Sad but True!

Woke up and called Babbages to see if RTW was in on the 23rd. The guy said no that it will be in on the 24th. I was just a little mad, then i checked my answering machine. A voice says that my copy of RTW was in!!! Well after 40 miles and a walk across the parking lot i get to the store. I have to show the guy behind the counter my identification and the receipt were i preordered! The guy says that people have been in the store trying to get the game by lying about preordering. Some have even tryed using there friends names who have preordered. I have never seen this kind of security for a pc game. My wife was just shocked by it all. If this is any indication then RTW is going to be the biggest game in america, or at least in south georgia.

It is sad that people will resort to such tactics, and over a game no less. On the brightside, this must be encouraging from a sales standpoint. I was beginning to wonder if RTW was going to be another critically acclaimed game with so-so sales numbers. I got that impression from sites like Gamespot and EBgames where they list the top most anticipated games. I wasn't too surprised that RTW wasn't in the list when factoring all the console games, but I was shocked to see that RTW was not even on EBgames' top five "coming soon" list for PC games - even the day before release. :no: When I went to EBgames to pick up my preorder, the sales guy, who usually comments "that's a good game" when I buy a good game, said nothing about RTW but started telling me how great the new Warhammer game was (which it looks like it might be).


Anyway, I hope your situation is more indicative of the broad demand for RTW than my experience was.