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Gamestop's US$5.00 GoW-delay apology (and my apology) |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Best Buy, GameStop
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First of all, a heartfelt apology...Gears of War's Emergence Day is November 12. You know that. I "knew" that (as in knew it in the past, but then promptly forgot). But because I kept on talking on and on about Gears of War and how I so wanted to get it on November 7, the November 7 launch day became confused with Emergence Day in my fanboying mind. It got worse: I kept on pressuring my friends (even the QJ bloggers who aren't fans of the genre) that they should also try get this game on November 7, well... you know how mob mentality works, right? Pretty soon me and my buddies had brainwashed ourselves into calling November 7 "Emergence Day".I'm an idiot. It wasn't until a commenter called me an idiot that I got this "whole life flashing before my eyes" and I remembered all the press releases that explicitly said November 12 was Emergence Day and November 7 was a launch day.
I'm sorry. So, to all of you, I am sorry for any confusion I've caused (I feel like such a noob). I hope that taking the time to make an apology is a sign that we do take our blogging responsibilities seriously, and when a gross (or grotesque) error pops up, we will take responsibility for it.
Whew. Apologies are painful...on to the blogging!
Amon666 said over a day ago that "Gamestop got their shipment around 2:00p.m. in Jersey." This was in response to dfcd's comment: "This is intensely annoying... I never even got my call from the local EB to pick it up. What the hell. It's the seventh."
At that time we thought this was just a minor hiccup. But you've seen Victor B.'s article on how the Gears of War shipment has hit a snag. Read the comments in that article and you'll see it's a U.S.-wide phenomenon affecting those who pre-ordered their game at EB or Gamestop - 70% of the GoW boxes never got Fedexed out of Memphis.
Gamestop's US$ 5.00 apology. Over at Xbox 360 Fanboy, commenters are saying the same thing. The same thing is true in other sites: Gamestop / EB is offering a US$ 5.00 apology to those who didn't get their game yet. The game won't be available until today, November 9, 10:30 a.m. EST - it's like what, 11:45 a.m. in New York as I'm typing this? And is that EST "Eastern Standard Time" in New York or "Eastern Summer Time" in Australia or is it "ESTimated time, our best guess"? Hehehe.
So did you get your game already? Or were you one of those who cancelled the pre-order and just went to Best Buy? Did you really get a US$ 5 refund? Let us know if you have already gotten the call from EB.
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More and more I hate Gamestop / EB. Im forced to get some stuff there but i try alternitives when I can. (For example GC didnt have any MS wireless headsets?!)
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both best buy and gamestop near me (outside Philly, PA) had the regular version for sale yesterday, but no CE....
so I waited and grabbed it today.
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Your a tit for thinking we care enough to read a news item with an apology.
Basically we just don't care about you and want more interesting news than an apology from some nobody like yourself.
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get over yourself.
QJ reaches new lows in "news" reporting.
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EB Games #5016 received plenty of the CE version (which sold out in 10min) on 11/8/06 but no regular versions. Gave them a call yesterday to find out what they had and said the same, "There not here but we'll give you $5.00 off".
I want this game but I'm not skipping work for it so we'll see if they still have my reserve on-hand after work today come 6PST.
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The way they handled the release of GoW and the Xbox 360 plus how they DON'T price match with some of them at times, and a surprising lack of knowledge from some of their employees in some of their stores did it for me.
Tomorrow I'll be buying the HD-DVD add-on from them and that's it. I promise not to buy from them again.
They probably should just stick to selling used games and movies or otherwise give up.
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1. if you want to blame someone about your game not being at your local GS/EB than blame FedEx, they never sent the boxes to many of the stores.
thoes stores that had it on the 7th were probibly near a distribution center so someone just drove there and carted the games to their local district (and that wasn't many)
2. games have a launch day but that day isn't always the day stores will have it in stock. it usually takes a day for the games to make it to the store unless it is the east or west coast, there have even been times when stores like GS/EB have had it a day b4 best buy, this is because they get shipments monday to friday where Best Buy gets about 3 a week (bout 4 durring the holiday season). the games that do come out on the release day the stores get a few days early(that is how many ppl get the games way in advance ever heard the term "breaking street date").
i really dont care if anyone reads this and i REALLY dont care what u think. i just wish ppl would think b4 they go and type/say things without thinking or knowing the whole truth. also if you dont want to shop at stores like GS?EB DON'T no one is making u shop there, so shut up and shop elsewhere.
as for me i waited, got my $5 discount, and since i paid it off early that $5 was returned to me which i used on another reserve
and Max F. dont worry, the fact that epic made 2 important days for this game could confuse anyone.
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I just didn't bother with the EB at all and went right to bestbuy/futureshop...
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