-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
The search for BIOSHOCK, help gaffers out
- Thread starter MMaRsu
- Start date
- Status
D
Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
Just checked every store in town (TRU, FYE, Wal-Mart, EBStop, Target, and Sam's), and no one's got it.
I would be angry, except that while I was at EB, I decided to finish paying off my preorder for Halo 3 LE and was told that it was already paid off. Lol. I don't remember doing that, but sweet.
I would be angry, except that while I was at EB, I decided to finish paying off my preorder for Halo 3 LE and was told that it was already paid off. Lol. I don't remember doing that, but sweet.
Success at the TRU at the Dayton Mall, Ohio. Best scenario as well. They had two copies left so myself and this younger guy who was also waiting outside when they opened got the two copies. Two other people were in line for Wii's (which they just got that morning) so all in all fun time. While I was being rung up the phone rang three times to see if they had Bioshock. Glad I made the trip.
I also got the Madden Half off other game deal on top of the 20% off coupon (Madden came to $47 and Bioshock was $30.) Well worth the two hours drive time to get there. Now onto some yard work and I go to work this evening.
I also got the Madden Half off other game deal on top of the 20% off coupon (Madden came to $47 and Bioshock was $30.) Well worth the two hours drive time to get there. Now onto some yard work and I go to work this evening.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
rudds said:
If it doesn't contain the line of dialogue "'NO' says the man in Moscow, it belongs to EVERYONE," then I ain't innarested.
wonderkins
Member
This situation is not the fault of the publisher or MS; but I still feel like blaming them.
The game is obviously being sold. Some executive needs to get on the phone, and let the release date of the 21st whither away.
Are they more worried that their ad campaign schedule is rigidly followed? Or will we just admit, the hype is there and that the fans are waiting, pressed against the glass, with dollars in hand?
Keep playing your commercials...but let us buy the game. What is the net difference anyway? People with pitchforks 'cause they show up on the 21st and it's already sold out? This line of thinking presupposes that: 1) they didn't make many, and 2) people just give up and never return.
Either way, it's going to sell out. I feel comfortable stating this. What does it matter on which date it achieves this? Let us buy the friggin' game, already.
/screed
The game is obviously being sold. Some executive needs to get on the phone, and let the release date of the 21st whither away.
Are they more worried that their ad campaign schedule is rigidly followed? Or will we just admit, the hype is there and that the fans are waiting, pressed against the glass, with dollars in hand?
Keep playing your commercials...but let us buy the game. What is the net difference anyway? People with pitchforks 'cause they show up on the 21st and it's already sold out? This line of thinking presupposes that: 1) they didn't make many, and 2) people just give up and never return.
Either way, it's going to sell out. I feel comfortable stating this. What does it matter on which date it achieves this? Let us buy the friggin' game, already.
/screed
TekunoRobby
Tag of Excellence
Pick one up and go to your local GameStop with game + receipt in hand and ask them if you can purchase the Collector's Edition now since the street date was broken. If he seems hesitant simply remind him that you wish to give GameStop your patronage and if he's still not sure that he should call his District Manager to confirm.RiskyChris said:
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
wonderkins said:
It's flawed, but it is the fundamental reason. And angry customers are much more of a long term hassle then giddy satisfied ones and MS knows that "delaying" release to street date is not going to cost them a single one.
hotsauceiswack
Banned
when do you think the first reviews are going to come out?
Green Shinobi
Banned
No, but Rapture is very obviously based on a setting in Atlas Shrugged. That setting is actually the entire point of the novel.BenjaminBirdie said:If it doesn't contain the line of dialogue "'NO' says the man in Moscow, it belongs to EVERYONE," then I ain't innarested.
It would be pretty cool if there was an enemy in Bioshock named John Galt. That would be an awesome tie-in.
wonderkins
Member
That is, honestly, one of the loneliest TRU locations anywhere. What they were thinking when they decided to put it on a little-traveled frontage road, opposite Ridgedale and Best Buy and Target...I haven't a clue. And then that crap music instrument store to the left... No, I won't be paying ~$700 for your Fender knock-off.sk3tch said:Funny, I just tried the Minnetonka, MN location. No BioShock.
Walked away with Madden 360 and Mario Strikers Charged for $78 total, though.
It's only rivaled by the ghost town that is the TRU here in Salem, OR.
gregor7777
Banned
hotsauceiswack said:
if you look around the pcgamer scans are floating about
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Green Shinobi said:
I was just yankin' chains, my brother.
RiskyChris
Banned
TekunoRobby said:
Neato. I'm about to head out to start moving in, but I'll check with them before I start.
<3
< Losing my fucking mind.
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
Jtyettis said:
Why wouldn't they be able to track it? Street date has nothing to do with it. It's all about inventory numbers in the stores, and store sales by sku. This won't have an effect on NPD numbers at all. Something GAF worries about way too much.
To the people saying to read Atlas Shrugged:
Is this doable in a week without straining myself? I read fast, but 1200 pages is still a lot. I finished Deathly Hallows in a day, but that was written in like 20 point font.
Also, from what I've randomly heard in philosophy classes, I don't agree with anything in these books. Would that cease any appreciation I could get from it?
Is this doable in a week without straining myself? I read fast, but 1200 pages is still a lot. I finished Deathly Hallows in a day, but that was written in like 20 point font.
Also, from what I've randomly heard in philosophy classes, I don't agree with anything in these books. Would that cease any appreciation I could get from it?
raYne said:So, still no statement from 2k at all? Interesting...
I'm about to head out to make my search.
Elizabeth, 2K's community manager, hasn't been on the CoR forums since last night.
But Irrational and 2K have been very good with their customer/fan relations so I would think they have to issue a statement or take some sort of action.
Baker said:
I read it in eight days during high school and it was absurd.
And I don't think you need to agree with Objectivism at all to appreciate Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead.
VegaShinra
Junior Member
Heading to my TRU now. Wish me luck. If they have it I'll post the location in here or may be buy 2 copies and sell one to someone.
wonderkins
Member
You're right, of course. This bile, it does not taste yummy. If I was at home, I would dull the pain with a little help from my friends in Le Jardin Mystérieux; aka, Viva Piñata.BenjaminBirdie said:
RiskyChris
Banned
Zozz said:
shut up shut up shut up shut up
wonderkins
Member
Seconded, as people who have read earlier in the thread realize my opinion of Objectivism.Eric WK said:
You don't have to buy-into her bunk to enjoy the books.
D
Deleted member 21120
Unconfirmed Member
I wouldn't try it. I (like a lot of high schoolers) was in love with this book years ago, and I read it four or five times over a period of five years. It's definately not something to be tackled in less than two weeks. I read it the first time in three weeks, and I remember being able to do it in a little less than two during the summer.Baker said:
futnownarcade
Member
C'mon people if you say you checked your toys r us post where you are to give us some idea of where its at.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Anyone call the EB at 30 Rock in NYC? I'm sure someone reading this has.
- Status