2.5 Release Date Guessing Game

Greeting to every community member!

This is my first post here, and yes, I'm here for the Unity 2.5 :0) As I'm sick of refreshing Unity home page hundreds times every day just try to find out whether 2.5 is out or not, I would like to open up 2.5 Release Date Guessing Game.

Here's how we play the guessing game before we releasing our own software. We let our users guess the exact software release date, and on that day, we choose on lucky user from whom made the right guess, and give him/her a license for free!

I'm not suggesting that Unity should give out one copy of Unity 2.5 to the winner here, but just try killing some waiting time :0)

So, here's my guess:

Unity 2.5 will be released on Feb. 25!

Reason:
1. Hey, 25 for 2.5, isn't it quite a match
2. It's 25 days before GDC

 

im going for late Feb or early March

 

Whenever the GDC is in march + 3 days

 

GDC + 4 days! :O
-Blayke

 

March 28th, 2009 12:06 P.M. GMT+7

 

I'd guess it takes however long it takes to fix the next 25 bugs, according to one of the developers tweets.

I'm not sure how many developers there are. But if we guess from the number of hero T-shirts.
http://www.printfection.com/unifycommunity/Unity-Devs-are-Heroes/_s_64070

I see 9 t-shirts there. So with total statistical confidence I could absolutely be certain there are 25 * 9 remaining bugs ~= 225 bugs.

Let's say they can fix 4 or 5 bugs each day. So that would be 45 days. Let's be optimistic and force them to work weekends. That would be within 2 months.

Of course I took a stats class, and 9 t-shirts isn't an accurate sample size. If there were more t-shirts I could pinpoint the day exactly.

 

That was probably 25 bugs to the next beta

 

thought only if the newsletter mail isn't 2 days later than the page update as with the 2.5 news ...
but yeah less polling would perhaps make the page a little faster

 

Yes, I subscribed that. But... Still, I just can't help clicking again and again

 

When the website goes live an email goes out, our server churns through the 15000+ email addresses subscribed as fast as it can.

 

Tip of the day: The RSS feed is faster.

Guess: GDC (I believe unity would prefer that. A GDC release is about as cool as it gets for a game engine / tool plus its a cheap press conference if you're planning to go anyway :wink.

 

At some point you need a bug freeze. Shutdown email or filter the bugs. Use a blinder or a helmet. Any bugs after such and such a date do not exist.

 

Avast! I used to hate when people would do that when you had to guess the closest without going over... that just gave me a mean elementary school flashback. Although it was always funny when people would get the strategy wrong and choose one under, effectively forcing themselves to only be able to win if they were 100% accurate.

 

Well...I am sorry I did that! Do you forgive me?
-Blayke

 

Oh, don't worry about it. You didn't do that to me, so I forgive you for that.

 

The ultimate purpose in life is to get your in-game character to fart.

 

My guess Is March 26th.

 

well you got my two bugs right?

I say march-april. I'm on the later side because I think they will release it closer to after snow-leopard to make unity take advantage of the new power. GO UNITY!

 

good point

 

Well lets look at what is known.

The Unity team made an announcement that "2.5 is coming soon".

#1 - If 2.5 wasnt close to completion they would not have made that announcement so soon.

Mainly because they, just like any business, know that if you make an announcement like that it will make customers wait, but if customers wait too long, then it can mean a potential loss of those customers.

So I'm sure they waited at the right time to make that announcement so it wouldnt be too soon, and not too long.

My guess is sometime in the first week of March.