Supreme Cmdr Posted April 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 It will be a retail boxed product. A digital download version may follow at some point in the future. Perhaps a year after. Dunno yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Well, color my face red Well, looks like this will be my first purchse. The lack of a box/cd has been keeping me away from the previous incarnations...Call me pessimistic but I like to have a hard copy of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 quote:Originally posted by Spectre: SC, Is CE available yet and where can we get copies? Thanks Its not out yet. The boxed version will be out in late July to early August and the online version at some point in the future. An announcement will be made when either becomes available for purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnpoole Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 "The boxed version will be out in late July to early August ..." Oh, the weeping and gnashing of teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2007 Just a quick post to let you guys know that we have inked a distribution (we are self-publishing) deal with Gathering (a distribution arm of Take-Two) to distribute UCCE exclusively in North America. It will be availble for sale in July/August as previously stated. We will be releasing some blurb about it next week, but I wanted to give you folks the heads up. For those outside North America, I may release the digital distribution version on the same day as well. I have not yet made a decision on this because the main plan was for this to be a retail only distribution. You can catch a glimpse of the WIP box art from the links below. Front Back sales sheet Also, the first thing folks (who owned previous games such as UCAWA and UCSE) are going to notice, is the performance improvement. We did some serious tinkering with this and the performance has nearly tripled over UCAWA/UCSE. Then of course there are the other visual tweaks, native widescreen monitor support etc. A bunch of stuff here and there because I wanted to give the old gal a good send off. Hence the retail distribution. So, its not just the UCSE engine at work here, there's be a lot more work put into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectre Posted May 12, 2007 Report Share Posted May 12, 2007 WOOOO HOOOO !!!!! I absolutely CAN NOT wait !!! The packaging looks fantastic ! Count me in for 2... (Proud to be an American - Instant Gratification for the least effort possible!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weegee_101 Posted May 12, 2007 Report Share Posted May 12, 2007 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Also, the first thing folks (who owned previous games such as UCAWA and UCSE) are going to notice, is the performance improvement. We did some serious tinkering with this and the performance has nearly tripled over UCAWA/UCSE. How?? I dunno, maybe I was a special case, but I don't have any kind of gamelag in UCAWA at all! Looking forward to see the improvement I guess. quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Then of course there are the other visual tweaks, native widescreen monitor support etc.You just made my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 quote:Originally posted by Cmdr. WeeGee: quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Then of course there are the other visual tweaks, native widescreen monitor support etc.You just made my day. Well, if you'd read the product info PDF file linked to on the products page, you'd have seen that there like, oh, a month ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shihminhao Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 Although I live outside US,I think I will go for the box copy,cos this is the perfect ending of BC and UC series,it worth collecting!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weegee_101 Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Well, if you'd read the product info PDF file linked to on the products page, you'd have seen that there like, oh, a month ago? Been too busy with my Comp Sci research methinks... What are you using for the new middleware audio engine? OpenAL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2007 btw, my friends over at Stardock, also used Take 2 for their distribution and it seems to have worked well for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spindoktor Posted May 16, 2007 Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: btw, my friends over at Stardock, also used Take 2 for their distribution and it seems to have worked well for them. Wow SC, how ironic is it that you are ending the BC/UC franchise as we know it with "Take 2" handling distribution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 Yeah, I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aord4511 Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 will the boxed version of UCCE be available to buy abroad online like UCSE(bmt-micro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 No. The box is for North America only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnpoole Posted May 18, 2007 Report Share Posted May 18, 2007 Distributed by Take 2! (gasp) The horror ...the horror. I hope it makes it into decent merchants. The Frys and Best Buys around here have one copy of BCMG and one copy of the original UC on their shelves. I kid you not. Walmart or Target? Forget it. I've been following BC3000 since the beginning. I've cursed it, praised it, stayed up too late playing it, and have just really enjoyed the whole business surrounding the development of the BC series. I think it is a unique thing in the industry. If you could bottle up all the tension and anticipation of BC fans waiting for each new release over the years there would be no energy crisis. The development and marketing of the BC series is an incredible story of the persistent die-hard pursuit of a dream. You should sign a few copies of the last box set and run a contest for them or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2007 Thats why I went with Take 2. Its going in ALL the retailers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aord4511 Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 To all forum users when UCCE is released does anybody fancy buying two copies instead of one and i will pay double the price of the game and shipping to uk. By any payment method you seem fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aord4511 Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 i dont want to wait for direct2drive version to come out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted May 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 Please post this stuff in the general discussions forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 Take 2 have sent CE off to manufacturing. It is scheduled to hit North American store shelves on Oct. 1st. Also, the game was recently rated T (with violence descriptor) by the ESRB. The online distribution version will also be released through our existing partners (IGN, Digital River) during that week. Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, BMT Micro will only be handling International and Canadian DVD-ROM orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectre Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 OK, I called 2 local Best Buys, stopped in at Wal-Mart, Microcenter and Target... Is there a list of stores in Chicago where I can get 2 copies of UCCE???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted October 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 OK, I called 2 local Best Buys, stopped in at Wal-Mart, Microcenter and Target... Is there a list of stores in Chicago where I can get 2 copies of UCCE???? It should be in some stores (e.g. EB Games) later this week. It only came out of manufacturing last week and got to the warehouses yesterday. Take2 called to advise me that I will be receiving some boxes today. I'll post some shots when I get them. Anyway, by the end of the next week, all the stores that have their copies will have them for sale. Usually EB Games gets games quicker than most retailers. Check with them. The digital distribution versions won't be out until around the end of Oct to early Nov due to the additional work involved (on their end). e.g. the DVD-ROM uses SecuROM copy protection, so that version cannot be used for the ESD (Electronic Service Distribution) versions because DigitalRiver, Direct2Drive etc all use a different copy protection scheme. Also, for those of you buying the ESD versions, BMT Micro still has some printed UCAWA manuals in stock. Apart from very minor changes (art, updates due to some version updates etc) the printed UCAWA and UCCE manuals are functionally identical. Since the game also has the PDF manual included, you also get that in both the boxed and ESD versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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