Gearbox in Negotiations With Retailers to Honor Duke Nukem Forever Pre-Orders
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Did you order a copy of Duke Nukem Forever back when you thought “Forever” was simply a marketing buzz word? If so the game’s new developer Gearbox Software is looking to make things right by finding a way to honor DNF pre-orders. Company spokesman Randy Pitchford claims they are involved in high level discussions with various retail groups during his London press event last Thursday, and claims “he didn’t want to let those gamers down”.
There are a lot of people who pre-ordered the game," Pitchford told the press. "We’ve been starting to talk with retailers because we didn’t take them directly, and 3D Realms didn’t take them, it was all retailers going 'I'm going to take this guy’s money.' We’ve started to engage them, saying 'Hey, you’ve got customers who you made a promise to, and any bad feelings they have will reflect on us, so can we work together to do something for those people?'"
The retail scene for PC gaming has changed quite a bit since pre-orders started being accepted back in 2001 so it will be interesting to see what if anything can be done. DNF is still slated to hit the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 in 2011, and yes we honestly are truly believe them this time.
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Keith E. Whisman
October 10, 2010 at 10:10am
Hey it's 10/10/2010, that's 10/10/10 and I'm going to post this message at 10:10 AM and possibly, I'll do another tonight at 10:10PM.
So it's going to be 10.10.10.10:10
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Keith E. Whisman
October 10, 2010 at 12:35pm
Ha ha ha! ROFLOL!
At least it's more interesting than all the damn spam on MaximumPC.. I'm sick of spam, the maximumpc staff should look in to doing something about it.
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Mark17
October 10, 2010 at 6:49pm
You're sick of spam? I love it, I just got a sweet deal on some Air Jordans.
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Keith E. Whisman
October 10, 2010 at 9:56am
Look at the date on the receipt, it's only a month before the Sept 11'th attacks. The world has changed so much since then. August 2001 was a good month, I was driving truck and messing around with my first black girlfriend.
I hope the game has some jokes built into, like the game starting out for about half an hour with the same graphics as the original Duke Nukem 3D.
It would be nice for the game to come with extras, like all the DNF versions that were never released. Especially the one that was supposed to come out in 2002, 2005, and the 2007 version if there is one. The way I understand it, DNF would get built and the producers would realize that it sucks as bad as the Obama economic stimulus plan and medical reform bills put together, and would start over from scratch.
Hell it's only a 10 year pre order.
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bingojubes
October 10, 2010 at 8:45am
Maybe the reciept is faded enough, but i see that he put zero dollars on it. at gamestop, i am always told to put at least $5 down to preorder...how did he get away with it? i wish i preordered it way back when. I wonder what the price of the game was going to be back then? Slash000 might be able to get the game cheaper than anticipated, which would rock.
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Airheadq
October 10, 2010 at 9:28am
There's a larger image. That image has been cropped.
http://i.a-13.net/slash000_fudigg.jpg
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ShadowDragoonFTW
October 10, 2010 at 9:37am
OH! The $0 is the value of the merchandise he received!
...Yes, exactly as I said it. Good luck with getting that pre-order honored!
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Ntldr
October 11, 2010 at 7:18am
If you look at the larger picture of it you will see that he already has paid $10 in cash and $10 with a credit card. That reciept may have been a record that he got so he could make sure what he has paid on it already.
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