Well it failed at combating bots as people who wanted it didn't know where to go.
The annoying thing is they tweeted prior to the page to go on teh product page prior to orders being open to have a faster chance of getting it. This just confused everyone and didn't help.
They only had 30, they should have just done a lottery and just picked out people who could buy and send then an email.
The way they did it was a total joke. A lot of complaints online too about it.
They fucked this up.
If you read the page it would outright link to you where it was: no matter what people would get pissed so i'm not sure what else they could have done besides make them blind box only like Shantae PC, which also made people pissed.
Angsty folk will remain that way no matter what you do sometimes, unfortunately. Could have done a giveaway for them on twitter I suppose but that's even more of a rarity anyone will get one.
I think I'm just at a point where I'd rather support scalpers than Limited Run. Or at least keep a better eye on places like iam8bit, Strictly Limited, etc. I want to support physical releases, but every time I try and pick Limited Run back up it feels fruitless. It sucks that sometimes it feels like they care more about scalpers than customers.
Except they do open preorders for pretty much everything at this point due to CV19?!? Like, outside of this blowout sale, they don't really do limited prints as much unless it's for a minor PS4 game. Kinda hard not to get what you want at this point unless you're broke when they list it for the entirety of the time. Much better than Super Rare where their stuff comes with little warning and sells out due to not having enough time to prepare for such sales (LRG does little warning these days but give plenty of preorder time), and then resale prices are almost always 2/3X more than the MSRP, even for minor games. I'm still pissed that SRG sold out of Evoland so quick and it's nearly 100 dollars still, and I kick myself for picking my health insurance over it to this day since I assumed it'd last more than a day or so. And then they only put leftovers in blind boxes and didn't even try to do a blowout-thing like LRG even though that would have at least given me an earnest shot at the game. The only SRG I got secondhand was Octahedron by some miracle.
Honestly with LRG unless it's a rare oddball like Pirate's curse or some PS4 CEs, most games I miss I can usually get for only 10-20 more, sometimes even less than MSRP in the case of stuff I got lately like Aaero and Factorum 90