Who the heck did SOE **** off?Follow

hmmm well considering in seattle everyone is sold out unless you pre-ordered, I guess I am lucky. On defence of retailers it gives them a better idea on how many to get in so there is enough for everyone. I always pre-order what games I can so that way there may be a couple for those who forgot to or just didn't reserve a copy.

I think it may be all about karma man, I believe in doing good for the whole not the one.

All I had to do was walk in to my local EB and I walked out with the DVD version. no preorder needed. Thank god most the people around here worrie more about Halo 2 then they do EQ2.

I pre-ordered from EB. I had my copy by 8:59 Tuesday morning. That is not bad at all for overnight delivery.

Simply put, I'm pissed off, too. So you're not alone.

~Eleventeen

We pre-ordered from EBgames in our hometown, and the pre-orders were availiable to pick up since Monday 2pm. My husband picked our copy up at 6:15pm that night and the cashier said we we're the ONLY ones to pick up a copy. They has tons BTW...so there was no problem here in NH. ;)

You guys should be happy. Man I had some serious lag and slow down from all the players on mistmoore, and to top it off some zones werent available. Point is at least you will have a better start. god waiting for the servers to come up now..

Its not the having to wait, its the way SOE kinda of just stepped on some of us.. I got my notice on the 8th that my game was instock (pre-ordered MONTHS ago directly from sony).. then on the 9th I got that BS email saying the tins could get there ..well between the 8th and the 9th, 32 tinned copies of the game showed up at the store here.. I didnt buy one of course because I expeted my copy to be waiting at home... so if MY copy was in stock..OBVIOUSLY it got sent to a store instead of me if theyre telling me NOW that they cant send it to me..
The game is great.. the wiat is not a huge deal.. but the constant poor treatment from sony was enough to make me just cancel my order.. WoW is pretty nice after all

I just pre-ordered from EB locally. As usual I had no problems getting my game yesterday (other than having to wait in the incredibly long line caused by Halo 2), and I could have gotten it Monday if I hadn't ordered the DVD version.

Whell i live in Albany NY and i went to the mall to go to EB around 2pm and the long lind of fiends hunting for Halo 2 had the line backed up.......so even though they had it i left......so then i walk in to best buy and they had 20 copys of collectors sitting right there on the shelf no lines :) and also had like 30 copys of the regular version. So i walked in and out for my buying experiance so i recommend just hunting around a bit and not to pre order to all of u that had to wait for your collectors edition

Some got pre-orders on time yesterday if they paid for a better shipping arrangement. Either that or pre-order for pick up in stores. Next day air is really the issue, you can't use standard shipping.

It's not that people get screwed with pre-order, it's that most of us don't understand completely how it works. I pre-ordered, but screwed up shipping and wasn't allowed to upgrade shipping the next day (Best Buy, not Sony) so it won't be here till the 15th. I ended up having to buy it twice, the pre-order I already paid for, and a lucky purchase at Gamestop in town.

Frankly it's academic now, but it's something to remember for the next game. We didn't get screwed, we just learned better what to expect.

Edited, Wed Nov 10 12:51:18 2004 by Enithea

Still nothing from SOE store. No e-mail to say hey we screwed up, we will be shipping on such and such day. Nothing!. They got my money for two copies of the game and next day shipping for both, but I don't even get the courtesy e-mail. That said, one of my local stores has numberous copies of ALL the versions. I am heading in that direction right after work. SOE will get my courtesy e-mail when I have my copies in hand, CANCEL me fricking order and give me back my money NOW!

Hay,
I walked into EB here in Little Rock at 11:00 am (Damn having a job) and only 3 people ahead of me, all wanting Halo2. They had a stack of DVD EQ2 2 feet high and the CD version 3 feet high. But they only have 10 or so copies of the Collector's Edition.
Not that it did me any good, by the time I got home, the registration server was down from "congestion" and I never did get registered.
Hope things are better tonight.

I went to EB today and even though I didn't pick up EQ2, there were tons available.