Other then PCSteam, the street date seems largely broken : V

» Tue May 08, 2012 9:24 pm

It's been a long time since I've seen this widespread of a street date being broken. There are reports all over the place about people walking into major US retailers the last two days and finding copies on the shelf to be purchased. And now I just read on another site that major retailers in Australia are doing the same thing. Of course only the console buyers get to play the game.

I don't expect Steam to unlock early, but I do wish Bethesda would at least acknowledge just how bad this has gone.

» Tue May 08, 2012 1:32 pm

I'm in canada here so no idea if the game is on shelves.I checked site though and it clearly says 11/11/11 so dunno if I could find it early or not lol

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:27 pm

considering Australia's largest game store chain EB Games has them for sale right now.....

....yeah its definately borken.

» Tue May 08, 2012 5:05 pm

Well it really only takes one store to break release to cause everyone else to have to break it. I know that's what happened in Aus at least

» Tue May 08, 2012 11:27 am

TES Fans had to wait longer this time, while Bethesda made Fallout 3. The wait must have just became unbearable, so crazy breeches started popping up.

MW3 being released on Tuesday helped this, as so many retail stores don't ask folks to read... just stock shelves.

So many stores genuinely thought TES came out Tuesday with MW3, as a competitor.

» Tue May 08, 2012 8:41 am

It could also be called greed if some are payed on the amounts sold or the manager trying to snatch early profit of a store.He adds up the games on the shelves and once news spread,everyone does it.Human pattern really.Now bethesda can't really do much except make the first ones who started this pay a huge fine for breaking the release date

» Tue May 08, 2012 12:03 pm

It could also be called greed if some are payed on the amounts sold or the manager trying to snatch early profit of a store.He adds up the games on the shelves and once news spread,everyone does it.Human pattern really.Now bethesda can't really do much except make the first ones who started this pay a huge fine for breaking the release date

Except they won't. I've worked in gaming retail for over 10 years for several different retailers and the only real power publishers have is to threaten to hurt the retailer the next time around. And they rarely end up following through on it. The fact that the same national retailers are doing it today as yesterday tells you that even if their corporate offices were contacted by Bethesda, they didn't bother telling their stores to stop selling.

Having the street date broken by small independents or regional chains that buy stock indirectly through middlemen is common. What is happening here is widespread sales by major national chains.

» Tue May 08, 2012 5:03 pm

It's been a long time since I've seen this widespread of a street date being broken. There are reports all over the place about people walking into major US retailers the last two days and finding copies on the shelf to be purchased. And now I just read on another site that major retailers in Australia are doing the same thing. Of course only the console buyers get to play the game.

I don't expect Steam to unlock early, but I do wish Bethesda would at least acknowledge just how bad this has gone.

Why is this bad? This game is so damn hot people are throwing the the rule book out the window and risking getting in trouble for this game. I think thats awesome! Skyrim RULES!!!!! :clap:

» Tue May 08, 2012 9:53 am

They didn't get the memo

» Tue May 08, 2012 11:33 am

Now if only I could actually play or even install my PC copy of Skyrim that I bought, oh well

» Tue May 08, 2012 6:29 pm

It could also be called greed if some are payed on the amounts sold or the manager trying to snatch early profit of a store.He adds up the games on the shelves and once news spread,everyone does it.Human pattern really.Now bethesda can't really do much except make the first ones who started this pay a huge fine for breaking the release date

Yeah but its pretty obvious by now that all the stores have copies, so its not as if its unfair. The games are physically in store, they should be available for purchase. 1 or 2 days is not going to cause major damage to the games profitability.

» Tue May 08, 2012 7:13 pm

Skyrim is the game to end all games so the stores figured theyd go for broke

» Tue May 08, 2012 4:51 pm

The stores took a risk for one reason, competition, store A had to get the game out before store B otherwise store A would lose sales to store B.

» Tue May 08, 2012 5:56 pm

then time to pray they broke the dates in quebec too,I want my shiny 360 copy tomorrow since I got a day off.

» Tue May 08, 2012 6:35 pm

Who all has broken it thus far?

» Tue May 08, 2012 12:03 pm

Largest internet store in Poland - gram.pl was shipping yesterday :F
The status of my package in the UPS Tracking stuff is "in delivery, on time" :3

» Tue May 08, 2012 6:36 pm

It didn't occur to me until now, but I wonder if the street date is being ignored because retailers aren't happy about the Steam release plans. After all, if you can get it from Steam at 9PM or something on Thursday, you aren't going to wait and rush off to Best Buy the next morning.

Just a thought.

» Tue May 08, 2012 12:45 pm

The stores took a risk for one reason, competition, store A had to get the game out before store B otherwise store A would lose sales to store B.

» Tue May 08, 2012 8:49 am

It didn't occur to me until now, but I wonder if the street date is being ignored because retailers aren't happy about the Steam release plans. After all, if you can get it from Steam at 9PM or something on Thursday, you aren't going to wait and rush off to Best Buy the next morning.

Just a thought.

Good. Beginning to detest high-street retailers, I really do hope they lose sales. After the crap they've pulled over the years, they deserve it.

» Tue May 08, 2012 9:57 am

I loathe Steam with the power of a 100 blazing suns and only TES will EVER get me to use it but I don't think the retailors broke street date because of steam myself.

» Tue May 08, 2012 9:06 am

I loathe Steam with the power of a 100 blazing suns and only TES will EVER get me to use it but I don't think the retailors broke street date because of steam myself.

Game probably did, they hate Steam with a passion, and will even resort to blackmail to ensure they get first release of certain games (Relic's Space Marine being one of them).

» Tue May 08, 2012 4:52 pm

It didn't occur to me until now, but I wonder if the street date is being ignored because retailers aren't happy about the Steam release plans. After all, if you can get it from Steam at 9PM or something on Thursday, you aren't going to wait and rush off to Best Buy the next morning.

Just a thought.

Have you seen the PC section in video game stores these days? STEAM IS PC. 95% of people buying in the stores are console players. Why the F would stores break the rules for such a tiny ammount of sales? It wont be long until Gamestop etc is console only, everyone on PC will be ordering/downloading online.

» Tue May 08, 2012 6:54 pm

I BLAME CONSOLES!!!

Ok, actually guilty ones are stores who sold game before 11Nov
But ironically console players are the ones who break this date, sooo...

» Tue May 08, 2012 1:32 pm

add something like steam to xbox and ps3

release date is 100% secure + no leaked versions etc.

» Tue May 08, 2012 9:17 pm

TES Fans had to wait longer this time, while Bethesda made Fallout 3. The wait must have just became unbearable, so crazy breeches started popping up.

MW3 being released on Tuesday helped this, as so many retail stores don't ask folks to read... just stock shelves.

So many stores genuinely thought TES came out Tuesday with MW3, as a competitor.

If you've already got a consumer in the shop buying MW3, and have a chance at selling them Skyrim at the same time, or not having the chance to sell them skyrim (since they would be less likely to return to the store only a couple days later), then you put skyrim out on the shelves and try to sell it.

Financially, it seems to make sense, unless there is something in the contract that could bring fines to the stores or corporations that do it, which I would have to doubt really.