Wellington
BAAAALLLINNN'
Eff this. I am doing in store.
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To those that pre-ordered Halo 2 from Gamestop.com, a DAY delay.
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Eff this. I am doing in store.
Christoff Yurievich
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Lyte Edge said:
the stores around here are averaging 300 pre-orders, most of them being the Spec. Ed. I only hope they made enough of them.
I highly encourage anyone who preordered at GS to go back and pay full price because you will be in a special line that will go significantly faster. This doesn't sound like much, but when you think that GameStop has decided that there can only be 2 lines (fully prepaid and everyone else) you really want to be in that other line.
Most stores are probably stuck on a 56k connection and that means 1 transaction a minute per register. Most stores will only have 4 registers up.
That's 4 transactions a minute, which comes to only 240 transactions an hour. So if most stores have at least 300 reserves (probably a lot more) like the high end for Vice City and TWW when those came out, then you're looking at possibly 1000 people lined up at midnight for most stores when you throw in the 1-2 people who didn't reserve for everyone who did. And probably at least twice that at the big stores.
So if you aren't camping out the day before, it will take you at least 2 hours when doors open if you don't fully prepay and get in the fast line. 4 hours if you're unlucky and are at the end of the line.
I can't give out numbers, but Halo 2 is going to make the console launches look like tea parties. We are talking lines like there were for Episode IV at movie theaters except bigger and slower.
Most stores are probably stuck on a 56k connection and that means 1 transaction a minute per register. Most stores will only have 4 registers up.
That's 4 transactions a minute, which comes to only 240 transactions an hour. So if most stores have at least 300 reserves (probably a lot more) like the high end for Vice City and TWW when those came out, then you're looking at possibly 1000 people lined up at midnight for most stores when you throw in the 1-2 people who didn't reserve for everyone who did. And probably at least twice that at the big stores.
So if you aren't camping out the day before, it will take you at least 2 hours when doors open if you don't fully prepay and get in the fast line. 4 hours if you're unlucky and are at the end of the line.
I can't give out numbers, but Halo 2 is going to make the console launches look like tea parties. We are talking lines like there were for Episode IV at movie theaters except bigger and slower.
I highly doubt it, especially in areas with lots of retail dollars.Scoot said:
MS reps are going to be all over the place, especially at big retailers, to make sure this thing doesn't get screwed up.
Edit: Like I said before, MS is treating this like the Xbox launch except bigger.
Someone in the Outrun 2 thread a couple days ago stated that Toys R Us will get Halo 2 around 10/27-11/1 (according to their computer). So someone might actually be stupid enough to break release date if they game is indeed arriving in stores that early. Probably unlikely but yeah...
After the French leak, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft pushes back the delivery dates for stores to minimize the likelihood of a further piracy incident. In fact, that might be the reason for the delay in the GS ship date. MS may just have decided to deliver copies to stores on Nov. 8, just before the release.
The Faceless Master
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anyone else see the latest retail quiz?
street date policy? lol!
street date policy? lol!
MightyHedgehog
Member
Rhindle said:
At any other time of the year, I could see this. Not now, when the holiday season is upon us. It would be a logistical nightmare with all of the other stuff on all consoles and other non-game-related items that need to be squeezed through the lines.