French/German Official Release Date

[florianf 0]

Straight off the Cities XL website: http://www.citiesxl.com/index.php?/content/view/76/63/lang,en/

Monte Cristo is very happy to announce that Cities XL, the next generation city builder, will be released on september 3rd 2009 on PC DVD in the following countries: France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Austria, in French and German languages.

A release is planned for other countries, we will announce a precise date as soon as possible.

[VIPStephan 0]

Great news. And I don't understand the commotion about the languages. Why must it always be English first? There are actually more languages in the world and all are equally important (at least for a game). All the times non-English speaking people have to wait, this time it's French and German that come first. The other ones will get over it.

[CommodoreTech 5]

I guess being French, they'd do french first.

But most people speak English as a second language anyway, so I don't see that much of a deal when the English edition comes out first, after all, nobody buys more games than the Americans.

[rsd6000 8]

simllar to building and co which they released game first to french - thus i had buy from french game store

[Johan_91 179]

Hmm does anyone know a good german online game shop?

[Rigga 2]

I don't mind them releasing the German/French edition first, but why release it in those languages in the Netherlands? Nobody here wants to play their games in German or French. I'll be waiting for the English version to hit the shelves.

[Gregory_C 0]

We do intend to release an english version of the game in Europe. And you will also be able to order it online, so people in the Netherlands (and other countries) will be able to enjoy it.

We just don't have the exact release date yet for the english version, so we announced the infos we had and we were sure of: the french & german versions. As soon as we have more infos about the english version we'll publish them.

[theblueofliverpool 0]

dissapointed...... no Hong Kong...

[Sypr54 0]

Originally posted by: Rigga

I don't mind them releasing the German/French edition first, but why release it in those languages in the Netherlands? Nobody here wants to play their games in German or French. I'll be waiting for the English version to hit the shelves.quote>

I will to, 

Monte Cristo does first French and German, but there has never been a game that was not in English. I think that after 9th of September everybody should  wait a month until the English version comes out for the ones who want it in English (if it will be released later). Also that would be very clever, because of Christmas and other activities. What Monte Cristo does is a really good strategy. So I think they’re working on English version right now, or else, they lose many gamers who want to try CitiesXL