WC3X goes gold..

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » May 29, 2003, 2:37 pm

For those that care.

Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Goes Gold!
Blizzard announced today that Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the eagerly awaited expansion set to the fastest-selling PC game ever, has gone gold. With initial orders of over 2.5 million copies, the game will be available at retail outlets worldwide in multiple languages beginning on July 1, 2003. Read More.

http://www.blizzard.com

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 29, 2003, 3:00 pm

Fuck, guess I'll have to buy that next week

Estrosiath · Post by **Estrosiath** » May 30, 2003, 9:22 am

I'm going to sound stupid - but what does exactly "going gold" means?

Lexien · Post by **Lexien** » May 30, 2003, 11:35 am

I think it's kinda like Artist in the music business their cd goes gold, platinum and whatnot for the number of sold copies?

Anyone can correct me if i am wrong but this was my understanding.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » May 30, 2003, 12:20 pm

In the music industry...Going gold is 100,000 copies sold. Platinum is 1 million. Fuck if I know what it means in the gaming industry.

miir · Post by **miir** » May 30, 2003, 12:44 pm

Estrosiath wrote:I'm going to sound stupid - but what does exactly "going gold" means?

The final build deemed stable and 'bug free' enough to be released is traditionaly refered to as 'gold code'.

Software develops from Alpha to Beta but 'Gamma' never really caught on. For the final build they used 'Gold'... akin to a gold medal, first place or the best....

It's coincidental that when the term first started to be used with any regularity, Compact Disc was the common media used to ship 'gold code' off to be copied.... back when writable compact discs were exclusively gold.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » June 3, 2003, 10:55 am

Truant wrote:In the music industry...Going gold is 100,000 copies sold. Platinum is 1 million. Fuck if I know what it means in the gaming industry.

Technically, Gold is 500k in the music business.

/nitpicking off

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » June 3, 2003, 4:49 pm

Yeah its because the master CD that got shipped off to the manufacturer of the discs used to be gold.

So in the game industry going gold means that the publisher has their hands on the final copy that they will stamp onto CD's and pack into the retail boxes.

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » June 3, 2003, 4:56 pm

Actually, they are still gold a lot of times.

And, I have my pre-order in for this one already. I bought an Xbox game I didnt like at GameStop and I took it back and put part of the money on this.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 3, 2003, 5:50 pm

Pre-order is a fucking scam. Many companies base thier pricing on pre-orders. Bizzard priced WCIII at around 60$ because they knew they could based on record pre-orders. They also post marketing like "The most pre-orders for an RTS game in the history of gaming!". It annoys me on multiple levels.

Homey don't play that.

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » June 3, 2003, 8:48 pm

For the most part, I agree. However, this was OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS easier to do than the hassle of actually getting a refund from them for the $10.76 they owed me.

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » June 7, 2003, 12:41 pm

"big bad voodo" on the new orc hero is gonna be super badass, being that i like to make 1 massive attack to take someone out