MERGED: Factions Collector's Edition Comments and Questions

xxSilhouette

xxSilhouette

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Lost in the sands of time...

Blood Of Orr [BoO]

R/Rt

So some people still havent gotten theres yet either?

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by skammich
if you have an existing SE account of factions, you can add the key and you get the benefits (dances and mini pet), you do not wipe out an old account, you just add on the key to your account so that technically you have both the SE and CE registered to your name, I have done this on my account (I have GWP, GWP CE, GWF, GWF CE and both pre-orders on my account)
I see, than i can add it on without making new account.

Legeon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by xxSilhouette
So some people still havent gotten theres yet either?
Yep. Here's my story:

Called ebgames yesterday...they said they got 2 copies in only for their 15 preorders...Guess what? I WAS THE 3rd PERSON TO PREORDER SO I DIDN'T GET MINE!!

Sorry about the caps, just a bit ticked off. So they said to call tomorrow (which is today now). I call them up, the guy says

"Oh I don't know when we're going to get any, if at all. Everyone except you and 1 other guy cancelled their orders."

So you know what I said (not to him but myself). F*** this S***.
No CE game is worth this worth this level of aggravation. So I went to EBgames, cancelled my order, got my 5 bucks back, went to Futureshop and bought the regular copy from them.

No more games from EBgames ever. No more CE from ANET/NCsoft ever. Both have failed me in my eyes.

So now 12!!! days after the game came out, I finally get to play the Non-CE version of it, only 10 bucks more expensive with no T-shirt, which I could have got on the day of release! Thanks anet, you're too kind...

kaya

kaya

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

NBK

here i'll help you... ROAR!

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by sir skulkcrasher
I see, than i can add it on without making new account.
add the key and get the dance/dragon and not alter anything else.

no assembly/batteries required

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo

No one down here has it. None of the best buys, gamestops, or eb games, etc..

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

placed the order yesterday 5/9 and check on the status today, it said "shipped" no tracking number yet. I can't believe how fast Gamestop are!

Vana The Everyoung

Vana The Everyoung

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

Adelaide, Australia

Mo/N

I went into EB shop in Adelaide, Australia yesterday just to have a look and on the shelf was a copy of factions CE. So I grabbed a copy paid my $99 Aust and now I have, art book, stickers, soundtrack, mouse pad, mini pet, poster, map, and calendar. I love Eb

Coolniceronguy

Coolniceronguy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Amidst A Sea Of Darkness[Star]

Quote:
Originally Posted by kengkoyto
wow nice.. where did you get your copy?
EB, brick and mortar outlet. However, the reason I recieved one of the 2 copies that came in, is because I was one of the first to do the pre-order.

ckenni

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Righteous Invasion of Truth

E/Mo

lots of people in my guild already got their CE's yesterday (including me) from different sources. One guildmate even ordered about 5 copies of CE (buying for different guildmates) and all 5 got shipped really fast.

kengkoyto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

wakoko CECECE stocks none..
what state are u guys in?
any news on chicago illinois stores?

kyeo138

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

I preordered the CE with EBStore, and I still haven't heard a word from them. I called twice, and a woman said they had some in the warehouse, and would ship one out. Still nothing

boxterduke

boxterduke

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Walking the ruins of Ascalon

DVDF

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by looloo
Hi guys , could any of u be kind enough out take a close up picture of the content if the factions CE? much appreciated it...thx
Here are ones I got from a thread in this forum.
Its the Euro version but the North American one looks the same but does not have the cloth pic.





One thing about the map is that its an older one.
All the cities are there but the icons for them are older and the outposts have the icons of the ch1 ones.

generik

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vana The Everyoung
I went into EB shop in Adelaide, Australia yesterday just to have a look and on the shelf was a copy of factions CE. So I grabbed a copy paid my $99 Aust and now I have, art book, stickers, soundtrack, mouse pad, mini pet, poster, map, and calendar. I love Eb
Holy crap!

The one in Rundle?

dreamhunk

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2006

:P

E/Me

I e-mailed anet about it and they said talk to your retailer. I was pissed when mine didn't show up! At EB. It goes to show how much anet really cares!

They should have gotten me a CE. I made a preoder. it will be the last time I shop at EB! The store owner was kind enough to give me a disccount for my pain.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by dreamhunk
I was pissed when mine didn't show up! At EB. It goes to show how much anet really cares!

They should have gotten me a CE. I made a preoder. .
laughs himself almost sick.

how in the hottest hell is Anet having any control over what an independent dealer does.

blame EB but leave Anet out of it.

blame the PUBLISHER for any shortages as it is out of Anets hands and control.

Mister_Smiley

Mister_Smiley

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

I finaly got mine, went to BB and they had 1 left, i was so happy....Oh and if your asking where i live, that would be IL.

Batou of Nine

Batou of Nine

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

California, USA

Angel Sharks [AS] (RiP [KaiZ] T__T")

Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by kyeo138
I preordered the CE with EBStore, and I still haven't heard a word from them. I called twice, and a woman said they had some in the warehouse, and would ship one out. Still nothing
WOW, they STILL havent gotten the CE preorder to you? Sorry to hear that EB has yet again failed someone with their preorder. If you read my ordeal earlier in this thread, then i would suggest doing the same. I had made the preorder from Gamestop (Eb) quite a long time ago with constant promises of: "Oh, it will be here tomorrow", which is what they kept saying for a full week. Finally i cancelled my Preorder from them w/o bothering to find another source for my CE. I simply walked into Best Buy, ddint see the CE on shelf, asked if they had it, less than 30 seconds later i had a copy in my hands after being told they have MANY copies in stock for the last week now....

Never, ever ever trust Eb. Only thing that is relatively workable with them is online orders... and other stores of course. i hope you get your CE soon man!

enjoy.

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

My US Ebgames pre-order with the EU CE..

My Sweet Revenga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Loviatar
laughs himself almost sick.

how in the hottest hell is Anet having any control over what an independent dealer does.

blame EB but leave Anet out of it.

blame the PUBLISHER for any shortages as it is out of Anets hands and control.
Actually unless EB screwed up their order numbers to NCsoft at the start, it's actually NCsoft's fault. EB has the orders down but in the end it all comes down to whether NCsoft the PUBLISHER sends the right number to the retailer. So far it seems NCSoft only sent maybe 1-6 copies to EB retailers to at most fill half the preorders (so far the only data I have for the "half" statistic is one store got 1/2 copies). But I recall reading a posting by ANET something about a production error. So for now I'm assuming it's NCSoft's fault as EBgames hasn't let me down in the past. Remember to distinguish who's who in the business. Anet programmed the game. NCSoft publishes the game by making the CDs and Boxes and ships them. EBGames is the middleman who takes the orders.

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo

My gamestop STILL doesn't have my CE. I am thinking about pulling out my money and ordering from the site.

Legeon

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

You guys want to know how bad NCsoft screwed Canada?

EBgames got 350 copies for the ENTIRE COUNTRY! That's pathetic. No wonder I didn't get mine. What pisses me off is when I hear about people in america walking into Bestbuy's and getting off the shelf. Meanwhile dumbasses like myself call EB everyday like a goof hoping our copy has arrived...well I won't make that mistake again. But when I call bestbuy here in canada...no they don't have any...

Yeah I'm still kind of sour about the whole situation. I don't care if the next CE has a gold plated rurik statue, I'm not going through this crap again.

My Sweet Revenga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

For people living in the lower mainland BC Canada (Vancouver, Richmond, ect.) Best Buy has some copies of the CE in now. Not sure about Futureshop (technically the same company). The store I went to had 3 copies. But from what I hear, they have over 100 in their warehouse available for 6 stores. I guess that's the power of being a huge company. Publishers will make the big companies happy with more copies while thumbing their noses at smaller chains like EBgames which outnumber bestbuy stores by like 3 to 1. Oh well, at least I finally got one.....

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

anyone in the chicagoland area -------the microcenter in downers grove had 2 CEs on the shelf today..............

kengkoyto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

chicagoland same is chicago? :P

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

Chicago ---city, Chicagoland--Chicago, cook county, and all the suburbs around it (includes DuPage county, parts of Lake, Will.................................)
Many people will say they are from a big city (Chicago, Detroit, LA) and not live IN the city itself....they may live close enough to party IN the city but live in the suburbs instead.

kengkoyto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

thanks sorry im not familiar with it..
coz my uncle is gonna buy for me hope i he got me a copy already

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo

my gamestop still doesn't have them

kengkoyto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

did your gamestop have them now?
i ordered on gamestop now..
because there was no other stocks on stores

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo



My gamestop still has not recieved them, and now the gamestop website is out of them. I am beginning to think I have wasted $75 and I will never get the game. And if you are wondering, no I don't have the money to just buy a second normal copy of the game

*cry*

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by EndoftheSyringe


My gamestop still has not recieved them, and now the gamestop website is out of them. I am beginning to think I have wasted $75 and I will never get the game. And if you are wondering, no I don't have the money to just buy a second normal copy of the game

*cry*
That sucked dude, i order mine like last week 5/9 and it gotten email confirmation that it has shipped out. I'm still waiting to get mine.

Did you order it online or went to gamestop stores directly?

kyeo138

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Hey EndoftheSyringe, i'm in the same boat. I preordered it online at ebstore.com months in advance, and still no game. Called 4 times so far, and each time they say there's some in the warehouse and they've given me High Priority shipping. I think that's the equivalent of getting a note on your chart, like elaine from seinfeld lol.

kengkoyto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

hehe hope they started shipping

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo

I went directly to the store. I am thinking about just pulling my money and buying Guitar Hero. I barely even want Factions anymore.

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by EndoftheSyringe
I went directly to the store. I am thinking about just pulling my money and buying Guitar Hero. I barely even want Factions anymore.
Dude, you should have try and buy it online. They only have it available for 2 weeks and now it out of stock again.

kengkoyto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

can you post here when CE factions arrived? the one that you ordered online in gamestop?

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo

IF it arrives

sir skullcrasher: I DID try to order online, but my mom didn't want to. she as afraid they would be out of stock. took me a week to convince her to finally order it, and by that time, they WERE out of stock

EndoftheSyringe

EndoftheSyringe

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Apathetic Eaters of Babies

W/Mo

JUST got it. BEST BUY rocks

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

glad you finally got your copy, that was a LOOOOOONNNG wait....hope you enjoy it!

kengkoyto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

finally i got my copy also (2copies)
with ebgames