Purchase

[Scouse]

Went into Game to see if they had PS in - no joy. Went into Game a week later (and a different one) and PS? No.

How is said title supposed to flourish without being able to get hold of it..... or is it doing an extended, paid-for beta like Eve is at the moment?

 

[Karam_gruul]

just buy it on www.amazon.co.uk or something

 

[.Cask]

I blame Ubisoft tbh.

Friend was tryin to buy EQ Planes of Power and every single online shop was sold out for over 2 months. Think it's Ubi that take care of the distribution anyway.

Don't think there was any exclusive thing for Planetside.

 

[mank!]

I trekked round Swindon looking for a copy, found the last one on the shelf in PC World. Bearing in mind the shelves were full of everything else, PS is either highly popular or very poorly distributed.

 

[Scouse]

I'd plump for the latter....

 

[Embattle]

It is the latter.

 

[old.Trine Aquavit]

It's been horribly ditributed in the UK. I went to pick up a copy from GAME in guildford on launch day. I hit the shop only to find that there's a guy in there walking away with the last copy. I get the staff there to ring the other Guildford store and they hadn't any copies either. I picked up a copy (one of two) from teh Aldershot branch the next day.

I work in Woking, which also has 2 GAME stores. They have received about 3-4 copies per week between them since launch.

I'm not sure if this is GAME's fault or Sony's (I've noticed it with other games - there was no sign of Freelancer for weeks after release).

While I appreciate that you'll get a better deal if you buy on-line it's very important for multiplayer online games to have a good retail release to pick up casual gamers and ensure the success and longevity of the game.