New Release Nightmares

Evening folks,
Well the last twenty fours for me have been very stressful for me but it's over and sorted, well for me anyway. So what happened you asked? Ni No Kuni happened! and I bet a lot of you will have already heard of the many problems.

Not sure what happened over in America but the story is that the Wizard edition was over ordered and not enough stock was made. Of course the Internet has been swamped with complaints for the last week and with the Europe version being a week late I was a bit nervous with our version. Everything seemed fine at the start of the week until yesterday evening, you see I placed an order with Zavvi back in October. Originally I had an order with GAME but Zavvi was offering it for nearly £20 cheaper so I could not refuse that. Well anyway an email arrived from Zavvi saying there was a payment issue and that my Wizard edition was sitting in the warehouse waiting to be shipped. After ten minutes of trying to sort the problem I finally found out it was on Zavvi's side and the worst part was a lot more people was in the same boat with me.

It took Zavvi nearly twenty one hours to finally say they looking into the problem and to be honest I was disgusted with the lack of communication from them. Direct messages on their website was sent, e-mails and tweets and still nothing was replied to until this evening. But lady luck was on my side and Shopto.net posted up on Twitter at lunch time they had a few Wizard editions left in stock, so I quickly put an order in and an hour later my dispatch e-mail arrived from them. My order with Zavvi was cancelled straight away, it will take a lot to place another order with them in the future when it comes to limited edition items. Got my fingers crossed for all those still waiting to see if they getting the game since they have still not confirmed they have the stock. Play.com has posted up this afternoon they over ordered but that was because they was still taking orders this morning.

It's things like this that can ruin a good game launch, how many disappointed gamers will not be receiving their copy after ordering months ago all because a company was not keeping track properly of their allocation stock. What was annoying for me I nearly missed out and only by sheer luck did I get a copy, in the past I use to place a few back up orders just in case but lately I've been good and only ordering one to allow other fans to get a copy. After today though I think I will go back to making back up orders just in case of problems when it comes to rare limited editions, I really don't want to go through this again.

Least it's over for me now and I wish everyone still waiting for their orders good luck in getting one. On the positive side my Hitman HD Collection arrived this morning and I've got stuck into contracts. I forgot how amazing this game is! the HD game play is amazing but I cannot help but cringe at the original cut scenes though. Anyway I'm off to go play some more games and I hope you having a better few days then me, have a good one folks.
~Iznic