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posté le 16
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Yo guys, the forums were down for me since last night. I assumed they were for everyone else? Maybe a Canadian thing?
Anyway to give some quick answers to the people saying "why can´t we do this or that"
- We resubmitted last week to MS
- The demo got clogged up in a backlogged queue - lots of other games going through.
- They started testing it this week
- We passed the 1st phase (the one that messed things up last time) so that´s good
- There is another phase of testing going on now. I won´t go into technical details.
- It then takes a couple days for MS to upload to the servers etc...
I said before: Friday would be a miracle, so I´m not sure why anyone would think it would be out today. I can tell you now the chances of it being out tomorrow are slim to none. If there was a chance I would have known about it. You can´t blame MS either, it´s a process they need to go through. Standard stuff. They are even compressing their process to help get it out earlier.
Can I tell you the date that I think it will be out? No. Why not? Because last time we did that it bit us in the @ss. So I won´t make any more guesses or predictions. Everyone wants to hear a date, but god help me if I´m wrong. Sorry - until I hear from MS that we are 100% approved I can´t provide a date.
I know you guys want info, but I already give you more updates than I probably should. Usually all this type of stuff goes through marketing or PR.
If nothing goes sour in the final testing phase, we should be not far off at all. But seriously, don´t sweat it. Go out and enjoy the crap out of your weekend because when you get the demo you may not leave your houses for a long time.
That´s it. I have no more power than you guys do here. It´s been out of my (and EA´s) hands for quite a while now. Our focus here is on the full game. The team has been here til 2:00am+ for quite a few weeks now.
If I find out before the weekend that we´re approved and locked and loaded on a date, I will tell you. You won´t need to dig for that announcement. So pray nothing goes sour in testing and keep your fingers crossed.
Later
- Scott
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La 1ere phase de test (celle qui concernait la partie à problème) est terminée. Néanmoins la démo doit repasser par une autre phase de test puis être uploadée sur les serveurs ce qui prend quelques jours ; donc :
Démo aujourd´hui = miracle (=très improbable, ne pas s´y attendre) (je traduis pour ceux qui croiraient aux miracles
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