Moronic computer store in mall claiming HL2 and Doom III are both cancelled.

[MercenaryForHire]

I'm 99.9999% sure that it's 100% BS. However, the I Am Never Wrong manager refuses to believe that, and is telling all the customers that "they've both been cancelled, and Call of Duty will be the holiday game of choice." Sure, like HL2 and D3 both got cancelled and it never got to Anandtech.

Turning down all preorders and any requests for more info (release date given to them). Bah.

I'm assuming that she just misunderstood the shipper saying "Not this year" as "Not ever."

But in any case. Please help me dig up any and all manners of brutal, vicious, and utter ownage to prove my point to the contrary.

All contributors get a free :beer: ...

- M4H

 

[Fausto]

Did you take a leak behind the "Used PS2 Games" display?

 

[nick1985]

SHE?? theres your problem...

 

[SithSolo1]

I'm too lazy to get proof but the lady is full of sh!t. The two most anticipated games of the next 2 years will not be cancelled...ever.

 

[Transition]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
I'm too lazy to get proof but the guy is full of sh!t. The two most anticipated games of the next 2 years will not be cancelled...ever.

cough : Duke nukem : cough

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Did you take a leak behind the "Used PS2 Games" display?

By the time I'd passed the N64 carts, I was all empty.

For the record, this same woman has also never heard of Disgaea and claims that it's "only available in the US". Then how come my brother in the GTA has it?

- M4H

 

[SithSolo1]

Originally posted by: Transition

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
I'm too lazy to get proof but the guy is full of sh!t. The two most anticipated games of the next 2 years will not be cancelled...ever.

cough : Duke nukem : cough

*cough*was always vaporware*cough*most highly anticipated game of 1999-2001*cough*they are still working on it*cough*

 

[DaveSimmons]

Duke Nuken isn't cancelled, it's just never coming out

Both games are "cancelled" for the holidays, so the manager is sort of right.

 

She manages a mall video game store, how far do you expect her knowledge of the subject to go?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: SammySon
She manages a mall video game store, how far do you expect her knowledge of the subject to go?

Hopefully enough to extend to two of the most anticipated PC games of the past few years, being as that's the effing business she's in.

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Obviously, any searches for cancellation turn up empty, since it's fake. She's also dumb enough to say that it was the "hackers" ... maybe for HL2 I'd buy that if the development team hadn't already said "It sucks, but we'll cope" - but Doom III cancelled over a year+ old E3 pre-alpha?

- M4H

 

[digitalsm]

"I'm 99.9999% sure that it's 100% BS. However, the I Am Never Wrong manager refuses to believe that, and is telling all the customers that "they've both been cancelled, and Call of Duty will be the holiday game of choice." "

Seeing as she said Call of Duty will be the holiday game of choice, she more than likely meant to say their release dates for this year were canceled and pushed back. Both will make out out before E3 2004, probably HL2 in Feb, Doom III in April.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: digitalsm
"I'm 99.9999% sure that it's 100% BS. However, the I Am Never Wrong manager refuses to believe that, and is telling all the customers that "they've both been cancelled, and Call of Duty will be the holiday game of choice." "

Seeing as she said Call of Duty will be the holiday game of choice, she more than likely meant to say their release dates for this year were canceled and pushed back. Both will make out out before E3 2004, probably HL2 in Feb, Doom III in April.

Nope. I said "No, they've just been pushed back to early 2004."

Her response:

"They've both been cancelled. They're never coming out. You can take that to the bank."

I'd love to walk in with a fistful of printouts and news clippings and say "Sup bitch. Your cheque bounced."

Maybe I'll get her to put her money where her mouth is first. Get me some free hardware out of it. And if I do, I'll raffle it off on the FS/T forums.

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Bump!

- M4H

 

[GoingUp]

Were still waiting on Duke Nukem forever