Guides Shipped Early?Follow

I have a query for my neigbours to the south in the good ol' USofA. Have any of you actually gotten your strategy guides yet?

See, EBgames.com has already shipped them (As far as I know) and I think the EB stores in the US are selling them. However, here in Canada, I was actually refused the right to buy them. They were sitting on the shelf, prices marked, but EB would not sell them to me. Two other stores had them, but would not put them out.

I just want to see if this is common thing or if we Canadians are getting shafted for no apparent reason.

All I wanted was to read the guide tomorrow when I'm going to be bored sick. That's all. I don't see any reason why they should refuse to sell the guide but yet have them on the shelves. What's next? Having the game out but telling us we can't buy it?

Dammit..that's the one place I didn't go to. I'm in Richmond Hill and the 3 in that area are refusing to sell. Hmm...I wonder if I can make it down there in 30 mins.

(Thanks for the info)

Edit: Abysmal spelling.

Edited, Sat Nov 20 17:36:22 2004 by CloakedStranger

I got my guide at EBGames in Montreal. Had to argue with the clerk/manager who thought they weren't supposed to release until the game came out. They checked with head office, and bradygames.com website and the official release is indeed November 16th.

The guide is great by the way! Hope you'll get it.

The whole purpose of a strat guide is something to look at when servers are down for maintenence or patching. Its also good for planning out your character on paper (which is totally worthless) but i get a sense of completion and structure when i have my character planned out. I also look at it every 5 seconds when i do have one and ready the same stuff over and over again trying to glean any little tidbits of info out of it. But yeah for the most part guides for MMORPGs are pretty much worthless, you learn as much as they can put in a guide in the game in about 1 hour.

I got it from the EB that kingjord suggested. For those of you that wish to debate the value of the guide, there was another thread for that.

Turns out the EB managers in my area all have their heads up their asses and have been reprimanded by the Head Office. I also think I managed to score 20% off the game, but I'll know for sure on Tuesday :)

I work for chapters/indigo up here in Canada and our stores got their guides on Thursday.

Not only have they shipped the guides early, but most EB games should have the game itself RIGHT NOW, they just can't sell it until Tuesday..

I wish they'd do a midnight release of it..

The guide might be handy to have, but since we can ACTUALLY ALT+TAB (unlike another MMORPG which I won't mention because my fingers would burn off) I think this site will provide me with most of the info I need, and if it doesn't have it yet, it will eventually :)

Withdrawal...of ...Warcraft... WoW.. T_T

the funny thing would be if you looked at the $49.99 price on the box of WoW when the guy showed it to you, then said "how much would that be with tax about?"

"56 bucks", he said.

You grab the box, toss 60 bucks at the register, "Keep the change", then leave.

I don't even think that would be considered theft.

I think that would considered theft to a point due to the fact that they aren't required to sell a game to you. If you decided to throw money at them, its not the same as you buying the item, its like you just left money in the store and stole a game. Now, EB probably won't do anything about it, not worth the hassle.

The guide is really cool, but EB still hasn't received the collectors edition guides that I'm waiting for.

The data definitely has some major flaws, especially in Paladin abilities, talents, etc. Judgement sends holy bolts in all directions, doing 253-303 holy damage?