The Consumerist freaks out because EB was still taking pre-orders for Gods & Heroes.
The website that fights for the people, consumerist.com, was bugging out yesterday because the EB games website was still taking pre-orders for Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising a week after the makers announced that the game was put on "indefinite hold." The game is basically dead, it's vaporware.
The Consumerist thinks that, apparently, a week is too long to have left the pre-order page up on the website, that this was some sort of eeeeevil EB games tactic to steal your cash and get away it and gain profits? I don't really know what the beef is. It just looks like people going nuts over nothing. What most likely happened, I know because i worked in a Gamestop, was that either an employee or one of the "regulars" found out about the G & H cancellation and told a manager, the manager then wrote an e-mail to evil headquarters about the information they just received. This could've likely happened days after the official announcement by the way because... well people have lives, not everyone is on the spot freaking out 24/7. Headquarters then confirms the email and has to come up with an evil strategy to keep your cash by probably offering to move your credit to another game. Coming up with a plan takes a couple of days until all the evil headmasters agree and give the go-ahead. They then bleed this information to everyone and it eventually gets to the dude thats overseeing the site. He then has to contact the guys that work on the site and tell him about this change, but since he has to finish some other things take priority over this getting to this.... anyway the point is that stuff takes time to do.
One week isn't really news guys, one month is when you have permission to get angry and make a big hoopla. Specially when the news is about a small game that probably has few people keeping an eye on it. This isn't Halo or GTA for god's sake, this didn't cause a wave that sounded like millions of gamers cry at the same time . The information about the cancellation coming from the game website instead of a big press release also slows down the pickup of this. You shoppers need to learn when to bite back, you guys need some training there because you really missed the mark here, so stop it, SPLATZ! SPLATZ!!heroes, gods, consumerist, ebgames, preorder, website
