Morning Discussion
I neglected to mention this the other day, but Valve challenged the Shacknews community to another battle in Team Fortress 2 for the PC, and well, the results were terrible. They were catastrophic. They were apocalyptic. Yes, that's right, Team Valve fell to Shackers in nine out of nine rounds. I'm not fantastic at math, but I'm pretty sure that means Valve won zero times. The apprentice is now the master, Gabe-wan Kenobi. It's alright, we're a dedicated bunch.
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phipple
replySo, I want GTA4 now. Can someone direct me to a magical store that would kindly leak it early for me?
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lol.
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Except now, when the game comes out on Tuesday, I get to go pick up my game during my lunch break while the kids in the area have to wait until school lets out, so I'm pretty much guaranteed a copy... Though I guess it's pretty much the same on Friday.
Doesn't really bother me too much. I'd rather spend my weekday evenings playing video games than wasting my weekends.
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which makes way more fucking sense then tuesday, goddamn it
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i'd rather have the games earlier than making sense :)
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id rather have it tomorrow than tuesday when i have to go back to work
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seems like the only appropriate response. Did you call him a fag at least?
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hahahaha
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from the UK! Preferably the North East of Scotland!
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I wish.
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photoshop?
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no, you mail it to every retail store in your area.
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Because there are retail ads for places like Best Buy and Walmart.
Those Ads cost a shit ton of money.
If everyone can get their game from somewhere else, that money is wasted and potential sales are lost.
Plus there could be special retail bundles (read consumer rape with stupid accessories).
There's a lot of money that is put into that release day. The consumer doesn't see it per say, but it's part of the bottom line of the distributors. -
For the reasons mentioned in the replies below. They control the release so that they can get it to all the stores and build hype for the release. If it was first come first serve, you'd have a lot of upset customers (customers in this case being retail outlets) who couldn't get it as fast as some of the other ones and who would miss out on a lot of initial sales.
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