ghostcat80 ([info]ghostcat80) wrote,
@ 2005-11-15 10:33:00
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Rassa Frassa.
You'd think that if a new game has a release date of the 14th, you'd be able to get it on, oh, I don't know...the 14th. Does "release" mean release from the shackles of the factory to be prepared for shipping? For every other form of media I can think of, when they say "release date" that usually means you can stop by your local Best Buy or whatever, and pick it up that day. Not the case with games. Here's an idea. Increase all advertised game release dates by one day, and then have it so that you can pick it up on the day it is advertised as being "released". Also, when the release date is the 14th, and you say you'll have it on the 15th, I expect that to mean the morning of the 15th, EBGames. Not "sometime this afternoon". I didn't preorder for sometime this afternoon. All preordering has done for me is guarantee that I can't pick it up when I go to lunch at work, and it's making me drive out of my way and pick it up at night. I've decided that, unless there will be shortages of epic proportions, preordering is for chumps. I guess today I'm a Mario Kart-less chump.

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[info]brianarn
2005-11-15 03:47 pm UTC (link)
I stopped preordering about a year ago for this same reason. Pissed me off too much.

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[info]brokenchopstick
2005-11-15 04:18 pm UTC (link)
Twice now I have been flummoxed by release date slippages. Once on Fahrenheit and again this week with Soul Calibur 3.

I await the new release date of the 18th (this Friday) with some muted expectation ...

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[info]dethblud
2005-11-15 05:25 pm UTC (link)
In the case of most media, the product is in the stores before the release date. Typically the boxes it is shipped in are labeled with big "DO NOT OPEN BEFORE..." labels. I think the difference with games is that the press and consumers pay a lot of attention to the game's development progress. How many times have you known when a game has gone gold? In contrast, do you ever hear when a book has had it's final edit and is being sent to the printer? Or perhaps when a DVD's menus and special features are done and it's gone gold? I think the game industry, on both the supply and demand sides, lacks much of the patience the other media industries display.

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[info]soapyshoes
2005-11-15 06:59 pm UTC (link)
I never saw the point of preordering.

Here's an example:

Preordering cost = $60 ($10 preorder fee + $50 game price)
Regular cost = $50

There are incentives, of course, for preordering... t-shirts, strategy guides, or maybe some other form of goodie, and in essence, that's what you're really paying for. You're not paying for the gaurantee, because chances are, they're going to have it anyway.

But, in your case, they downright break the garuantee. You should ask for your preorder fee back because they didn't honor the contract. Although, I'm assuming that there was a gaurantee to recieve the game on the release date that was stated in the contract, but I could be wrong. If you still have your preorder card or whatever they give you, read over it again and see what it says. Justice can be fufilled if they broke their promise.

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[info]delita
2005-11-15 07:04 pm UTC (link)
man, where do you pre order from? Any time ive pre ordered, they deduct the price of the pre order from the final price of the game, so it dosent cost you any extra.

but yeah, the release dates should be like it is for movies and music. It just dosent make any sense the way they do it for games.

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[info]tombrazelton
2005-11-15 07:05 pm UTC (link)
I really want Mario Kart DS, but I don't have any friends who own a DS - so what's the point? :(

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[info]ghostcat80
2005-11-15 07:48 pm UTC (link)
I'll be your friend :)

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[info]happykuroneko
2005-11-15 08:50 pm UTC (link)
I've found that to be the case for many, many games. They label the Tuesday the "shipping date" and have Wednesday be the release date. I know many stores actually don't have product until it ships.

At our local Gamestop, they actually let us know that the game is being released on Wednesday, and not to expect it Tuesday (in this case, Dragon Quest VIII).

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[info]mattcatdude
2005-11-15 10:47 pm UTC (link)
I weep for you. But at least you can preorder stuff. I can only gt games on my B'day and Xmas. I cant get a job until January. I gotta wait for them to finish building the new Publix up the street. I don't care that I'm fourteen. No one should have to be a bagboy. Ah well. Good luck on your next preorder if you decide to preorder again.

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[info]ghostcat80
2005-11-15 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Ok, it's time for some one-upsmanship. :) I was forbidden to have a game system of any kind until I was 12 (even if I had the money. I really wanted to buy my neighbors Atari 2600 for $20). That's when we got a nes. We had maybe 6 games for it, and it lasted all of 1.5 years until my baby brother knocked it off the shelf and it broke. I then had to wait until I was 14 to save up the $100 from working at $2 an hour doing backbreaking physical labor for my father, so I could get buy a genesis and a game. I've learned to have the patience to wait for something, but I never learned to like people getting my hopes up only to have them dashed.

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[info]mattcatdude
2005-11-16 02:53 am UTC (link)
I got an N64 when I was five, and an Xbox for my brithday last year. Cry me a river. lol

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[info]jrronimo
2005-11-15 11:02 pm UTC (link)
I thought that the Official Release Date was the 16th? It is the 17th here in Australia.

And lo, I /will/ have it.

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[info]jrronimo
2005-11-16 07:21 am UTC (link)
Okay, Nintendo.com.au lied to me! Mario Kart DS is available today! And I have it! And it is beautiful. ::sheds a tear::

Here is my Friend Code, such that you will have someone to play with, y'know, if you are up at random ass times: 287822-302583.

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[info]eskimopirate
2005-11-16 12:38 am UTC (link)
And when your better half sends you a package from a differant country is told it'll arrive in 2-3 weeks, then later find out it'll be 4-8 weeks (currently it's week 7), you wanna start smashing skulls. IMO, no-one can be trusted when it comes to estimated times of arrival.

(I should know, I used to work at Pizza Hut)

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[info]ghostcat80
2005-11-21 03:01 am UTC (link)
friend code:
274937
393913

See you online :)

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[info]thortok2000
2005-11-21 05:58 pm UTC (link)
I hope when I preorder the next Zelda, it'll be ready on the right day...

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