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Laguna

Attn Best Buy customers (esp in Minnesota)

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Doom 3 will be available to those who pre-ordered on August 1st for most people at Best Buy.

That is, 8/01/04 (Sunday). Don't ask where I heard this, just rest assured I am one hundred percent positive. No questions. I saw it. GG

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Laguna said:

Don't ask where I heard this

I think we'd all like to know how you havw this information.

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Considering that id software has to legally let the game be on shelves on a certain day, I doubt that people will have it before then. I'm pretty sure id has to say "alright you may start selling it this day" otherwise it can't be sold before.

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May I direct you to the .plan file Todd Hollenshead posted? Yeah, he specifically stated that quite a few retail outlets were bound to have the game before the street date. The game is finished, and shipping out now. There are no legal snafus about when the game is "allowed" to be on shelves. The game will be out on shelves as soon as the retailers get them to the vendors. Best Buy in Baxter, MN (Hey Quast - READ this) on Edgewood drive WILL have it available (for sure to those who pre-ordered) on the first of August. The site says otherwise, but the service representatives have copies coming in this weekend. I confirmed this with the media specialists and management at Best Buy today, Activision has indeed shipped some copies out to different retail outlets around the country and Best Buy will have them a few days earlier than their projected date of August 4, 2004.

It doesn't matter how I know. Rest assured that there will be quite a FEW happy campers on the first of August.

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Laguna said:

May I direct you to the .plan file Todd Hollenshead posted? Yeah, he specifically stated that quite a few retail outlets were bound to have the game before the street date. The game is finished, and shipping out now. There are no legal snafus about when the game is "allowed" to be on shelves. The game will be out on shelves as soon as the retailers get them to the vendors. Best Buy in Baxter, MN (Hey Quast - READ this) on Edgewood drive WILL have it available (for sure to those who pre-ordered) on the first of August. The site says otherwise, but the service representatives have copies coming in this weekend. I confirmed this with the media specialists and management at Best Buy today, Activision has indeed shipped some copies out to different retail outlets around the country and Best Buy will have them a few days earlier than their projected date of August 4, 2004.

It doesn't matter how I know. Rest assured that there will be quite a FEW happy campers on the first of August.


If this is true, it damn well better be here before August 4th then.

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Laguna said:

I confirmed this with the media specialists and management at Best Buy today

you asked them if you could get it sunday? What is the cutoff for preorders? because I'll go there tonight if I have to if I can get it early...gotta go to cub anyway

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Alientank said:

Considering that id software has to legally let the game be on shelves on a certain day, I doubt that people will have it before then. I'm pretty sure id has to say "alright you may start selling it this day" otherwise it can't be sold before.


id software did state they would not stop retailers from selling the game as soon as they get it

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heh, i know our main shipment comes next tuesday. however we usally get a few before hand. we did with silent hill 3 and GTA vice city

minnesota would make sence, best buy is based there

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Laguna said:

Doom 3 will be available to those who pre-ordered on August 1st for most people at Best Buy.

That is, 8/01/04 (Sunday). Don't ask where I heard this, just rest assured I am one hundred percent positive. No questions. I saw it. GG


Is this just in your locale? Or is this a collective thing with all of them? If the latter I'm canceling my pre-order at EB and switching over to BB.

EDIT: Just confirmed it with my local BB. He's right: they're scheduled to ship on the 1st. Which means it'll probably come Monday. Still, that's two days before most retailers will get it. I'm switchin' over.

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judasboothfan said:

EDIT: Just confirmed it with my local BB. He's right: they're scheduled to ship on the 1st. Which means it'll probably come Monday. Still, that's two days before most retailers will get it. I'm switchin' over.

Just for preorder? Maybee I won't have to drive to Chicago afterall...

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Scabbed Angel said:

Just for preorder? Maybee I won't have to drive to Chicago afterall...


I specifically asked about pre-order, yes, but I'm pretty sure they were indicating availability in general (pre-orders + additional copies). I have no intention of 'chancing' availability of this game the day it comes out.

Added this part to the wrong topic. Sorry mods for same info in a different thread: Well obviously there isn't a consistent consensus among the varying BB locations. The first one I called, one closest to where I live, confirmed they'd probably get the game by Monday, Sunday being the ship date (the 1st). For verification I called a Seattle location and the supervisor there claimed they weren't allowed to put products on the shelves before the date they're advertised to come out. Go to the BB website, you'll see 'Coming Aug 4' on the Doom 3 product page. So, in all honesty, I don't know if its going to matter at all if I switch my pre-order over to BB, seeing as how they may not be allowed to give out copies even if they do get it in on the 2nd. Me confused. I need advice. And I'm bored. Damn...I really need this game now lol.

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Quast said:

fuck it, i'm going


Hell, maybe I'll even see you there. If you want to have a chance of even getting it then, you'll have to be there RIGHT when the store opens.

You going to the one on Edgewood drive in Baxter?

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Quast said:

you asked them if you could get it sunday? What is the cutoff for preorders? because I'll go there tonight if I have to if I can get it early...gotta go to cub anyway


Sorry for double-reply here, but don't waste your gas money going all the way from Pillager to Brainerd to get a fucking game that isn't even available yet. They said the earliest it will be there is ONLY on the first of August. I did inquire if it was there yet and they said that apparently the publisher (Activision) had discretely shipped out the first batch of pre-order copies (10) to be received in tandem with the retail, shelf-copies (200 SKUs on the first delivery truck!). The former will be there on the first. They advised me to be there at a time like, BEFORE the store opens of which I think a safe time would be roughly -

[EDIT: Store hours on Sunday for the Best Buy in Crow Wing County (14555 Edgewood Drive, Baxter MN, 56425) start from 11 AM and go to 7 PM. To all west central MN cavedwellers like myself: Be there by 10:30 and no later or it's possible you'll be stuck in line. Also, store hours should be consistent throughout the country, but I could be wrong. Check with your local retailer.]

...I'll have to see when store hours are open for business on Sundays...

In any case, I don't know what the deal is for people WITHOUT pre-orders, so be prepared to bring your $60 (tax too). I'll have my pre-order box and receipt in my car, so I should be good to go.

This is for real, not like the lame DOOM 3 GONE GOLD!!111one prank which actually turned out to be true (even though I was oblivious to the fact, forged, phony email notwithstanding).

Cross your fingers eh?

[Second Edit:]

I'll be sure to post up my impressions and a brief review under the spoiler-filled section if I get it first.

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judasboothfan said:

Is this just in your locale? Or is this a collective thing with all of them? If the latter I'm canceling my pre-order at EB and switching over to BB.

EDIT: Just confirmed it with my local BB. He's right: they're scheduled to ship on the 1st. Which means it'll probably come Monday. Still, that's two days before most retailers will get it. I'm switchin' over.


Yet another waste of DW's bandwidth in my post here... Just for clarity's sake, the first of August is a Sunday.

[EDIT AGAIN FUCKING ESPRESSO STILL COURSING THROUGH VEINS ARGHAHFADFADFASDGAFGAFADS]:

Said media specialists and store manager advised me to be THERE on August 1st, since they said the game would be there then. Not, the game would ship then. According to them and the incoming shipping manifest the first batch of retail copies have already shipped and are being sorted somewhere probably in another state or maybe the planet Jupiter.

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Um no laguna...dont feed them your made up release dates. If anyone wants to know when Best Buy will be releasing the game please click on the link i provided. The earliest they are releasing doom 3 is still on midnight aug. 3rd next week. They literally updated thier website about 3am Central time this morning when i saw it.





http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat38800050042&type=category

Nah, i wont make just one post, i visit this site alot now. :)

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Solomon said:

I AM A HUGE IDIOT.


lol

Clearly you also don't understand that this "midnight release" is old news either, and it doesn't mean every Best Buy in the country will use it. It's coming on the 1st to the one in Baxter and will most likely be doing it on others too. You shouldn't condescend to the forum members here just because you think you know something they don't. It's a good way to get banned and you don't make many friends.

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Laguna said:

lol

Clearly you also don't understand that this "midnight release" is old news either, and it doesn't mean every Best Buy in the country will use it. It's coming on the 1st to the one in Baxter and will most likely be doing it on others too. You shouldn't condescend to the forum members here just because you think you know something they don't. It's a good way to get banned and you don't make many friends.


Ah, message board tiffs regarding game release dates. Smell that? Nice isn't it? The sweet scent of border line retarded.

Laguna might be right, though. I contacted two different Best Buys in my area and they both had different things to say about the release. One claimed it would be out around the 1st (Sunday) and the other said they weren't allowed to sell copies until the 3rd, even if they did get them in early. I specifically addressed 'pre-orders' when asking both locations about the release, and that's what they told me. So, like Laguna said, some may be in on an early release and others may not. Most likely depends on whether the resident manager is more by the book on things like this or is willing to put it out earlier. Why the heck would id or Activision care if it came out earlier? It just means them getting a head start on sales. Does it hurt them to have a title on shelves for a couple days when most don't know about it (this being the shelf/non-preorder copies released before the 3rd)? Somebody clear this up.

I think what I'm going to do is keep my $5 preorder at EB and just go to the Best Buy which claimed early release, get a definitive/confirmation about it from someone more 'in-the-know' than your standard pimply-faced 16 year old (not insinuating forum users, but a typical Best Buy lackey that claims to know everything), and then decide whether to plop down $10 there.

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Laguna said:

I'll be sure to post up my impressions and a brief review under the spoiler-filled section if I get it first.


And I look forward to reading it :) Just keep the spoilers mild. I don't want to be spoiled, but I can't always resist.

-E

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Hows about we put a wager on it coming out the 3rd instead of the first laguna and judas? Why would Best Buy be putting the game out in a small town on the first yet not in LIMITED big cities until midnight of august 3rd? that makes no sense. This guy Laguna is just trolling every Doom3 board anyways to get the suckers to go to Best Buy on Sunday and be pissed off when they find out it wont happen. Best buy would be breaking the street date of Doom3 if they let it out the 1st. Im just trying to ward off you guys wasting your time but if you want to go on sunday be my guest. The only way Laguna would be getting his Doom3 by sunday is Warez and i hope that would not be the case.

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Solomon said:

I am a dumbshit of immense proportions not even comprehensible by human standards.


Yes, yes. I am trolling the Doom 3 boards to get people to go to Best Buy so they can get angry when they don't find it. God, you are truly a fucking moron, and if anybody here is a troll, it is YOU. Quit acting like you fucking know everything and I won't have a problem with you. In the meantime, here is the proverbial humorous irony statement:

"Hey pot? Teakettle here. You're black."

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Could you both knock it off? If it comes out be happy for Laguana that he/she (I for some reason assumed you were a girl, my appologies if I'm wrong), if not laugh at him/her then.

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To tell you the truth, I hate Best Buy. Everytime you purchase electronics there, they'll keep on nagging you about warranty crap, and if you try to return something they'll say, "Didn't you read the 0.000000001 size font at the bottom of the receipt?" Buying software there is not big a deal but watch out when buying computer hardware and other electronics.

Oh, and if your a female, with nice legs, skinny and petite, with a nice, nice rack and ass, them fat ass managers will do anything for you. Lol.

A male friend of mine tried to return an Xbox game, but they said no, then he asks a good friend who is a girl to return it, she goes in and bam! A return.

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How absurd, sir. If I were a female I'd be wondering why I have a large penis hanging out of my pelvic region as opposed to having a snatch, and I'd also wonder why I haven't made it past the second tanner stage yet.

I am a male, in other words. :)

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Laguna, well, I just called best buy and they say the 4th...but then again I could've been talking to some dumb college chick that just looked it up on the best buy website.

I'm simply going to assume maybe you know someone that works there...eh? If you know they will have 10 copies on sunday. How many people around here know about this?

Legit or not, I'll go there sunday, it's only a 10 minute drive anyway...

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