NWN2 Toolset out a month early with pre-buys

Zyndro · Post by **Zyndro** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:26 pm

None of the stores that offer the code are in my town, so I just pre-ordered the game online a couple weeks ago. Figured I wouldn't get the toolset early but didn't feel like driving an hour (twice) just to do that.

However, today the online website I ordered it from emailed me my pre-order code, even though the site said nothing about the pre-order promotion.

If you ordered from Gamestop/EB online, be sure to check your email, and check you bulk mail if you filter out that stuff!

Chasnor · Post by **Chasnor** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:41 pm

Funny thing. I email Gamestop last night to ask about getting the code because I preordered online. Get home and check my email.

Email 1. Sorry, we don't know anything about this. Tough luck, thanks for shopping.

Email 2. Here is your code and how to use it.

Funny, eh? They don't even know what they are doing.

jordenk · Post by **jordenk** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:52 pm

Haha nice now all the build team will be pro's in the toolset b4 the game even comes out!! *winks* *thinks of avlis 2 and drools*

dougnoel · Post by **dougnoel** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:54 pm

drunkenpig wrote:I went to my gamestop, and the first guy knew nothing about it on Thursday. I bought it anyways (to get the DVD version) Called on Friday, and they said they had the pre-order cards in. Went in Sat, and the guy at the counter was like "huh, what pre-order cards" and the guy next to him behind the counter looked over with a look of "I work with idiots" and said "the ones at your feet" They were sitting in a NWN2 display on the floor.

drunkenpig · Post by **drunkenpig** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:53 am

ahh, classic. Went to the download site a few hours ago, and it said 4 hrs and change to download.

Just logged in, expecting it to say 10 mins, and now it says 9 DAYS and 10 mins

Guess they found a few more bugs

Guess the game is getting delayed a bit more too, as Gamestop has changed the ship date to 10/31/06

dougnoel · Post by **dougnoel** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:00 am

Yeah. I left the page up, and when I came up it kept loading in an infinite loop. I had to refresh. Ironically, now you have to create an account and log in to see the counter tell you how they're shafting us.

Bah.

Aloro · Post by **Aloro** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:22 am

Grr.

Thalarian Arc'Thass · Post by **Thalarian Arc'Thass** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:35 am

yah, they suck. I can't even see the counter anymore, just get directed to a page with tons of advertisement for Atari games.
(Maybe I'm just to stupid to find the right link though).

anyway, it's official. It was delayed for another nine days..

anodynes · Post by **anodynes** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:57 pm

At least there is a chance that it might be right when its released. I would not want to get a crappy toolset.

drunkenpig · Post by **drunkenpig** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:52 pm

Thalarian Arc'Thass wrote:yah, they suck. I can't even see the counter anymore, just get directed to a page with tons of advertisement for Atari games.
(Maybe I'm just to stupid to find the right link though).

anyway, it's official. It was delayed for another nine days..

that happened to me at first, and I just kept going in a circle, logging in, going to atari.com page, clicking nwn2, logging in, going to atari page... it kept opening a new atari page, so I ended up with like 8 windows opened before i finally got to the counter.

and is it just me, or is that stupid spinning country flag annoying as hell! To damn hard to click on my nations flag. Ended up in the damn french site last nite!

Aloro · Post by **Aloro** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:21 am

drunkenpig wrote:that happened to me at first, and I just kept going in a circle, logging in, going to atari.com page, clicking nwn2, logging in, going to atari page... it kept opening a new atari page, so I ended up with like 8 windows opened before i finally got to the counter.

Yeah, me too. It was midnight when the download was supposed to be available, and I stayed up for the download. When the time came, the timer page broke (spinning 33:33:33 over and over), so I mucked about for maybe 45 minutes trying to get the damned toolset; reloading the page, going directly to the nwn2.com site, the atari site, everything I could think of. I assumed there was some sort of problem with the website, and hoped it would be fixed shortly.

In the morning when I awoke, there was a message saying the toolset was delayed. Where was that message when the timer ran out? Or, I dunno, even a little beforehand? They had to have known they weren't distributing it yet.

and is it just me, or is that stupid spinning country flag annoying as hell! To damn hard to click on my nations flag. Ended up in the damn french site last nite!

It's not just you.

- Aloro

bolo · Post by **bolo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:44 am

On one hand I'm good with it, because I'd rather have it work rather than be released just because they had to make a deadline. On the other hand, it doesn't inspire miuch confidence in Obsidian, because it's starting to feel like they're just pulling these release dates out of their asses and hoping they'll be done by then....

It also makes me nervous thinking about how long we'll have to wait for them to release the Dm client ( for those of you who don't know, they've gone back and forth from saying it'll be released the day the game is, then saying it'll be ready for download as close to the game's release as possible, and that initially the client will just be a clone of the NWN one).

bolo · Post by **bolo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:49 am

This counter seems more accurate.

http://www.wyrdwood.org/toolset_counter/

Aloro · Post by **Aloro** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:50 am

Bolo wrote:It also makes me nervous thinking about how long we'll have to wait for them to release the Dm client

We'll have a DM Client one way or another.

- Aloro

drunkenpig · Post by **drunkenpig** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:29 am

Bolo wrote:This counter seems more accurate.

http://www.wyrdwood.org/toolset_counter/

ROFLMAO!!!!

Someone should post that on the Atari forums, wonder how long before it would get yanked

dougnoel · Post by **dougnoel** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:40 pm

The "it'll be better when they release it" argument doesn't hold water. We're nto expecting a finished product - we're expecting something we can play with. This makes me think they have no version control and didn't have a stable version to release. It obviously functions to some degree, or the single player game wouldn't be a month behind the toolset release.

Bah I say. Bah.

Aloro wrote:
Bolo wrote:It also makes me nervous thinking about how long we'll have to wait for them to release the Dm client
We'll have a DM Client one way or another.

- Aloro

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Thalarian Arc'Thass · Post by **Thalarian Arc'Thass** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:04 pm

the toolset they're going to release.. is that the same toolset they used to build their single player campain?

if so, either the whole game is fucked up I guess or their preliminary version can't be ~that~ bad, huh?

at least they updated their crappy webpage

szabot · Post by **szabot** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:23 am

Bolo wrote:This counter seems more accurate.

http://www.wyrdwood.org/toolset_counter/

Psye Shaar · Post by **Psye Shaar** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:17 am

For those in the UK still after the pre-order box with the toolset code, it would appear to be available at GAME now as per this post on Atari's forums.

I spoke to my local GAME store a few minutes ago and they confirmed they do have pre-order boxes in for £1.99 so i'm going to pick one up later to see if it's what we're after...

Themicles · Post by **Themicles** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:28 pm

Guys, keep in mind that this delay wasn't specifically for the toolset itself.

The toolset prerelease is directly tied to the release date of NWN2. Exactly 30 days. If NWN2's single player campaign, or other components, need more bugs fixed, and the game gets delayed, so does the toolset prerelease.

swoods · Post by **swoods** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:11 pm

Psye Shaar wrote:For those in the UK still after the pre-order box with the toolset code, it would appear to be available at GAME now as per this post on Atari's forums.

I spoke to my local GAME store a few minutes ago and they confirmed they do have pre-order boxes in for £1.99 so i'm going to pick one up later to see if it's what we're after...

YAY!

frogmella · Post by **frogmella** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:38 am

Hooray! I'm on my way.

Alphonse · Post by **Alphonse** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:43 am

*makes a note to stop at game on the way home*

Post by **Nighthawk4** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:43 pm

*Wishes he hadn't preordered from Amazon*

frogmella · Post by **frogmella** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:16 pm

Woohoo! The local GAME shop had the pre-sell pack on the racks for £1.99. Now all I have to do is to figure out where to register my toolset code as the info in the pack was *cough* out of date. Gah!