Oh you, Gamestop!

[Synbaby]

Pretty sure last week their "release date" was June 26th . Maybe now they are just trying to be conservative :P.

Yea last week their website said June 26, which we know is not true. I die a little every day I pass gamestop on the way to work, and I see 2 hugh GW2 posters in their windows....

[Hellspawnxxx]

o.O i have worked at gamestop for over a month now, and I can whole hearty tell you my manager wants me to sell used games, but really.
the thing is as far as I understood after talking with a senior worker, is that, the Game publishers don't even tell ous until like a month or so before release.
as far as pre-orders goes, basicly yeh..at least in the store where i work, we are NOT allowed to sell pre-orders etc unless we got a date, but that might be Gamestop Sweden for all I know.

Thats wrong game companies dont only provide a month or two notice before release. I never ever seen that happen, usually youll hear of a release date 3 months before release. 1 month warning isnt enough time for game companies to promote thier game title.

[Irony]

Actually Gamestop, as well as many other retail companies, sell future products always on Dec 31st because they themselves don't know the date but they want to get pre-orders rolling. Or in this case, pre-purchases. Once they get the official release, they normally send an email to the recipient about the release date and will schedule them to pick it up on that date.

As someone who used to work at Gamestop, yes this is correct. It's not Gamestop pulling a number out of their ass.

[VibrantViolet]

Finally Gamestop got it right!! I tried to tell you guys it would be released in December but no! Most of you said June/July! Reason being: Anet got our money and they won't want us to wait til the end of the year because too many people would be angry. It's really a matter of how many would be more angry if the game were released and it had major issues versus waiting longer and it being released with only minor issues. Which would you choose if you were the game manufacturer? As far as releasing when another game is being released, sure they wouldn't want to release in the same week as another major game, but give or take a few weeks doesn't change much as far as major versus minor issues.

I really believe that Gamestop has it more close to reality this time than last time. I would like the game to be released much sooner but not if it has major issues that need correcting that affects game play. Get it right the first time (or at least very close) and there are more happy customers.

I really hope you're being sarcastic....

[Deleted]

They are required by law over here to provide a date, in order to be allowed to take pre-orders/pre-purchases.

So Amazon is breaking the law?

[Edge-]

Closing this as we already have a few threads discussing potential release days floating about.