Sierra Compilations Finally Shipping?
 

I just got an order update from Amazon concerning my order for the Space Quest & Kings Quest Compilations that the ship date got moved up to August 4, 2006! I've had these on order for around a year and the ship date kept being pushed back. Has anyone heard any concrete information from Sierra as to whether these will really ship next week?

No. Vivendi still hasn't said that they even exist.

Please do let us know the minute you receive them, so we can order too! :D

Once I see it on play.com then I'll be convinced. :P

Sierra Compilations Finally Shipping?
 

I received an e-mail from Amazon also that the compilations would be shipping sooner than expected. My dates fall into the Aug 11th to 24th range.
Let's hope they're really going to ship this time.

Interesting...
 

I just got that e-mail, too. Why the heck Vivendi isn't doing any PR or promotion for them is beyond me. I'll believe it when I see those boxes in my mailbox. :P

I'd say it's probably because they don't exist, but maybe I'm just being cynical.

I think you may be onto something there.

Ha! The joke will be on all of you naysayers when these compilations actually do ship in a few years! Later, jerkwads! HAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!:devil::D

Any news? :)

Slipped again.
 

I received an e-mail from Amazon the other day that my order had changed. When I checked it out the delivery date had changed to January 2007. Oh well, since it doesn't cost me anything I'll just let the order ride and see what happens. Besides what's the worst that could happen? Sierra just wont get my money.

I seriously doubt that these collections of yours will never see the light of day and get released, but anyways Vivendi's site has been recently(?) updated with pics of each of the collections box covers.

http://www.vug.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=1939
http://www.vug.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=1940
http://www.vug.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=1941
http://www.vug.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=1942

King's Quest and Police Quest covers look just like the old collections, but Larry and Space Quest covers have totally new art on the cover according to those pages.

And those pages claim that all of those will be released Fall 2006

Vivendi's site? Do they exist after all?

I actually love that SQ cover, by the way. :D

Well, who ever bought Vivendi, I don't even remember which firm owns the Sierra trademark name these days.

The game business is filled with dead companies still alive only because their name is still in use.

Now why on earth is someone at Vivendi getting paid to make cover art for products that DON'T EXIST?

On another note, the LSL collection box boasts "5 full games!" Whoever made up the art probably doesn't even know how many Larry games there were. :shifty:

Also the KQ collection cover art looks like a reference to the KQ7 cover, only a thousand times better looking. Plus the characters are different--looks like Manannan and Alex from KQ3, along with the dragon.

BTW Kolzig, as I recall the old KQ Collection box just had a crown and crossed swords on a background of lightning. And the KQ Anthology before that had a stylizd image of King Graham randomly pointing somewhere. So the Vivendi KQ art does seem to be newly minted as well.

Interesting that whoever made the SQ cover remembers the teaser poster for ROTJ.

Hey, that's cool! Guess the compilations are not so far away, after all! I really like the King's Quest box :9

The collection doesn't necessarily include Love for Sail, which is the sixth game. Which is a shame.

Number four never existed, remember? It looks like it's the same old compilation of Larry games that came out before Love for Sail and Magma Cum Laude. Which means it's got 1,2,3,5 and 6.

And if they work on XP, that's fine by me. Though I wish they include Love for Sail.

Yeah, well truth is that I only own the Police Quest collection so I guess I remembered the KQ collection box cover incorrectly.

It's Vivendi Universal that owns the brand and its products, but I think they are the fifth or sixth company, including mergers, acquisions and divestitures to do so.

"They" = "the compilations". Sorry for the confusion. :)