Ticket to Ride Europe yet to arrive on XBLA, customers getting antsy

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jul 30th 2008 at 3:45PM }

Update: It's finally here ... two days late.

Considering it was supposed to be released today, a few people have been asking us: What happened to XBLA's Ticket to Ride Europe expansion? We really don't know. We tried contacting developer Playful Entertainment and pretty much anyone we know at Microsoft. Nobody is talking. Our next try is to check with the butcher and the baker, but typically the liquor store guy always knows what's going on.

We'll be sure to update as soon as someone decides to explain why the train is late to the station.

Gallery: Ticket to Ride: Europe (XBLA)

Tags: playful-entertainment, ticket-to-ride, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

FSK405K @ Jul 30th 2008 4:11PM

Seizures?

Korova Pamplona @ Jul 30th 2008 4:17PM

Where is Mussolini when we need some train to run on time?

invaderalex @ Jul 30th 2008 5:28PM

TRANS-EUROPA EXPRESS!!!

if you don't get that and you like electronic music then you fail.

Korova Pamplona @ Jul 30th 2008 6:12PM

whats up with this piece? There is everything from jazz and classical to heavy metal and deep bass with that title on iTunes.

invaderalex @ Jul 30th 2008 8:35PM

Itunes doesn't have the orginal track but this the video for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlgbAc3bbM
just listen to it for the music

Also its an album... consider to one of the best of all time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Europe_Express

Korova Pamplona @ Jul 31st 2008 12:36AM

Thanks.

I appreciate the historical value, but the cynical part of me thinks there must be a marketing push coming. That cynical part always gives me trouble.

they do seem like electronica/new wave pioneers, but the comments on youtube sweat them so hard, its a little incredible.

balthasaar @ Jul 30th 2008 6:17PM

I'm a big Ticket to Ride fan. I use it as a gateway game to introduce family & friends to board gaming, & have even played it competitively @Gen-con. Core demographic, right?

Unfortunately, Can't play it because I'm color-blind; matching the 9 different colored track cards and map spaces is just too frustrating to be enjoyable.

The fix is simple & the game-industry's lack-of awareness is well documented: (Multiplayer FPS are the worst) http://digg.com/gaming_news/Color_blind_gamers_common_Developer_awareness_Minimal
I no longer have any qualms about boycotting games with known colorblind issues & telling friends to do the same.

What greatly surprises me is that Playful Entertainment & Days of Wonder botched this up when color-blind difficulties were a KNOWN problem that Days of Wonder had ALREADY fixed in the game's second printing after winning the German Game of the Year award.