Amazon DE lists ARMA 2 Feb 20th

[JFK 0]

Hi,

today an Amazon mail arrived, asking me to preorder ARMA 2, release date 20th Februray.

Sounds good, but we all know Amazon is no official source.

ARMA 2 Amazon offer

Cheers

[Pulverizer 1]

It's standard practice for Amazon to pull dates out of their ass to secure pre-sales.

Keep an eye here for the official information:

http://www.arma2.com/

[Raptor 10]

Just want to say, that the release date for ArmA was true @Amazon back in 2006.

[stakex 0]

It's standard practice for Amazon to pull dates out of their ass to secure pre-sales.

Keep an eye here for the official information:

http://www.arma2.com/

While Im sure Amazon has done that from time to time.... most of the time the dates they post are dates given by the Publisher that are not official, but rather internal expected dates. Developers and publishers will of course deny the dates until they are 100% sure they can make them. In the even they cannot make the dates, they issue a new expected date and simply say thoes dates were not official and were made up by the sale sites so they don't catch flack for "delaying" the game.

Its actually a smart practice, especially for a company like BIS that seems to struggle with their expected dates (delays are good when needed of course)... but don't be so nieve to think these sites are always making up the dates, and that the dates don't have at least a decent chance to be correct. As Raptor pointed out, in 2006 when Amazon posted the date at first it was of course denied to be official, but in fact was correct in the end.

In this case however, I hope it is wrong. As much as I want ArmA2, the longer its in development the less chance it will be as bugged as ArmA1 was at release, when it comes out.

[Raptor 10]

Yes. We can clearly say that ArmA2 will come to us when we can read that ArmA2 reached the goldstatus (?).   

[raedor 8]

Nothing new here, no official statement, closing.