GameStop Honoring Ancient Duke Nukem Forever Pre-orders

[Lunar Templar]

that's pretty cool i think,
assuming they have the recipe still

 

[Saulkar]

I'm here to kick ass and redeem my deposit.
And I'm all out of ass

YEAH?! Well guess what! I'm here to chew ass and kick bubblegum, and I'm all out of ass!

 

[Mr.Amakir]

Wait a minute, paying for pre-orders? I have never paid for a pre-order in my life, for example my Duke pre-order was free.

 

[Tahmoh]

chances are any recipts have long since faded to illegible by now so theres no real way to say for sure if it'll be valid unless the recipt had a barcode on or something.

 

[Canid117]

People with a receipt from 1997 should get some kind of bonus.

 

[WorldCritic]

Good to see Gamestop really does have a heart despite what their used game policies would indicate.

 

[Mr.Amakir]

People with a receipt from 1997 should get some kind of bonus.

They should get the game for free, all the past Duke Nukem games and a lifetime supply of bubblegum.

 

[paketep]

Of course they'll honor the preorders. Why is this news?

 

[Thumper17]

I now require video of someone with an old receipt going into a gamestop to redeem it.

Srsly, please, someone tape themselves, I dont give a shit what the policies for filming inside them are. Tell them this is about Duke, and the world needs to see history be made.

Preferably that man.

 

[weirdee]

Wisdom from the ancients!

"Don't forget to trade your games!"

Did they have the Edge card back then? If your preorder was made using a membership card of some sort, there's the slightest chance that it's still bound to your card, provided that the records still exist.

 

[Auxiliary]

Gamestop is shady no matter what.

 

[Frybird]

Of course, this is exactly what GameStop should do, and is actually required to do by law I'd think. If it took payment from customers and pumped up its coffers without offering a product, that'd be what we call "shady."

I fully agree on that.

It's certainly a good thing that they honor old pre-orders and "gift" some pre-order bonuses, but in the end, that is exactly what they should do. And it's highly questionable if they deserve any praise just for doing what they are supposed to do.

Then again, we ARE talking about GameStop here...

EDIT: And i'd honestly agree with what some said here.

People who preordered the game at least 10 years ago should get it for free/for what they did deposit for the preorder. It's not that they would be entitled to that, but THAT would be something that deserves praise and honorable Mentions to GameStop.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Not surprised. They know that the amount of people with a receipt that old is very small.

Plus receipt's ink fades very quickly. So...

 

[Toasty Virus]

Haha, real funny GameStop. The way I see it, three things happen here:

1. People lost their old receipt and don't get their deposit counted.
2. People discarded their old receipt in frustration at the game being declared dead when 3D Realms shut down and don't get their deposit counted.
3. People still have their old receipt, but thanks to GameStop's shitty paper and ink, it's faded beyond being readable and the customer doesn't get their deposit counted.

So no matter what, GameStop doesn't actually have to honor any of the old pre-orders. They just get to look awesome to those who don't know any better by saying they will.

I can still read mine.

oh and yeah

YAY!

 

[Con Carne]

I won't get the game but it's still nice to see a company coming right out and honoring old reservations. Unlike SONY keeping us up to date about what actually went down when it got hacked

 

[Realitycrash]

Good luck finding anyone who didn't rip their receipt to shreds out of frustration by now. If you haven't, my god you sure have some restraint.

I have mine still. Somewhere.

I say that because I keep all of my receipts in one drawer. When I say 'All', I mean it. Every receipt I ever had since I was like 12 has gone in there.

Ah, what a glorious Sunday afternoon you will have..

 

[mare84]

I commend a person who saved the 14 year old receipt! Especially the one who can read it...

 

[Haelium]

I actually still have my receipt, and it is legible. Problem is that the gamestop I ordered it from shut down years ago.

So I'm calling Gamestop out on this shit, they know that barely anyone will be able to claim their deposit.

 

[CK76]

My pre-order receipt for "The Last Guardian" is already over a year old and almost all the print is faded away. I can't imagine a 12 year old one standing up. If only had an electronic device that could store information for easy access...