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[Mar 23, 2011, 09:45 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - No Oceans- Call For Worldwide Release Dates.
Crysis 2 comes out today! And Lego Star Wars III! Hooray! Except of course, only if you drawl your vowels. These two big games are out in America only today. Crysis 2 reaches Australia on Thursday, and the finally completes its journey to Europe by Friday. Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is taking a three day journey to Europe to reach us by Friday, before then walking to Australia to eventually be released eight days after its US launch. We’ve had enough.

No Oceans is RPS’s campaign to have the UK release day for games changed to Tuesday, to come into line with North America. Which will be a lot of work. It means convincing retail to change their delivery days, and reschedule their systems. But we think it’s worth it, both for them and for customers. Here’s why.

Games On Net - The Killer Inside.
Killing is bad, or at least heinous. Most of us would be sick at the prospect of actually having to plot and enact a murder, provided it wasn’t that chick who ‘sings’ Friday. But the list of homicides you’ve committed in the name of gaming numbers in the countless, and the amount of times you’ve stopped to consider the form of said entertainment? Possibly zero. Why? It’s fun, you think nothing of it. Friend of a friend of mine works the big guns for a certain country’s Special Forces. One time he took a video on his phone of 155mm shells scattering a village full of insurgents – and, possibly, some civilians – to the four winds. It’s awful. He cringes every time he clicks ‘play’ on it. But he can still enjoy a game approximating something very similar to that reality. Visibly gets off on it, just like the rest of us. The Romans sank under the weight of similar appetites; we just have the technology to actualise them without physically feeding Gaulish slaves to lions (although some might argue that reality television is a perilously close modern equivalent).

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Mar 23, 2011, 17:43

Hyatus

spindoctor wrote on Mar 23, 2011, 16:15: The logistics are not as complicated as you might think. Assassins Creed Brotherhood was available in Europe last week (around Thursday) while it only became available in North America this Tuesday. Do you think Ubisoft had to turn the world upside down to be able to do this? There are also games which manage simultaneous world wide releases too (look at Blizzard or the Call of Duty games). Ubisoft couldn't even manage a PC release simultaneously with their other console releases. Sure, they all can manage a simultaneous release, but who's to say they aren't delaying people in the US from getting it while they wait for Australia to get on board? There is reasoning behind the delays. It would make no sense if there wasn't. Times have changed, and all RPS is asking is that the industry change with them. I have no doubts that it will fail spectacularly, but you cannot argue that what they are asking for is wrong in this day and age. I'm not arguing that asking for a simultaneous release is wrong, but that there's no reason anyone should be complaining about a week delay.

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Comment [quote="Hyatus"Mar 23, 2011, 17:43][quote="spindoctor"Mar 23, 2011, 16:15] The logistics are not as complicated as you might think. Assassins Creed Brotherhood was available in Europe last week (around Thursday) while it only became available in North America this Tuesday. Do you think Ubisoft had to turn the world upside down to be able to do this? There are also games which manage simultaneous world wide releases too (look at Blizzard or the Call of Duty games). [/quote] Ubisoft couldn't even manage a PC release simultaneously with their other console releases. Sure, they all can manage a simultaneous release, but who's to say they aren't delaying people in the US from getting it while they wait for Australia to get on board? There is reasoning behind the delays. It would make no sense if there wasn't. [quote] Times have changed, and all RPS is asking is that the industry change with them. I have no doubts that it will fail spectacularly, but you cannot argue that what they are asking for is wrong in this day and age. [/quote] I'm not arguing that asking for a simultaneous release is wrong, but that there's no reason anyone should be complaining about a week delay. [/quote]

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