Babymario26
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Super Smash Bros. for 3DS |OT2| Nintendo All-Stars Battle Quarter Pounder
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I just contacted Amazon, they claimed my delay was due to a payment card change, which is false, and the rep. upgraded me to One Day Delivery, guarantee of Friday, so fingers crossed.
Apparently entered the dispatch process, though my account says otherwise.
I'm ok with this. Probably applies to charizard and ZSS too.
...Wait then how do giga bowser/mac, Mega Lucario, and wario man work?
Good news! Man i hope mine has entered the dispatch process, would be amazing if it came tomorrow.
KelpPlankton
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Just a heads-up for people getting early copies:
Please don't publically name specific stores breaking the street date. Nintendo will fine them for doing so, for upwards of $5000, and you can get the employees who sell to you fired. Plus you can be sure that store won't ever break street date in the future.
Tell local friends, tell online people privately, but please please please do not publically name names. Don't get these guys in trouble for selling you early games.
Please don't publically name specific stores breaking the street date. Nintendo will fine them for doing so, for upwards of $5000, and you can get the employees who sell to you fired. Plus you can be sure that store won't ever break street date in the future.
Tell local friends, tell online people privately, but please please please do not publically name names. Don't get these guys in trouble for selling you early games.
Yeah it's better like that.
That's why I'm curious as to if there was a mistranslaton, because in Brawl they loaded the same way transformations do.
Just bought the game early from GAME UK. I repeat it was GAME UK that sold me a totally real copy early.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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I preordered from Amazon last week and apparently I didn't select release day delivery. They delayed my shipment to Oct. 7th so I cancelled and re-ordered with release day delivery (indicated as 1 day shipping) which cost me an extra $3.99 per copy, but it now says: Guaranteed delivery by: Friday, October 3, 2014 by 8pm.
This is the first instance I can recall ever having to pay extra for release date delivery on Amazon. Did people who preorder earlier get release day delivery at no additional charge?
This is the first instance I can recall ever having to pay extra for release date delivery on Amazon. Did people who preorder earlier get release day delivery at no additional charge?
Hero Prinny
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People were blaming the Wii u cause no transformations? That doesn't even make sense, the Wii u is stronger than the both the Wii u and gamecube. Also them being their own slot is good, more fleshed out
Actually now you come to mention it i got this totally legitimate copy from my local Royal Bank of Scotland branch.
spindashing
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Snitches get stitches, brehs.
TheSlySoul
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I am guessing the 3DS can only handle one type of player at the same time. Wario-Man and Bowser are pretty much buffed up versions of the original character. Zelda/Sheik have different play styles. As such, I am not really mad at the 3DS for leaving out Ice Climbers and Chorus Kids. I just wish they would have not done simultaneous developments and did something like Mario Kart 7 and 8.
When every store of the chain in the entire country breaks street date Nintendo probably allowed it. Was the same with MK8.
chaosblade
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People said the Wii U couldn't handle swapping between the HD assets on the fly or something similarly ridiculous.
But yeah, it's a good change regardless. As someone who played a lot of ZSS in Brawl (but can't play Samus) and a little Sheik in Melee (but hates playing Zelda) I really like that it finally happened.
Why did people blame the Wii U for no transformations?
Aren't all the transformation Final smashes just the same moveset but with a bigger hitbox and more powerful. I don't imagine they're that complex.
Hero Prinny
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Yea obvi, but the question is, has anyone in america gotten an early copy?
Beelzebufo
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Yeah, lots of people have. Walmarts, mom and pop stores, this one same specialty store in LA if I remember correctly. A lot of people are breaking the date.
brickwalker0
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I thought Walmart's systems (and almost all other retailers in America) will not allow games to ring up before the street date? Are people arguing with managers "if its on store shelves then its fair game" or something?
GiantBreadbug
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Zelda/Sheik and Samus/Zamus being split is good, but the loss of PT, which was a hugely iconic character for Pokemon, is really awful. Switching between three Pokemon was really fun. Just remove the stamina mechanic to allow people to play indefinitely as one of them and it would've been perfect.
IntelliHeath
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I agreed but apparently few people already outed them tho.
Beelzebufo
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People were using the "pick up in store today" thing, but I don't know f that actually worked. Some places are definitely selling them, Georly has a copy.
Also, I don't know why we're trying to protect people who sell the game early. The only good that comes out of it is the store makes a sale that they wouldn't otherwise, some random person gets the game a day early, and the rest of us face a situation like ORAS's release date in Canada. They shouldn't be selling the game early, and we certainly shouldn't be protecting them. It's not like it's hard to wait a day to sell a game.
TheSlySoul
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I heard Sears.
I on a whim glanced at Walmart.com and sure enough I could add it to Pick-Up at Store. Wish me luck!
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Actually from top of my head, Georly had a friend that working at the store that would let him get game early. Basically his friend wouldn't check it out until Friday so.
Damn that sucks.
On the other side my order has yet to even prepare to ship.
Guess I'm going hunting for a copy on release day...
theprodigy
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MannyToons
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I'd be OK with this if Squirtle and Ivysaur weren't axed for it.
I'm not sure how to feel about it - I liked playing as Squirtle and Ivysaur separately, but they'd be constrained by the PT dynamic even if the stamina mechanic was removed. Ideally, they'd have all been split off as with Charizard, but that doesn't seem likely.
Though I wonder how far they would have gotten in development - even if they weren't worked on to the extent of the Ice Climbers, perhaps having some existing assets in addition to the ease of porting from Brawl might give them decent chances for DLC.
Usually only Amazon Prime or Amazon Student (myself) members get free release day shipping on vidya. For normal people it counts as 1 day shipping, which costs extra.
Read above! I resolved it
That was more Game Freak's fault. Every new Smash Sakurai collaborates closely with Game Freak to see which pokemon they want in the game. A lot of the additions were to showcase mega evolution, and Sakurai chose Greninja over the other 2 starters.
KelpPlankton
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Because the people that suffer for it aren't the corporations themselves or CEOs or whatever, it's the minimum wage employee who tried to do a nice thing for you that you got fired because their actions resulted in a large fine. And then you won't see that location do any more early sales in the future. Everyone loses when people spread that info around.
Oh shit!!!!
That's great
Just hoping Amazon ain't talking shit.
Firstly I allegedly "changed my payment card", which is clear BS, but then the women upgraded my shipping to meet Friday.
A prior rep said it already entered the dispatch process, but the latter rep said they couldn't verify info from a fulfilment center.
So..
TheSlySoul
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Indeed, if I manage it, then I am not saying the location because I think fining is a jerk move. As long as it is less than a week away, having it a day early means nothing.
KelpPlankton
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Personally I'm still hoping Ivysaur and Squirtle end up being DLC. I think they'd be very popular sales-wise, and would have the added bonus of being fleshed out into full characters like Charizard was. If they want to bring Mewtwo back too, a three character PokeComeback bundle with an HD update of the N64 pokemon stage would be like the most dream-come-true thing. So they won't do that because it would be too good (and probably too many Pokemon...)
But we'll see what we get, I guess.
Beelzebufo
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The minimum wage employee isn't doing a nice thing, the minimum wage employee is breaking the rules at their job in a way that can be bad for literally everyone. I would be pretty stoked if the cashier at Panera took a few $20s out of the cash drawer and gave them to me for no reason, but that employee should probably be fired. If you're so terrible at you're job that you're willing to sacrifice it over a two day wait, you should be fired.
TheSlySoul
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No clue, it is also a gamble depending on how good the staff is as well. People had it in hand before getting denied. Luckily the place I am doing at is pretty dirty, so hopefully I will get those that do not care at all.
I do not think anyone had luck with buying it out-right. Pick-Up at Store has a shot because it bypasses the computer used to check-out people. I could pick up the Zelda 3DS one day early with no issue.
KelpPlankton
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If anyone's had success, it's going to vary from location to location because either
1: That particular location's early sales prevention stuff isn't working. or
2: That particular location has a manager or supervisor willing to override the early sales prevention.
I would not expect it to work, best to call ahead and make sure.
chaosblade
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If the date is not in the system they can sell it. Also, if the pick up in-store thing worked (haven't seen confirmation yet), that probably bypasses everything at the store level since you did the checkout process online.
Either way the employees at the store have to be ignorant because IIRC a lot of the boxes that contain new releases have huge hold tags on them saying not to sell them before a certain date.
KelpPlankton
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Stealing money and selling a video game early are pretty different things, dude.
Either way it's a dick move to get people fired just because you want to see someone suffer for selling you a video game early. There's no reason to be an asshole to someone who broke the rules for your benefit.
Hero Prinny
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Wtf word?! Anyone in NYC got it early, if so, where?! Pm the bro with the address
That's a pretty good comparison, breaking the rules is generally bad.
But in that case it's a direct negative for the company. In the case of breaking street date, it benefits pretty much everyone involved? Nintendo already sold a copy of the game to the store, the customer is happy to get it early, and the store is happy to get a sale. (Well, this doesn't consider the ramifications of breaking Nintendo's rule. Rather, it's a hypothetical that leads me to wonder why the rule exists? If the store has copies, they should sell them. You should have a preorder somewhere to guarantee you have a copy, and Nintendo should send enough for it to be easily available even if you're not there minute 1. I guess it loses some of the hype from a midnight launch though?)
KelpPlankton
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I feel like if they're doing DLC packs, they'll want at least one newcomer per pack.
Sakurai said something in an interview a while back about the roster being a mixture of three pools. The "Expected", the "fan favorites", and the "impossible to expect". I'd expect a DLC pack to fit those archetypes, one per character.
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