[Honza]

It's 29th January 2011.

Why?
Well, it was all there - GBX said "2011" but what they didn't say was, which calendar are they using, so I assumed Maya calendar, as they were always correct in the past.
And here is the converter:


The image itself is pretty self explanatory, the only problematic part was the correlation constant: 02441170, so here we go:
if you convert it from HEX to ASCII, you'll find out that most of the characters are escape chars:



Well and we all know what Dp means:
Duke's playtime:



29th January 2011 is not just a random date - it's 15 years after Duke Nukem 3D had been released.



All calculations are repeatable and verifiable - tools used:
Google.com
http://www.pauahtun....bin/mayagreg.py
http://www.idea2ic.c...hexToAscii.html

[OpenMaw]

Honza... C'mere. Come on, its okay. Step into my office for a minute.

*Grabs Honza in a choke hold and proceeds to give him an Atomic swirly*

*Flush*

[Jobi-Wan Kenobi]

wow...haha EPIC! haha

just EPIC!


LOL

[Hendricks266]

Where did you pull 29th January 2011 out of this?

[Master Fibbles]

1. Make up some numbers
2. Do fancy calculations
3. Declare to have found something
4. ????????????
5. PROFIT!!!!

[Yatta]

Step 4 ftw.

[zwieback]

haha good one we need more stuff like this

[BugsBunny]

[Micky C]

I thought that calendar ran out already?

[ferran275]

Since I don't understand it at all it MUST be true!!! 1/29/11 here we come!!!

[Honza]

damn... it seems that my calculations are wrong for time being no wonder Mayans extint
http://twitter.com/d...ses/24684664386
"Duke Nukem Forever Confirmed for February 2011! http://www.duke4.net"

However, this release date might work for underground community, but that's a different story

[ferran275]

Honza, on Sep 16 2010, 11:12 AM, said:

damn... it seems that my calculations are wrong for time being no wonder Mayans extint
http://twitter.com/d...ses/24684664386
"Duke Nukem Forever Confirmed for February 2011! http://www.duke4.net"

However, this release date might work for underground community, but that's a different story

WAIT A MINUTE!!!! hold up....

...wait...

so... it IS coming February '11?

[Honza]

ferran275, on Sep 16 2010, 08:15 PM, said:

WAIT A MINUTE!!!! hold up....

...wait...

so... it IS coming February '11?

yes, as far as we know now it's coming out 1st February 2011 officially, maybe my estimate for unofficial release will be filled up

If it wasn't true GameStop wouldn't pop up any date like like Amazon did. The thing is that they're talking with retailers maybe even each retailer offered different release date in year 2011 and GS offered them 1st February 2011 and they just put it on website - remember Randy Pitchford made himself clear that he is not going to make any more jokes about it.

[Jobi-Wan Kenobi]

Since when is 1st February official? It's made up by Gamestop. Huh?!

[Honza]

Jobi-Wan Kenobi, on Sep 16 2010, 09:53 PM, said:

Since when is 1st February official? It's made up by Gamestop. Huh?!

official in meaning it's available on market , I said official because it's quite common that other ways it's available earlier.

[OpenMaw]

Jobi-Wan Kenobi, on Sep 16 2010, 12:53 PM, said:

Since when is 1st February official? It's made up by Gamestop. Huh?!

By proxy of the fact that dukenukem.com links to that preorder. You would think the information would be accurate for their customers, right?

[Honza]

Commando Nukem, on Sep 16 2010, 10:28 PM, said:

By proxy of the fact that dukenukem.com links to that preorder. You would think the information would be accurate for their customers, right?

absolutely.

[ferran275]

Honza, on Sep 16 2010, 12:46 PM, said:

absolutely.

I just don't understand why they would link their potential customers to a site that gives a false date, doesn't make any sense

[Honza]

ferran275, on Sep 17 2010, 01:28 AM, said:

I just don't understand why they would link their potential customers to a site that gives a false date, doesn't make any sense

that's what I'm actually talking about and honestly i feel like they can't make up their mind:
it's like this:
a/ omg we want preorders and money now
b/ omg forget preorders wait a little and try to tease them a bit more so more players are gonna buy it

and they just can't make up their mind so they are trying to have both and it looks just ridiculous.

[Honza]

and this posted a while ago only adds to the pool of confusion:


we don't want to make any dates & promises because we want to tease you, while we want to support two of our favorite retailers, man I don't know if I should laugh or cry

[Yatta]

I don't care if they're denying the date, they're just afraid of having to break their promise.

It's February 1st.

[Master Fibbles]

The problem with DNF is that if they set a release date, they HAVE to stick to it. If they fail to meet that date, they will be marked with that stigma. It is impossible to give a date for DNF that you can't 110% guarantee you will hit.

[Jinroh]

2/11/2011 is a Tuesday, aren't 99% of games released on tuesday anyway?

[Master Fibbles]

What? Why Tuesday? Who the hell keeps track of that?....why?

Why bother speculating?


This actually leads me to something: why the hell are people going to do when the game is released? There will be nothing left to speculate on...

[ferran275]

Mr.Flibble, on Sep 16 2010, 08:00 PM, said:

The problem with DNF is that if they set a release date, they HAVE to stick to it. If they fail to meet that date, they will be marked with that stigma. It is impossible to give a date for DNF that you can't 110% guarantee you will hit.

and besides they haven't even begun Beta testing yet, according to someone around here, can't remember who they just started sending out tester emails, so they haven't even begun hiring testers yet. Testing a game takes a LONG time, and you really never know what bugs you'll find, this is usually the time when release dates are pushed back and this is probably why we will be waiting awhile longer before we get said release date.

Mr.Flibble, on Sep 16 2010, 08:11 PM, said:

This actually leads me to something: why the hell are people going to do when the game is released? There will be nothing left to speculate on...

I know, scary right???

[Kathy]

Mr.Flibble, on Sep 17 2010, 07:11 AM, said:

This actually leads me to something: why the hell are people going to do when the game is released? There will be nothing left to speculate on...

DNF 2.

ferran275, on Sep 17 2010, 07:16 AM, said:

and besides they haven't even begun Beta testing yet,

Randy said they were in the polishing phase.

[Tetsuo]

As far as I can tell Amazon had the Feb 1st release date before Gamestop did. But I could be wrong.

[Outtagum]

Mr.Flibble, on Sep 16 2010, 11:11 PM, said:

What? Why Tuesday? Who the hell keeps track of that?....why?

Most new movie, music and game releases are on Tuesday. One thing I read was sales/marketing chart figures. Other one was shipments. But it's nothing that's set in stone so not all new releases are out on a Tuesday.

But considering a mass majority are... it makes sense to think the release date would be on a Tuesday.

Also, Feb 1st is a Tuesday.

[ferran275]

Lotan, on Sep 16 2010, 08:18 PM, said:

Randy said they were in the polishing phase.

and what do you think Beta testing is?

The game is done, and now testers need to come in and try and break it. When they do the team goes behind them and fix the breaks. Depending on the severity of the breaks found, it could push the launch date back some, which is why they're reluctant to give us a date since I'm sure they don't know exactly how buggy this game is yet. Beta testing takes months.

[Honza]

ferran275, on Sep 17 2010, 06:49 PM, said:

and what do you think Beta testing is?

The game is done, and now testers need to come in and try and break it. When they do the team goes behind them and fix the breaks. Depending on the severity of the breaks found, it could push the launch date back some, which is why they're reluctant to give us a date since I'm sure they don't know exactly how buggy this game is yet. Beta testing takes months.

not necessarily, Microsoft with their Windows Vista proves otherwise - released ASAP, beta testing has been done by paying customers, with SP1 the whole core has been changed and when they got in corner with no way out and all that bad reputation has been cleaned with Windows 7.

Which is basically Windows Vista SP1 and the true product is Windows server 2008 (core derivated from Windows 7 - after millions paying customers did beta testing