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what does it mean when a game goes "Gold"?

  • 08.03.2004 8:07 PM PDT
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it means that it reached 1,000,000 copies reserved

  • 08.03.2004 8:08 PM PDT
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It means it's ready to burn and ship.

You're kidding, right stinger?

[Edited on 8/3/2004 8:09:42 PM]

  • 08.03.2004 8:09 PM PDT
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which one of the above?

  • 08.03.2004 8:09 PM PDT
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I'm going with Wicked Ninja's, that is what I thought it meant...

  • 08.03.2004 8:11 PM PDT
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Stinger is a frekin n00b, I basically means that they have the FINAL copy and they have begun mass production. They can have 0 preorders, and the game will still go gold, unless that 0 preorders mean the game sucks, then it might get canceled....

  • 08.03.2004 8:11 PM PDT
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As wicked ninja said, it's when a game is ready to be burned onto cds and shipped.

  • 08.03.2004 8:11 PM PDT
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yeah i am 99 percent sure it means that its ready to go and get shipped.

  • 08.03.2004 8:12 PM PDT

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Posted by: Stinger1337
it means that it reached 1,000,000 copies reserved

Pal... Your thinking of music records... music and video games are different worlds.

  • 08.03.2004 8:15 PM PDT
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Like the others said. In the videogame business going gold means that they have the game finished and a master ready and are now producing the physical copies of the game.

  • 08.03.2004 8:17 PM PDT
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Going gold means that the game has been finished and is ready to be copied to the CDs/DVDs.

  • 08.03.2004 8:18 PM PDT
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I am also 99 percent sure that it means that its ready to ship but why do you ask what game is going gold?

  • 08.03.2004 8:20 PM PDT
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when will halo2 go gold?

  • 08.03.2004 8:20 PM PDT
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95% of the people here are right:

Going gold means that a game is done bulding and is ready for mass production.

  • 08.03.2004 8:20 PM PDT
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Stinger is wrong either way because you only need to ship 500,000 with the intention of sale for a music album to go gold. So strike 2!

  • 08.03.2004 8:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Soviet Jackal
when will halo2 go gold?

My guess is the begining of October.

  • 08.03.2004 8:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Soviet Jackal
when will halo2 go gold?


Never know for most games you will see the news a few weeks to a month before it is scheduled. With Halo 2 I figure a month at least due to the amount of copies they have to make due to having both a regular version and a Collectors edition. It also helps that they have a ton of preorders.

  • 08.03.2004 8:28 PM PDT
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guy who sent me a mesage please send it again, i accidently deleted it :(

  • 08.03.2004 8:30 PM PDT

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Posted by: Soviet Jackal
what does it mean when a game goes "Gold"?


You know how games have alpha and beta phases, right? Well, when the developer has made a version of the game that is the version they plan to publish, that version is called the "Gold master." So, "going gold" is when the game goes from final stages to finished.

  • 08.03.2004 8:30 PM PDT
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Going gold means the the final product is done and that is the one they will use to multiply the game and get it ready for shipment.

  • 08.03.2004 8:42 PM PDT