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#1 Falcon1138
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My friend had his mom go to gamesop to preorder two copies of BF:BC for us and the guy at the counter apparently thought that the open beta key giveaway was part of IGN, not gamestop... Keep in mind the person preordering the games was a woman in her mid 50's, so she had no idea what she was talking about when preordering and believed the guy at the counter about not giving away keys. She came home with 2 receipts... thats it. no preorder box or keychain thingy or anything else, just 2 receipts.

We ended up calling the guy at the store back and told him to enter our e-mail addresses in the computer for us to be eligible to receive the beta keys. I was reading a forum and a guy said that he had preordered his copy onlya few hours after we preordered ours and that he had received his key the next day at 3:30.

I have yet to receive my key and so am wondering, since they had keys to give away at the time of our purchases and that an incompetent employee screwed everything up, can i demand a key from gamestop?

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All beta keys at this point from Gamestop have been exhausted. If you did the pre-orders on thursday there still may be a chance to get the beta. Any time after that you will not get one.

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#2 Falcon1138
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I know cause I work for Gamestop. We have a list of what is shipped early and what's not. I think it's a judgement call of the developers, so people can have release parties. But it's a pain cause if people don't know what their doing they sell it early and that means huge fines.
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SvR 2008 is coming out tomorrow because it's street dated. Which means it's shipped out prior to it's release date and held until that day. Only a few titles do this. Such as Halo 3, Mass Effect and Beowulf(most recent games to do this other than SvR). Not entirely sure why some do it and others don't though. Assassin's creed is not street dated so the 13th is the ship date and therefore all the stores will get it in their shipment on the 14th.
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You'd get $15 in store credit for it at an EB or Gamestop.
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You're gonna get about $50-$75. Depending on the condition of all the games and the system.
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If you're looking for a gaming system, go with the 360. It has a much larger game selection and completely destroys the PS3 when it comes to online play. If you're looking for an entertainment package, go with the PS3. It by far gives you the most for your money(let's face it, $600 for a blue-ray player alone is a great price, but it's hard to want to spend that much, especially for a gaming community) but what it comes down to is what you want out of your system. I choose the 360 because I like the exclusives more than that of the PS3. All my freinds have one so if I want to play online with them, I can. Go with what makes you happy.
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1. Assassin's Creed

2. Lost Odyssey

3. Mass Effect

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I know Gamestops and Eb Games will not be taking reservations because of tight allocations. I'm not sure if any other stores will take reservations or not but you might just have to wait in line on the 29th.
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#9 Falcon1138
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Inter-coolers are bad news. You should never buy something that draws it's power from the source it's supposed to be helping. Besides, it pulls more power than the 360 can generate, that's why it's broken and overheated so many 360's. If you absolutely have to have a fan(which you really don't) get the one made by Pelican that's also a vertical stand. It doesn't directly attach to the 360 and has an external power source.
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#10 Falcon1138
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ne one know the the deal, i reseverved mine at gamestop, they say they are getin 24 copies n they have 78 resevrves with work and school i dont have to time to get there till noon, they say they arnt makin ne more copies after, is this a rumorfuzzylogic420

Unfortunately, it's not a rumor. Here's gamestop's explaination(I work there). Basically Nintendo did not anticipate the high demand for Zelda seeing how it was out for the Wii already. They figured everyone will buy it for the Wii and will forget about the GC version. They were dead wrong. Our store took 58 reservations and are getting 27 copies. Which is relatively high compared to what other stores are getting. Nintendo doesn't know when they'll get more out, if ever. Definately not by christmas if they make more.

I'm one of the many un-lucky people who will not get their promised copy of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. And if you have it reserved at Eb or Gamestop, please do not take it out on the employees. It's not their fault. We just work there. :oops: