Due to issues with broken Big Daddy figures in the limited edition of BioShock, GameStop is ending pre-orders for the 360 version. They will continue to take them on the PC Limited Edition and both regular editions.
Due to issues with broken Big Daddy figures in the limited edition of BioShock, GameStop is ending pre-orders for the 360 version. They will continue to take them on the PC Limited Edition and both regular editions.
This makes me nervous. I ordered mine last week, and if it doesn't show up the 21st there will be hell to pay.
Ugh, I thought they had just sold out. I only ordered mine like, last night, so hopefully I'll still be getting it. I'd be fine with a regular edition instead, but I'd like to have the LE.
EDIT: Also, they haven't been taking pre-orders on their website for the PC edition for a few days now.
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Due to issues with broken Big Daddy figures in the limited edition of BioShock, GameStop is ending pre-orders for the 360 version. They will continue to take them on the PC Limited Edition and both regular editions.
Do you have a source for this news item? As Perigon said, they removed PC LE preorders from the web site at least a few days ago, maybe as long as a week ago, so this seems suspicious. Or do you mean in-store?
This actually makes me very happy; as gamestop didn't have the PC limited edition on their website and a friend of mine scared me into thinking that it might not actually exist.
As i've had the PC LE pre-ordered for months. I want that figurine! So much that i'm actually going to buy a physical copy and not the STEAM version.
Do you have a source for this news item? As Perigon said, they removed PC LE preorders from the web site at least a few days ago, maybe as long as a week ago, so this seems suspicious. Or do you mean in-store?
Yup. I work for GameStop. Our Store Informer (store email) said we will continue to take PC LE orders.
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Yup. I work for GameStop. Our Store Informer (store email) said we will continue to take PC LE orders.
Good answer, thanks.
Another question comes to mind: it seems that the figurine should just as easily be broken in the PC LE as it would in the Xbox 360 LE, so why stop preorders for one platform for this reason, and not the other?
Possible answer: There are more copies of the PC LE available. But if that is the case, why has the PC LE been absent from the web site for a while now?
Yup. I work for GameStop. Our Store Informer (store email) said we will continue to take PC LE orders.
But the PC edition isn't on the website either, and the figures/boxes are identical except for the Games For Windows logo... <.<
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All the ones I saw broken were 360 versions. the reason is mainly there are more PC editions to cover reservations, where as the 360 allocation was tight. in fact, we got notified today that we will be getting less re-supply then hoped for. However, 2k has promised to have a solution of the broken figures soon.
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All the ones I saw broken were 360 versions. the reason is mainly there are more PC editions to cover reservations, where as the 360 allocation was tight. in fact, we got notified today that we will be getting less re-supply then hoped for. However, 2k has promised to have a solution of the broken figures soon.
Any word on if there'll be enough unbroken LEs to fill all the pre-orders? Or were you guys just expecting to have extras to sell on the shelves?
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the first email we got, which we got the day BioShock raptured its way into the store, said that 2k would have a "solution" for the broken figures before the street date. It might involve a free figure sent by mail. I don't know yet.
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the first email we got, which we got the day BioShock raptured its way into the store, said that 2k would have a "solution" for the broken figures before the street date. It might involve a free figure sent by mail. I don't know yet.
Alrighty, thanks for the info. Hopefully 2k handles this gracefully.
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Damnit, I was just at Gamestop this evening with the g/f because she wanted Mario Party 8. I thought about pre-ordering Bioshock but for whatever reason didn't. I guess since I'm dropping the dough for Halo3 LE, it's just as well.
Damnit, I was just at Gamestop this evening with the g/f because she wanted Mario Party 8. I thought about pre-ordering Bioshock but for whatever reason didn't. I guess since I'm dropping the dough for Halo3 LE, it's just as well.
Big Daddy will make Master Chief Cat Helmet his bitch.
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yeah i had the regular version set aside for a while but recently decided that this game warranted the full spend, if only so that ken levine can paper the inside of his ferrari with $1000 bills. the team at 2k boston looks like they pulled off a helluva feat; have you guys seen the gamerankings lately? and the insane number gamerankings provides doesn't count destructoid's 10/10 either.
strap in, boyz and girlz. we get to experience the real deal on tuesday!
