!!!ATTENTION AUSTRALIAN PREORDERS!!!

My steam account says 12 hours to go before Napoleon is unlocked. Other Aussie users have made similar reports on http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic...tion-Date.html just look towards the bottom posts.

EXCELLENT, too bad EB Games doesn't give em out til the 25th!

The countdown tends not to be regional sometimes, so don't get too excited.

Rip off overhead attempt at the British heading... fail.

Originally Posted by XxGREAT-BRITAINx

Rip off overhead attempt at the British heading... fail.

lol, not really. First of all, only three exclamation marks at each end and secondly it's all in capital letters. You can't sue me for copyright

Nah mate, nothing wrong with getting excited.

Originally Posted by KingIzzystero

lol, not really. First of all, only three exclamation marks at each end and secondly it's all in capital letters. You can't sue me for copyright

Nah mate, nothing wrong with getting excited.

HMM WELL i PUT ''JK LOL '' in the next paragraph.... lol.

Wow, so steam now activates it on the 24th? Epic.

10 hours to go. But as Marshal Beale commented we don't get our games yet. Marshal, I gather you preordered the Emperor's Edition? I know I did.

Presumably those Aussies who ordered via steam will get their copy running on the 24th? Steam is selling the std version for USD$39.99, with exchange at about USD$0.90 to the AUD$ that only about $45-50 including a transaction fee from the CC company to do the foreign currency. Cheapest I've seen the std retail copy in Perth is about AUD$68.00 and it won't be released until Thursday!

Normally I am fond of having a physical copy of games. But as we're so intimately linked with Steam and I can't run the game separately anyway I'm really wondering if I should just save a few bob and go with the d/l version.

Anyone know if they are staggering downloads this time around to stop the servers crashing?

Moopere

Originally Posted by moopere

Presumably those Aussies who ordered via steam will get their copy running on the 24th? Steam is selling the std version for USD$39.99, with exchange at about USD$0.90 to the AUD$ that only about $45-50 including a transaction fee from the CC company to do the foreign currency. Cheapest I've seen the std retail copy in Perth is about AUD$68.00 and it won't be released until Thursday!

Normally I am fond of having a physical copy of games. But as we're so intimately linked with Steam and I can't run the game separately anyway I'm really wondering if I should just save a few bob and go with the d/l version.

Anyone know if they are staggering downloads this time around to stop the servers crashing?

Moopere

Mate, here's my two cents worth. Buy the retail version. Yes, you have to wait longer but it's not that long anyway. And secondly, once you get your retail copy you also automatically get the digital copy as once registered the game can be downloaded anyway.

Actually, on second thought, I probably don't have the broadband allowance to even think about downloading this. How big is it from Steam? 8GB? More? I see two DVD's in the promo packaging ... Looks like I'll be waiting for Thursday after all. Hopefully Steam won't have drowned in the overload by then

Moopere