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The Game on Princes St in Edinburgh (Princes Mall really) had a couple of Wii U Starfox's for £4.99, and that's all for the Wii U clearance.
 
SeriuzBiznus said:
Is there anything in particular you were after? I might be swinging by a GAME this weekend and can keep an eye out for you.
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Not particularly. Would have been more of a case of just seeing what was there and maybe filling some holes in the collection (I think I have most of the hits, and some games I'm missing I'm expecting sequels/ports on the Switch). 99p for Star Fox 0 wouldn't be a bad price for it for example. Thanks for the offer.
 
Where's the cheapest place for a UK physical version of Monster Hunter Generations?
I'm sure I saw it at £19.99 online a few days ago, and I can't put my finger on where it was.
 
Gamestop Italy gives 5€ more for each game which is worth atleast 3€ for tradein. Also has an 80€ bundle with X1 controller, FH3 digital code and 3 months XBL.
 
Gigarator said:
Doesn't happen too often so it's worth mentioning the Witcher 3 expansion is on sale on Steam for £10 or GOTY is £17.50
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Many thanks! I've been meaning to pick up the expansion pass and had been wondering how best to spend (nearly) a tenner of Steam credit, so that's killed two birds.
 
How's costumer service on base.com? I've ordered dozens of items there and never had a problem, but now I have two games that were supposedly shipped on May 12 and I've received none, so I left a message here:
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...and I thought I'd get a ticket number or a confirmation email. but nothing so far.
 
AerialAir said:
How's costumer service on base.com? I've ordered dozens of items there and never had a problem, but now I have two games that were supposedly shipped on May 12 and I've received none, so I left a message here:
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...and I thought I'd get a ticket number or a confirmation email. but nothing so far.
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Dependind on your country, it can take up to 4 weeks for a game to arrive. I'm from Portugal and I've had games arrive from as early as 8 work days to as late as 22 work days. My last two orders were shipped May 9 and only arrived yesterday...
 
BloodOmenPT said:
Dependind on your country, it can take up to 4 weeks for a game to arrive. I'm from Portugal and I've had games arrive from as early as 8 work days to as late as 22 work days. My last two orders were shipped May 9 and only arrived yesterday...
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Thanks! It's very good to hear that, since I'm also from Portugal, so my orders should arrive next week.
 
My last order from base.com of four games, all of them shipped separately on the same day. One arrived a week later, the other three arrived on the same day... a whole month later. An uneven experience if I have ever seen one.
 
My P5 25% off code is still up for grabs if anyone wants it. I'll just leave it here, quote this post to reveal the code. It might be UK only and expires on monday at midnight.

 
Firebrand said:
I think this is essentially the same product as Avermedia Live Gamer Extreme... in which case I would definitely not recommend it unless they don't have the same driver issues.
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I ordered one but there's still time to cancel it, what kind of issues does Avermedia LGE have? I saw the images that they use similar/identical PCB but Razer does have it's own drivers, at least you have to DL them through Synapse.
Biggest issue I can find is people not getting audio to OBS but seems to be fixable easily with Output to Desktop.

EDIT: Or not, tried to cancel it but Amazon says too late for that now bud even though they haven't shipped it yet.. Here's hoping it works and/or there isn't too big fees for return shipping. Still interested in the issues so can look into them if I happen to have any.
 
Kudo said:
I ordered one but there's still time to cancel it, what kind of issues does Avermedia LGE have? I saw the images that they use similar/identical PCB but Razer does have it's own drivers, at least you have to DL them through Synapse.
Biggest issue I can find is people not getting audio to OBS but seems to be fixable easily with Output to Desktop.
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My issue is that the it won't hold 60 FPS for very long, dropping to 15-30 every once in a while and staying there for a while. I can't eliminate my machine being part of the cause of course, but I've tried just about everything I can think of.

It's a shame though, because if it weren't for this one issue it would have been a great device.

edit: Surely you may return it if it's not working though? And yeah, possible Razer don't use the same driver code.
 
Firebrand said:
My issue is that the it won't hold 60 FPS for very long, dropping to 15-30 every once in a while and staying there for a while. I can't eliminate my machine being part of the cause of course, but I've tried just about everything I can think of.

It's a shame though, because if it weren't for this one issue it would have been a great device.

edit: Surely you may return it if it's not working though? And yeah, possible Razer don't use the same driver code.
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Seems like an annoying issue, and further reading some people seem to encounter freezes with these cards, not exclusive to Ripsaw but Elgatos too. Maybe I jumped the gun too hasty.
Return is definitely a option but not sure if Amazon is going to make me pay the shipping, and that's going to be 20 EUR+ if I'll have to take care of it.
Here's hoping that it would just work without issues.. Thanks again, definitely gonna give the card thorough tests when I get it.
 
In the UK at least, once the items dispatches you can ask Amazon CS to ask the courier to return the item to them, you don't get charged or asked why you want to return it.
 
GetDigitized said:
In the UK at least, once the items dispatches you can ask Amazon CS to ask the courier to return the item to them, you don't get charged or asked why you want to return it.
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Hell, if it's been dispatched through their own system Amazon Logistics, there is a button on your order to do this. Don't even have to talk to Amazon.
 
Kudo said:
Seems like an annoying issue, and further reading some people seem to encounter freezes with these cards, not exclusive to Ripsaw but Elgatos too. Maybe I jumped the gun too hasty.
Return is definitely a option but not sure if Amazon is going to make me pay the shipping, and that's going to be 20 EUR+ if I'll have to take care of it.
Here's hoping that it would just work without issues.. Thanks again, definitely gonna give the card thorough tests when I get it.
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Yeah, because of how they need a consistent amount of USB bandwidth and USB on motherboards cheap out on the controllers, it can be a pain to get the right performance sometimes. Not sure on what USB products work best, but I find the internal cards to be much more consistent.
 
foobarry81 said:
Low print numbers indeed.



This is not Atlus' doing. Well, not entirely at least. But you're right: Atlus sucks balls when it comes to doing business.
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Sucks for consumers. I have not seen the figures but shipping just enough copies to keep the price up is certainly a legit business strategy. I think Deep Silver underestimated demand and didn't print enough at launch - a month to restock was amateur hour - but only printing what you think you can sell is smart for a small publisher. Over shipping and eating the discounts hurts the bottom line.

My biggest critic of DS and Atlas is that supermarkets are selling physical copies of games like Stardew Valley and Yooka Laylee (neither traditional top 10 fare) - so not getting copies in to mainstream retail seems weak.
 
popo said:
Sucks for consumers. I have not seen the figures but shipping just enough copies to keep the price up is certainly a legit business strategy. I think Deep Silver underestimated demand and didn't print enough at launch - a month to restock was amateur hour - but only printing what you think you can sell is smart for a small publisher. Over shipping and eating the discounts hurts the bottom line.

My biggest critic of DS and Atlas is that supermarkets are selling physical copies of games like Stardew Valley and Yooka Laylee (neither traditional top 10 fare) - so not getting copies in to mainstream retail seems weak.
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Atlus must only work with extremely smart publishers, because they've been making it hard for European customers to acquire their games for 20+ years now. You wonder why more companies don't adopt their strategies.
 
foobarry81 said:
Atlus must only work with extremely smart publishers, because they've been making it hard for European customers to acquire their games for 20+ years now. You wonder why more companies don't adopt their strategies.
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There was one bright spot. When they partnered with Nintendo of Europe in the mid mid-late 00s who then (fully localized and) overshipped their games so you could easily find them for pennies years later still (Etrian Odyssey, Trauma Center series). EVerything after that was a disaster (Ghostlight, Deep Silver, NISA), comparatively.
 
I'm very shocked at P5's low print run. I legit thought this would be the franchise's mainstream breakout moment. Guess I was in the echo chamber.
 
Stereogatari said:
I'm very shocked at P5's low print run. I legit thought this would be the franchise's mainstream breakout moment. Guess I was in the echo chamber.
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This was the franchise's mainstream moment.
Just look at press and social media reactions about the game, and compare it to the previous games or even similar games.
It just still has a limited appeal/playerbase everytime, it wouldn't have grown suddenly to 3M copies WW.

The low print run is more due to Atlus USA and Sega fucking up with Europe as usual, and Deep Silver underestimating everything, just like they had to reprint SMT IV A or 7thD3.
 
The "breakout" part of the P5 release was that it was simultaneous with the North American release. Usually swapping the ESRB rating logo with the PEGI and USK ones, and adding some bugs to the Euro release, takes Atlus about 4 years.

I have nothing against Deep Silver, but I just don't understand why Atlus would need to publish their games over here through them, when they are owned by friggin' SEGA. It's ridiculous.
 
foobarry81 said:
I have nothing against Deep Silver, but I just don't understand why Atlus would need to publish their games over here through them, when they are owned by friggin' SEGA. It's ridiculous.
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Apparently SEGA Europe no longer have any real distribution capability since they mostly manage Segas PC games. I didn't think NISA Were that bad. There was almost never price drops but you could be generally sure that a game would come over and copies weeks be available whenever you wanted to buy a game.
 
Yeah, Deep Silver distribute all of SEGA's games as far as I'm aware.

They also distribute Square Enix's too for what its worth.

On the subject of NISA Europe though, they managed to under print Disgaea 5 on Switch, so they aren't doing much better on predicting demand this year.
 
redlemon said:
Apparently SEGA Europe no longer have any real distribution capability since they mostly manage Segas PC games.
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That didn't stop them from releasing Yakuza 0. What's the deal with them not wanting any distribution capacity in Europe anyway?

redlemon said:
I didn't think NISA Were that bad. There was almost never price drops but you could be generally sure that a game would come over and copies weeks be available whenever you wanted to buy a game.
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Not a fan of NISA either (how hard can it be to call yourself NIS Europe, really?), but they weren't terrible. Probably had good intentions. Obviously they still had to work with Atlus, so it was never going to be amazing.
 
foobarry81 said:
I have nothing against Deep Silver, but I just don't understand why Atlus would need to publish their games over here through them, when they are owned by friggin' SEGA. It's ridiculous.
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Because even friggin' SEGA can hardly even publish its own games anymore. Often relying on Nintendo's distribution channels for their Nintendo-only releases, for example. Probably going through Koch Media for multiplatform stuff but not sure right now.

edit: or, yea, DS, of course!
 
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