I’m seeing signs that CoH:Opposing Fronts is Gold. I also see that several people are repeating the rumour that CoH:OF’s ship date has moved up to September 24th. I’m also thinking that if it is gold, that no one should buy the game (if they want to play Multiplayer) until they fix the connection issues. Here’s hoping that the September 24th ship date is a big lie (or they’ll rescind it), and that they’re actually keeping this thing in the oven until it’s actually done.
I’m sick of publishers releasing product when the product’s not ready.
Update September 10th: Playing with the patch released today seems to be a marked improvement connectivity wise. It looks like they may have got the connectivity issues on the way to being fixed! The best part is that Quazal’s NAT transversal service looks to work for routers WITHOUT having to forward ports, making it much easier to get games setup and running. Still a few infinite ping issues occuring (in which the Transversal service is involved) but that could be related to the type of NAT on the PC being connected to.
Those of you with routers, try connecting without doing any port forwading!
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Posted by DribbleSack at September 10th, 2007 at 6:54 am
There seem to be conflicting statements coming from you guys. Soulblighter, one of your administrator staff recently closed this topic … http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=161298 … stating that the game will be released in November. So make your minds up.
Posted by LordZon at September 10th, 2007 at 9:36 am
That was very unproffesional Uber. Telling people not to play the game. Most of us play it just fine. Have faith in Relic.
Posted by Moe at September 10th, 2007 at 11:57 am
DribbleSack: note that Uber mentioned a “rumour”. Also note that neither Uber nor Soul speak for Relic.
Posted by DribbleSack at September 10th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
I’m aware that Relicnews is a fan site, not an official site. Still, a statement on the home page should reflect the consensus view across Relicnews staff.
It is a rather strange comment to made by a fan site too.
Posted by Someguy at September 10th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Well it was stated in a few IGN video interviews that the current release date is November. Personally I think it would be suicide to release it on the 24th of September mainly because of that thing called Halo 3.
Posted by Peter at September 11th, 2007 at 2:08 am
I think he is absolutely right! The game has been like this for since day one of Vanilla COH and Uberjumper has been the one gathering up all the information and making connectivity FAQ’s. Kudos to you man. So i can see that youre pretty sick of this foolishness that relic do.
I agree with your statement
Posted by ÜberJumper at September 11th, 2007 at 2:16 am
DribbleSack:
I’m not forum staff anymore. That’s a seperate entity all together. Buggo’s away on Vacation, and I have an inquiry out to her about the gold status of the game. It looks like THQ might be moving the release to September 24th. As a side note, end of September is the end of a financial quarter for THQ by the looks of it, so that might explain the move to that release date.
LordZon:
So you’re saying it would be more professional to simply smile and nod when publishers push developers to release the game before they’re good to go? How about no.
Peter:
See my last post re: connectivity. Greatly improved tonight, and I look forward to testing tomorrow’s patch as well.
Posted by ÜberJumper at September 11th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Oh, one more thing LordZon, my comments in the news post were not directed at Relic’s staff that are hard at work on the project. Decisions about whether a game makes “Gold” status lie at the publisher’s feet, not the developers.
Posted by Earth at September 11th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Checking here in Aus today at EB Morayfield QLD they have moved their release date up to October 4th.
Posted by Antiloop at September 11th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I’ve been checking the ship date for CoH:OF on five different webshops here in Sweden, and they unanimously give the date 9 November.
As for amazon.co.uk, they give a release date for Duke Nuke’m Forever on 30 March 2008… Enough said. :-D
Posted by Relicnews | Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts is Gold at September 12th, 2007 at 10:49 am
[…] I’m still very annoyed at THQ though. The multiplayer connectivity in the Beta is still functionally impaired for users behind NAT connections (behind a router essentially) in spite of the improvements from Monday’s patch. At this point, I think the best we can hope for is a Zero Day Patch that helps improve the multiplayer compared to what they have released to us in the Beta so far (I doubt there’s unreleased components that are coded and ready to go for multiplayer, as they’d have gotten them to us already). Heck, the way Relic Online is structured, they could ship the game with only the ability to sign into Relic Online, get a warning that you need a patch, and then download the actual guts of Relic Online the first time you try to get into Multiplayer. […]