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Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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potatolicious wrote: post #38
moondowner wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder whether this guy's pre-order will be approved :) http://obnoxiousgamer.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/duke-nukem...

It would be in GameStop's best interests to do so. After all, he's still on the hook for all but $10 of the purchase price. If I were GameStop I'd get a camera crew together and make this some good press for a $10 "loss". Marketing like this doesn't get cheaper than $10.

"Marketing like this doesn't get cheaper than $10."

Except for the fact that Game Stop is stupid and evil. They actually have a policy where they won't let you open up your game in the store after you purchase it for the purpose of exchanging it if it's scratched. Then again, most commercial games these days are designed for really dumb people, so it's not all that surprising.

Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by patio11 »

potatolicious wrote: post #38
moondowner wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder whether this guy's pre-order will be approved :) http://obnoxiousgamer.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/duke-nukem...

It would be in GameStop's best interests to do so. After all, he's still on the hook for all but $10 of the purchase price. If I were GameStop I'd get a camera crew together and make this some good press for a $10 "loss". Marketing like this doesn't get cheaper than $10.

If corporate America had any sense, they'd spend one fiftieth of their next ad buy, send a camera crew and the product lead out to his house, and give him "the first copy" signed by the dev team to play on his brand new Duke Nukem AlienWare computer.

Sadly, finding this sort of initiative in corporate America is rather difficult... which is why folks like e.g. Airbnb eat their PR/marketing lunch.

Re: Duke Nukem Forever finally available for pre-order on Amazon

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Post by rapind »

bayleo wrote: post #6
coderdude wrote: post #2

It's just not the same. It's a game by the same name, but this isn't the DNF that we were waiting for: The possibly end-all be-all of games because it took so long to develop.

I was initially skeptical when Gearbox announced that they were releasing it (I figured they had just scrapped most of what was there and built their own game), but apparently 9 ex-3D realms employees formed their own micro-studio (Triptych) and continued development from their homes until they could muster support from Gearbox to help polish and build the console ports. So far Gearbox/2K has also done a great job of…

Obviously the delays were intentional to accomplish something no other development studio ever has or ever will again.
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