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thehumandignity posted:GMG's site gives a release date of the 12th, so mystery solved, I guess. Time to play the "pirating software I paid for" game. jtm33 posted:What's the bet that they don't get keys until the 12th. The page on GMG says the release date is the 12th for some reason. Well, they're a British company, and unless you're in the US, the game doesn't release until the 12th, so its no surprise they don't have keys yet. Necroneocon posted:It's not a logic leap and I don't really care when I get my key personally as i'm doing work, but you took a huge leap yourself when you made that post. All i'm saying is people make fun of annoyed customers all the time but never the businesses or corporations, nor do they blame them. Oh I'm not disputing that if they're legit late delivering keys, that's pretty lame. But screaming and hollering and "I'LL NEVER SHOP HERE AGAIN" "I'M GONNA HAVE MY BANK DO A CHARGEBACK BECAUSE I'VE BEEN ROBBED!" seems a bit disproportionate; at least until they've tried more reasonable channels of resolution like contacting GMG support, perhaps 2K support, etc. jivjov fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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In a normal world people would be saying GMG, Amazon and Gamersgate are pretty lame for not sending the keys on time but no one is saying that. It's just "lol look at these posts on these forums."
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Necroneocon posted:It's not a logic leap and I don't really care when I get my key personally as i'm doing work, but you took a huge leap yourself when you made that post. All i'm saying is people make fun of annoyed customers all the time but never the businesses or corporations, nor do they blame them. Corporations take a lot of (entirely justified) heat from Americans literally all the time. Maybe not in the context of this specific release of a videogame, but I'd say businesses get more flak than "those wacky customers" ever do. Some poor bastard at the Better Business Bureau probably has to sort through reams and reams every day, and that's just people who specifically went out of their way to actually lodge a formal complaint. Anyway Civ 5 everybody
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dreffen posted:Boy I bet that makes it okay to do! I should know better than to open up this  but from what standpoint could that really be considered bad?
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I'm just a little bit annoyed that I'd rather be playing the game now than later. But I can take it. I remembered when I ordered the boxed G&K at launch on Amazon with same-day-shipping. I didn't get it until that evening, though the case itself looked nice and had a fold-out tech tree.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:I would still love to read GMG privileged forum posts snippets here while I wait. Ask and you shall recieve!  horrible people parade posted:yes this is the 9th of july, where steam users are getting the game already, next time if they didn't intend to give it to us ON TIME, please inform us maybe say AHEAD OF TIME? that way i can make my purchase on steam. brocretin fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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I'm not in the US so I guess I'll just shut up and wait then. I paid in USD though, so I wonder if I'll get the US release date.
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ghetto wormhole posted:I should know better than to open up this The mods are not fan of piracy chat in any form specifically because it's so controversial so let's cut this line of discussion here.
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jivjov posted:Well, they're a British company, and unless you're in the US, the game doesn't release until the 12th, so its no surprise they don't have keys yet. The bank chargeback is a bit too much, so is talking about being robbed or all that other melodramatic stuff, but "i'll never shop here again" is pretty legitimate. It's their money after all. People are just frustrated. I don't know, I read the FREEP thread in D&D so maybe i'm just use to how people act on the internet in general.
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Paying the advertised price for something to people licensed to distribute it does make it okay to possess, yes. It is too much effort compared to waiting an extra three days, though.
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brocretin posted:Ask and you shall recieve! Oh god this is glorious. glorious
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brocretin posted:Ask and you shall recieve! The worth of a Person's time is almost universally inversely proportionate to the frequency at which they remind you how important it is.
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Necroneocon posted:The bank chargeback is a bit too much, so is talking about being robbed or all that other melodramatic stuff, but "i'll never shop here again" is pretty legitimate. It's their money after all. Oh yeah, I myself have stopped shopping at various places due to poor treatment, but there's a world of difference between "well, I've been burned, so I'm not coming back" and the frothing rage on the GMG forums. Underwhelmed posted:The worth of a Person's time is almost universally inversely proportionate to the frequency at which they remind you how important it is. Oh my god, this is amazing and I love you.
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Underwhelmed posted:The worth of a Person's time is almost universally inversely proportionate to the frequency at which they remind you how important it is. I'm living proof of that, mining the internet for silly poo poo like this at this time of the night. quote:I think this'll be my last time ordering something like this from somewhere other than steam. I'm not saying that it's their fault about the keys, but the fact is I could have gotten in a few hours of playtime tonight, and instead I saved a couple bucks and I get zero gameplay tonight. I know it's only one day, but darn it, my time is worth more than a dollar an hour. Steam from here on out. The thing that amazes me is just how important it is to these kids that they have what they want right now.
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Rascyc posted:Yeah it's pretty stupid, I just made 8 archers in 10 turns thanks to Terracotta. drat this seems really exploitable. I wonder how long before it gets nerfed.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Nobody is "dropping the ball". Steam very often doesnt release games until noon Pacfic time, this is an exception rather than a rule, and many companies dont email their keys out at Midnight Eastern time. This is being very presumptious and they haven't voided their agreement until it's 12:00 on the 10th. I'm assuming that Steam isn't acting as a key broker - they'll generate keys and handle their redemption (and manage sales to individual consumers), but it's 2K who requests additional keys for wholesale to third party distributors. Therefore, the responsibility lies on 2K to ensure that the keys they requested for resale are delivered. If somehow Steam is acting as the broker (which seems like a bad idea from multiple standpoints to me), then it's still not GMG's fault, it's Steam's fault for not delivering keys in preparation for when the game goes live (unless it's 2K's fault again for not specifying to send it to resellers a little early). If somehow the keys have already been sent but simply not processed to allow sending to customers, then I wonder what the hell is going on that multiple companies whose entire business revolves around reselling digital products and their associated keys cannot automate the process and have it done within the hour. Maybe one company hosed up, but Occam's Razor says the problem is elsewhere when it's two or three.
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jivjov posted:Oh yeah, I myself have stopped shopping at various places due to poor treatment, but there's a world of difference between "well, I've been burned, so I'm not coming back" and the frothing rage on the GMG forums. Anonymity is a helluva thing. That plus frustration = posts like the yu-gi-oh guy. But overall it shows an example of why Steam is the best platform and that these other companies will probably lose a few customers over this. Maybe it's a Gaben trick to rule PC gaming...
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jtm33 posted:I'm not in the US so I guess I'll just shut up and wait then. I paid in USD though, so I wonder if I'll get the US release date. Nah, I paid the same way, and tried launching the game through the store page which says "play BNW now." However, it just loads into G&K. Those of us in other countries just have to wait. Post more about the game people! I'm living vicariously through you people back in the states until I can get the game  .
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jivjov posted:Well, they're a British company, and unless you're in the US, the game doesn't release until the 12th, so its no surprise they don't have keys yet.  Personally, I will never preorder from GMG again, but that's not to say I wouldnt buy games from them if it was a deal. Why preorder if I didnt want to play on release though?
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Skyl3lazer posted:
Saving $7 more bucks mostly. I coulda preordered from Steam.
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I just feel bad that I wasted my BNW-Playing-Time watching Kyoryuger and helping my housemate find some poo poo in Banjo Tooie. I have to get up in 4 and a half hours and I'm actually considering starting up Civ V.
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Good lord I suck at this game now. How the hell do you get cities? Even with 5 + huts (Shoshone) and good starting locations, I'm hitting turn 50 still with 1 city, a time when I usually have at least 4. drat.
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Skyl3lazer posted:Why preorder if I didnt want to play on release though? Obviously because you wanted to give them a no‐interest loan. 
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quote:I got 3 friends to buy from GMG with me. This sucks. I don't care about Gamersgate, Amazon, or whoever. GMG should have a rep on the forums explaining why our pre-order was worthless. Emphasis mine. some fucker called kenuty i guess he's a professional streamer or some bullshit posted:But do you have a nice car? - mercedes benz Related via flamewar. I just thought this was an entertaining insight into this one person's outlook on life. OH NO posted:THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE
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RagnarokAngel posted:Saving $7 more bucks mostly. I coulda preordered from Steam. Say we don't get our keys in the US till the 12th. Is that 7 bucks worth not getting to play it for 3 days after release? Personally if I dont have a key by about 1pm est tomorrow I'll probably just get a refund from them and get it on steam. It's not a huge deal but I'm willing to pay the money to actually play the game at launch.
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Again, stop assuming the release date will be the 12th. There were big banners advertising the 9th release date. It is in fact, still the 9th. It is barely 2 hours into the 9th. If you live on the west coast it isn't even the 9th. The fact that their website is bugged and has a blank release date doesn't confirm or deny anything. This chicken little stuff is maddening.
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Skyl3lazer posted:Say we don't get our keys in the US till the 12th. Is that 7 bucks worth not getting to play it for 3 days after release? Personally if I dont have a key by about 1pm est tomorrow I'll probably just get a refund from them and get it on steam. It's not a huge deal but I'm willing to pay the money to actually play the game at launch. More power to you; I'm just frugal as hell. I'll do something else in the meantime.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Again, stop assuming the release date will be the 12th. There were big banners advertising the 9th release date. It is in fact, still the 9th. It is barely 2 hours into the 9th. If you live on the west coast it isn't even the 9th. I'm not assuming, it's a hypothetical. The point is that there's a breakpoint where I would have just payed more to get it direct from steam to be able to play it at launch. I personally do not preorder games that I don't plan on playing at launch.
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I won't ever not be amazed at the entitlement of some people. The idea of having a big meltdown over a code being, what, like two hours delayed on a midnight release is nuts.
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The point at which I realized that midnight releases were rather pointless was the time I drove an hour to my hometown Gamestop to pick up Halo 4 and by the time I got it back to my college dorm I barely wanted to play longer than 10 minutes before hitting the sack.
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I don't know if this is common knowledge yet, but a lot of the founder beliefs took a nerf. Ceremonial Burial is 1 happiness for every two cities following the religion. e: also you can see Iron at Bronze Working now and Lighthouses give +1 production per sea resource. Lots of neat changes to the early game, it seems. e2: I'm dumb, Tithe is the same as it was, but Ceremonial Burial is changed. fantastic in plastic fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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I think that's what Tithe always was? Edit: Oh wait it was 2 wasn't it? I'm dumb.
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Skyl3lazer posted:Say we don't get our keys in the US till the 12th. Is that 7 bucks worth not getting to play it for 3 days after release? It probably is, if that's what it was advertised as, but when I ordered it it had the big "July 9th" banner over it that some people are posting screenshots of now. Now, the game's page on the GMG store says 12th. That isn't cool. It's not a big deal to me, certainly not enough to cancel the charge, or swear off buying from GMG again, or even enough to complain to them, but it isn't okay.
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Back my day I had to actually go to stores to get my games on release day and even then they'd tell me to come back at 3pm after they get them in, this is all assuming I got the preorder in, no preorder no game for a week. drat kids and their interwebs don't know how good they have it. But seriously this happens all the time with GMG how do people not see it coming... Fat and Useless fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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a person on the civ v steam hub posted:Venice has no settlers My apologies for spamming up the thread with this stuff, there's just some funny poo poo going round on the Steam community hub.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I think that's what Tithe always was? Nope, tithe was 1 gold/4 followers.
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thehumandignity posted:It probably is, if that's what it was advertised as, but when I ordered it it had the big "July 9th" banner over it that some people are posting screenshots of now. Now, the game's page on the GMG store says 12th. That isn't cool. It's not a big deal to me, certainly not enough to cancel the charge, or swear off buying from GMG again, or even enough to complain to them, but it isn't okay. I’m still seeing the big 9th July banner.
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Odobenidae posted:Nope, tithe was 1 gold/4 followers. It was originally 2 but it got nerfed a long time ago, not a new change to BNW. Platystemon posted:I’m still seeing the big 9th July banner. That's what I saw, too, when I ordered it. Now it's gone and there's just this.  Not worth throwing a riot. Also not something I am going to fondly remember in the future. TacticalUrbanHomo fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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