I want the box however (purchasing online means I have the duty to keep a number in some sort of safe keeping, I don't want that duty), I dunno what to do exactly, but I am sure going to check Zellers before I ever trust those lousy folks for ANY future purchase (and Zellers happen to have about 50% of the titles I buy, so a 50% decrease in sells for them might matter...and who know, Zellers might react nicely to a sells increase, remaining lousy but offering everything eventually), I expect Zellers to be backward about video games...but folks who have a business resolving around GAMES should be faster.
I was pretty sure he had the copy of the game in his boxes in the back, he pretty much betray himself, he look soooo sure they would have the game in store tomorrow. That piss me. |
Personally, I blame Stardock and I'm the President of the company.
Here's why I blame Stardock:
1) Stardock knew full well that the demand for the game had skyrocketed unexpectedly in the past 3 weeks. It should have contacted Take 2 to see how this might affect things.
2) Stardock would then have found out that widespread distribution would now take an extra couple of days -- especially because of President's Day being on Monday and could have pushed the digital release back a couple of days.
It's definitely not the retailers fault. It's Stardock's fault really. We've never published a game that has anywhere this kind of demand.
You want to know the really scary part? We almost didn't have enough manufactured for this.
The original Galactic Civilizations I manufacturing run was 10,000 units which was expected to last the first month easy. But Strategy First then found itself without enough inventory to satisfy demand.
So for GalCiv II, we decided to "over compensate" and have the initial manufacturing run be 50,000 copies (or something like that) and it may turn out that that was barely enough.
There's a bunch of other things too, the forum system here designed to handle a load of approximately 2.5X the traffic that GalCiv I peeked. But according logs and Alexa, we're getting an incredibly amount of traffic, closer to 20X the traffic. Luckily, the forums seem to be functioning okay (though we've had to hide any sort of search features for now).
But holy cow. It's been crazy. I can't wait for it to be at stores (or to get the game myself).
