Empire of the Eclipse has officially been submitted to Apple!

Congratulations!!!

Congrats. Best of luck. I hope it is extremely successful. (And I hope I get to play it soon)

Congrats! I look forward to being your customer. =)

I'm so excited to play this :-)

Congrats guys! Can't wait to try it out.

Definitely looking forward to this!!

Who else keeps checking the app store knowing there is no way it is past approval? =P

Originally Posted by lordxorn

Who else keeps checking the app store knowing there is no way it is past approval? =P

I know, it's stupid, but I keep checking here daily to see if it has been approved even though I know it's going to take some time.

It's like ordering something from Amazon at mid-night and checking the mail the next day just to see even though you used 7-10 day shipping.

Funny, we keep doing the same thing.

I'm refreshing app store every 2 hours or so. I've gotten an ipad 2 since beta and i'm sure this will be awesome on that

Originally Posted by ColfaxJones

I'm refreshing app store every 2 hours or so. I've gotten an ipad 2 since beta and i'm sure this will be awesome on that

I too am looking forward to playing this on my iPad, however I understand that it is optimized for the iphone.

Correct me if I am wrong Zarksoft, but I am guessing that means no native resolution for the ipad, but it is planned in the future?

Originally Posted by lordxorn

I too am looking forward to playing this on my iPad, however I understand that it is optimized for the iphone.

Correct me if I am wrong Zarksoft, but I am guessing that means no native resolution for the ipad, but it is planned in the future?

You are correct, the initial release is designed for the iphone but a native ipad client is planned for the future. When that does happen it'll be able to download the new client for free. You'll be able to use your existing player account so it should be a completely seamless transition to move between clients / devices.

When do you think this will be approved?

Apple approval times vary with 5-7 days being average, so within 3 days give or take a day. That would be my guess.

ok cool. Refreshing like mad lol.

Awesome!! Can't wait to play the game!

According to this page http://reviewtimes.shinydevelopment.com/ (It averages times as reporting by the Apple dev community)
it is averaging 6 days from submission. Some taking less, some taking up to 8.

So according to the average, it is possible for a Sunday release based on the date of this post.

Apple counts calendar days, and releases on weekends. =)

Still waiting for approval.. We expect ours to take a little longer since it's a little different than normal games. Hopefully we'll all be playing soon.

and once it does release we have to wait 24 hours/1500 players for the first match to start right? will the practice server at least be available to mess around on right toff? finally, will beta accounts still be valid accounts or will i need to start a new login? thanks

Yes, once it's approved there will still be around a 24 hour wait while the server fills up for the first game. The tutorial servers will be available to join immediately so you can hop in and start getting a feel for the game while you wait.

Beta accounts have been reset so you'll need to create a new one.