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FF7R Now Available in-store in Australia
- Thread starter laoni
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I remember release dates used to get broken left right and center in Australia (throughout the 2000's anyway). EA Sports games that had a set date would often be sold nearly 2 weeks early, plus many other games from other companies as well. It wasn't until the Gears of War 2 fiasco at our local K-Mart store other retailers took note of the Microsoft threat and rarely ever broke street dates after that point in time (not only with "strict embargo" titles, but general releases as well).
Fun times
Fun times
Our stores are currently allowed to stay open for some backwards "essential shopping" reason. They're trying to avoid a situation where they are forced to close and people can't access what they've paid for.
Plus it brings in more money because it can make people send money on the game now, or double dip if they paid for digital.
" it may be a way our warehouse team can segment batches of orders being processed" - Shopto customer support
Email from shopto, check your inboxes folks. Most important part for me is "We will be shipping your Final Fantasy pre-order as soon as possible in order for you receive in time for release. "
Thanks for this info. My Amazon order (from back in June) just said that the delivery date is now pending. I'm placing an order with Best Buy to see if they ship early.
I dm'd Shopto on twitter asking why it changed from pre-order to back order and got this
'it may be a way our warehouse team can segment batches of orders being processed, pls do not worry, the release date is the end of next week
orders have to be hand packed due to bonus item'
Edit: They've changed it back to pre-order now lol
'it may be a way our warehouse team can segment batches of orders being processed, pls do not worry, the release date is the end of next week
orders have to be hand packed due to bonus item'
Edit: They've changed it back to pre-order now lol
No logic, a big store (EB Games) got greedy and started selling early, news spread like wildfire and other stores sold it too. I mean, Square *just* released the statement that said that they shipped them early to European and Australian stores to make sure they would have them in time, but they weren't changing the release date so if you manage to get yours early please don't spoil. They wouldn't release that statement and then just a day later say f-it, sell it now everyone, so this wasn't official.
Same mine is pending now, you have prime? Wonder why some got pushed to 14th, and others are still pending.
Don't see the digital release changing, there is a charge for that as far as I know. Cool for the physical buyers, digital buyers can wait a few extra days.
Not true though. Every store had it for sale at opening time today. It's not like it was just EB Games.Every single store from opening had it for sale. EB, gamesmen, JB Hifi, Big W etc. it was obviously organised and they were allowed to sell the game.
Before stores opened this morning news outlets got the news and you could see from all of their websites that it was no longer showing as a pre order but in stock. In fact EB was one of the last to update their website.
So it would have been official. Also every store has the disclaimer about not streaming and being mindful of others, so I am assuming that was part of the agreement.
100% this.
In fact, from Monday night to Wednesday morning (before 9am), EB wasn't answering any questions about the release on Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tuesday night had the Gamesmen send an email saying that FFVIIR would be on sale "very soon." JB HiFi's website had the game for sale before EB did. It was absolutely an organised release in the face of a pandemic.
yeah 100%
I know because I was hassling then to release on their Facebook as well as constantly F5ing their website to see haha
when my friend messaged me this morning it's for sale, I thought was April fools joke, so I checked EB and it was still pre order. But I thought to check JB and the like and sure enough it was all saying in stock. Than at 9am they put a post up saying it's out now.
they all probably have some sort of idea what's going on with regards to store closures and the like and have worked something out.
Ah I was wondering why that was, mine has changed back to pre-order too, thanks for finding out.
yeah that's the other thing. I have seen places break street date and EB still refuse to budge until head office says so. They don't sell things early, they are a stickler for rules
OP
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It wasn't entirely organised, at least in my experience on JB's end at a granular level. I gave my local store a ring a bit before opening to ask about it(about 9:40am?), they told me they had received no info from head office so, no copies would be sold today. About an hour later, my store was telling me they had absolutely no stock of the game as their shipment hadn't come in yet, which didn't come in till about 3:30pm
EB was totally prepared, though
EB was totally prepared, though
Seems to be a "that store problem" as other JB HiFi's had the game for sale earlier in the day. Plus they updated their website well before EB did lol.
I'm about an 1.5-2hrs into the game and not really feeling it yet. I really dislike forced slow walk and 'walk through this tight space' animations. But combat is great and the story is far more interesting than I expected already.
Relax man, it's not like SE is doing this on purpose. They're releasing it early here just in case the shops are locked down due to the pandemic.
In France too it's available in most supermarkets so it makes people go out to get it... (we're supposed to go out just to get necessary things such as food) I preordered it digitally and it's out of question that I go to a shop just to get a video game (even though it's a remake of my favorite game ever)... Is there any chance that SE releases it earlier and the PSN? I mean supermarkets are selling it right away, online shops are shipping it, even the SE official shop is shipping the game... Would be cool to unlock the game.
yeah i think that there are enough copies out to open the OT? i would also like a thread to discuss that isn't just the complete spoiler thread
So in other words, the system updated to processing for everyone and now back to preorder as they had to manually pack the bonus item.
I'd be very surprised if they ship this week, more than likely they'll go out Tuesday or Wednesday next week, maybe Monday.
Yeah and they also could unlock it digitally. Shops ARE locked down elsewhere. Shits now all over YouTube and I'm already getting spoilers showing up in my recommended videos. What SE is doing will encourage people to go out and risk the virus to try find a store that's open since the alternative is wait another week and know basically everything that happens.
Easy solution, flip the damn switch.
Just seen a post from simplygames.com (uk) thay says they have agreed a shipping date for Final Fantasy 7 remake, but camt say when.
They then said they will be very busy in the warehouse this afternoon and tomorrow so its lookiing like any people who have ordered from them will get Friday.
I was a sucker who ordered digital because I thought it would be safer
They then said they will be very busy in the warehouse this afternoon and tomorrow so its lookiing like any people who have ordered from them will get Friday.
I was a sucker who ordered digital because I thought it would be safer
Right. Yeah I have full control over the the YouTube algorithm. Thanks for being an idiot. Fyi in case you haven't worked it out people will totally break quarantine to try get this
I don't think it's the case. In France every non necessary shops (such as entertainment or game shops) are locked since the 16th of March, only shops that sell food are open.But a lot of those shops (supermarkets) are selling video games too, so they are selling FFVIIR earlier anyway. I dunno about Australia though maybe there supermarkets don't sell games.
I wish it releases on PSN, even though if it doesn't I won't stop to play video games, that's for sure. :)
