WoW Store Availability

manday · December 2004

Geeeeez... Blizzard really had no clue on how many boxes they would need, did they? Cuz its weeks n weeks later, Ive checked every store in my city, n still no friggin' box!! I cancelled all my subs to other games cuz I thought Id be able to play WoW like... immediately.

Every store I went to, I got responses like "Are you kidding?", "Har har" n "Youre not the only one." I finally found a store with a straight-forward response. Which was "Were not getting a shipment till Febuary." Isnt that lovely. So now, Im stuck playing a bunch of crappy L2 clone OBs, a really crappy cartoony lvl grind, n a bunch of flash games that keep me interested for like 5 min a game. All cuz I thought Blizzard had their act together.

BTW, Im in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Ive looked thru sites that ship to Canada, but I don wanna pay USD, n I keep telling myself "I can wait, I can wait.." Anyone else having troubles actually *getting* their game?

SpeedMann · December 2004

I live in Calgary, I haven't really looked around yet because i was planning to start playing around Feb anyways. I think the futureshop has them here but there selling them for $70 bucks and the compusmart has them listed on their webpage for $50. I think i better start looking to buy it starting early next year so i have it in my hands when i can start playing and paying the monthly fee.

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kulgan18 · December 2004

Febuary??? wtf?.

The devs make the best mmorpg around, or even the best game around(debatable), and the people in charge of making the the boxes dont start to waking up...A LOT of WOW is needed for the masses

Jackdog · December 2004

I have not been near a dept store since I bought the game. However when I walked in to the local Best Buy earlier this month they had 5 or 10 boxes on the shelf and more in the back I am sure. I also know that the local Wally World had plenty around the 1st because I was considering buying the game at that time, but decided not to.

As far as the best MMORPG ever, the best MMORPG ever comment a earlier poster made. You have got to be kidding, LOL.

I would not be surprised if Blizzard has put a hold on the number of boxes being produced until they figure out how to run the servers they have. I am on Uldam which is a low pop server and I still get the worst database lag I have ever experianced in a MMORPG since SWG's ealy days.

hercules · December 2004

www.dvdboxoffice.com

Based in Canada and i know someone that placed an order last week from them and got it 2 days ago .

Mind you he lives in UK so the week delay was probably due to post time.

So try them since you live in canada.

RedCloud · December 2004

I know the problem... you live in Canada. There is not nearly the market in Canada that there is in the United States. I found the game at the first store i looked at. Why would Blizzard ship to Canada and make a small amount of money off of its games, when it could send it's games to where they would get sold quickly?

I certainly couldn't tell you. Point is you are going to have to wait unless you get it shipped from an online gaming store sorry.

Chief Red Cloud

LoStCaUz3 · December 2004

Apparently they are getting sold quickly and that's what the problem is. Now they don;t have enough to sell to anyone right now so they have to wait, and wait, and wait.

ramadin · December 2004

I had no problem getting 2 copies of WoW. You all need to move to Maryland. Target, Best Buy, Game Stop and EB games all have plenty of copies.

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manday · December 2004

Originally posted by SpeedMann
I live in Calgary, I haven't really looked around yet because i was planning to start playing around Feb anyways. I think the futureshop has them here but there selling them for $70 bucks and the compusmart has them listed on their webpage for $50. I think i better start looking to buy it starting early next year so i have it in my hands when i can start playing and paying the monthly fee.

Heh. Thats wat I thought too, I wouldnt mind paying $70 if I could walk into a store at that moment n get the game. The site says they have them.

So, super excited, I called the store closest to me, the site lied It was sold out. Called the other 4, sold out.

SpeedMann · December 2004

Originally posted by RedCloud
I know the problem... you live in Canada. There is not nearly the market in Canada that there is in the United States. I found the game at the first store i looked at. Why would Blizzard ship to Canada and make a small amount of money off of its games, when it could send it's games to where they would get sold quickly?
I certainly couldn't tell you. Point is you are going to have to wait unless you get it shipped from an online gaming store sorry.Chief Red Cloud

We really didn't need any smarty pants comments in this thread. I'll make sure i get out of my igloo jump on my dog sled and mush on over to the local trading post and hope they have one game. Don't worry they are selling here just fine.

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Silver. · December 2004

Originally posted by SpeedMann
Originally posted by RedCloud
I know the problem... you live in Canada. There is not nearly the market in Canada that there is in the United States. I found the game at the first store i looked at. Why would Blizzard ship to Canada and make a small amount of money off of its games, when it could send it's games to where they would get sold quickly?
I certainly couldn't tell you. Point is you are going to have to wait unless you get it shipped from an online gaming store sorry.Chief Red Cloud

We really didn't need any smarty pants comments in this thread. I'll make sure i get out of my igloo jump on my dog sled and mush on over to the local trading post and hope they have one game. Don't worry they are selling here just fine.

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Hahahaha
That was a good one speedman!
Keep up the good work!

Yeah deal with it, or else ::::15::
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Jackdog · December 2004

Originally posted by SpeedMann

We really didn't need any smarty pants comments in this thread. I'll make sure i get out of my igloo jump on my dog sled and mush on over to the local trading post and hope they have one game. Don't worry they are selling here just fine.

So whats the going rate for WoW in beaver pelts nowadays?

manday · December 2004

Originally posted by SpeedMann

Originally posted by RedCloud
I know the problem... you live in Canada. There is not nearly the market in Canada that there is in the United States. I found the game at the first store i looked at. Why would Blizzard ship to Canada and make a small amount of money off of its games, when it could send it's games to where they would get sold quickly?
I certainly couldn't tell you. Point is you are going to have to wait unless you get it shipped from an online gaming store sorry.

Chief Red Cloud

We really didn't need any smarty pants comments in this thread. I'll make sure i get out of my igloo jump on my dog sled and mush on over to the local trading post and hope they have one game. Don't worry they are selling here just fine.

Rofl. I wanted to slap him, but I figured Id ignore him instead. Thx for typing wat I felt^^

ShootingStar · December 2004

Here in Michigan all the local stores are dry as well. Had no luck finding a copy, and definetley no luck finding one before Christmas. Broke my heart seeing parents look at the empty shelf, looking for the game, having no idea what's going on.

SpeedMann · December 2004

Originally posted by Jackdog
Originally posted by SpeedMann We really didn't need any smarty pants comments in this thread. I'll make sure i get out of my igloo jump on my dog sled and mush on over to the local trading post and hope they have one game. Don't worry they are selling here just fine.

So whats the going rate for WoW in beaver pelts nowadays?

Lots of two legged beavers running around. Just damn hard to catch.

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Crono1000 · December 2004

Im so glad i went out the second day of release and got mine but i live in Idaho so they have lots cause

1:people here cant afford it lol

2:they think computers are to complicated

lol jokin but we did run out for about 3 weeks but in stock now after X-mas all the poor kids that dident get it =( (parent thats why online stores were created)

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