Dishonored golden

 @bad_fur_day  @KingofCabal 

As brainless as your grammar? Mr. "their not the same game." You fail on two levels, in turn, leveling down. 

 @james_324  @bad_fur_day  @KingofCabal 

Tell em like it is james_324. I can't stand brainless babies on forums, but love to put them in their place. 

 @bad_fur_day  @KingofCabal Arkane Studios is the DEVELOPER, not Bethesda. They are the publisher. Get it right before you make such remarks.

 @CaptWaffle  

Oh I forgot to mention, the "gold" status is not the same for music and video games.

In the music world "xxx is gold" or "xxx is golden" has the meaning you mentioned, but notice the wording is different here.

In the gaming world "xxx is GOING gold". It's just something else that I explained earlier. You can do a search on google or even on gamespot for forum topics. You'll see plenty explaining this.

This has nothing to do with the number of sells. And you'll even see articles on games that didn't even sell in their life more than 100k copies going gold before their release. It's an heritage from the time when the master CD of a game was printed on a golden DVD before going to the factories to be duplicated.

Ps: And they did not say that the game is being put on physical medium... Well they did by telling us it's going gold, but that's all.

 @CaptWaffle  @Hurvl No this is not this at all.

Going gold is the moment the game is sent to the factories. This is something most gamers can confirm to you, just ask on any forum, or you can check wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master

"The golden master is usually the release to manufacturing (RTM) version, and therefore the first public/commercial version. It represents the development stage of "RTM" (Release To Manufacturing). Reaching this stage is said to be "going gold", or "gone golden.""

 @Slash_out  @Hurvl 

"Going Gold" is talking about numbers of sales.  It's saying it sold more than 500K units.  Gold = 500k, Platinum = 1 million sales.  Otherwise why on earth would they be saying "The game is officially being put on physical medium to be sold now!"  Makes no sense.  They are just telling us that the game is pre-selling well. 

 @Slash_out So both me and the article's author were mistaken, lol. I'm glad we cleared that up :P.

 @Hurvl Going gold only means the game has been sent to be duplicated and boxed to the factories for the reason I mentioned above. It's an heritage from when the Master CD was printed on a golden DVD. The master CD is the one sent to the factories to be duplicated.

The game may or may not be completed or bug free. But this does not affect the "gone golden" saying. In a perfect world, the game would be finished and bug free. But really the game goes "golden" whenever the devs/publishers wants it to, or feel it's ready enough.

It is not possible to add bug fix on the dvd that is duplicated. No changes are made on a master CD once it's sent. If bug fixes are needed they have to be done by downlodable patches after you install the game.

Yes it doesn't make much sense to send an incomplete game to be duplicated. But even if they sent half the game to the factories and the rest "to be downloaded later" it doesn't affect the "going golden" saying.

Basically what I was making a comment on, was that gamespot was telling us that "the game was being duplicated and boxed ahead of its release in october". Which is a weird thing to say. Of course that's going to happen before release... How else are we going to find games in the stores?

 @Slash_outSo it goes gold after it's completed or what? It doesn't make sense to send an unfinished game to be pressed in the factories or is it so simple to add/correct/bugfix stuff after it's been sent to the factories?

 @expeditopaz2008  @nu1mlock It will use Steamworks, however it is unclear whether it is Steam-only. Cause I heard from one of the creators on the Dishonored forum that it depended on the country etc. I believe however, although im not sure, That in main Europe it will use Steam, I am 100% sure it won't be Games for Windows Live though!!