There's no way the game will get released till it goes gold, no matter what the retailers say. They have to say SOMETHING, so they'll just quote a date that is on their purchasing system. Until Bioware comes up with the "gone gold" message, any date you get from a retailer/store will be BS.
In case people don't know, going gold means that Bioware QA have signed off that the game is sufficiently free of bugs to be made available to the public. I would rather they took more time to make it as bug-free as possible rather than rushing it because everyone's waiting for it. Remember Fallout 2?
As soon as it goes gold I will post the news here. Shipment should then be just a couple of days from that.
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