blockerdave
ICC Chairman
Very conflicted actually - their cricket games were found wanting at best, plus I think their golf swing animations are from same pool as their cricket bowling animations . Maybe it's time to remove my sig!
I love giving hate to EA for their greed, but TW14 is only game I am playing atm.
@blockerdave, I am really interested in your views on the as yet unannounced distributor/release date of DBC14 in UK. Amazed you haven't spoken on the subject yet - got any thoughts?
thanks for the heads-up from @NoLeName which saved me from "doing a @warlord" or even worse a @MattW, which would be shameful indeed, and i would never be able to look @ChinamanSpin, @ethybubs* or even @grkrama in the eye ever again.
*sidebar - for a long time i misread your name as etyhubs... i tried "atting" you several times before giving up and actually checking what it was. i still have trouble with @ethybubs.
thank you for the question @zimrahil - i have indeed been somewhat reticent to post my views on the uk distribution and i am glad to have been given a platform.
my thoughts are:
1)i don't think a deal had been signed when the announcement was made, and may not have been signed yet
2)i do think they are at a very advanced stage, and there will be little or no delay in uk release
3)it wouldn't surprise me if it's come down to something like the distributor wants to give a specific retailer either steelbook exclusive, or maybe even "total" exclusivity for a certain period, and trublu either don't want that at all, or don't think the price offered warrants the exclusivity, or think other retailers would bypass it by getting it imported and it all end up in a giant cluster"fun" who knows.
4)GAME, Amazon and the supermarkets not having pre-orders or other visibility on their sites (i do not count the "imports" listing on amazon, since it's clearly not from the uk distributor, hence "import") is odd, and likely indicates one of those badboys is the one looking for exclusivity
5)thank god for shop.to and @Dutch and i am looking forward to playing very much, maybe not @79cricket levels of excitemment, but maybe 80% of an @angad.
6)i know @Ross doesn't agree with me, but then he would say that wouldn't he, and as his argument so far consists of "wah wah wah you're @thefonz wah wah wah" i reckon i am righter than @isrararrafi after he cut off his left arm and leg that time for a bet.
i must say also i am a fan of the multi-part question previously espoused by myself, @Biggs and @SnowyCasanova and possibly others, so I think I will direct an x-part question, and after playing a bit of post roulette I am glad to announce the winner is @SpitfiresKent, who edged out @zombieian in a tie break.
so:
1)when you signed up, was there already a KentSpitfires, and if so do you hate him, and if not what's up with that?
2)if you could get the game a day early and use my Jimmy Anderson, or a month late and use the cartoonish error-fest puked up by @kasabian21 that you seem to inexplicably favour, which would you choose?
3)If we held a "planet cricket rap battle", who would win? personally my money would be on @IceAgeComing
4)My favourite book, as I mentioned previously, is The Three Musketeers. What's yours, and in the event of it not being The Three Musketeers, do you understand that you're utterly wrong?
5) @cricket_online recently posted a lot of information about purchasing the game in places like north america that i thought was one of the most helpful things i've ever read on planet cricket. how do you think @barmyarmy should reward him, given he is gluten intolerant and can't eat cake?
6) @Friend863 is currently leading the DBC spot the ball - do you think he is cheating?
7)I reckon i've now got the award for the most @ mentions in a single post, but @User2010 and @funnyadit disagree. what are your thoughts?
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