I want to give my thanks tooI already have the soundtrack that came with the Japanese collector's edition, but still nice to have.
I want to give my thanks too
All I want to know is who is offering the soundtrack for Canada, because Amazon are xenophobic BACONBACONBACONBACONs and won't ship games outside of their respective countries. (No U.S. or UK games to Canada - it's crap)
XSEED has actually been really good with Canada for the most part, I've only ever really had two issues buying their stuff here.
1. I had to raise a major stink and go up the Gamestop chain of command to the district manager level to get a copy of the Fragile Dreams preorder CD because they "didn't get any". This is why I'm such an advocate of packed in bonuses, so incompetent workers can't screw it up for the consumer.
2. Gamestop has a really bad system for identifying between standard and limited edition releases in their computers and over many visits to the store they couldn't ever locate the Limited Edition of Trails in their system. I ended up having to order from Amazon.ca to ensure that's what I got.
Honestly, the best thing you can do with Gamestop in Canada is raise hell when you don't get something. Canada wasn't "supposed to" get the KH Cloud outfit for Dissidia Duodecim, or the God Eater Burst preorder DLC, but after waving my stack of preorders at them and complaining that Canada is part of North America too, and that it's rediculous to offer specials in a region within a region they caved and sent me both.
Last edited by Lumina; 08-10-2011 at 07:02 PM.
The employees at your local Gamestop must mumble some wonderfully kind words when they see you go in.
Lol yea, I can pretty much see the "oh no.." on their faces when I walk in, but at the very least they know they can't feed me BS because I'll call them on it.
It's pretty sad though really, because I'm not being unreasonable, I just want what I paid for/what was advertised!
As someone who has been in retail for many years (and yes, have worked at Gamestop) it's actually commonplace to not be sent in either enough games to fill preorder (which in case could be them not shipping enough extra games to take care of last minute preorders), or not getting in preorder items at all, or running out. You should've seen thr fiasco over Sgt. Johnson preorder codes for Halo ODST. Wow the soccer moms went crazy when their kids told them that the codes ran out. Whoever made those dlc code cards seriously underestimated how many to print for stores...
As fot Canada the same as North America, no, not always. There's many collectors editions of games that never got sent to Canada. Preorders are the same, as there are many bonuses I never even knew existed until later, even after people preordered them.
Just remember one thing when you come into stores mad because of these issues: the store employes aren't (always) the bad guys. I've always worked at places where managers are thr "we'll do what we can to get it for you" type. Head offices however, wow I've sure seen them do some stupid things sometimes...
Last edited by Terro; 08-10-2011 at 08:31 PM.
The soundtrack is going to be packed in the box with ALL first-print shipments of the game, so... I guess to answer your question, *we* are! Just go preorder the game, and you'll get your soundtrack with it for sure.Originally Posted by Nephlabobo
-Tom
Terro, while what some of what you say is true, I also worked at a Gamestop in my younger years and I know all to well how many employees are unaware of the product they sell and give preorder bonuses away to any customer as swag, or just take them for themselves and then tell customers there aren't any.
The only Limited Edition I've ever seen the US get and not Canada was the Rorona LE, and it was Gamestop's decision to not bring it up to Canada, even though NISA even set the box up to be bilingual.
Well like I said, the employees aren't ALL good with that kind of stuff. I know while on occasion, even though there was only one item preordered or none, they would still send us a few preorder bonuses. However, I made sure to preorder Fragile to get the soundtrack. I remember seeing that there was box that the soundtrack was getting shipped in, (we only got the one) but on my next shift at work, I couldn't find it anywhere in the preorder bonus shelf. My manager (who I was close friends with) said he set it aside for me, but I asked all my other co workers if they took it, thinking no one preordered it, and they all said 'no'. So, one of them lied since I never found it. I went to the next closest location, where they knew me (since I always poked around for RPGs there) and they had the bonus in, even though fortunately no one preordered it. I was lucky to get it there.
So yeah, I totally know how things can be sometimes. That situation was a pain too, but glad I got it because I LOVED the Fragile OST! Since you worked at a GS once, at least you understand things. I was just hoping you weren't someone that pointed the finger to just the employees, since I know ALOT of people don't know how retail works.
As for CEs, I thought there was more than just Rorona that didn't make it to Canada... I never did understand WHY Gamestop decided not to bring it either, since I heard both Neptune and AT3 got boxed releases. I just know many companies never like to give Canada fair treatment. At least, websites that stream tv shows are getting better, being the same region and all.
Last edited by Terro; 08-10-2011 at 10:49 PM.
Try Video Games Plus. They're my favourite Canadian game retailer. Fantastic customer support, and their support for preorder/first-run stuff for this kind of game is great - they have an Atlus-specific store, for example. They've already updated the entry for Solatorobo to say that it includes the soundtrack. Shipping within Canada is $2.99.
Edit: I realize that makes me look like a shill. Just a happy customer.They're the ones I preordered Solatorobo with.
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