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Thread: Reserved my copy of JTL! Anyone else?
Zeon_Zaku
Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:33 pm
#27
I'm waiting to reserve until A) We get an official relase; and/or B) We know if we're getting an CE or not.
Iboxi
Mon Jul 12, 2004 2:42 pm
#28
I plan to reserve it, which store is more reliable EB games or Gamestop??
Drekkenkoe
Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:33 pm
#29
I wonder if they'll do a downloadable version as well... I'm too lazy to go to the store and my connection is fast enough that it wouldn't matter... that's my wish 
Zeon_Zaku
Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:39 pm
#31
Iboxi wrote:
Zaku, whats a CE or whatever u said?
CE is short for "Collector's Edition".
Message Edited by Zeon_Zaku on 07-12-2004 07:39 PM
NoxxiousAC
Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:16 pm
#32
Preordering = the suck.
Retailers will always put the game on the shelf before shipping to preorders if they are in a crunch to meet demand. They can sell the same game twice by just putting it on the shelf and making the pre-orderers wait until they get more in. Both Best Buy and EB have done the exact same thing in the past, most recently with City of Hereos and UT2K4. I can't speak for Amazon.
I myself don't preorder - I prefer to get my game before I give them my money, not the opposite.
Retailers will always put the game on the shelf before shipping to preorders if they are in a crunch to meet demand. They can sell the same game twice by just putting it on the shelf and making the pre-orderers wait until they get more in. Both Best Buy and EB have done the exact same thing in the past, most recently with City of Hereos and UT2K4. I can't speak for Amazon.
I myself don't preorder - I prefer to get my game before I give them my money, not the opposite.
NACHODEWI
Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:46 am
#33
I mad the mistake of pre-ordering SWG from amazon and the SOBs shipped it out late and I got it 3 days after it was already on the shelfs. Thats the last time I pre-order from a online site. I will just pick this up on the day it hits the store unless they make a extremly limited edition leather bound box with rare goodies inside.
NoxxiousAC
Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:15 am
#34
Hehe, even if it is super rare - you can always count on retailers having their shelfs lined with it the day they get it (or on release day if they get it early).
Two examples on preorders..
City of Hereos. They promised a 3 day headstart for beta testers via the downloaded client from beta. What they failed to mention was that the headstart stopped after those three days whether your preorder had arrived or not. In most cases the preorders arrived - oh around three days late. Do the math heh.
UT2k4 - Friends preordered this game. Went to Best Buy to complain about it not arriving only to find the shelves of Best Buy fully stocked with the game Best Buy said they didn't have available to ship. Ofcourse they didn't they could make more money faster by selling them on the shelves first and shipping the preorders after they had plenty more to meet the demand.
Two examples on preorders..
City of Hereos. They promised a 3 day headstart for beta testers via the downloaded client from beta. What they failed to mention was that the headstart stopped after those three days whether your preorder had arrived or not. In most cases the preorders arrived - oh around three days late. Do the math heh.
UT2k4 - Friends preordered this game. Went to Best Buy to complain about it not arriving only to find the shelves of Best Buy fully stocked with the game Best Buy said they didn't have available to ship. Ofcourse they didn't they could make more money faster by selling them on the shelves first and shipping the preorders after they had plenty more to meet the demand.
Burnham
Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:25 pm
#36
Nooblets!!! I reserved mine back in February!!! I am the #1 person on EB's reserve list. Oh yeah. I R Teh Pwner!!!
Decimator02
Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:13 pm
#37
Reserved it yesterday. I call the day before release & show up release day to make sure I get my game. 
Zeon_Zaku
Wed Jul 14, 2004 12:14 am
#39
Yeah, I've had the same happen... where games come in before the pre-orders to. So I pre-order my game anyway, just in case, then I always show up on the day of release and if they have it, I buy it and cancel my pre-order.