Wrote:

Dan Wrote:Where is this a problem? In the UK? It's available on Steam in the US.

What about everywhere else in the world. Why are you withholding it from the Australians and the New Zealander's and everyone else? Or is the only important thing that the Americans have it?

7 min til i can play woohoo im so excited...

Installing now;-) Cliky

Dan , I dont know when you got aware to this situation, but im very pissed off at Steam/Kalypso for making me think it will be released today and then it bounced to 13th Nov now .
The problem is anywhere which isnt US/Germany.
I know you lost my sale for now , lets see if you can fix it with steam and win my sale again

Dan Wrote:

TheLastRifle Wrote:

Dan Wrote:Where is this a problem? In the UK? It's available on Steam in the US.

What about everywhere else in the world. Why are you withholding it from the Australians and the New Zealander's and everyone else? Or is the only important thing that the Americans have it?

I'm asking so I can find out where we need to address this problem.

Naturally we want to make it convenient for people to play this game, and if there's an error on Steam that's putting negative attention on Kalypso Media and costing us sales, we want to fix the issue right away (regardless of who is to blame.)

STEAM had the international released plugged as today, all of us woke up (or waited up all night if you're me) and found it had been pushed back to the 14th of November.

Word is that Kalypso have pushed back the release date to the 14th so that STEAM can't release it. This is more than a tad annoying as it has happened before AND US and German customers have been playing the game for almost a month.

Why are you withholding it from the rest of the world? Whatever kind of strange sales decision this is, is it worth all the refunds and bad press that is coming of this?

You say "Naturally we want to make it convenient for people to play this game" and I'm not trying to be rude here but I'm finding that very hard to believe considering everything that has gone on regarding the release of this game. I laid down $50AUD a month ago expecting to be able to play it on day one and this is for me (and many others) the final straw.

Confirming that in Denmark Steam has pushed the game back 1 week.

Hi,

I am in the UK, and i am also affected by the issue with steam (although i shouldn't be surprised as everywhere else has the release date as the 13th) but it was the lack of updates until AFTER the release time that has got to me and put a bad light on Steam and also a bad first experience with Kalypso.

Very tempted not to get it at all now and just to stick to good old Tropico 1 where i know i wont be disappointed!

Don't know how country-specific this is, but the release date has changed to the 14th in Israel too.
I demand explanations.

AvihooI Wrote:Don't know how country-specific this is, but the release date has changed to the 14th in Israel too.
I demand explanations.

Im from Israel too and it changed to the Nov 13th , not 14th

Unfortunately I am not in a position to elaborate on this issue, but I have brought this to the attention of the people who can give you an appropriate response, and they should be online to address this problem soon.

Dan Wrote:Unfortunately I am not in a position to elaborate on this issue, but I have brought this to the attention of the people who can give you an appropriate response, and they should be online to address this problem soon.

By any chance would it be that the wrong release date was put onto steam as everywhere else seemed to have the 13th lol

zaidman007 Wrote:

AvihooI Wrote:Don't know how country-specific this is, but the release date has changed to the 14th in Israel too.
I demand explanations.

Im from Israel too and it changed to the Nov 13th , not 14th

Yeah you're right... 13th, I guess it's a time-zone thing.

I dont know about your public relations but i suggest that you will bring them as quickly as possible if you dont want it to get worse

Kalypso, work fast to sort this out, for everyone (apart from those in the US and Germany) who bought your awesome game from Steam have been misled into buying Tropico 3 after it stated the release date was today Nov 6, then after the release time pasted a new release date which matches retail stores has been put in its place, leaving many gamers angry at seemingly being lied and misled into buying the game from Steam in the hopes of playing it earlier. The forum on Steam is filled with angry gamers, angry at Steam and Kalypso (possibly incorrectly at Kalypso) people are filing refund requests, you are loosing money. People are asking the questions, what has happened and why no explanation?

Dan Wrote:Unfortunately I am not in a position to elaborate on this issue, but I have brought this to the attention of the people who can give you an appropriate response, and they should be online to address this problem soon.

I suggest that these 'people' better come bearing explanations if kalypso is looking at avoiding further fallout.

At any rate, thank YOU Dan for responding to our concerns and calling people to come and resolve the current dilemma.

We can only hope that the rest of your company begins to understand the benefits of working and communicating with their community and not against it.

Dan Wrote:Unfortunately I am not in a position to elaborate on this issue, but I have brought this to the attention of the people who can give you an appropriate response, and they should be online to address this problem soon.

This is a very political answer, I think people here want accurate straight and honest answers. It's after all a question of time and money - which some of your customers may not have one of either or both. And most importantly, release dates are your choosing - considering the game has been released in Germany and North-America, there's abosultely no technical reason why it shouldn't be released elsewhere. The only other reason that comes to my mind is profit - but this change in release dates is a violation of agreements which has a certain financial value.

Yep, the game was first moved from the "comming soon" tab to the "new releases" tab, this was done at the time of release as stated on the store page weeks in advance.
Then it was moved back to "comming soon", and a 5 hour release delay was added.
And then 30 minutes later the full week delay was added to the store page.
That is just not acceptable at all.

Chembola Wrote:

Dan Wrote:Unfortunately I am not in a position to elaborate on this issue, but I have brought this to the attention of the people who can give you an appropriate response, and they should be online to address this problem soon.

By any chance would it be that the wrong release date was put onto steam as everywhere else seemed to have the 13th lol

I doubt it.
http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=2533
Heres an official response from Timo during the last release setback uproar saying the release date for Australia and the UK was intended for the 6th. So Steam said the 6th, Kalypso said the 6th, now it's the 7th both are saying the 13/14th? Uncool.

Here is steams official response:

"Unfortunately, the date listed on the Steam Storefront page was incorrect. We have changed it to the November 13th date at this time which is the official release date.

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

If you wish to refund your pre-purchase of this game, please create a support ticket and we will assist you in this matter."

TheLastRifle Wrote:

Dan Wrote:Unfortunately I am not in a position to elaborate on this issue, but I have brought this to the attention of the people who can give you an appropriate response, and they should be online to address this problem soon.

I suggest that these 'people' better come bearing explanations if kalypso is looking at avoiding further fallout.

At any rate, thank YOU Dan for responding to our concerns and calling people to come and resolve the current dilemma.

We can only hope that the rest of your company begins to understand the benefits of working and communicating with their community and not against it.

One of the problems is that this issue flared up on the forum just recently. Most of the KM staff are out of the office (since they work in Europe.) As a result, I cannot guarantee that anyone will be on to answer your questions in immediate future.

As redundant as this must sound- we really appreciate your patience, and this issue will be addressed asap.

responce from Value on the Steam forum

"Unfortunately, the date listed on the Steam Storefront page was incorrect. We have changed it to the November 13th date at this time which is the official release date.

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

If you wish to refund your pre-purchase of this game, please create a support ticket and we will assist you in this matter."

Yeap they are going to released it next week....that sucks