Archive: 14 posts

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Lately, I've heard a few things about people going into stores like BestBuy and buying games before they're official release. Supposedly, all they've done is walked into the store a couple days beforehand and asked if they could buy whichever game since most stores receive their shipments several days in advance. I'm curious if anyone else has heard of this because it would definitely affect my decision on whether or not to pre-order big games such as Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3.

2011-08-12 22:36:00 Author: WoodburyRaider Posts: 1651

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Lately, I've heard a few things about people going into stores like BestBuy and buying games before they're official release. Supposedly, all they've done is walked into the store a couple days beforehand and asked if they could buy whichever game since most stores receive their shipments several days in advance. I'm curious if anyone else has heard of this because it would definitely affect my decision on whether or not to pre-order big games such as Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. I have with LBP and CoD4. Definitely worth it because you get head start on everybody else (oh how I loved being rank 35 and get some angry kid shouting at me that I was a hacker and no way of ranking so fast). But as for MW3 and BF3, good luck with those. Lines will probably form in your stores.

2011-08-12 23:09:00 Author: CyberSora Posts: 5551

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This has been happening for years but there's no guarentee that the store will let you do it.

2011-08-12 23:11:00 Author: Rabid-Coot Posts: 6728

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This is possibly one of the most disrespectful things a store can do to a developer, it's official name is "Breaking Street" and if just one particular shop does this then a publisher can choose to not ship further games from that developer to all of that chain's stores.

2011-08-12 23:14:00 Author: abyssalassassin Posts: 717

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I tried to get Easy A early. Walmart wouldn't have any of that.

2011-08-13 04:55:00 Author: poorjack Posts: 1806

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I've tried this a couple of times without success. Most places frown on this especially with high profile releases.

2011-08-13 05:29:00 Author: biorogue Posts: 8424

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Nowadays DRM will still keep people from playing games early. And there's seldom a point to buy PC games from stores if they are available on Steam.

2011-08-13 22:45:00 Author: Edeslash Posts: 135

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Nowadays DRM will still keep people from playing games early. And there's seldom a point to buy PC games from stores if they are available on Steam. DRM? Anyways, I play games on my PS3 as playing with a controller on a couch just feels natural. Plus, I don't feel like spending the money for something none of my friends have anyways. Speaking of PC games, however, I don't remember the last time I've seen big name titles available for PC in stores... strange.

2011-08-14 01:57:00 Author: WoodburyRaider Posts: 1651

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Yeah, it's called shoplifting..... -_-

2011-08-14 16:30:00 Author: zzmorg82 Posts: 948

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Yeah, it's called shoplifting..... -_- shoplifting is taking something without paying for it. Buying a game before it's release date is still paying for it.

2011-08-14 16:48:00 Author: Lord-Dreamerz Posts: 4261

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DRM? Anyways, I play games on my PS3 as playing with a controller on a couch just feels natural. Plus, I don't feel like spending the money for something none of my friends have anyways. Speaking of PC games, however, I don't remember the last time I've seen big name titles available for PC in stores... strange. Digital Rights Management. The kinda stuff that makes you activate your game online with a CD key etc. that some developers like Ubisoft fail completely.

2011-08-14 20:48:00 Author: Edeslash Posts: 135

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Who cares, if its just a couple days before release it doesnt really matter, its not like a month before anybody plays it whatsoever, chances are if somebody gets it a little early, somebody else will get it early as well, as long as the game is already finished with its perfectly fine, i dont understand why games have specific release dates, once a game is fresh out of the oven, then its done, doesnt really matter, few glitches here and there you can still give it 2 billion patches, just like all games usually do even after people are done searching for glitches with the game.

2011-08-15 01:42:00 Author: Charlemagne Posts: 513

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I haven't really heard of this happening, closest thing I've heard about it is preordering. Then again, someone with a lot of money to spend can probably buy games early without having to worry about repercussions would probably do this a lot.

2011-08-15 07:16:00 Author: Unknown User

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Who cares, if its just a couple days before release it doesnt really matter, its not like a month before anybody plays it whatsoever, chances are if somebody gets it a little early, somebody else will get it early as well, as long as the game is already finished with its perfectly fine, i dont understand why games have specific release dates, once a game is fresh out of the oven, then its done, doesnt really matter, few glitches here and there you can still give it 2 billion patches, just like all games usually do even after people are done searching for glitches with the game. You try to effectively advertise a game that doesn't have a release date.

2011-08-15 12:23:00 Author: Unknown User

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