I called today and checked on my pre-order and its sitting in the store ready to go and i can’t get it till Tuesday at 10 am!!! GRRR..lol…silly street dates!!
spoke to a dude named Jeff lol..he told me i could pick up my t-shirt early…yay…
curses in a dozen languages
My heart weeps for you. 
Once again!
If GameStop breaks street date They will be heavily fined and the employee fired. As an Employee of GameStop, I can vouch for anyone that works there that:
THEY DO NOT WANT TO GET FIRED.
Anthony, is your gamestop doing a midnight release?
I’ve been trying to find out from the gamestop I preordered with if they’re going to be doing a midnight release & it’s like pulling teeth. The guy told me earlier this afternoon that I should call back after 5pm to find out because they were having some kind of meeting this afternoon about next week’s releases.
Hey some_guy… being a gamestop employee perhaps you can shed some light on this for me. What factors influence whether or not a store will do a midnight release? I know the number of pre-orders is an obvious one, but is there anything else? It just baffles me that some areas have had these midnight release events planned for a couple months now, but this gamestop is really waiting to the last minute to decide whether or not they’re going to do it.
It’s usually passed down from the head offices. Call of Duty World at War was supposed to have a Midnight, then it was suddenly canceled. Pre orders are indeed a factor, but sometimes people don’t even show up. Guitar Hero Areosmith was a huge bomb. 4 people showed up.
Sometimes Stores who get a lot of pre orders E-mail their district manager for Midnight approval, if they get the greenlight, it’s good to go. Other stores don’t do it unless the higher-ups order us to. That’s what I’ve been told from my manager; I don’t know how much of it, exactly, it’s 100% true or correct.
But what I do know is that GameStop will never, EVER still a game before street date. So don’t waste your breath, lol.
I didnt ask him to sell me the game. I didnt ask anyone to break street date. I was expressing excitement, not contempt. I actually like GameStop and get most of my games from them.
I am perfectly content to wait until Tuesday its just that i needed to express some sillyness and get out some energy. Also you have to understand my personality. It’s one of wit and sarcasm and humor. Can’t take everything I say seriously.
now then…
…where are the twinkies??!
the game is set in stone, but you can get your t-shirt, guide, etc. early..
they let me hold the game for a min.. then they had to wipe the drool off :sigh:
4 days people after friday it’ll be 3 days try to contain yourselves everyone. (no ghostbusters pun intended.)
Oh, okay. There’s just so many damned topics about getting the game early from GameStop and Walmart and shit, Lol.
People are just super excited for it…they gotta show their love and that excitement can spill out…
its like a massive necromanic shockwave of gigantic, nay biblical proportions of Ghostbusters goodness!
…ah well…back to work.
heads back to his desk
Shoot, I would. Since they seem to only hire part time people, I wouldn’t mind getting fired to get something early.
I know in Canada we usually need about 75-100 for it to actually be possible for a midnight release and then when need the “ok” from head office to do so. I pushed the hell out of this game to customers and we ended up around 60+ pre-orders for all systems… still not enough for us. grrrr
Excellent! Thanks for the info! i just called my gamestop & they’re not doing a midnight release. :sigh:
my gamestop up the street is having a midnight release starting at 10pm on the 15th. I’m defintely going to show up in gear for this ■■■■■
Mine isn’t either… 
I might go to Lewisville instead. Just for the party since I couldn’t transfer my per-order without losing my swag…
Yeah, that sucks! I was going to get a couple copies at best buy, but I’m thinking about going to walmart instead since they’re opened 24 hours. It’ll be like a midnight release but there may not be too many people there. i’ll see what happens.
I work at Hollywood Video and we got our copy’s in today. We aren’t even allowed to rent it until Tuesday. If anybody sells it early they will be fined and fired. Also if you see anybody selling it report them immediately.
I dont like Gamestop, they always try to sell me used games at full price. I love how the clerks try to tell me with a straight face even though the Seal is broken and the disc wasnt in the case, its brand new and full price.
That’s called a Display case. How else are we going to show off the game? GameStop isn’t stupid enough to leave live cases out on the wall, that’s a -fantastic- way to LOSE MONEY. It’s not like we’re throwing it on the floor and stepping on it. It’s placed in a clean sleeve, carefully handled, and placed into the case. That would’ve been a last copy if needed.
Think about clothes. Do you buy clothes new? How do you know it’s new? Someone could’ve tried it on hours, or even days before you looked at it. Guess what! It’s used and you bought it for full price!