Killzone 2

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Dunno if I've seen a Shop-To pre-order go down before :p

Really? Happens all the time on the "must have" games when they are the cheapest going.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Apparently due to India breaking the release date pretty badly, Sony have given the go ahead for the game to be sold early everywhere...

Update:

Killzone 2 India Release has been pre-poned. the Game is in transit to bangalore. we should have the copies with us latest by tomm [wednesday, 11th feb '09].

kindly confirm your orders asap and pm me for payment details.

all payments have to be made latest by tomm noon [ wednesday, 11th feb]

all people who confirm by tomm will be eligible for the steel book edition, as this edition will be sold out on day 1 itself.

thanks,

http://www.consoul.in/forum/viewtopic.php?...=a&start=15 & http://www.gamingindians.com/forums/index....st&p=295618 [signup required]

Lucky India.

[Remysaus]

by early everywhere, i thought you meant worldwide :(

[Sethos]

by early everywhere, i thought you meant worldwide :(

Yeah, me too! what the hell AB

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

by early everywhere, i thought you meant worldwide :(

Ooops, I meant everywhere in India.

It was quite a large retail chain that started selling it early supposedly.

[Sethos]

Why don't they just allow every store out there to just sell the game as soon as it arrives, why does these less developed nations always have special rules - GTFO (N)

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

They don't have special rules, some large retail chain broke release date [so the story goes] and instead of legal action/going after them I presume Sony are just giving up on damage control and telling everyone to sell it - The people won't get online any quicker, Guerilla have said MP won't be up until the 25th at the latest, maybe a day or two earlier.

It's like Best Buy or Walmarts all starting to sell it early, you got two options, try to damage control it or just give into it. Our countries unfortunately tend to stick to release dates slightly better than the dodgy eastern ones though :p

I remember Toys'R'Us cocked up with Mass Effect in America by about a week or something - Think they shut it down before it was too widespread, but there was quite a few copies of it going on ebay afterwards.

[Sethos]

It IS special rules because that happens every time, some retail store / chain brakes the release date in some hole of a country, X company just allows them to do it. If it happens in America or developed EU countries, the **** hits the fan. They can still complete the game while they wait, at least that's something :p

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Well I think the assumption is "hole country" will only supply about 8% of the sales anyway :p The street date has been broken and everyone in the country who wants a copy probably already does :laugh:

The USA and UK, followed by certain countries in Europe tend to be where the buck is at nowadays [UK overtakes Japan].

And hey, we've got our 8 minute demo to last another 15 days :punk: :cry:

[Sethos]

Well, it's not like the game will sell any less if they decide to open up the floodgates on the game. Breaking the designated release date worldwide will definitely surprise a lot of people and may create some odd sales numbers and also ruins the main purpose of never breaking that street date; numbers and prestige for the company "Oh we sold this much at launch", "our game was the first to ..." tsk - We, as gamers, just want to play :cry:

And yes, that 8 minute demo is definitely going to keep us busy ... I really wish they would patch it, open up for the rest of the difficulty levels, then it actually might hold me over for another week.

[kyro]

WUHOOOOOOOOOOOO WUHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOWWWWWW OMGGGG WUHOOOOOOOOO

sorri.

[Xero]

I want this damn game already. I held off on preordering it as I'd like to get it launch day. Most places here don't ship it out until launch day and don't end up getting it til a few days later or in this case, after the weekend. I'll pickup a copy when its released but dammit, I want the demo! :angry:

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Bring Your Helghast to Work Day

We asked for a bailout and received this guy

To celebrate the arrival of Killzone 2, Sony sent a Helghast soldier to the GameDaily office so that he could pimp the video game, renew our faith in PlayStation 3 and run amok. Little did we know that he'd take over as GameDaily CEO and force us to burn our Xbox 360s. We should have known better than to trust a dude with such an evil looking mask.

Office supplies 101

Because we didn't have any Helghast weapons, he grabbed the first gun he could find, a Lancer Assault Rifle from Gears of War 2. Then he proceeded to trim a little off the top of our interns.

Continues here.... http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/gallerie...ork-day/?page=1

[soniqstylz]

Well I think the assumption is "hole country" will only supply about 8% of the sales anyway :p

Kyro, how do you feel about AB calling your country a "hole". Jealous much, AB?

j/k ;)

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Kyro, how do you feel about AB calling your country a "hole". Jealous much, AB?

j/k ;)

Just quoting Sethos.

I call it India :rofl:

Now, Scotland on the other hand...

[HTF]

I want this damn game already. I held off on preordering it as I'd like to get it launch day. Most places here don't ship it out until launch day and don't end up getting it til a few days later or in this case, after the weekend. I'll pickup a copy when its released but dammit, I want the demo! :angry:

couldn't you preorder it, then do an in store pickup. that way you'd have it the day of. I am pretty sure best buy does that. and thats what i am planning on doing.

[DPyro]

Amazon has launch date shipping, at least in the states.

[HTF]

hmm, ill have to check out amazon.

[Razorwing]

do you guys think I should order it on Amazon.ca or just get it on the day it comes out?

[kyro]

ya ya , take a dig at India, :( .

[DPyro]

do you guys think I should order it on Amazon.ca or just get it on the day it comes out?

You should have ordered from Amazon.ca earlier like me ;)

Items Ordered Price

1 of: Killzone 2 [Video Game]

Sold by: Amazon.com.ca, Inc.

CDN$ 53.99

1 of: Killzone 2 Beanie [Accessory]

Sold by: Amazon.com.ca, Inc.

CDN$ 19.99

Item(s) Subtotal: CDN$ 73.98

Shipping & Handling: CDN$ 0.00

Visa10off40: -CDN$ 10.00

Promotion Applied: -CDN$ 19.99

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Total Before Tax: CDN$ 43.99

GST: CDN$ 3.70

PST: CDN$ 5.92

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Grand Total: CDN$ 49.71

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

By the way, the official NeoGAF topic puts anything "Official" on this board to shame :laugh:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=351913

[DPyro]

By the way, the official NeoGAF topic puts anything "Official" on this board to shame :laugh:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=351913

Thanks AB, I think you just killed my bandwidth :laugh:

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

By the way, the official NeoGAF topic puts anything "Official" on this board to shame :laugh:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=351913

Actually if we all collected the news and previews etc for our official topics into one post at the start, they'd be just as good.

NW > Neogaf :yes:

Cesspool of the internet list:

1: 4chan

2: 7chan

3: 12chan

4: Neogaf

5: GT forums / N4G

I could go on but you get the idea, just have a swatch of AB's bookmarks :p

;)

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

What you on about? :laugh:

I'm not commenting on anything to do with NeoGAF vs Neowin. Just saying the effort that's gone into that Official Topic is pretty sweet.

I don't post on the GAF, but there's a lot of good content flying around, and it's the only board I know of that has a fairly large userbase of devs/journalists who post.