Hi. My name is Joe lunny and I have been disipointed. I live in west vancouver and have been loyal, not just to EB games, but to one specific location, I have been loyal to your store at park royal since the sega dreamcast, through pokemon red, the ps2,the nintendo ds, pokemon diamond, ps3, several copies of oblivion, the assassins creed series, and most recently I pre ordered the skyrim colectors edition, and fully pre paid for it. I have paid hundreds, thousands of dollars of my and my parents money to your store, always with satisfaction. I have ben intent on going to the midnight release untill, a day before the game comes out, the midnight release was canceled! As you could imagine, this coused a amount of disapontemnt. If I had known earlier, when it was posible to change my preorder, before every other copy of the ps3 skyrim colectors edition had been preorder globally, I would have gone down to the rise and pre ordered there. Instead I am sadly waiting for the coming day, knowing that your store stood me up, I would even go as far as to say that I have been the most loyal costemer ever to go to that store. I don't think I will shop for my games there anymore. Or maybe I will. I am so theroughly mad at you guys, I don't know what to think of your store anymore. I have missed what I dubbed: " the greatest anticipation of my life" due to some corperate fat cat deciding to drop the bomb on my little parade of pride in humanity. if you guys dont make this up to me, i dont know, i just feel that you guys have a moral right to impress somone so loyal, I have even traded in a game a bought a year a go for 69$ and got 10$ of credits back! but that was fine, i apreciated the kindness and power you gave to me, the player, and the payer! you guys owe me big. here is a good deal, you guys give me a free copy of assassins creed revelations and treat my like I preordered it [ upgrade it to the signeture edition, free copy of assassins creed on blue ray ] , then I will continue to be mindlessly loyal and continue spending my hard earned dollars there. its not like you guys even gave me a chance! for 12 months I thought I was going to your guys pre order, only to learn it was canciled the day before release!!! HOW IS THIS FAIR?!!? WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?!?!? WHAT KIND OF PYSCHO WOULD THINK SOMETHING LIKE THAT COULD LEAD TO ANYTHING BUT HUNDREDS OF DISSIPOINTED LOYAL PAYING CUSTERMERS? your guys, your guys in retail, have been great to me, helping me out, sugesting games for me, they have really never disipointed me. but then today the let me know that some guy from corperate screwed them, and me, and all of the loyal fans of the elder scrolls series, over, who was i to be mad at? YOU. kenedy once said that all that was needed for evil to prevail was for good men to do nothing. whoever is reading this note: YOU ARE A GOOD MAN. YOU HAVE A CHOICE, YOU CAN GLANCE THROUGH THIS AND DELETE IT, ADING IT TO YOUR EVER GROWING FEEDDUMP, OR YOU COULD MAKE SURE THAT THIS COMPLAINT KEEPS YOUR COMPANY, AND THE COSTAMERS PAYING THE COMPANY, HAPPY. if I dont atleast get a reply, giving me a good reasonable explanation for the cancelation of the elder scrolls V skyrim midnight release at the eb games at park royal north in west vancouver bc Canada, then I will personaly stop going to games stop. you have untill november 15th to respond. thank you for reading good man. dont let me down. ever again.



here is my charactor for skyrims back story. finnished it two days before this hapened, i bought new head phones, kept all my chocolate bars since january, got a new controller [ from your store ] , and thirty dollars of treats, all that was needed was for your store to do what I expected of them.



Dar Krin male Khajiit. [ this all is based of the lore as stated at the uesp]

It was a dark and silent night in a romote city in Elsweyr, the only sounds where of the wind wistling through the narrow corridors of the citys buildings and the guards boots walking to each house and checking. Checking for newborn khajiit. It was this night of the mane moon that Dar Ma gave birth to Dar Krin.
At the bottom of a dried up well lay Dar Ma, she was laying half conscious with a newborn khajiit in her hands.
"take him, Renrig, they will kill him and all the future and potential he holds. we have kept him a secret, but now we can't do anything more for him." Said Dar Ma in exhaustion. " I... I know what to do with him, giving him to World Wanders the argonian merchant. that will be the last thing we can do for him." said Renrig under his tears.
"go, I am as much dead here as up there. he will do great things I'm sure." Dar Ma said as she rolled the baby into Renrig arms. The baby look up at him and smiled showing his bare gums. " Dar Krin. [ that means grinning thief in khajiit ] His name is Dar Krin. He stole are lives when he came on this moon, and he smiles through his terrible crime. I envy him." Said Renrig choking up near the end. Renrig grasped the side of the rocky well and started to climb, with the baby in his mouth. When he reached the top he felt rain. He sighed for he knew she was already dead even without the rain. " What success in your first day on earth, I wonder if you will ever have a better." He knew he would but didn't dare think it aloud. Through the narrow streets Renrig ran, the rain and his lack of affective clothes didn't help, but he didn't care. He look up and down the streets and the edge of town. A argonian dressed in a wool tunic and a large leather hat was loading a cart with sacks, behind him the first hint of day light revealed itself shining a single beam of light over the desert and into Renrigs left eye. Renrig stopped and composed himself, forcing his back straight and his breathing regular. he approached the lizard man and said " Wader! I..." he couldn't finnish before Worlds Wader cut him of. " Don't. you have saved one treasure of yours,Go fight for the rest. I wont ever return to the Khaj desert.".
His name is Dar Krin. that was the last thing Renrig said in front of his son.
Worlds Wanderer left. He had sworn to protect Dar Krin. World Wader owed Renrig a life debt, and he would protect his son to the death in order to repay it.

For six years World Wader traveled between Morowind and Cyrodil, trading and taking care of Dar Krin, he called him Smiles. World Wanderer taught Smiles all about the history and religion of the world, and of the nature of the mane moon. though he never explained the story of Smiles birth, smiles understood all that was apparent: He would not be alive if it where not for wader.
As for the burning question of whether or not his parents lived, Smiles never had the courage to ask.
[ I kinda had got a bit tired by this part ]
They were on the road to Morowind and smiles had noticed Waders tension as of recent, but was able to keep his mouth shut. After two days of silence they arrived at a romote farmland where the only housing was a three story mansion. "Wait here I will call for you when I need you, do exactly as I say." Wader explained these instructions and walked towards the mansion, Smiles could see a dark elve in a black suite greet him in. After about half an hour of waiting [ or he thought it was half an hour, though he had enough time to doze of ] Smiles heard his name called by Waders, Smiles ran to the door and was greeted by Waders. The doors where shut behind Smiles, a tall dunmer guard stood behind Smiles. Across the room a dunmer in rich clothing sat with a wine glass, he seemed to be examining smiles.

part II

Smiles walked into Waders open arms, Wader gently pushed Smiles in front of him. Smiles could see a short dark elve standing in front of him, he was wearing a gold and black suite. Without a word the man in the black suite gestured and another dark elve came, gave Waders a bag of Septims, and took smiles by the hand. Smiles was not stupid, Waders had taught him all about the enslavement of there kind [ both argonian and khajiit.]. Smiles look backed at Waders, wearing his large flopy leather hat, he new he did not have time to talk, much more the power to resist. " Are my parents still alive?" Smiles asked Waders. Well the truth is waders did not know for sure, and he only wanted to tell Smiles what Smiles needed to hear. " You are still alive ". Dar Krin was taken to work in mines, and on farms, and kitchens, and he worked with fellow khajiits for two years. The khajiits taught him there hate and distrusts toward dunmer and argonians. He kept this in mind but still could not equate World Waders actions. One spring evening, Dar Krin left. He was eight years old now and he left the slave camps. No he did not walk out the front door, he sneaked and ran. He headed west, to Cyrodil and a better climate.

After three weeks of walking and living of plants and roots, he got over the mountains. He could look down across Cyrodill and could see the Nibinay. That is where he needed to go, to water. He travelled for the rest of the day and managed to reach the Lake Rumar, it was here his piled up weakness and fatigue took its toll. after drinking deeply he fainted face first into the water.

part III

"Wake up". Dar Krin opened his eyes to see a..[ a screw it. for this part right here I dont have any energy.] Dar Krin was saved by a breton fisherman who took him home and together with his wife, was able to nurture Dar Krin back to health. They acepted him as there adopted son and called him Dorry. the man taught Dorry to fish with everything, a rod, a net, a spear, it wasn't a year before Dorry was venturing out on the lake by himself, to catch fish on a long sleek board he crafted himself. It was this way that he spent the next seven years, paddle boarding on the lake, line in water waiting for fish. Sometimes he would find a cave or island and sometimes a old dock where he would camp for the day , or he would spend the day drifting on his board. Always with the sun on his back, the breton couples house was sitting on the east bank of the lake Rumare, becouse of this Dorry could wander across past the imperial city to the other side of the lake and return with the sun to his back all day. He learned to love the sun, but hated the rain and cold, though he acepted all chalenges the world gave him without any fear, for he knew that the cold and rain only made him stronger. One day while returning home from a days fishing, he shaw smoke, coming from the east banks and the only house on the east bank was his. He paddled home as fast as he could only to arrive at the ashen ramains of the kindly couples dwelling. And standing there, unmistakeble by his unreasonilbly large floppy leather hat, was Worlds Wanderer the argonian who betrayed him into a life of slavery. Dar Krin charged at Waders, intent on killing him, or atleast getting physical enough to so he wasn't weak anymore, even though he knew he was. Waders side steped as Dar Krin dived to the ground. " Stop this! you need to come with me!" yelled Waders.
" How? to think I can forgive you? For two winters passings I suffered personally as well as living amongst countless hopless souls, soaking up there despair all the while knowing I couldn't save anyone, maybe not even my self! Where are they!" Yelled Dar Krin, as he helped himself up taking a fighting stance across from Waders.
" Calm down Smiles... Smiles? Smiles!" Smiles blacked out.

Smiles woke up wraqed in a thin blanket laying on hard stone. He opened his eyes to see nothing but blacknes, he blinked to make sure his eyes where open.

" Smiles, I have the answer. listen up a lot has happened, your life, or rather your destiny, starts soon."

part IV

Smiles searched his head for a question, all that he could think of at the moment was the aperant one: "Where am I? what happened?". "Please one at a time. Your in fort jarl, hidden of path at the half way point between Bruma and imperial province, and Skyrim. explained Waders. " Skyrim? " How did I get here, tell me what happened!" asked smiles in panick. " You have been out for almost four weeks". said Waders " Four weeks! but how?" inquired smiles. " poisen. You where poisened by the suthuy raht assassins who finnaly found you. Sigh. Let me explain." said Waders. He explained to smiles how he came to meet him and that at the time slavery was the safest place for him, the sucurity was high and a dunmer noble would not tolerate other khajiits visiting, in this way you where safer there then with the fisher men. " I started to look for you the second I heard of your escape. I had to protect you. I owed your father, Renrig, a life debt. I found you just in time, They poisened your breakfast and you would have come home helpless, right into there waiting trap if had I not been there to recieve you." Waders finished. " Do you know what the was fate of my parents?" asked Smiles. " Yes. Your mother died in the well she gave birth to you in. Your father was forced to fight in the arena, and died there, fighting." This was a blunt answer. but smiles was strangely satisfied. "Will you guys shut up? Its not like were any safer here. The only progress is the boy should be able too walk on his own now, right? I don't have to cary'im any longer? the voice came from behind Waders. " Thats Drak the faller, you owe him many of the things you owe me." explained Waders. Here Eat. They did not make a sound anymore. They ate some warm meat. and set outside the fort and into the Jeral mountains. " So where are we going?" asked Smiles. " A setlement not for over the border. near Riften." answered Drak. they continued in silence.

part V

Smiles , Waders, and Drak journeyed through the mountains for eight days before finnaly crossing into Skyrim.
The adventurerers where walking on the last mountain trail before they arived at Riften. they aprouched the edge of the cliff. It was at least forty feet of rocky slope to the bottom. " We haven't had sign of the suthay raht assassins for three days." said Drak. " I know. I dont like it. When they where following us at least we could keep an eye on them. They haven't lost us, But we have lost them. Be ready Smiles, arm your self." Waders handed smiles a dager, and a scroll. " This scroll contains a very powerful flame attack, be carful with it, you can use it only one time".
Then it hapened. A silver arrow came out of noware and hit Waders in the back. Waders stumbled as he was knocked of his feet, he spun around casting spells into the air, then he went over the cliff. Smiles stood and watched him fall onto his back at the bottom of the cliff. Drak armed himself and smiles could hear the heavy shock of iron from behind him. He ignored the aperant danger Drak was facing and thought. " He could not posibly be alive, his back surely snapped. Then he remembered that Waders could not die. not now. Not until I am safe." Without a second thought, Dar Krin hurled himself over the cliff. As he fell time slowed, he could see two khajiits jumping at Waders with swords drawn, Waders was up and defending himself with a long sword and a fire spell.
Smiles hit the ground hard and rolled. It didn't help, he was not strong or skilled enough for a fall like that. He felt his legs snap and he fell flat onto his belly, helpless as he watched Waders fight hoplessy but couragasly against four khajiit assassin. But in a matter of seconds waders spell stop flying, his sword broke and fell to the ground. Waders turned around and looked in horror as he saw Smiles Laying down behind him. " Smiles?" That was his last word before his hands started gripping at the swords that where piercing through him. Waders eyes rolled back, and he let out a very reptilian "hiss".
Smiles helped himself up and managed to fall against a large rock, using it to keep him up. he drew out the scroll and read it aloud. " KEL TOOR!" He yelled. For an instance all there was was a feeling of burning pain, then there was the visible blast of fire that blasted his foes away. the force was enough to dislocate his shoulder. Smiles sat in the snow, unable to get up when he saw the imperial guard jailing cart.
Draks dead lifeless body came tumbling down the cliff. " the in oblivion did you do?!?!" the imperial guard helped the sobing khajiit boy up and led him into the cart. Dar Krin cryed himself to sleep.

He woke up in a damp jail cell. He could not keep it in any longer. " What da dell id wog wip me?" he said to the floor, choking on his own tears and mucus. "IM STILL SO WEAK! I CANT EVEN DEFEND MY FREIND, EVEN MYSELF! dwy did my parents die for me? How was I worth it? I know I was born on the mane, But does that amount to anything?.. but I can get stronger... I wont let such a sacrifice go to waste.Four strong brave people gave there lives for the hope that I might go on to live... I will get out of here. I will become strong enough to protect everything. THIS I SWEAR!" He roared now, at the roof. then he laughed. HOHOHAHAHAHAHA!
four years Dar Krin has spent in jail, training himself to be strong, in this time he went through countless revelations, some of hope, others of despair. He knew he would get out of here. Until one day he sat in his cell doing pushups arguing to his self wether he was ever going to get out of this place.
" I am strong now. I can leave this place."
" can you? how would you? how do you know that you amount to anything out in the real world? further more what is there for you out there? all those you cared about are dead."
"I can make new freinds. If nothing else there is the fish. the one thing I have been happy with. if all else fails, I will fish. but it wont fail, soon enough a opertunity will present itself, I will get out of here and show the world why my life is worth something."
"how will you? maybe it would be better if you where never born? did you deserve it? the old couples kindness? Waders protection? your parents sacrifice?"
"yes."
"no."
"it was not my choice."
then both the voices agreed talking at the same time in chorus:
" It does not matter. I, you, where dead the second I, you, was born". enter SKYRIM!

end of the story.





i expect you guys to follow up on my offer. thank you again. dont let me down EVER again.