"CTP2 will be released in the UK on Dec 8th, 2002. The reason is we have to do all that difficult translating (changing 'harbor to harbour' took us 10 weeks) and the incredibly hard keyboard alterations, 2 WHOLE KEYS to change!

Plus our employees are too busy rolling around in money to do any kind of programming at the moment.

We realise how dissapointed you Brits must be, but we don't care, we have enough money already."

OK, I may have made it up a little....

Tops!

You've hit the nail on the head there, mate!

Activision: Kindly give us at least some token feedback - why 8th Dec?

Is it true? Do you not care about potential British and Continental customers? It seems that way to us.

Make an effort and answer us! We know you monitor the Apolyton forums. What sort of message does it give to the Brits and Continentals if you don't even answer simple queries from us?

All we ask is a post from someone at Activision redarding UK/Europe release dates, and the reason for the delays. You stand to make God knows how many £s liras, escudos, euros, from us all, SO TALK TO US, there's no excuse!

Don't worry, I don't think they'll find the numerous car/ nail bombs I've planted so funny....

(By the way, I was kidding, no government agents after me please).

Although perhaps a small chuckle wouldn't be out of order!

All we want is some bugger to explain the delay.

Activision: Why have you not been able to release CTP2 in the United Kingdom?

If releasing it now means we Brits have to live with you spelling 'Harbour' wrongly or whatever, I'm sure we could cope.

I hope you get the game soon, mate.

Games companies rarely translate from US English (aka Pigeon English) to UK English, so they shouldn't have any reason to be so late, without giving us any news.

Is the game out in Australia yet?

I don't see why we should be treated like second-class citizens in the eyes of Activision.

Even the title 'Civilization' is spelt differently in the UK (Civilisation) but they don't translate that dp they?

As far as I know, we use standard English, with a lot of added "eh"'s(spoken only of course) and a more American accent. Standard English is, of course, what they speak in the UK, not this american stuff.

I asked again in EB Bracknell, Berkshire today and...

The release date is 8th of December.

This is the most likeley reason why Activision won't reply on this topic. I guess that they don't have a valid excuse for such a long delay ( almost a month!!!)

As if UK English is so complicated.

Dissapointed, not to say the least.

Who can wait for two more weeks???

Some say that patience is a virtue... that we unfortunatley have to exercise

BTW, Z is pronounced "Zee" so that it rhymes when you recite it.

abcdefg.
hijklmnop.
qrstuv.
wxy and z.

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Character is what you do in the dark.

Congratulations on the release of CTP 2. All throughout America crowds of fans are rejoicing at the thought of even more nights spent playing king when they really should be doing something else. Never mind the naysayers, here in the UK we fully support your decision not to release until the 8th of december - after all, it is only economic common sense not to sell the game to the world that exists outside US borders (we only make up a tiny 40% of your sales). As to the Koreans, Chinese, Japanese....well, never mind them - everyone knows that the Japanese never play computer games anyway. It is of course common knowledge that no other parts of the world exist, and mistaken references suggesting that there might be potential customers in mythical islands such as 'Australia' and 'New Zealand' are, of course, rumours, and so no attempt need be made to sell them anything, no matter how hard they insist that they exist.

Yours aye

Mr Ogre
Activision
Venice, CA, USA
b.02-15-99

posted November 17, 2000 19:32

There aren't any "code" changes for any of the international versions. The installer is slightly different (no online
registration) and one tiny bug in the tutorial script got fixed for everything but the US (It was only causing a minor
display problem in the German version, I don't think it made a difference otherwise.) For the English language
versions, those are the only differences. Other language versions obviously have a lot more data changed, but it's
still just data, not code.

People who have the game are now starting to make their own, improved maps.

This is where it starts to get interesting.

I really hate the fact that I'm giving Activision my money though

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I got bored with my Churchill quote (and was tired of people telling me I misquoted him).

Why? Because it has enabled me to have a good long read of the bug list compiled by our US cousins, sleep on it to make sure I was not overreacting, then decide that I wasn't. This POS is definitely not getting my £35 until there is a solid patch available that fixes many of these points. Automoving units starting wars!?! Allies getting hostile if you move units to protect their country? The AI unable to react to city loss?!? Gimme a break. If these remain broken then CTP2 will be mine for under £10 within 6 months as it sinks rapidly into the bargain bin.