Editorial: COMPETITION: Age of Empires Giveaway [FINISHED]

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COMPETITION: Age of Empires Giveaway [FINISHED]
Posted: 03.02.2011 12:45 by Joe Robinson	Comments: 113
And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who participated - remember, even if you don't win this time, we pride ourselves on trying to do regular competitions. So stick around, you never know what might be given away next! As you guys quickly figured out, there was more than one possible answer to this question. Now, I didn't actually know this at the time, but let's pretend I did and this was all a clever ploy to help counter-act the fact that you guys can read each other's comments. Just to put things at rest, yes, the EARLY working title was indeed "Dawn of Man", whilst a later working title was "Tribe". Out of interest, I was thinking of "Dawn of Man" at the beginning. Because I love you guys so much, provided you said either Tribe(s) or Dawn of Man, you get entered into the prize draw. However, you were not entered if you said both, as that's just cheating :P So, without further ado, the winners are: markcocjin ansigar Geforcer fltatk SirRoderick PowerJack bollo Archer_Mac stuntkid whitetigerck Congratulations to all! You'll be contacted via PM with instructions on how to claim your prize. Until next time! ---------------------------------- Another day, another week, another competition! Again, the lovely people at Microsoft are our partners for this one, this time in celebration of Age of Empires: Online! In order to generate some buzz, and to coincide with an interview transcript that... well, it's actually lost in the nether that is the 'To Do' list, but it's there! And it will be up soon, so pretend it all happened at the same time and be suitably excited. We did publish some news from the interview mind, which you can see here. So, what do we have for you? We have TEN copies of the Age of Empires III Complete Collection, which is basically Age of Empires III plus the two expansions they released for it - The Warchiefs, and The Asian Dynasties. The Competition So, standard affair here. I'll ask a question, you answer it in the comments. Users who answer correctly will be entered into a hat, and names will be picked at random. I know some of you are a bit weary of comps that allow randoms to come and join, but to be honest we only save the more focused ones for very special prizes. Anyway, without further ado: What was the working title for the first Age of Empires game? Remember, questions are always answerable using publically available information. There wouldn't be any point it otherwise. You have until Thursday February 17th, so get cracking!

Comments

By markcocjin (SI Newbie) on Feb 03, 2011

Hello,

I'd like to answer the question. Age of Empires' original working title was "Dawn of Man".

I hope I win the raffle. :D

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Feb 03, 2011

The working title of the first AoE was "Dawn of Man"
Good luck to everyone. :D

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 03, 2011

Working title was "Dawn of Man"

By Bart331 (I just got here) on Feb 03, 2011

I think the working title was: 'Dawn of Man'

By Feloreth (I just got here) on Feb 03, 2011

The working title was: 'Dawn of Man'.

By nachocheese (SI Newbie) on Feb 03, 2011

I think Dawn of Man would be very woman-hating ;) So thumbs up for AoE ^^

By Sneaksy (SI Member) on Feb 03, 2011

Dawn of Man was the working title

By devel (SI Elite) on Feb 03, 2011

Although I did search for the correct answer, I mean, you do actually have it right there, already answered.. Indeed some new user can hop in and copy paste it and get himself in on the competition.. which is a bit unrighteous to the first replier. :S (Just read posts 4-5 to see what i mean ahaha)

Anyway, the answer to that is indeed "Dawn of Man"!
The working title name of Age of Empires while it was being produced back in 96, but upon release, Age of Empires ensued.
So that's it, good luck to everyone :D

By KnooBill (I just got here) on Feb 03, 2011

The working title was "dawn of man"...
Even thogh it's the dawn of RTS :P

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Feb 03, 2011

It's amazing how quickly these competitions attract new members. I just hope many of them remain active after the competition.

By ansigar (SI Veteran Newbie) on Feb 03, 2011

hi to everyone!!!!!

i think the working title was "Dawn of Man"!!!!!
good luck to everyone!!!!!!!

By Geforcer (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 03, 2011

Although the answer was already supplied in the posts before, I had to be sure. So I googled and...

My answer is: "Dawn of Man". :)

By Archer_Mac (SI Newbie) on Feb 03, 2011

The working title was Dawn of Man ;)

By Woxge (I just got here) on Feb 03, 2011

No, the working title actually was "Tribes"!
AoE2 was internally named "Tribes 2" ;)

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Feb 03, 2011

@Woxge
Is that your final answer? :D

By JamieSI (SI Core) on Feb 03, 2011

Dawn of War :p

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 03, 2011

Working title was "Dawn of Man"

Seriously, make it a PM to a staff member or something, this is a bit ridiculous TBH.

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Feb 03, 2011

@SirRoderick
I totally agree. This way anyone can see the answer instead of making the effort of trying to find the answer by themselves.

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 04, 2011

OR Staffmembers could delete correct answers and write down the members who got it right...

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 04, 2011

Yes, let's use a needlessly inefficient and fiddly system that requires 24/7 surveilance of the thread...

Sorry, but that one better be a joke. :)

By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Feb 04, 2011

Hey guys,

You know, I make this mistake every time. I use an Q&A system, and then forget that as soon as people post down answers, everyone else gets to see them. Whooops!

Now that there is apparently two possible answers though, this just got more interesting :D

I'm not going to tell you which answer is correct. You're just going to have to take a guess and hope for the best :P No changing answers either.

Have fun!

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 04, 2011

I'm not exactly worried I have it wrong.....

What we ARE worried about is a flood of one-timers :)

By bosnian_dragon (SI Core) on Feb 04, 2011

Here is the answer:
EARLY working title was: "Dawn of Man"
BUT the working title was: "Tribes"

By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Feb 04, 2011

If you say so :P

By chiefone (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 04, 2011

The answer is "Dawn of War: Tribes"

By CapAn (I just got here) on Feb 04, 2011

Dawn of Man

By RaviL (SI Core Member) on Feb 05, 2011

The first working title was Dawn of Man

Good luck to all!

By Gyorn (SI Core) on Feb 05, 2011

Its "Dawn of Man". However during coding sessions it was often refered to as "***** ******** *** **** ****!" ;)

@JustCommunication: Is it too late to change the question? Cause giving a new one and using Email to answer would solve this...problem.

Good luck everyone! :)

By VHugoSama (SI Core) on Feb 05, 2011

LOL. It seems that the answer is "Dawn of Man".

By Nicolas19 (SI Core Veteran) on Feb 05, 2011

It was Dawn of Man.
I had to surf a bit to find it out and really got me filled with nostalgia. Too bad I've given my original AOE CD to my cousin, guess its time to get it back:)

By ageofgert (I just got here) on Feb 05, 2011

The working title was "Dawn of Man"
Like Nicolas i took the pain of looking up myself (or actually Google did the Job).I found it! Of all games i ever played, AoE was the game i spent most hours with. For some reasons, however, i never got beyond Age of Kings (had other things on my mind i suppose), and i'd love to explore Mythology, Asians and Titans.
I wish me good luck !

By RaviL (SI Core Member) on Feb 05, 2011

I google the net but didn't find any reference to AoE that i was named "Tribes".

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 05, 2011

That's because it wasn't I believe. :)

By RaviL (SI Core Member) on Feb 05, 2011

Maybe YES maybe NO

By MrWilliamWallace (I just got here) on Feb 05, 2011

Dawn of Man

By whitetigerck (SI Newbie) on Feb 06, 2011

The working title was Dawn of Man

By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Feb 06, 2011

@ Gyorn: What problem? :P I see no problem here. Some Lolz maybe, but no problem...

No changing your answers!

By nocutius (SI Elite) on Feb 07, 2011

This is a tough one :).
Well i'm not entering cause i'm not interested enough in the game, but if i were interested the competitions format would make it waaaaay to easy.

Give me the new Shogun or Deus Ex and then I'll bite real hard :).

By PowerJack (SI Elite) on Feb 07, 2011

Dawn of Man
By the way its dawn right now. ^^

By unsilviu (SI Core) on Feb 07, 2011

Dawn of man...that's my answer. (didn't look in the comments for it! :D)

By davedaman (I just got here) on Feb 08, 2011

I believe it was "Tribes" =)

By owencampbell (I just got here) on Feb 08, 2011

"Tribes" -- Working title
"Dawn of Man" -- Early working title

By devel (SI Elite) on Feb 08, 2011

Yeah, but whats your answer? Can't have them both..

By Wryxie (I just got here) on Feb 08, 2011

Working title was Dawn of Man.

By owencampbell (I just got here) on Feb 09, 2011

@devel
"Tribes" as i think that was the end working title that is was released with

By tud667 (I just got here) on Feb 09, 2011

Yeah, i would agree with all people on dawn of man

By devel (SI Elite) on Feb 09, 2011

Dun dun dun.. where will this competition lead!? Only the future can unveil such a dramatic quest!

By RaviL (SI Core Member) on Feb 09, 2011

Yeah the "Age Of Competition" is upon us ^_^

By stuntkid (SI Elite) on Feb 10, 2011

It's.. Dawn of Man.

Good luck ppls!

By atricoz (I just got here) on Feb 12, 2011

The working title was Dawn of Man!

By Litude (I just got here) on Feb 12, 2011

I'm surprised that no one here has got it completely right yet. The development title in 1995 when the game started development was "Dawn of Man", but the development title the game used in 1996 was "Tribe" not "Tribes".

By bollo (SI Newbie) on Feb 12, 2011

The working title was "Tribe", without quotes.

At last, quite a good question for AoE players....had to seek in my memory and some stuff I had. :)

By cultura82 (I just got here) on Feb 12, 2011

The working title was Dawn of Man, mmmmkay?

By lone_wanderer (I just got here) on Feb 13, 2011

They used the title "Tribes" at a more advanced stage of development, though the initial title was "Dawn of Man" indeed.

Good luck with the raffle :)

By erykapi (I just got here) on Feb 14, 2011

the earlier title was "Dawn of Man", then switched to "Tribe"

By Gwaelan (I just got here) on Feb 15, 2011

The working title was "Dawn of Man". Good luck to all the honest people around here.

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 17, 2011

Last day!
Good luck to all regulars :)

By Gyorn (SI Core) on Feb 17, 2011

Thx, you too :)

By bombo (I just got here) on Feb 17, 2011

the earlier title was "Dawn of Man", then changed in "Tribe"

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Feb 17, 2011

@bombo
Better late than never. :D

By cheat2win (I just got here) on Feb 17, 2011

Dawn of Man

By bombo (I just got here) on Feb 18, 2011

@djole381
:D sure!

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Feb 18, 2011

Congrats to the winners.

By Gyorn (SI Core) on Feb 18, 2011

Awww... :(
Well, grats to the winners :)

By PowerJack (SI Elite) on Feb 18, 2011

Congrats to you guys... oh and to me. ^.^
The rest of you, better luck next time.

By RaviL (SI Core Member) on Feb 18, 2011

Congrats to the winners!

By Sneaksy (SI Member) on Feb 18, 2011

Congratulations guys!

By Geforcer (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 18, 2011

Thank you very much! Congrats to all the winners! :D

By Archer_Mac (SI Newbie) on Feb 18, 2011

Oh sh..last time I won something was over 10 years ago lol
Congrats to the winners :)

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 18, 2011

W00T!
Thank you very much and gratz to the other winners.

By Nicolas19 (SI Core Veteran) on Feb 18, 2011

Congratulations to the winners!

By VHugoSama (SI Core) on Feb 18, 2011

Congrats to all the winners!

By devel (SI Elite) on Feb 18, 2011

Congrats guys!

By bosnian_dragon (SI Core) on Feb 18, 2011

Congrats to the winners! But I think that you should have involved everyone in the competition. Anyways, another good competition by SI :)

By whitetigerck (SI Newbie) on Feb 19, 2011

First time to win something:D
Thank you very much and congrats to the other winners:)

By ansigar (SI Veteran Newbie) on Feb 19, 2011

HOORAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
thank you very much!!!!!!!
congrachulations to the other winners too!!!!!!

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 19, 2011

Nice, congrats to others :)

By unsilviu (SI Core) on Feb 19, 2011

Gratz all!

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 21, 2011

Anyone get the PM yet?

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 22, 2011

Nope...

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 22, 2011

Woot, I just made 400 points!
I feel fantastic about achieving an arbitrary and inevitable status!

By ansigar (SI Veteran Newbie) on Feb 22, 2011

Neither I!!!!!

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 22, 2011

I think we should not worry, they will send PMs soon enough :)

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 22, 2011

I'm sure they will, I was just making sure they didn't forget about me :P

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 23, 2011

Well, that would be weird if they send out 9 games and forget 1 on the table :D
Actually i know what you mean, i was worried at first aswell :D

By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Feb 23, 2011

Woops. Would help if I send off the PMs BEFORE going on holiday next time :p

Never fear guys, I'll be sorting all this out in the next couple of days.

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 23, 2011

Consider me reassured. :)

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 24, 2011

Me too :)

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 25, 2011

*clears throat*

*taps watch*

By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Feb 25, 2011

Sorry guys, busy scheduale this week! I've got to go up to London again over lunch, but then once I'm back from that, this is next on my list.

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 25, 2011

Ok, i think we can wait a bit longer :)

By Geforcer (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 25, 2011

Why are you so impatient, guys? :) I know that you can't wait to play the game. Me too. I'm sure that they will contact us soon.

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 25, 2011

Thanks :)

Just received an PM :)

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 25, 2011

Thanks :)

Just received an PM :)

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Feb 25, 2011

As have I, mail has been sent.

By Geforcer (SI Veteran Member) on Feb 25, 2011

Same here. E-mail sent. :)

By PowerJack (SI Elite) on Feb 25, 2011

Also got mine

By stuntkid (SI Elite) on Feb 26, 2011

Coolio, will send email right now!

By bollo (SI Newbie) on Feb 26, 2011

Many thanks to StrategyInformer!
Great!!! sending email......

By ansigar (SI Veteran Newbie) on Feb 26, 2011

i have mail too!!!!
thanks SI!!!!!!

By JustCommunication (SI Core) on Feb 26, 2011

:) Right, all the winners have emailed in. I've actually got plans this weekend, but I shall be free Sunday evening, so I'll send you all instructions then. Enjoy your weekend guys!

By Geforcer (SI Veteran Member) on Mar 05, 2011

Just to ask, are the games sent out to all the winners?

Thanks again. :)

By bollo (SI Newbie) on Mar 09, 2011

P.Message sent Joe ;)

By stuntkid (SI Elite) on Mar 13, 2011

Just posting to let you know game arrived safe and sound.

By PowerJack (SI Elite) on Mar 14, 2011

Mine just got here.
Now I know why the box looked so big, just noticed that its on CD, LOL, 5 CDs.
Last time I saw so many CDs for a game was the CD version of Unreal Tornament 2003, 6 CDs I think.

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Mar 14, 2011

Perhaps it's time for a new giveaway. :D

By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Mar 14, 2011

Mine just came in, safe and sound.

By Archer_Mac (SI Newbie) on Mar 15, 2011

Mine also came this morning but not so safe and sound. Someone or something hit it (hole in the package) and the box is broken from the inside quite badly. Luckily the discs are safe and it's almost invisible from the outside which is weird :P

Thanks again SI !!! :)

By fltatk (SI Veteran Member) on Mar 15, 2011

Thanks SI, mine arrived safe and sound.

By Geforcer (SI Veteran Member) on Mar 16, 2011

Just got mine. :)

By ansigar (SI Veteran Newbie) on Mar 16, 2011

me too just arrive!!!!!! thanks strategy informer again!!!!!!

By bollo (SI Newbie) on Mar 24, 2011

...i'm still waiting!!!

PD. Sorry, it arrived just after posting this comment!!!
Thanks StrategyInformer!!!!

By markcocjin (SI Newbie) on Apr 01, 2011

Thank you so much Strategy Informer! I got the game from the mail a few days ago and I'm so happy that I now own this game for free.

You guys are the best! :D

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