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Vivendi Jilts WoW CE Pre-order Customers

Posted by Zonk on from the how-to-make-friends-and-influence-people dept.

Draconix writes "Having pre-ordered the World of Warcraft Collector's Edition over a month in advance, I eagerly checked my email on November 22nd, expecting confirmation of shipment. Instead, I received a notice from Inside Mac Games, explaining that their order for the WoW Collector's Edition would not be filled. It seems, at the last minute, Vivendi Universal decided to ship a limited number of copies, and only to major players, such as Amazon.com. Doubtless, IMG is one of many stores who have had to inform their unsuspecting customers of this development. Of course, it is now too late to obtain it from one of the distributors that did receive it, so thousands of expectant gamers will come up empty-handed--denied what many had ordered months in advance. With Vivendi Universal already at odds with one of their developers, is more trouble on the way?"

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  1. Ongoing wagers by JFitzsimmons · · Score: 5, Funny

    There must be an ongoing wager as to who can get the most bad PR for Vivendi. "Hmm... I see your HL2/Steam and raise you a WoW ripoff."

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    Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -Anonymous
  2. Developer != Publisher by skadus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What does Blizzard's developing of a MMO (the best I've played so far, BTW) have to do with Vivendi's screwing of their own customers? Blizzard didn't make the decision to limit the number of CEs, Vivendi did.

    It would be nice to find some way of creating a backlash against Vivendi without hurting Blizzard. Or without depriving myself of WoW. ;)

  3. Line at Frys was INSANE by Timber_Z · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Showed up about 11:00pm last night, figured that the line might be half way around the building, Turns out the line went around the building twice, took up most of the parking lot, and then for good measure it went down the street a couple hundred yards.

    Talking to the Fry's Employee, he said that they had 2 or 3 truck loads of games on the way, but doubted thier would be enough for everyone.

    The poor guy seemed rather alarmed and stressed seeing several thousand gamers surrounding the store.

    According to him, the line started forming around 1pm.

    Although everyone seemed to be in a good mood, I didn't stick around.

  4. How does a consumer revolt against a publisher? by realdpk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm curious, how would I, as a consumer, revolt against a publisher without simultaneously revolting against the developers? Vivendi is making some very anti-consumer moves here, which ought not be tolerated.