Shame, shame EBgames..... - Page 2

Nightmare · 03-21-07, 03:41 PM

Since my last post I decided to try calling the local EB and see what they say. The lady on the other end responded, "Our computer doesn't have a date for that title." Nice!

NefariousKoel · 03-21-07, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Sgian Dubh

So, being the patient soul I am, I went to the EBgames store where I pre-ordered SH4 - having withstood the temptation of calling yesterday or before to see if things were on target, so to speak.

So I walk in and ask, with confidence, for my pre-order.

The puzzled look on the clerks face was not encouraging. The clerk retires to consult the glowing oracle behind the counter.

"We didin't get it. Its not on my shipping list. Did you pre-order it here? I don't see it on my pre-order list"

This was sounding ominous indeed. I produced my pre-order receipt, issued at that very store.

"We didn't get it. Its a PC title, right? PC titles, not being in demand, are not shipped overnight even as a pre-order. It might be here tomorrow or Friday."

Note: Apparently my money, being destined for a PC-game, is not as good as the money spent on console games.

Hmmmm. Yet another reason to add to my already long list of reasons to hate console games and firming of resolve to never own one of the hedious devices.

Right on, brother. That's one reason I don't bother going to EB anymore. They won't get any more cash from me, I'll wait an extra day for an online purchase to arrive at my home. F*ck them console-centric b@stards.

elite_hunter_sh3 · 03-21-07, 03:50 PM

bah i got night school

6-9:30pm est so instead of me calling and bugging ebgames im going to boring chemistry class... and wat also sucks due to budget cuts(thank you stupid government

) we cant have expirements!! i mean come on a chem class without labs???

bah, at least i got a field trip tommorw where i can waltz down to the eatons center downtown and check the bigger eb games there.

fidget · 03-21-07, 03:54 PM

By and large, I don't think any large retail chains will have (or sell if they do) any copies anywhere in the coutry until tomorrow. I ran into the same issue with EB today. I had them do a $5 reserve for me but they didn't come in today. I feel confident that Best Buy will have them tomorrow since they are showing 3/22 as the release date on their web site. I'm cutting EB some slack since this seems to be the situation with all US retailers. The only people who seem to have copies in the US right now are those that ordered overnight from the UBI store.

shawnyp420 · 03-21-07, 03:57 PM

Yup. Same issues here in Maine. We have 3 gamestop/EB stores in the area. I called all three. They were all VERY confused. The first place I called had never even heard of Silent Hunter IV. "Is that a PC game?" he says... Yah it is...."Nope, I'm not sure when we'll be getting it."

So I went on over to direct2drive.com and bought it there. It's downloading as we speak! WOHOOOO!! I should be playing by tonight.

Edit: Oh and by the way. All the "extra" content is also provided via a separate download. I'm looking at the cool posters, maps, and pullouts while the game downloads!

TriskettheKid · 03-21-07, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by fidget

By and large, I don't think any large retail chains will have (or sell if they do) any copies anywhere in the coutry until tomorrow. I ran into the same issue with EB today. I had them do a $5 reserve for me but they didn't come in today. I feel confident that Best Buy will have them tomorrow since they are showing 3/22 as the release date on their web site. I'm cutting EB some slack since this seems to be the situation with all US retailers. The only people who seem to have copies in the US right now are those that ordered overnight from the UBI store.

Again, I must point out that you CAN get the game in the US right now.

It really helps if you call what can be called a "flagship" store. You can easily tell if it's the case if the store is either:
1. Quite large
2. Sells lots of used games, possibly even PSX, N64, and DC games.

My local EB Games is not, but the Gamestop I called is. The Gamestop has plenty of copies.

So I suggest calling the larger retail stores in your area to see if they have it.

Nightmare · 03-21-07, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by fidget

By and large, I don't think any large retail chains will have (or sell if they do) any copies anywhere in the coutry until tomorrow. I ran into the same issue with EB today. I had them do a $5 reserve for me but they didn't come in today. I feel confident that Best Buy will have them tomorrow since they are showing 3/22 as the release date on their web site. I'm cutting EB some slack since this seems to be the situation with all US retailers. The only people who seem to have copies in the US right now are those that ordered overnight from the UBI store.

That's not quite true. Several posters here in the forum have gotten their copies at Gamestop, even one person picked it up at Target. Target!? Come on!

I'm just irrated because the orginal launch date of the 13th was push back to make a "World Wide Release" date, so it got pushed back to the 20th. Now I'm being told my pre-order (paid in full, because I guess I'm a sucker) won't be in till Friday. That would make it a whole week later than some of the people from Europe on here recieved it (no ill will toward those lucky folks). I guess the thing I'm happy about is I didn't take an "sick time" off of work today...

fatty · 03-21-07, 04:22 PM

The OP sounds about right with what I was able to dig up at the EB I work at. It was not even listed in our system of upcoming releases at the time I checked

On behalf of EB, sorry everyone

Dizoak · 03-21-07, 04:39 PM

same thing happened to me today. AND it happened when Medieval 2:Total War came out; i had paid for the whole game in full...then got stiffed on the release date, and the day after (that day the guy said it would be in "tomorrow" which was 3 days after it was released). so i went to best buy instead and bought it there, and traded in my pre-order for some other stuff.

if PC games arent in demand, how come they keep making them?

longam · 03-21-07, 04:40 PM

Well this is great; I canceled my Amazon order because of delay and went with EB. It seems the distribution is slowly filtering around the USA. I’m just going to wait for delivery, when it arrives it arrives.

malkuth74 · 03-21-07, 04:43 PM

Maybe someone needs to remind those Ahole Eb type stores that they would not have said stores if it was not for the PC games. Because Everyone knows they could not live off selling just console games in past. When one whole wall was dedicated to the PC games you could bet the games were their the day of release.

bert8for3 · 03-21-07, 04:45 PM

EB here (Montreal) is saying Friday.

Deep-Six · 03-21-07, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by longam

Well this is great; I canceled my Amazon order because of delay and went with EB. It seems the distribution is slowly filtering around the USA. I’m just going to wait for delivery, when it arrives it arrives.

I went to 2 Targets, 2 BestBuys, GameStop, and Fry's. Not one store had it out yet. It kinda makes me wonder.

malkuth74 · 03-21-07, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by shawnyp420

Yup. Same issues here in Maine. We have 3 gamestop/EB stores in the area. I called all three. They were all VERY confused. The first place I called had never even heard of Silent Hunter IV. "Is that a PC game?" he says... Yah it is...."Nope, I'm not sure when we'll be getting it."

So I went on over to direct2drive.com and bought it there. It's downloading as we speak! WOHOOOO!! I should be playing by tonight.

Edit: Oh and by the way. All the "extra" content is also provided via a separate download. I'm looking at the cool posters, maps, and pullouts while the game downloads!

Your going to be screwed though if you wanna play a mod. Even on the Direct 2 drive faq it says It's not us that doesn't support mods its the mod makers themselves that doesnt support Digital Downloads. Which basically means yeah you can't use mods. Patches are just as bad.

TriskettheKid · 03-21-07, 05:21 PM

***UPDATE***

So I just got back from Gamestop. Apparently, they misheard me on the phone and tried to present me with a copy of SH3. Needless, to say, I was less than thrilled.

Whilst paying for my copy of STALKER, which I also wanted, the manager also handed me a copy of the trial beta for the new LOTR MMO, for free. That was nice.

But what I found out was that Gamestop and EB Games had their games shipped via Ground, and not Air or Express. Thus, the stores SHOULD have it on Thursday.

But, he could have just had that information for Philadelphia. I'm sure it's similar all over the country, though.

03-21-07, 03:50 PM	#18
elite_hunter_sh3 The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,376 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	bah i got night school 6-9:30pm est so instead of me calling and bugging ebgames im going to boring chemistry class... and wat also sucks due to budget cuts(thank you stupid government) we cant have expirements!! i mean come on a chem class without labs??? bah, at least i got a field trip tommorw where i can waltz down to the eatons center downtown and check the bigger eb games there.

03-21-07, 04:43 PM	#26
malkuth74 Sonar Guy Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 377 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Maybe someone needs to remind those Ahole Eb type stores that they would not have said stores if it was not for the PC games. Because Everyone knows they could not live off selling just console games in past. When one whole wall was dedicated to the PC games you could bet the games were their the day of release. __________________

03-21-07, 03:41 PM	#16
Nightmare Engineer Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 210 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Since my last post I decided to try calling the local EB and see what they say. The lady on the other end responded, "Our computer doesn't have a date for that title." Nice!

03-21-07, 03:54 PM	#19
fidget Seaman Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 42 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	By and large, I don't think any large retail chains will have (or sell if they do) any copies anywhere in the coutry until tomorrow. I ran into the same issue with EB today. I had them do a $5 reserve for me but they didn't come in today. I feel confident that Best Buy will have them tomorrow since they are showing 3/22 as the release date on their web site. I'm cutting EB some slack since this seems to be the situation with all US retailers. The only people who seem to have copies in the US right now are those that ordered overnight from the UBI store.

03-21-07, 03:57 PM	#20
shawnyp420 A-ganger Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 78 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Yup. Same issues here in Maine. We have 3 gamestop/EB stores in the area. I called all three. They were all VERY confused. The first place I called had never even heard of Silent Hunter IV. "Is that a PC game?" he says... Yah it is...."Nope, I'm not sure when we'll be getting it." So I went on over to direct2drive.com and bought it there. It's downloading as we speak! WOHOOOO!! I should be playing by tonight. Edit: Oh and by the way. All the "extra" content is also provided via a separate download. I'm looking at the cool posters, maps, and pullouts while the game downloads!

03-21-07, 04:22 PM	#23
fatty The Old Man Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,448 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The OP sounds about right with what I was able to dig up at the EB I work at. It was not even listed in our system of upcoming releases at the time I checked On behalf of EB, sorry everyone

03-21-07, 04:39 PM	#24
Dizoak Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Grid Reference CA Posts: 47 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	same thing happened to me today. AND it happened when Medieval 2:Total War came out; i had paid for the whole game in full...then got stiffed on the release date, and the day after (that day the guy said it would be in "tomorrow" which was 3 days after it was released). so i went to best buy instead and bought it there, and traded in my pre-order for some other stuff. if PC games arent in demand, how come they keep making them?

03-21-07, 04:40 PM	#25
longam Admiral Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,014 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Well this is great; I canceled my Amazon order because of delay and went with EB. It seems the distribution is slowly filtering around the USA. I’m just going to wait for delivery, when it arrives it arrives.

03-21-07, 04:45 PM	#27
bert8for3 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,124 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	EB here (Montreal) is saying Friday.

03-21-07, 05:21 PM	#30
TriskettheKid Planesman Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 186 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	*UPDATE* So I just got back from Gamestop. Apparently, they misheard me on the phone and tried to present me with a copy of SH3. Needless, to say, I was less than thrilled. Whilst paying for my copy of STALKER, which I also wanted, the manager also handed me a copy of the trial beta for the new LOTR MMO, for free. That was nice. But what I found out was that Gamestop and EB Games had their games shipped via Ground, and not Air or Express. Thus, the stores SHOULD have it on Thursday. But, he could have just had that information for Philadelphia. I'm sure it's similar all over the country, though.