GameStop Will Honor Decade-Old Duke Nukem Preorders
GameStop Will Honor Decade-Old Duke Nukem Preorders
Posted 05/30/2011 at 7:29am
| by Paul Lilly
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There's a reason your mother was always telling you to clean your room as a kid and to keep your things organized. She was training you for times like this when, after waiting more than a decade for a game you preordered, you'd be able to waltz into your local GameStop with receipt in hand and get your copy before everyone else. Yes folks, GameStop is honoring those preorders from long ago, provided you held onto the necessary paperwork.
GameStop is currently accepting preorders for Duke Nukem Forever on the major platforms, and GamePro asked what would happen to all those poor souls who reserved their copy back when it was first announced.
"With a long-anticipated release like Duke Nukem Forever, we encourage customers who preordered more than a year ago to verify their reservation with their local store prior to launch," GameStop said. "Provided the customer has a receipt, we will honor even those preorders taken long ago. At this time, we expect that all preorder customers will receive Duke's Big Package at time of purchase, regardless of when the reservation was made."
You did hold onto your receipt, right?
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Holly Golightly
May 30, 2011 at 11:07am
Will they honor the preorders from they former competitors they ate up? I mean... "Merged" The only "GameStop" that was at my neighborhood at that time was called Funcoland. Anyhow, I did not preorder the game at that time. I reckon that most people used their preorder credits to get other games.
Kinetic
May 31, 2011 at 12:05pm
Same here. I don't think I ever saw a Gamestop until about 2000~2002 when they bought up all the EB Games and Funcolands in my area.
Holly Golightly
May 31, 2011 at 2:19pm
I would have to travel a little far for EB games, but man, they were the best when it came to collectors editions and game soundtracks. I do not know how they did it, but they are waaay better than what GameStop could ever cough out. I also miss those classic "newspapers" that FuncoLand would come up with every month. They are the definite best. I am surprised the FCC did not step in to stop these mergers from happening. Now there is only one store. I also started seeing GameStops popping out everywhere in the early 2000s. For me, it may have been more like 2003 or 2004... Now I just download my games, and avoid these guys like the plague.
Kethsar
May 31, 2011 at 4:08pm
Indeed, being able to download games is awesome, especially when you don't want to wait in line for a new game. <3 Steam
Holly Golightly
June 01, 2011 at 1:55am
That is the primary advantage of downloading. It is even better to stay all nice and warm at home while all the console gamers are stuck waiting outside in the freezing cold for a game that may, or may not be good at all. The future is definitely all about downloading.
wirehedd
May 30, 2011 at 9:22am
The game store where I paid $25 for my preorder no longer exists and the owner has since died. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to eat the loss and pay full price. Placed my NEW preorder at Amazon for the $99 collectible version already.:)
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