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

[Dhakhan]

Called EB in Danbury Mall in Danbury CT. They have a copy waiting for me right now.

Unfortunately I am not in Danbury CT for 4 hours. (Heh.)

[Stuie]

Originally posted by MitchDev


Do you have a Medai Play in your area? In Metro Detroit, the Sunday sales ad had it listed at 39.99...

Closest one is Harrisburg (100+ miles). Anyway, with work and such I can wait until Sunday. BestBuy just better have it in their advert.

[thunar]

Electronics Boutique in Aresenal Mall, Watertown has it, but not CompUSA in Brighton or BB in Watertown, although the Cambridge BB has it.... just to let you all know.... just started my first game an hour ago... HUGE learning curve... gonna take me all night just to figure it out... happy gaming all...

[Cado]

Just got my copy...whoa! Better put on pot of coffee...gonna be a long night

[General Ludd]

Well, I called the two EBs in Mississauga again today, they both have them in despite telling me it was going to arrive tommorow and the closest one to me is even sold out.

[Kinjiru]

Update from Nashville, TN:

None of the stores at Opry Mills had it, including EB. Nobody around Green Hills had it. Nobody around Hickory Hollow had it (including Best Buy and Media Play - whom now say the won't get it until next week).

Finally, I went to the EB near my house in Bellevue, the store that always gets things a day or two later than everyone else and they had 8 out of 15 unreserved copies sitting there. So I grabbed one.

Got home, started the installation, got up to about 70% and my machine rebooted. Try again, reboot at 20%. Third time, when I click on the SetUp.exe I get a blue screen. Try to reboot, just a big long beep. Powerdown wait 20 minutes, try again, can't load Windows.

So, I go upstairs and open my kids' machine and confiscate their hard drive. Bring it down stairs and put it in my machine. Only 900 megs free on an 80 gig drive! Not even gonna bother cleaning it out, just backed up the My Documents folder and a few save games that are in obvious places and reinstall Win2000, overwriting the entire drive.

So, let's try to install Moo3. 10% okay.... 30% okay... 50% okay... 62% and hearing lots of grinding... several minutes later... 70% okay... 95% okay... install complete! Woot!

Let's try to run the game! Doh! Gotta put in the other CD. Try again! Yes, Sweet Jesus it works! Play for 10 minutes then feel guilty about the kids machine.

So, I am about to run out and buy a new harddrive for them. Then I will still feel guilty and probably reinstall all their software. Then I will have to help them with homework, and make dinner.

*Sigh* maybe I'll get back to MOO before midnight tonight...

[Vince278]

I got mine this morning at EB in Lancaster, PA!

[Bykesta]

Just found out that EB in Champaign, Illinois has my copy waiting to be played...it must be so lonely in that store.

I think I'll keep it company

(rushing out the door)

[cpbeller]

ok, got the game at the mall in Battlecreek, MI....they had several copies on the shelf....50 bucks....20% off the strat guide if the guide is bought at the same time as the game

[Arnelos]

Report from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area...

STUPID SNOW STORM!!!

Best Buy:

Order was due in today, but the various Best Buys in the Washington, D.C. metro area are still waiting on their shipment, which seems to have been delayed by the snow storm I'm going to try checking Best Buy again this evening to see if the shipment just arrives late, because it was supposed to arrive TODAY.

Electronic Boutique:

The people that work there are officialy clueless beyond belief (at all of the ones I called). That said, they don't have the game yet and I doubt they're getting it today.

Wal-Mart:

Same story is Best Buy. The shipment was due today, but the shipment hasn't arrived yet. The snowstorm is the likely culprit.

CompUSA:

All 4 of the CompUSA's in my area of Northern Virginia said that their shipment is scheduled to arrive on the 27th (tomorrow). Given that we're supposed to get another 4-8 inches of snow by then, it's doubtful that the shipment will arrive on time.

CONCLUSION: If it wasn't for all of these stupid snow storms, I'd already be playing MoO3 right now

I hold out hope, though... perhaps the shipment to Best Buy or Wal-Mart may yet arrive today, as there's only about 2 inches of snow on the ground at the moment...

[rhofman]

It was nice talking to you all. See ya in a few weeks. I'm off to pick up my copy.

EB
Richmond, BC, Canada
2:30 pm PST

[sandtyger]

UPDATE:

Girlfriend held my copy of Moo3 hostage in return for lunch delivery to her work.

Lunch delivered...Moo3 released into my custody at 2pm PST. ($46 CDN at cost BTW)

Considered calling into work with "Mad Cow Disease"...but since I've already been there half the day....

I need blinds for my office.


-Brendan
...counting the seconds till 6pm...er...5:45pm..er...5pm?

[shmily_dana]

EB (in Tucson, AZ) called me at 13:00 to say my pre-order is in. I'll get it tonight.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Well, now it appears (according to one NZ store) that we won't be getting it until Tuesday. However, I have just downloaded starlines so I'm I'm going to see how that plays.

[djaustin]

I pre-ordered from Amazon in OCT 2002. Just got an email telling me to expect shipment around 16-28 MARCH!!? WTF?