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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 7: More Shipping Talk than Anime & TV GAF
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Garden Warfare 2 sale is pretty fast!
ReddishGUI
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80$ was an absurd price.
The first one was a budget title at 40$ and now it's: full price game + weak dollar = twice the cost of the first one...
Literally bought it three days ago lol. Looks like I'm getting a price adjustment!
bananafactory
Banned
Still no LE for No Man's Sky
Cmon Amazon/Best Buy I just wanna preorder
Cmon Amazon/Best Buy I just wanna preorder
I definitely agree with you there. I had a lot of fun with the first game, but a full price game for the sequel felt a little dicey. They should have just released it at the same price as the first game.
Sealtest
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You mean sony isn't bringing ANOTHER le to Canada?
People should expect we don't get the nice things anymore.
The Elite
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bananafactory
Banned
fuck offfffff
wish I'd known this and I would have just preordered from Gamestop US or Amazon yesterday
The Elite
BOSS
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Fucking eh.
At least now we won't have to complain about how high the prices for CEs are with exchange
bananafactory
Banned
Just Sony from what I've seen. The special edition of MLB The Show last year wasn't here either and that's first party. Costed me almost $140 after shipping/exchange rate to import a copy
bananafactory
Banned
Those were shit LE though. At least Resistance 2.
The Elite
BOSS
Yeah, any of those big statue editions shipped in big numbers tend to sit on shelves.
The sweet spot for LE's is just a $79.99 USD priced package with an artbook and some digital perks.
In that case, why not just limit the quantities they release here? That's a lot better than none.
Let's start pressing Sony about this now, people. There's still quite a bit of time before the release date.
bananafactory
Banned
Agreed. Infamous. Bloodborne. Uncharted 4. All great LE packages
Who would we even talk to? Do they have a public face for production stuff?
The Elite
BOSS
This works just fine for Nintendo who offers a quality package at a fairly reasonable price with their LEs.
Well you do realize that Amazon and eBay sellers have to pay a 10 to 15% commission to ebay/Amazon as well.
I pre ordered one from EBGames and I got both TN Panels. Just returned it last night to the Vaughn EBgames, you can try your luck there if you are in Toronto.
Welp, I have on Twilight Princess HD scheduled to be delivered today and one for Monday, both with the wrong address. Tried getting Best Buy to fix it and they said they couldn't, tried getting Canada Post to fix it and they said they couldn't.
Hoping the address doesn't exist or that the delivery person notices the postal code.
Hoping the address doesn't exist or that the delivery person notices the postal code.
And let's not forget that Sony didn't bother to make any deals for physical release of Gravity Rush Remastered in Canada either.
How wrong is the address?
If the postal code is correct then that should help greatly, as that is how mail is sorted for delivery.
bananafactory
Banned
Yup. Had to import that also. Forgot about that one. How fucking hard is it to just throw some copies on trucks and drive them across the border? I don't get it
I don't know. Shuhei, the PS Canada Twitter account, anybody that might forward the feedback to the people in charge of this. Probably won't work, but worth a shot.
bananafactory
Banned
PS Canada seems like a safe bet. I'll tweet at them
socksfelloff
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It sucks that we miss out on alot but our dollar fucking sucks and population wise we are a very small country. I think the only reason we have what we have today is we share a boarder with USA.
moyashimon
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Just wondering guys, how long do you think an item from Manitoba to Ontario should take to get to its destination? It's been a little over a week and I'm getting concerned...
exactly, I want to start a complain but dunno where to take it.Tweeting Shu might be a good start but I don't think there is much he can do. What they could have done is make them online retailers exclusive if local retailers aren't willing to take them. And only ship preorder numbers + 5% extra. That will cut down the overstock issue significantly. My preorder for U4 with the figure will cost me almost 200 bucks importing from Amazon.com...
bananafactory
Banned
I tweeted the PS Canada account as well as Adam Boyes, I know he's third party productions but he's Canadian and I figure he can maybe talk to someone about it.
I don't think tweeting Shu will do anything as he is just WWS and he probably has a huge volume of messages constantly coming at him, youre more likely to have success reaching less visible folks
I don't think tweeting Shu will do anything as he is just WWS and he probably has a huge volume of messages constantly coming at him, youre more likely to have success reaching less visible folks
I guess I'm a bit of a hypocrite, because I'm pretty salty that I didn't manage to get the FE Fates SE.
The Elite
BOSS
Ok, they could print a few more.
My address is 1234 Fake Street, Unit 1111
The address on the order is 1235 Fake Street, Unit 1111
Google Maps tells me 1235 Fake Street is the intersection on the corner of the complex I live in.The postal code is correct and I'm a little hopeful because the order that had Twilight Princess had Trails of Cold Steel which was shipped to me correctly. *fingers crossed*
Shhhh, don't let the Americans know otherwise they will call you entitled for wanting the same stuff as them.
In terms of its treatment of Canadians, Sony is by far the worst out of the major gaming companies
To be fair, all these decisions probably come from a ton of market research that proves the cost of bringing it out here (which, with having to create french packaging and what not, actually is more complicated than just mailing a few copies over the border) just isn't worth it.
It sucks I agree, but I'm sure it isn't just ignorance or spite. The return on investment probably just doesn't add up.
ReddishGUI
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I have no interest in no man's sky(sick box art though!) but the LE is really nice-looking and should even be the regular first-print sku IMO.
I really hope that sony will at least change their mind and end up releasing it up here too...yet 80$ for the regular edition is already steep enough as it is(no hate on nms, 80$ is too high for most games), so a 100$+ package may have seemed to much for them.
They simply made their choice to not release everything here since our weak dollar would make their more expensive items a hard sell since they would most likely be perceived as "too" expensive. It's not as simple as sending a truck across the border...
Anyway, I hope you guys end up getting what you want.
I really hope that sony will at least change their mind and end up releasing it up here too...yet 80$ for the regular edition is already steep enough as it is(no hate on nms, 80$ is too high for most games), so a 100$+ package may have seemed to much for them.
They simply made their choice to not release everything here since our weak dollar would make their more expensive items a hard sell since they would most likely be perceived as "too" expensive. It's not as simple as sending a truck across the border...
Anyway, I hope you guys end up getting what you want.
bananafactory
Banned
Sorry, yeah, I know it's more complicated than that. It's just frustrating.
knacklover
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What service is it shipped with? Is it something with a release date? Are you in a rural area or close to the warehouse?
Good thing I ordered an LE from amazon yesterday, my new rule with these LEs, preorder first from US, wait until you hear something (or nothing) from Canadian retailer. Though I did notice, the No Man's Sky LE would not ship to Canada, whereas in the past, I could have this kind of thing shipped to Canada.
catpurrcat
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Suggestion: consult with a local independent game store. If there's enough interest, maybe they can import on your behalf (or at least, contact their own distributor).
I know on the retro side and the JP imports side (back in the PS3/x360 era), this happens.
I know on the retro side and the JP imports side (back in the PS3/x360 era), this happens.
moyashimon
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Good ol' Canada Post. Basically Winnipeg to somewhere near Toronto.
UberTag
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Thank you oil prices. Shame this is entirely commodity-driven but that's the bed we made for ourselves.
knacklover
Member
Could take more than a week if it shipped with "Tracked package", especially with the bad weather early this week.
The Elite
BOSS
I think it will be fine.
No particular one, really. It's just that nearly all of the sales recently aside from the ridiculous 850 EVO sale were all TLC NANDs...
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