Shipping delays - No games available

[SEANTOURAGE]

Just wanted to vent some frustration. I went to Walmart this morning at 8am to buy the Beatles RB, but I was told that they did not receive their shipment. They only had the deluxe edition available.

So then I waited outside Best Buy until 10am and found out that they did not have any copies either. So I went to Future Shop, Zellers and Toys R Us... same problem.

I live in Quebec, just north of Laval. Apparently no stores in the area have received the game. With the amount of lineups I went through, I am fairly certain that once the copies are shipped, they will be snatched up before I have a chance to get one. With all the hype and publicity I was exposed to, it felt like I was counting down the days until the release. Unfortunately, this has left me with little to no desire to add this title to my collection.

Hopefully this post will give people in my area a heads up so they don't have to go through what I just did,

[Dartagnan64]

What are you? 12?

A delay in a game suddenly lessens your desire for it. Is getting a game day 1 of its release so damn important to you?

My god some people act like spoiled children.

I have a Beatles RB party scheduled for this weekend and will be upset if it doesn't arrive. But not getting it day 1 isn't going to make me rant.

[InsaneDelight]

Was there no pre-order or online available in Canada?

[SEANTOURAGE]

Funny how you only focus on one line in my statement...Waiting in lines and running around in early morning traffic for the game take lots of the fun out of it. Especially when others are expecting you to return with it. 90% of the fun is buying the game on it's release day... My local video store will have copies to rent tonight... I'll check it out, but after a couple of days playing, I will not have the same desire to go out and buy it.

[SIGEP99]

If it was so important to get it RIGHT AWAY - why didn't you preorder it??!?!

[SEANTOURAGE]

If it was so important to get it RIGHT AWAY - why didn't you preorder it??!?!

Nothing was delivered in my region except for the deluxe bundle**. (I am a little curious about that as well). I have never needed to pre-order a game. I usually just show up at the store a little early and pick one off the rack. I am also hearing that people who did pre-order are having delay issues as well.

**Edit: The package that sells for $150 with the RB1 instruments.

[Stilgar]

I went into the Future Shop on Ogilvie here in Ottawa during my lunch hour to get RB:Beatles for Xbox360 and none were in stock. Checking the computer, the SA confirmed that not a single Future Shop in the entire Eastern Sector of Ontario which spans from just beyond Belleville to here received a single copy of the game, or any of the Stand-alone Guitar Peripherals. I then went to Best Buy and they had a sign posted to the door that they too had not received their shipments. Wal-Mart had only the Value Packs ($150 for the game and non-branded equipment). I finally found a copy at EB Games in the Ottawa Trainyards, but still no stand-alone wireless controller - which I will add again Eastern Ontario has not seen a single one since before Christmas last year.

The Beatles have been called the biggest thing since Jesus Christ, but leave it to The Man to screw-up their biggest comeback in history.

[JDtheprezOdent]

My copy didn't arrive today due to postal strikes - no guarantee I'll get it tomorrow either. Selfish postmen; they want more money so they have to make everyone else suffer!

[pata70]

Best Buy gave me a rain check coupon for $10 less, so it's going to be $49.99 when it comes in... if I can wait! They said it would arrive in a couple of days or early next week.

Future Shop offered nothing and claimed they would have it tomorrow.

[PureRockFury]

90% of the fun is buying the game on it's release day...

Actually I think 100% of the fun is playing the game, yeah?