Future Shop does not have the Game !!!

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Future Shop which is the Canadian equivalent to Best Buy.

Best Buy even owns them does not have Galactic Civilizations on their web site ?

Must be a sick joke !



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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
It could have something to do with the release date. I don't think all stores, drive to or online, provide pre-order support.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Yeah, I live right next to a Future Shop and you can't order ANYTHING from them... it's either they have it or they don't.

~SDC~
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Future Shop (and the ilk) specialize in end of cycle merchandise. It might be a Good Sign not to be in FS yet.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I got MoO3 (and many other games) , the day it came out, at FS.

Elrikk



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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
FS will have it. They're just clueless....I can't even begin to count the number of games they've gotten on or right after release day and haven't even known about.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I can not help but see that Future Shop not having the game on their web site is a bad sign.

You were able to order Master of Orion 3 months before it was released and hundreds of clowns rated the game 5 out 5 with out playing the game.

I am getting a sense of dejavu to the OS/2 days and a fat lot of good it did for me to go to a retailer and ask about OS/2. After all today I am using Windows XP pro not OS/2 ver 7.0 :)
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
By that line of reasoning, can we assume you plan to run MOO3 rather than GalCiv?

MOO 3 is the sequel to one of the most popular PC game series ever. It's going to be much more widely available than GalCiv ever is. FutureShip will probably have GalCiv either on the day of release or shortly after. But as much as I'd love to see GalCiv at every last store, it won't be on day 1.

And Stardock recognized that reality. That's why we're allowed to sell it directly. MOO3 might be at Futureshop but you can't buy and download MOO 3 from Quicksilver's site.

~SDC~
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Just as an FYI... they do have Best Buy here in Canada now as well (there's one about 5 minutes from my house). I suspect that Future Shop will be carrying that title, despite the lack of information on their website. But if not, there's Best Buy too.

Of course I won't be buying it via any of those methods, but straight to the source and just purchase/download a copy online
:)
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
The product will sell it's self. Quality always does. Book publisher are famous for providing diddly sqwat in advertizing. Their attitude is if its good, if it's truely marketable, it is word of mouth that will sell it. And the fact is in general they are right. That is why I was glad to see your Metaverse concept. I prefer a game developed for single player by far. Because you can put some dice roll chance into it, where after you play the same people a few times I know what they are going to do. In fiction writing I have to follow my own outline, gaming with good AI, I get to, NOT know what is around that corner. Yet the Metaverse idea at least sounds good in the Preview articles. And every selling point is valueable. I wish you could of pushed the extent of the games modability more as a selling point. But of course your not righting the previews. But if the fans jump into creative mods like they did for Freedom Force, this could bring on some follow up articles. As MODDING is a growing catagory of gaming in of it's self.

~SDC~