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Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: CDR Akira on April 19, 2003, 11:50:51 AM

Just wanted to know Pyro

About how long till AH II comes out?

Title: Re: ETA:Release date
Post by: Ack-Ack on April 19, 2003, 01:20:00 PM

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Originally posted by CDR Akira


About how long till AH II comes out?

Two weeks

14 days

336 hours

20,160 minutes



ack-ack

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: senna on April 19, 2003, 03:46:14 PM

Can hardly wait, see my sig below...

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: BenDover on April 20, 2003, 12:12:29 AM

where's all the preview content that was promised?

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: acepilot2 on April 20, 2003, 02:56:37 PM

What is with all this "aces high is coming out in two weeks" stuff?  I thought it was coming out around august?

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: 214thCavalier on April 20, 2003, 03:10:18 PM

The answer to "when" questions has been and always will be "2 weeks"
You will get no more "when" info from HTC until they are ready to release, so be patient like the rest of us and make do with Q3 as the answer.

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: BenDover on April 20, 2003, 03:23:33 PM

how did the 2 week thing start anyway?


Was the final release data for AH annouced 2 weeks before its release?

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: MRPLUTO on April 22, 2003, 12:25:10 PM

I recall seeing the "in two weeks" joke flying Warbirds in the late 90's.  I don't remember seeing it while flying AirWarrior in the early 90's, but that doesn't mean it wasn't around even then.

Part of the "humor" of "in two weeks" is that as over used and old as it is,  

people still keep falling for it! :rolleyes: :p :eek:

MRPLUTO VMF-323 ~Death Rattlers~ MAG-33

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: Major_Hans on April 22, 2003, 04:42:11 PM

Its the same thing as the sheep/sex jokes.  It started out inocently enough, but now it's part of the lexicon.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Pyro and HiTech used to post on the WarBirds forums quite often (which is not unusualy since they're some of the guys who helped make WarBirds).

They somehow managed to have a string of failed promises where they said the next version would be out in two weeks, but the release dates kept slipping.  Well, you can imagine that if you catch enough flak from the forum people that you will get to the point that you refuse to make promises anymore.

So we all kept saying Two Weeks (TM) whenever anybody ever asked for a time frame for a release.

BTW, AH II will be out in two weeks.

Hans.

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: BenDover on April 22, 2003, 05:57:46 PM

What about the sheep then?

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: Ack-Ack on April 22, 2003, 07:24:28 PM

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Originally posted by MRPLUTO
I don't remember seeing it while flying AirWarrior in the early 90's, but that doesn't mean it wasn't around even then.

'2 weeks' is part of the game developer's lexicon and is widely used.  From the brief time I spent in DOS AW, '2 weeks' was used by the Kesmoids to answer the countless questions of when AW4W would come out.  

As for the sheep question, that I'm sure pretty much originated with AW.  Someone had written a long, long time ago about how the war started between Az, Bz and Cz and it had something to do with coveting thy neighbor's sheep.

For any of you ex-AWers that have the AW3 boxed version, if you look in the root directory of the CD-ROM, you'll find an .avi film clip of an army experiment of extracting downed pilots or agents from behind enemy lines.  Instead of using men as the test dummies, they used live sheep.  Pretty funny watching the sheep walking around after they've been 'extracted'.


Ack-Ack

Title: ETA:Release date
Post by: Manedew on April 22, 2003, 10:09:34 PM

Long live the year of the Sheep :D