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Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« on: January 12, 2010, 04:19:51 pm »
The Zenith Remnant will be officially coming out today on Impulse and on our site, and most likely tomorrow on Steam and GamersGate.  I am not certain which day it will be for Direct2Drive, I will let you know as soon as I know.  We ran late today with the release with a lot of last-minute fixes, and this caused some delays with some partners because (let's face it) they aren't just sitting around waiting for our builds.  We figured the last bit of polish and attention to quality was worth it.

Exciting times, at any rate!
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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 04:22:15 pm »
Oops -- soon as I post this, I get an email back from one of the Steam engineers who bumped us in priority.  So, looks like we will still be on for a Steam release within a few hours from now. :)
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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 04:24:15 pm »
Yay!

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 04:46:04 pm »
Just gonna say what many of us are thinking: You folks at Arcen Rock!

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 04:48:27 pm »
Many thanks!
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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 05:04:22 pm »
Oops -- soon as I post this, I get an email back from one of the Steam engineers who bumped us in priority.  So, looks like we will still be on for a Steam release within a few hours from now. :)

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 06:48:58 pm »
Well, did did get a bump in priority, but we still didn't quite get everything squared away with Steam for today.  They are very close to being done, but want to make sure that their support staff is on hand to make sure that if there are any issues with the release, it will go smoothly.  I heartily agree with that, so we are bumping this to first thing (PST) tomorrow for Steam.  Direct2Drive and GamersGate should also both have the game out tomorrow, and we'll make the official announcement of the release tomorrow, though the 3.0 version and will be available shortly.  I am not sure as to the exact status of Impulse with 3.0 and the expansion, though I know they are quite close; they should be completely finished sometime in the morning tomorrow (EST), I expect.

Sorry for the slight delay, but this is how it goes sometimes -- coordinating a release like this, even after the code is complete, is a gargantuan task (as in, I've been working on that solidly for 5 hours now, and still have another couple to go before I am fully done with everything).  Mostly I think I underestimated the time required to get all of those last post-coding aspects finalized.

More news in the next couple of hours, as we get this fully launched on our own site, and then lots more news tomorrow as it fully launches pretty much everywhere else!
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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 07:31:28 pm »
Thanks for keeping us updated :) - Knowing steam the update won't push out there earlier than 9am PST, and more likely 11 AM PST or so. Direct2Drive tends to lag behind the rest, but I am not sure that all developers give getting updates out as much attention as you do.

Def got a customer for all of your products for as long as you keep up with your current method of caring :)

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2010, 07:57:26 pm »
Already on Impulse: http://impulsedriven.com/aiwarx1

Edit: My bad, they pushed it to the front page, but I failed to notice the giant pre-order button.

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 08:23:44 pm »
I got the 3.0.0.0 version through the updater, but then the program mentions a 3.0.0.1 patch through the update system exclusively for Zenith Remnant (very slick I might add), but I got a 404 message trying to launch it twice. I guess the file was pulled or something?

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 08:27:56 pm »
Yes same happened with others, I'm sure the staff should have it up and running soon enough.

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2010, 09:33:39 pm »
Downloading...!!!

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« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2010, 09:36:39 pm »
Okay -- now you can get the expansion content via the updater!
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« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2010, 09:39:59 pm »
sweet  :D

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Re: Steam release of 3.0 and Zenith Remnant is likely tomorrow.
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2010, 09:51:37 pm »
The piano rendition of the the menu theme is awesome. I'm such a sucker for piano tracks.

I'll have to listen through the rest of this right way, but colour me impressed already.