[PS3] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of All Y'All Niggas That Got Swindled

I loved the Dark Cloud games so I'll take a look at the demo, assuming it's available over here of course.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Over here Amazon are offering a couple of in-game monsters as DLC, some Griffon thing and a Butterfly. Anyone know if these are paid for DLC jobbies or available later in the game? I'm pretty tempted to pre-order this but I do have other things to play at the moment and thos'll probably drop in price pretty quickly so if it's just get the things early I might hold off on pre-ordering.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by dagget

Of course Amazon isn't helping either with me having had the guide pre-ordered since the first day it was announced, only to be left with my thumbs twiddling because I don't have Prime and having to hope that a new shipment comes in.

You could always, you know, play the game yourself rather than reading someone else telling you how to play it then if you're worried about missing stuff, come back and get the bits you missed once someone has copy-pasted the official guide into gamefaqs next week (Along with a "legal" section that tells you you're not allowed to copy the stuff they've copied from somewhere else, lol).

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Apparently Amazon over here have sold out of even the normal version for pre-orders (It's out on the 1st of Feb here) so at this point I'll probably be waiting for more stock and a price drop before I pick it up. At least with it available as a direct download from the PS Store there's no danger of not getting it at all, although it is £45 on there the cheeky bastards (£35 on Amazon).

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

One would question what kind of completely crazy motherfuckers would pay $360 for a book and a cuddly toy, given the game itself is worth $40.

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I like how you have to go to page three of the official forum on the Namco website to find a thread that isn't bitching about the release of the WE. By all accounts, those Play Canada people haven't actually got their hands on the stock yet so a lot of those $400 orders might come back to bite them in the arse if they don't get shipped and with the minor shitstorm brewing over this, I'd be surprised if Digital River are retarded enough to ship 200+ copies to a scalper rather than filling other orders. I would suggest that anyone who got charged for a limited edition before it shipped might want to ring their card provider and report a fraudulent transaction. Getting crap from banks will fuck over DR far quicker than any number of internet petitions.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Namco have spoken up at last:

Quote:

NAMCO BANDAI Games America would like to officially offer clarification to certain stories and sentiments surrounding the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition.

NAMCO BANDAI Games America would first like to acknowledge our fans that will not be receiving their copy of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition. This situation is truly unfortunate, having come about due to a glitch within our E-commerce provider's ordering system. NAMCO BANDAI Games America continues to monitor the situation and is actively working with our E-commerce provider to offer remedies to each and every order. We are also working to ensure that a situation like this never happens again. We respectfully ask for our fans' patience during this time.

NAMCO BANDAI Games America is not, nor has it ever, worked with or in conjunction with the EBay seller known as "PlayCanada" to sell units of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition at a price premium on EBay .

According to our records, this individual or group of individuals purchased Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Wizard's Edition during the NinoStarter promotion period (August 2012); at which time, no limits were placed on how many units an individual could order.

PlayCanada's claims that they officially worked with NAMCO BANDAI Games America to obtain their stock is entirely false.

We understand the $20 clubNamco voucher that has been offered to our affected fans may give little solace in place of an actual Wizard's Edition package. It is unfortunate that we are unable to produce additional Wizard's Edition units to fulfill all the extra orders; with that in mind, NAMCO BANDAI Games America will be giving the affected fans a 400 page hard bound copy of the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch strategy guide which includes an exclusive code to unlock a Gold Hurly Familiar in the game in addition to the original $20 clubNamco voucher. Our E-commerce provider will be contacting the affected customers in the coming days with instructions on how to obtain their copy of the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch strategy guide. We hope that this can give the affected consumers some comfort; NAMCO BANDAI truly does value and care about its fans.

So Play Canada were bullshitting when the said they actually had the copies they'd ordered, people get some DLC and a book, albeit a different book to the one they wanted and Namco probably sue this piss out of Digital River.

FELIPE NO

I suspect a company the size of Namco probably could chuck out a few more WEs if they really wanted to and I'm surprised they don't just do that. Unless of course, in our little gamers bubble we're over-judging the number of people this has actually affected. I mean, people are getting pissed about this but how many WE pre-orders actually got taken before anyone realised they didn't have that many to sell? If it's only a couple of hundred missed orders I can see why they wouldn't bother making more, if it's thousands how hard would it really be to churn out a few more?

That Amazon UK can't ship any more on release day due to lack of stock suggests a wider issue in the supply chain somewhere, that or it's selling like nobody's business. Not a great PR exercise all round though really.

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I thought the one they were sending out was hardback? Or are all of them hardback?

As far as PlayCanada goes, is it not against the terms of service for eBay to sell something you dn't actually own yet? I mean, if it were could not a few people put in complaints against them? Wouldn't achieve anything more than potentially causing bother for them but it's minimal effort and potentially annoying and if that's not trolling in it's purest form, what is?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I got it as a birthday present and I'm enjoying it so far. Played about 8 hours, just going into the Trial of Sages or something like that now. So far all the quests have been very straight forward go here get that but I'm guessing finding the right heart bits gets more complex later. Just met the girl which has made combat helluva more complicated, primarily in terms of keeping her alive during hunt quests. Having over-levelled a bit before meeting her helps though, my level 15 cat thing can take a lot more hits than her crappy level 10 penguin. I'm guessing unlocking capturing monsters comes soon.

I love the look of the game and more rpgs need Welsh characters in but why oh why in a game where literally everyone is English is the voice actor for Oliver a whiny American? I'm almost tempted to switch to Japanese audio to get rid of him, it's only the comedy Welsh that's stopping me at the moment but hearing him shout "Neato" many more times at the end of fights might become a deal-breaker pretty soon.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So I finished the trial last night and got the chance to recruit new monsters and instantly wasted several hours of my life going back and catching most of what I already met. So glad I'm not actually OCD because I imagine this game would take years to finish if you are. Still, got a few watery ones from the Sewer to use on the Volcano so not a completely wasted trip. Also used the bridge spell near Deep Dark Woods and got killed really, really quickly by the monsters over there. Debating whether to just leave it or be stubborn, find a monster on it's own and try to catch the bastard, thereby breaking any challenge the game might have had for the next who knows how many hours.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.