I come to the site every day. I've signed up for the email announcement! I've bookmarked several different LDW pages. But I'm not really sure that I'll know when the game will be released. If something comes up (I've got plans for the weekend and I'll be away from my computer! ).. so...how will I REALLY know???

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Where do you sign up for the e-mail announcement of the game launch?

Well, Carla said that she would announce a date, and she hasn't done that yet, so right now there is no way to know exactly when the game will be coming out. I understand your want for VV4 (heck, I want it too !), but we're all just going to have to be patient until we get a date, I guess.

to sign up for email alert click on the ldw link than on preview to go to preview page you will see the bar at 100% and there is also the place to sign up for email alert for windows or mac.

When LDW brings a game to market, they always do what they call a "soft launch" here. This is a members only launch mostly to reward the loyal LDW Forum members, and partly to find any little glitches that were missed in development.

The LDW members will be able to download the game directly from here, for their free trial period (usually 1 hour). When that expires, they will have the option of buying directly from LDW.

The advantages are

• 1: WE get the game several days (if not weeks) before the general public.
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  2: If glitches are found, you will be able to upgrade to the corrected version for free.
• 3: If you need customer support, you get to deal directly with Xay instead of some unknown face at a mega gamesite!

As for how you will know, usually your first clue will be an error message that the server is busy (too many people online) and you'll try over and over till you sneak into an open spot!
When you do get in, you'll see admins and mods scrambling around madly, pulling their hair out, and trying to ride herd on the thousands of fans trying to ask questions at the same time!

Just kidding (almost) In reality, it will appear on the previews page when you log in, and also it's posted on the left side of the forum (where they currently are showing VF for the iPhone)

You mean if you buy it on other sites you have to pay to upgrade to version without glitches?

Thank you, skipper. I went and signed up for the newsletter.

One way to know when it comes out when you come to the ldw.com site you will see the banner for VV4.

I know Big Fish will update games. Not sure of other sites. I figure you would get the updated version here faster though.

~Jamie

You don't have to pay for bug fixes to games when you buy through other sites. But other sites usually get the game later, and they don't always update if there are bug fixes (at least minor ones). I've been through this several times with different games (not LDW games), and if you want to be guaranteed that you'll always have any updates as soon as they're available, you should buy directly from the developer.