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[Hasney]

The release date has been changed only on UK sites so far. I'm not sure what you're saying.

Even then, it'll probably be head office that informs the supply chain. I'm pretty sure Namco UK exists only as a PR company for the region.

Hence they have to look into and not already informed.

Exactly. It was the 'weird' part I was referring to.

Some how I get the feeling the person manning the twitter account isn't going to know about distribution changes on the spot. That and their HQ for Europe is in France.

An organized company would have briefed their staff before alerting the supply chain to delay it. They probably would have officially announced that away from Twitter, mind you.

 

[Noaksey]

I think that's code for "yep, delayed, but it's not time to announce it yet."

Would have been nice if they told us but the retailer did though, I honestly thought I was being told I wasn't getting the game when I first saw the email :S

 

[Noaksey]

Even then, it'll probably be head office that informs the supply chain. I'm pretty sure Namco UK exists only as a PR company for the region.



Exactly. It was the 'weird' part I was referring to.



An organized company would have briefed their staff before alerting the supply chain to delay it. They probably would have officially announced that away from Twitter, mind you.

Agreed you would have expected the UK team to have been informed of the decision to delay it again before the retailers did, how could they not be informed or did they ignore the fax?

 

[Frank Jaeger]

Why? FOR FUCKS SAKE!

Haven't I waited enough? Have I not pre-ordered it! I'm not even gonna talk about my dedication to previous titles.

This hurts more than finding my wife in a bbc gangbang!

 

[Noaksey]

This hurts more than finding my wife in a bbc gangbang!

This has happened to you already then ?

 

[Frank Jaeger]

This has happened to you already then ?

I was made believe its a common thing!

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

I was made believe its a common thing!

Ah, you must be Frank from the support group. We'll get through it together.

 

[Frank Jaeger]

Ah, you must be Frank from the support group. We'll get through it together.

Thanks friend!

 

[ClearData]

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die (waiting) edition.

 

[OldAsUrSock]

Dark Souls: Prepare to Wait edition.

Fixed

 

[OverBlood 3]

For fuck sake Bamco useless shower...

 

[onionfrog]

I hope this is just for retail PC copies....
If not, I've still got a SL1 run to complete in Dark Souls 1. And I can always just try a new build after I finish that.

 

[Facism]

Simplycdkeys still has the 25th down as release date. They've also sold out of Dark Souls 2 lol. Never seen that happen there.

Crossing my fingers.

 

[Kinthalis]

They're delaying to put back in orig lighting. ;p

 

[nero2082]

 

[AU Tiger]

Day 1 lighting upgrade patch confirmed

Spoiler

 

[OverBlood 3]

I just...ughhhhhhhh!

 

[Deleted member 10571]

nonononononono D:

 

[eot]

Please be wrong.
25th-27th is when I have time to play it

 

[Dr Dogg]

An organized company would have briefed their staff before alerting the supply chain to delay it. They probably would have officially announced that away from Twitter, mind you.

Oh for sure that goes without saying but from my experience of ordering direct from Namco they don't do distribution themselves but use outside companies to handle that for them. In fact I've had a cock up with an order directly placed with them but handled by a company called Pepita which took a week later than what Namco told me. Subsequently Namco didn't have a clue what was going on until I contacted Pepita direct to find out the score.

Could be a case of a fulfilment company who is working on behalf of Namco who are then supplying Amazon and contacted them directly as well to inform them of a situation and Amazon updating their date before Namco have a chance to forward this through their communications channels.

Hahaha of course this is all pie in the sky logic.

 

[jacksepticeye]

Glad I didn't wait.

But has to be retail only with such a short delay

 

[jabuseika]

Oh come on!

I am ready to trade in my PS3 version, the framerate is killing me.

 

[PixelHorror]

I'll be fucked if Nuuvem gets their keys delayed, hell I'll even cancel the fucking preorder to buy it on Steam (yes, I'm that desperate)

 

[Sendero]

This hurts more than finding my wife in a bbc gangbang!

What the heck is a BBC gan.... ah. Nevermind.

Hope it's not the case, I actually scheduled vacations around the 25!
Either way, would be good to know asap.

 

[-MD-]

Digital better not be delayed.

Edit: From got wind of Durante's article so they're putting the old 2012 assets back in the game real quick.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

FROM just shot themselves in the foot if true...

 

[Havel]

#TeamLighting

 

[Infinite_Daremo]

This hurts more than finding my wife in a bbc gangbang!

I hope my TV License payments don't fund this!

 

[Deleted member 10571]

For all it's worth, Amazon.de still lists the 25th. Maybe it really is a UK thing?

 

[Vitor711]

For all it's worth, Amazon.de still lists the 25th. Maybe it really is a UK thing?

I certainly hope so. Would rather not wait another week. April has been a pretty dry month already.

 

[Koeta]

So far Green Man Gaming still lists it as 25th, any word how they obtain their keys?
Hope this doesn't delay my copy from them. D:

 

[Gammacide]

They're putting the lighting engine back in.

I would SOOO wait for any delay if that were the case.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

This hurts more than finding my wife in a bbc gangbang!

I hope this isn't a Doctor Who spoiler.

 

[banjoted]

Delay confirmed to the UK boxed version only, as per MCV.

 

[PixelHorror]

Delay confirmed to the UK boxed version only, as per MCV.

Relevant quote:

This is only affecting the UK on the boxed release of the game. It will be delayed unfortunately and we apologise to UK customers. This is due to a manufacturing issue with packaging. To confirm this will only affect the UK boxed launch."

Crisis averted (for me)

 

[blackprophesy]

Crap. I had the boxed version ordered thanks to it being much cheaper and having credit at both ShopTo and Amazon. I guess I'll order on GreenManGaming assuming the 20% discount still works.

 

[Dr Dogg]

You know what the funniest thing is that I highly doubt a manufacturing error is going to alter the Steam code we are all going to input and leave the disc and box on the shelf.

 

[banjoted]

You know what the funniest thing is that I highly doubt a manufacturing error is going to alter the Steam code we are all going to input and leave the disc and box on the shelf.

Painfully true...

 

[John Caboose]

Steam is unaffected so we've got that going for us.

 

[Ikuu]

If it's just UK then SimplyGames should be fine, I hope.

 

[bj00rn_]

There will be light! My bitching helped!

Spoiler

nope

 

[Facism]

If it's just UK then SimplyGames should be fine, I hope.

unless the keys are from boxed copies lol

 

[Ikuu]

unless the keys are from boxed copies lol

Considering their prices I would have thought the keys would have been from elsewhere in Europe.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

All this to accommodate Jeff Green is a bit much.

 

[blackprophesy]

And the GMG 20% off voucher expired yesterday. Wonderful.

 

[UnrealEck]

And the GMG 20% off voucher expired yesterday. Wonderful.

O3H7FE-D4NFO0-F0LIGK

 

[Lynq]

Calm your souls.

It's delayed ONLY in UK. And ONLY digital version.

 

[FlyinJ]

I'm willing to bet that digital won't be delayed, it's going to be buggy as hell, everyone will bitch and complain about how they released a shitty broken product that should have been worked on longer, then a week later a patch will come out that fixes everything.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

simplycdkeys.com is probably affected by this right?

http://www.simplycdkeys.com/steam/dark-souls-ii?ref=simplycdkeys_home_product_panel

 

[Nillansan]

Calm your souls.

It's delayed ONLY in UK. And ONLY digital version.

It's only the UK retail version that is delayed, the digital version is not delayed.