Regular Edition Manual?

[ZanThrax]

notyoueither, I think you should, just so that Take 2 gets enough returned boxes to demonstrate that their customers are not impressed with the horrible job of distribution they've done.

[notyoueither]

You are right, but I also think EB is pulling some stuff here.

The people at BestBuy told me Thursday night that the game was delayed due to 'vendor delay.' Neither they nor Walmart could, or would, offer the game for sale.

I had a good idea I was going to get something fishy, especially after reading here about wrong tech charts and what-not, when I sent the guy all that way to get the thing. All I really wanted was the cd's anyway.

So I am not sure if I am blaming 2K for my addiction, and EB's willingness to sell whatever they could get, or blaming myself for finding the only pusher in town with the fix.

[notyoueither]

Curiously, I've been playing the game for over a year now. Still, there was a new version out there, and everyone was talking about it. I obsessed over it. I went out of my way Tues, and Wed, and then Thurs to find it. No joy.

I was in EB, the one half way to Jasper, Thurs evening and the guy told me he had sold out. I went to the Walmart. No joy. Went by BestBuy. That's where I was told about vendor delay. Went home. On a lark, I went out of my way again on Friday morning to the half-way to Jasper EB. He had got some more, and sold them all!

I thought about complaints here for a moment, and then asked if he had any returns from the previous days. 'I'll take one', I said confidently. 'Nope, no returns.' Damn!

I then went to the office. It just so happened that on that Friday I had a two choices. I had something I had to do (payroll) and something I wanted to do (find civ). I made a deal with the guys. They find me civ, I do payroll.

They found civ, I got civ, they got paid. Everyone was happy.

No, I'm not too fussed about the manual. I'm a junkie. I have my crack. I am happy. There is joy in the world.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by CyberShy
Can you please post that manual! I got the manual in the special spiral bound edition, though there's no digital version
I prefer to read digital.

Me too. You'd think the special edition would have it digital if the normal edition does (well, sometimes...)

I want a searchable PDF, dammit!

[Koyaanisqatsi]

That being said, whoever 2K hired to do the physical packaging did a truly horrible job. Software problems I can understand and sympathize with, even if I don't like them...but who screws up something as simple as packaging this badly?

- French/English tech tree mixup
- Mislabeled CDs
- Missing manuals
- Bad CDs

...it's really pretty bizarre.

[notyoueither]

Move North. You get two tech trees, English and French, but no manual.

It's all people in Quebec, I am sure.

'heh heh, screw you Yankee, and a double dose for you anglo, eh!'

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Well, I'll be in Montreal later this month, but I don't think I'm spending another 50 bucks just for a PDF.

[notyoueither]

You have no sense of collection.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

If somebody gave it to me, I'd keep it. That's collecting, right?

[notyoueither]

In a Lurker sort of way, yes.