it happened in america and they got away with it, I think its better to get something early than get it late.

They had a dispute about Cod Ghosts because they wanted to deliver it on Friday for November5th delivery which i think was a Tuesday which tied into the postage strike for a day.

So basically they were told by Activision or publisher whatever they could only despatch the game on the Monday so Shopto.net at the time basically decided that no preorders could be put on this game and at the time there was no mention of Cod Ghosts on there website.

I don't think that's very fair on retailers though. They already struggle with fierce pricing competition, if people can order them online and get it earlier than release day what hope do they have? The only thing the retailer has above online competition is going to the shop and seeing the product in front of you AND being guaranteed to get it on that day. In my opinion if you're ordering online and want the game on release day it's your risk.

I know that goes against what most people probably think on here, but I just think it is more fair that way. Both should have their own advantages, online have price and retailers have physical product onsite for you to take away in minutes. I guess the other argument is the high street will be dead soon anyway, but it will be a bit of a sad world when all we have is online shops.

I prefer to go and physically pick up my games/consoles from the shop and i used to do that before Game got greedy and bought and ruined Gamestation then closed them down.

So on that principle i decided to look for online game sites and in the 4 years i have been using shopto.net they have never ever failed me with the added bonus of getting the majority of stuff a day or so early.

I don't like Game and the high street now is basically limited to them and them only,Blockbusters are not exactly a Gaming shop but did sell games and you could pre/order and trade but now they have gone to the dogs,HMV are still around but they are struggling.

There is hardly a independent game shop on the high street and 10 years ago there was many,Game have become the Supermarket equivalent of gaming but I'm not keen on them so i shop online and it works well for me apart from the fact i have to wait for the goods.

Last time i bought a Xbox and Playstation 3 they were ordered through Gamestation and on release i was there at 9am on the day.

Edited by time2die (Mon 25-Nov-13 16:40:43)

and that would be the main issue, sony I think will only care after other retailers complain to sony, which as you said probably would happen.

the high street is on its way out anyway.

my city centre already looks a bleak place, nearly every other shop is empty.

yeah I dont like game either, and they now doing things to force people to use them.

I got a reply of square enix about a game pre order exclusive, this was the reply.

"We cannot tell you if the exclusive DLC will be available to purchase after launch, this is due to our contract with GAME UK that we cannot disclose this information, so I apologise you dont like using GAME to purchase our games but it is the only way to get this particular DLC in the uk."

The reason I asked them that is in one of their previous games FF13-2 the pre order DLC did actually come out to buy after launch, so it was only a timed exclusive not permanent. Since I dont want to lose the DLC I had to order from game .

I can't believe people buy games from their high st stores
What a rip off they are

In reply to a post by Jaxx281:

I know that goes against what most people probably think on here, but I just think it is more fair that way. Both should have their own advantages, online have price and retailers have physical product onsite for you to take away in minutes. I guess the other argument is the high street will be dead soon anyway, but it will be a bit of a sad world when all we have is online shops.

I'd second that.

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

In reply to a post by Jaxx281:

I know that goes against what most people probably think on here, but I just think it is more fair that way. Both should have their own advantages, online have price and retailers have physical product onsite for you to take away in minutes. I guess the other argument is the high street will be dead soon anyway, but it will be a bit of a sad world when all we have is online shops.

I'd second that.

And I'd third it.

In reply to a post by SPOOKish:

In reply to a post by mrnelster:

In reply to a post by Jaxx281:

I know that goes against what most people probably think on here, but I just think it is more fair that way. Both should have their own advantages, online have price and retailers have physical product onsite for you to take away in minutes. I guess the other argument is the high street will be dead soon anyway, but it will be a bit of a sad world when all we have is online shops.

I'd second that.

And I'd third it.

And i TURD it