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Ni No Kuni Collector's Edition for EU/NA [failure level well beyond critical mass]
- Thread starter rockman zx
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I assume we're talking UK, and in that case Shop To has it available for the same price as Amazon
Dreamwriter
Member
Man, it really sucks that they don't offer the Wizard's Edition in the US anymore. I won't buy the game without the book, so really they've just lost the entire sale for whatever reason.
DigitalDevil
Member
Ebay is your friend.
Thanks for that. I'm in NZ so it ends up being £15 more expensive (Amazon removes VAT, but looks like Shop To doesn't?) but I've done it anyway, don't want to miss out.
graywolf323
Member
same, I didn't have the money back in September to pre-order it
stupid Namco-Bandai
Dark Octave
Banned
I'm sitting here debating on replacing my broken PS3 partly for this game and you're willing to miss out on the whole game because of a book?
I don't even have a PS3 and I have a few on order now, lol.
The book is pretty amazing though.
The Mana Legend
Banned
What is the consensus of this from importers? I am interested, but the gameplay seems pretty shallow and it seems the major appeal of this seems to be mostly for the graphics and art style.
Sure, if you don't mind paying 2-3 times more for it and not giving any money to the developer. A lot of people of are going to miss out on playing it as its intended because Namco made so few copies of the book.
No way will it cost $300 on ebay.
Dreamwriter
Member
For the English version of the book? Chances are high it'll be super rare and thus really expensive on eBay, since that version was sold in such very little numbers. Maybe not $300 expensive, but still expensive.
It was worse for me, I had the money, and I bought it using PayPal to guarantee that the money would be taken away immediately. 3 days after the ordering was canceled, I got an email from Namco-Bandai that they never got the payment so were canceling my order.same, I didn't have the money back in September to pre-order it
stupid Namco-Bandai
Import UK version?
graywolf323
Member
hmm that could work, it'd be about $100 with shipping from Amazon UK
The Wizard Edition is no longer available for preorder at Amazon UK. Other sites such as Shop To and Zavvi still have them, and so does Amazon.de and Amazon.fr.
If you still have not preordered this, and you want it, I would suggest doing it asap, as I fear they'll slowly stop taking preorders.
If you still have not preordered this, and you want it, I would suggest doing it asap, as I fear they'll slowly stop taking preorders.
Thank you very much. I totally forgot to pre-order and would be sad if I would miss the Collector's Edition.
Scythian Empire
Member
What do you actually get with the Wizards edition?
SoccerGoaliePro
Banned
I was gonna pre order this on their website but forgot to do it on time.
archnemesis
Member
Box Contains:
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Game for Playstation 3
Exclusive DLC 'Golden Mite' and 'Golden Drongo' Familiars
Drippy Plush Doll
300+ Page Hardcover 'The Wizard's Companion' Book
graywolf323
Member
damn I should have ordered it last night
Canis lupus
Member
Whats the best deal on this? I still have my preorder on TheHut.
There's also a couple post card prints, a coin no one has seen, and a mini-soundtrack.
Storm Prelude
Member
Are these just for America?
If all my orders get fulfilled I'll end up with 4 copies of the Wizard's edition. The things we do to secure stuff, eh?
Ghost_Protocol
Member
So what are the chances of this getting delayed? Is it too much to hope that we'll actually be playing this in 2 months?
Hmm bit of a bummer then. To be honest though, the book is the only prize worth thinking about.
Why would it be delayed? Date was set for a while now, and there isn't anything that would warrant a delay.
foobarry81
Member
My mind completely missed Shopto in that (I have no intention of importing a foreign version), ta.
HMV also has preorders available still...for £80...
Ugh, so I just found out that US pre-orders for this stopped in September. What is the best option for getting an english version of this game that plays on my US PS3? I was going to just order from Amazon.de or Amazon.fr, and while I understand the book would be in english, would the game be in English? Would it work in my PS3? Amazon.de/fr would be the easiest way to order, but if ShopTo, HMV or Zavvi gets me the game & such I can read and works in my system, I'd obviously prefer that route. So which option is best this late for US players in the game?
Import from EU
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
At least for amazon.de the book is definitely in english so I would be shocked if the game wasn't also. And usually 99% of the time RPGs aren't translated into german, they are just released in english so I'd be pretty shocked if it somehow was in german that it didn't give you an option. I see nothing on amazon's site stating the language but I think it's pretty safe to assume it's english.
Edit: On the message boards it said this:
amazon.com message boards said:
So only english and japanese for voices and german, english, french, italian, and spanish for subtitles so it's safe to buy from amazon.de
Dedication Through Light
Member
well there could be production issues with the extras
Thanks for the info - I pre-ordered it from Amazon.fr (pictures of everything were all in English) so assuming there would be no difference between what Amazon German and Amazon France are shipping, I'm hopefully good to go! If not, um, let me know quickly so I can cancel the .fr order and get a .de one, heh.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Ya, they should be the same. Most games are produced where they have multiple settings so they can make on product for all of europe. If the german one is fine then the french should also.
Samurai_Heart
Member
Just a heads up that this game's CE quota seems to be filling in the UK, just saw that Amazon.co.uk no longer has the Wizard Edition up for order, but then again may be due to Amazon familiars.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=Ni+No+Kuni
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=Ni+No+Kuni
Get it from germany
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B008JR9IOK/
€: The book will be in english in the german version. also the game will come in multilanguage.
€:
Audio: English and Japanese
Text: German, English, French, Italian and spanish
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B008JR9IOK/
€: The book will be in english in the german version. also the game will come in multilanguage.
€:
Audio: English and Japanese
Text: German, English, French, Italian and spanish
Get it from germany
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B008JR9IOK/
: The book will be in english in the german version. also the game will come in multilanguage.
:
Audio: English and Japanese
Text: German, English, French, Italian and spanish
I ended up getting the French version:
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B008MLSNOY/
Should be the same. I hope.
I ended up getting the French version:
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B008MLSNOY/
Should be the same. I hope.
Well crap. Even though Amazon France didn't complain when I chose my US based address, I found this:
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=548590
In the video games section it does NOT list the United States. Looking at Amazon Germany I can't find any shipping restrictions, so I ordered there too. I guess I'm getting zero, one, or two copies of this now, what a fun waiting game this will be! :-/
Hmmm, good job I jumped on the bandwagon earlier this month then. Shame it's not out till after Christmas/New Year.
Canis lupus
Member
Lovely! Is there anywhere else that is cheaper than TheHut?
Samurai_Heart
Member
Nice shame about the giant German rating system sign, so many European CE boxarts ruin by it >.<
Unlikely now that it's only a month away from release.
Entschuldigung on behalf of my country. It really is awful. Hopefully it's a sticker