MoO3 hits the stores - Seen it being SOLD? Post here

[Pallidyne]

Hey it just means the French (IG) have declared the US, Australia and the UK the new "ALLIES OF PEOPLE WE DON'T LIKE".....(Since "Axis of Evil" was already taken)

edit: Clarity

-P

[Freelancer]

FYI, I am in Hong Kong and I got the game yesterday (25th) at 7pm local time ... the store owner said the game just arrived :P

[Wraithen]

I hate you all!!!

EVERY retailer I've called in the Greater Manchester area of northwest England is saying the 7th of March!!

'20 major countries', I think they may have meant '20 major states'.

(Crude attempt at humour, I apologise in advance to anyone that was angered by it).

[GodKing]

On the 25th – Detroit, Michigan, USA metro area:

Best Buy (4 stores that I called) – should receive in our regular shipment on the 26th. Each store is expecting to get between 30-50 copies.

Circuit City (2 stores that I called) – clueless.

Media Play (1 store I stopped in at on my way to a construction site) – never heard of it??

Gamestop (2 stores I stopped by, 3 that I called) – it has been shipped to us, but no clue when it will arrive. Probable guess is by UPS late on the 26th or early on the 27th. Each store is only expecting between 3-8 copies.

Compcenter USA (1 store I called) – we have it. When I skipped lunch to go and pick it up they said “never heard of it”. At that point I called the person a “lying SOB”, complained to the manager, and got a 10% off coupon for any purchase of $250 or more. Also, the little zit faced punk got his arse fired. I was still hungry for the rest of the day however. The manager didn’t know when it was arriving but had 25 copies on order.

Wall Mart – Stopped by on way home from work – clueless.

Target, K-mart and Meijers – called one each – had trouble talking to anybody that worked in that area. Never did get any sort of satisfactory answers.

Well – better luck today.

GK

[MitchDev]

Funny, Media Play had it in their Sunday ad paper listed at 39.99...

[General Ludd]

Re: Re: Re: The manual is ?

Originally posted by Lord of the Isles


I am zooming in, and I really appreciate having it.

But even though I really don't care for eye-candy, and I'll approach this game with an open mind (not to mention trembling fingers ), it's a pain that we can't get a sensibly formatted pdf manual. What other explanation can there be except that the release was rushed?

Ok, *takes deep breaths*, manuals are minor things. But I'd be ashamed to produce something like that in a beta copy of a game, never mind the finished product. Look at it this way: surely the manual source at QS was stored in a sensible format. I mean, they surely didn't keep it all on post-it notes and suddenly think: "Heavens! the release is in 3 weeks, we'd better think about typing this stuff up". And I can't believe that whatever format they stored it in couldn't have been used to create a nicer pdf file than the one we have.

I suppose that it might be a deliberate decision to produce it the way it looks. Sort of an old-manual-found-on-a-derelict-space-freighter kind of thing. But it's hard on my old eyes. And I've only moaned about the format; the font they've used is another problem.

But to repeat: game play is all and I'll forgive QS/IG totally if the thing plays well.

What is wrong with the format? Like I said, if you are having trouble reading the font, zoom in. at 200% zoom level is has full quality (for me, atleast... it might differ on your resolution).

[Ozymandous]

Originally posted by Wraithen
I hate you all!!!

EVERY retailer I've called in the Greater Manchester area of northwest England is saying the 7th of March!!

'20 major countries', I think they may have meant '20 major states'.

(Crude attempt at humour, I apologise in advance to anyone that was angered by it).

Heh...

IG is based in France and what countries seem to have the game on the 25th? France and Germany.

What countries don't? The U.S., England and other allies.

Coincidence? You decide...

[Flinx]

MoO3 Spotted in Toronto

I purchased the game yesterday evening (the 25th) from Compucentre at the Scarborough Town Centre here in Toronto. I popped in around 6pm, and they said they had just put it on the shelves less than an hour before.

[Main_Brain]

ahh sweet subtle revenge ;=)

[adamspt2]

Just got it...

In the US, just received (2/26/03, 9:30am) my preorder from ebgames.

[Jack_www]

What the hell is going on. Why do countries half way arround the world, and cities like Hong kong get the game on the release date, but the no damn stores in US have it!!! I hate this. The French must really hate the United States or something. All I want in the game, I have the money, you want it, so why not let the stores have it so I can give you my money and I can get my game????????????

[Jack_www]

Why the hell did infogreed have to be the publisher of Master of Orion 3. Every day I hate infogreed more and more. Damn this is last time I buy a game that is published by them. They screw up every damn time.

[Pepsico]

Eeerrrrr...... I live in France and I assure you that IG isn't doing any favor to France: I phoned and checked with 3 of the biggest retail companies and none even knew about MOO3. I don't even know when it'll be released.

So I guess I'm stuck waiting for the UK release or getting it from Germany.

I WANT MY COPY!!!

[Pallidyne]

Got it.. Pittsburgh, PA, Monroeviille Mall, EB---

And they let me have the first one right off the top as they unpacked the shipment. = )

-P

[Spatzimaus]

Baltimore, MD: White Marsh Mall EBgames has a bunch of copies. Haven't even put them on the normal shelves yet, so you have to ask them for it. But, I didn't preorder, and saw 30 or so copies, so plenty to go around.