Friday, May 1, 2009

Gamestop Shenigans

When Aksys announced the premium package to Blazblue, I was excited to preorder the game myself in order to guarantee myself something that was only on a limited run. Simple right? It's been announced for a around 3 days and this is a consumer product with potential, so surely its order forms the world over have changed to add it.

I drive down to the Gamestop I regularly go to preorder it with the help of my copy of L4D for store credit. When I arrive though, I'm informed they didn't have it available to preorder. I could preorder the regular edition, but as far as they know, there's no premium pack.

Sure enough, I double check their own website. It's right there and in fact, it's being advertised on the main page. They even have exclusive art books for online orderers.

I decide to try my luck at another location after business I had that day. Ok, not only did they not have it available to reserve, it was on their upcoming games list, right in front of the cashier.

Either there is a massive cover up conspiracy on the existence of this game, or there is just a bigger then usual amount of incompetency going on at Gamestop now.

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