Curse

draxynnic · Aug 01, 2007, 02:42 AM // 02:42

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Originally Posted by pamelf

Mini roo FTW!

Mini roo... armed with a Stinger missile launcher!

2SHY · Aug 01, 2007, 02:50 AM // 02:50

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Originally Posted by Onarik Amrak

The GW Online Store is also £24.99 which equates to ~$58AU. Wonderful, isn't it?

Cheaper to buy in a EB @ $49.95 AUD.

Always buy most of my games @ EB. For no apparent reason other than they usually have everything .

draxynnic · Aug 01, 2007, 04:47 AM // 04:47

I've grown disillusioned with EB since getting messed around with the Factions preorder box. To be honest, I think the outlet I was going to (Civic, to be precise) was messed around just as much, but it was still the company doing the messing even though it wasn't the salespeople I directly interacted with.

Roshi_ikkyu · Aug 01, 2007, 04:55 AM // 04:55

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Originally Posted by pamelf

Mini roo FTW!

lol would be awesome to see them jumping around an out-post. The one mini I wouldn't sell for a billion k.

I already have my Mini cane toad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad or hekket or what every GW named it lol :P

-Loki- · Aug 01, 2007, 06:30 AM // 06:30

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Originally Posted by draxynnic

I've grown disillusioned with EB since getting messed around with the Factions preorder box. To be honest, I think the outlet I was going to (Civic, to be precise) was messed around just as much, but it was still the company doing the messing even though it wasn't the salespeople I directly interacted with.

EB are so incompetent with GW preorders (among other things) that I doubt NcSoft gives them any information on the pre order packs at all.

Roshi_ikkyu · Aug 01, 2007, 06:42 AM // 06:42

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Originally Posted by -Loki-

EB are so incompetent with GW preorders (among other things) that I doubt NcSoft gives them any information on the pre order packs at all.

I think its more so that NcSoft and Anet don't give EB any information. The EB guys seem to think GW2 is coming out sometime in december. And EB as a chain of stores doesn't interact well. I went into my local saying how others down south had already got pre-orders, There reply was who ever told me is a lier, because that don't have the packs nor are they likely to get the packs. Same store different time of day an old friend is working, tell me that the store manager like to keep 80% of the promotional and pre-release stuff for his own purposes.

EB ftl.

dawnmist · Aug 01, 2007, 08:01 AM // 08:01

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Originally Posted by -Loki-

EB are so incompetent with GW preorders (among other things) that I doubt NcSoft gives them any information on the pre order packs at all.

EB are incompetent with any preorders, not just GW ones.

I don't think it's NcSoft that has the problem - EB screwed up my Neverwinter Nights 2 bonus (key for pre-access to content - wouldn't provide until game launch date - after it'd expired, and I had the full content!), and never supplied the bonus for Oblivion - I gave up 4 months after the game release when I just kept being told "no we haven't got that yet" or "we got a few, but they've already been given out" or one of a huge number of excuses - I'd preordered months in advance and had been going back to the store every week after they didn't have the bonus available at release (I'd also checked both 3 weeks before and 1 week before, and been told "yes we have them, but we can't give them out until the release day" - even though I'd read on the forums that other EB stores in Australia had been giving them out in advance). Only preorder they haven't stuffed up was the Nightfall one - but that didn't need to be supplied in advance of the game itself!

EB Games are great for in-stock items and ordering normal warehouse items, they have some wonderful sales (seen both Factions and Prophesies down to $25 over the last 3 months), but they're absolutely hopeless for anything that is supposed to have a preorder bonus.

I did try asking the local EB Games before ordering the preorder pack from NCSoft's store and got the "we've already given out all of the first shipment, and don't know whether we'll get any more" (less than a week after the preorder became possible and they're out? Suuure...). Given my past experience, that adds up to a "good luck getting it", and with no Collector's Edition it just meant that there was no benefit in preordering from EB!

Don't blame NCSoft/ANet for EB's incompetence in Australia - I highly doubt that it's actually their problem.

fRag_Doll · Aug 01, 2007, 08:07 AM // 08:07

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Originally Posted by Roshi_ikkyu

Same store different time of day an old friend is working, tell me that the store manager like to keep 80% of the promotional and pre-release stuff for his own purposes.

EB ftl.

EB Games Australia head office,(07) 3860 7777.
I'm sure they'd be interested to hear about that.

draxynnic · Aug 02, 2007, 12:54 AM // 00:54

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Originally Posted by Roshi_ikkyu

I think its more so that NcSoft and Anet don't give EB any information. The EB guys seem to think GW2 is coming out sometime in december. And EB as a chain of stores doesn't interact well. I went into my local saying how others down south had already got pre-orders, There reply was who ever told me is a lier, because that don't have the packs nor are they likely to get the packs. Same store different time of day an old friend is working, tell me that the store manager like to keep 80% of the promotional and pre-release stuff for his own purposes.

EB ftl.

EB, as well as a number of other games stores and the like, has a tendency to "guess" release dates for major titles and present them as fact - probably in an effort to get people to put down money on a preorder.

Holly Herro · Aug 03, 2007, 11:58 AM // 11:58

Woo!!Now I don't have to go upto my parents and ask for 100 dollars.The last 2 expansions was just this:

"We went on a holiday,here's $100 dollars"

But I did make up an excuse just incase involving my sister getting free 40 dollars every week and me getting nothing >.> so unfair in my house :'(