You totally saw this coming: Modern Warfare 2 street date broken

Posted Nov 8, 2009 at 11:49AM by Glenn M. Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Activision, GameStop, New York, Pennsylvania

The official launch of Modern Warfare 2 is only a couple of snoozes away, but apparently, it just can't wait. Another game has its street date broken again, frustrating people who haven't gotten in on those early purchases. One retailer raking in the dough out of this whole deal is GameStop, whose outlets in the Northeastern states have started selling Modern Warfare 2.

Kotaku reports that GameStops in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio have already begun selling the game. According to a GameStop employee from Bowling Green, Ohio, Activision actually gave them special permission to start selling early in order to win customers back from street-breaking mom-and-pop stores. Some have reported that they have received copies as early as last week.

Modern Warfare 2 is (apparently) available now (in some areas) for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. But you've probably known that for a few days, yes?

Image credit: Kotaku via C&C Games

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# luckyyyy — HungrymaN 2009-11-08 07:36

3 of my friends on xboxlive have been plaiyng this game for a few days. 2 live in Maryland and one in New York.

# OMG — deadlyangel91792 2009-11-08 08:09

can someone ban this idiot god i hate these retarded spam posts.

# earlier games — robsaggs 2009-11-08 08:28

because of proposed postal strikes in the UK a lot of retailers posted their copies out extra early, i've seen people playing since friday... still waiting for mine though!

# . — triac 2009-11-08 08:44

Senseless. At least for the PC Version because you can't activiate the game until its officially released.

# Been playing for 3 days — bob32o 2009-11-08 09:26

I've had it for three days, but apparently the stats are going to be reset, which sucks...

# ITS TRUE — lito2213 2009-11-08 10:48

i had my copy for about a week now i finish the story mode its amazing your going to love it.thats all i'll say and you already knoe the multiplayer *****ing ROCK'S :) SEE YOU ONLINE

# ?? — lito2213 2009-11-08 10:59

Its not going to be reset at all well we dont realy know that for a fact hope not im on level 47 that will suck bad.

# I believe it — Navani 2009-11-08 11:12

but it's not here.. Our Gamestops are not permitted to release them until Tuesday =(

# ! — Matt-N 2009-11-08 11:33

HAHAHA Someone gave you low votes because you have the game.

Get a life people!

# Had it since Friday — kon_e3 2009-11-08 11:36

Yeah had it too

# hahaha — vizard00 2009-11-08 14:10

broken IW activision Party lol

# :| — Ultrashot 2009-11-08 16:17

Although I saw this coming, I'm still kinda pissed, I paid for release date delivery and yet people already has the game, kinda killed the point of paying for rdd.

# wow — OwNeR_OHG 2009-11-08 16:21

way to put the gamestop and employee on blast

i asked the guys at my gamestop if i could have it early and they said as soon as they ring it up and hit ok it will email corporate office and they will be in trouble

# . — NarooN 2009-11-08 17:05

Some guy in France has been playing it on PS3 for the past two weeks, and I was just watching another German guy play it on Ps3 today via justin.tv. A 360 player was also on justin.tv.

PS3 guy was showing off Spec Ops mode and 360 guy was playing online.

# In Maryland also — cboushell75 2009-11-08 18:35

I was in a Gamestop Saturday afternoon and they were already selling copies and had even gotten in touch with some of those who pre-ordered. Why have release dates of you are gonna change them, just let the stores sell them as soon as they get them.

Chad

# Whatever — Master Chef 2009-11-08 21:24

I'll take my $20 Amazon and $20 Walmart gift cards (buying two copies) over getting the game a few days early

# hmmm — Black Adeptus 2009-11-08 23:38

I guess this is one of Activision's techniques to make players drool in anticipation and make them buy the copies.

# Really QJ? — scooter61686 2009-11-08 23:40

So me and another guy were the ones who actually sent this into kotaku and have the "other" picture too!!!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/essiekay05/photo.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y230/essiekay05/cod6receipt.jpg

Way to go qj on being last to know..

# BTW — scooter61686 2009-11-08 23:46

The picture is their copy of the game and our empty box after we sold out...twice.

This only happened as a repercussion to the multiple times Gamestop has tried to get us into trouble. they send in people.(we know who they are too) and have them buy copies of games we sell "early" and try to get us into trouble. ask ANY gamestop employee these tools are encouraged to do this too!!! also sorry to Kristen it was nothing against her we just wanted to post that pic asap

# the street date was broken — y2bangali 2009-11-09 04:19

it was broken like 5 days ago here in ny.. thats how long I've had it... but hopefully they don't reset the stats... I'm on lvl 38 and ive been dying to unlock the M16 which is at lvl 40...lol...

# got it! — xlemuelx 2009-11-09 04:48

here in singapore, 10 nov start selling

# I hope they do reset all of your stats. — napsac41 2009-11-09 07:10

no offense to any of you cause its not really your fault the stores sold it early but i was hoping that i could at least rank up to a good position on the leader boards. i was going to try for top 100. if only for a min. im not that good. hah. but if the stats arn't reset it kinda defeats the purpose of online play and is going to ruin it for ppl who want to compete cause we're already going to be so far behind in stats. :[

# uhh — nickelwise 2009-11-09 10:39

first of all, if you aren't that good, you're not gonna make top 100. no matter how early you get the game there is probably going to be 100 people who got it before you. second, it's not like the people who got it a few days before you are going to have some insane avantage. a few days of not playing the game will not put you eons behind... are you really planning on playing this game for hours a day every single day for the next few months? you're gonna be taking breaks for a few days

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