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BakingBluePotatoe October 8th, 2013 8:43 PM

In previous years I've gone to the Gamestop near the Walmart in town... this year I went to the one inside the mall and preordered it. I got a Keldo poster when I preordered, since apparently that particular gamestop somehow got a bunch of them in a box and decided they'll give away said poster for preordering. This was back in June.

So, a few days ago, I went back there to pay off the rest of my game and pick up the double sided poster that all gamestops get. so I got that, and then the lady that was working there was telling me about how they're going to have to have a Launch Party on the 12th at this coffee shop called The Boston Beanery. So, yeah, I'd say they're pretty cool, I might go back to that one again. x3

_ANDY_ October 8th, 2013 9:09 PM

Midnight Release!
not sure if I'll go to it, but I'm definitely considering it

lealvenom October 10th, 2013 4:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Jay_37040 (Post 7869141)
The only thing my local store is doing is giving out a two-sided poster on release. As far as I am aware, they are not planning to open early on release day.

There might be some midnight releases in Toronto. Eshop is having a midnight launch.. And you don't even gotta leave the house! ;) AWESOME!

Dakotah October 10th, 2013 4:30 AM

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Originally Posted by lealvenom (Post 7874825)
There might be some midnight releases in Toronto. Eshop is having a midnight launch.. And you don't even gotta leave the house! ;) AWESOME!

As much as I love travelling by GO Train, I don't plan to head off to Toronto. But I do have to correct my earlier statement. My local store is opening a whole hour early, at 9am instead of 10am! That means a whole extra hour of play!

Bluerang1 October 10th, 2013 5:09 AM

Woot! I heard mine are doing a midnight release!

KittenKoder October 10th, 2013 5:13 AM

My local Gamestop has no choice but to wait until 9am at the earliest, sitting in the middle of an upscale mall. I don't blame the Gamestop for this, but wish there were more options locally.

Tseng October 10th, 2013 5:41 AM

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Originally Posted by KittenKoder (Post 7874861)
My local Gamestop has no choice but to wait until 9am at the earliest, sitting in the middle of an upscale mall. I don't blame the Gamestop for this, but wish there were more options locally.

Hmm weird. A game stop in my mall has done a few midnight release before. Maybe it was a bigger game. I know the did halo 4 and CoD.

Zethremar October 10th, 2013 5:50 AM

Sadly, where I live we don't have any midnight releases only early 8:00 am openings, but oh well I'd probably too tired to play past 1:00 am in the morning anyway.

Treecko October 10th, 2013 6:28 AM

Unfortunately the closest Gamestop to my city that is having an event for the games is 2 hours away from me. My nearest store is opening earlier at 9am instead of 10am though so nothing extremely special. They are also having the special timeline poster and Kalos map with pre-orders. That's probably because this is Pokemon we're talking about and not Call of Duty.

LaVida October 10th, 2013 12:03 PM

Some Game Stops around here had the game 2 or 3 days earlier xD That's the coolest thing in my opinion.

Greenbeans October 10th, 2013 12:25 PM

Haha my gamestop has nothing cool going for it right now ^_^

KittenKoder October 10th, 2013 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Tseng (Post 7874897)
Hmm weird. A game stop in my mall has done a few midnight release before. Maybe it was a bigger game. I know the did halo 4 and CoD.

Depends on the mall and the location in the mall. If there is street access for the store, they don't have to worry about the mall's hours and policies at all, the local one here does not have that. It has to wait until the mall opens the doors before the employees can even get into the store. Downtown Seattle is a pretty screwed up place for commerce, everything still follows 1950s hours. Only a few modern businesses actually have the freedom to open when they please, but the whole city shuts down at 2 am and doesn't open back up again until 6 am, and then, only restaurants and cafes are open before 8 am.

FireOfExile October 10th, 2013 2:42 PM

I just got a message on the phone, apparently my Gamestop will have a midnight release tomorrow night! :D Also they mentioned events at 10 PM, so I'm going to have to look into that.

kenzen October 10th, 2013 3:55 PM

they're giving me the timeline poster even though I didn't pay for both copies at same store

Psywing October 10th, 2013 6:37 PM

No GameStop in my country. There isn't even any gamestores in my country that do these kind of things for games. It sucks living in the Caribbean.....

KittenKoder October 10th, 2013 6:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Psywing (Post 7876062)
No GameStop in my country. There isn't even any gamestores in my country that do these kind of things for games. It sucks living in the Caribbean.....

Well .... at least you have nice weather ther-...... oh, Caribbean.

MudkipBoy October 10th, 2013 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Agallion (Post 7869969)
Pokemon isnt popular enough in my town/city to warrant a midnight release.

300k population and hosts a major public university (35kish students).

They only do midnight releases for major major titles like Call of Duty, Madden and things like that. I believe they did World of Warcraft at one time but stopped shortly after I quit playing.

You don't live in Cardiff by any chance do you?

Brendino October 10th, 2013 10:35 PM

My EB Games/GameStop isn't doing anything for the X/Y release- they didn't even give me the poster from pre-ordering the game. Actually, there was only one EB Games somewhat near me that was planning to do a midnight launch, and I wasn't going to go anyway since I preordered at another location, but it looks like they've cancelled it.

MarinoKadame October 10th, 2013 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Brendino (Post 7876381)
My EB Games/GameStop isn't doing anything for the X/Y release- they didn't even give me the poster from pre-ordering the game. Actually, there was only one EB Games somewhat near me that was planning to do a midnight launch, and I wasn't going to go anyway since I preordered at another location, but it looks like they've cancelled it.

I pre-ordered on EBGames thinking I would get the game faster than on Amazon and it ended up to have the same shipping Policy. At least they gave me a poster compared to Amazon who gave nothing for it. I don't know why you didn't got the poster tho.

atomtanned October 11th, 2013 6:44 AM

I live in an area of the city that is mostly college age and older, so there probably weren't enough preorders for a midnight release. Mine is opening an hour early though, so at least there's that.

I didn't get the poster when I preordered, but I'm not really interested in that anyways. Would have loved if the Gamestops got those cool Pokeball holders like GAME did. Might try to buy one on eBay at some point.

Faye Rose~ October 11th, 2013 7:39 AM

My Gamestop isn't doing anything which sucks. In my area if its not CoD or GTA it doesn't see the light of day.

CoffeeDrink October 11th, 2013 3:00 PM

Apparently not so much, koff~

They did midnight releases for Grand Theft Auto V, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Assassin's Creed Black Flag. They told me they're only able to do three a year, but two of these games are just utter garbage. And Grand Theft Auto V is taking out the trash, koffi~

Meganium October 11th, 2013 7:57 PM

Earlier I went to go check out my local GameStop for any Pokemon XY events but they told me that they are just gonna operate at normal hours. Kinda sucks though. They're not much of a Midnight Release kind of store, they also told me that not very few people had pre-ordered the game from them.

Bronyta October 11th, 2013 9:31 PM

Waking up at 9, leaving at 9:45. Waiting is sooooo haaard.

Birthday Thunder October 11th, 2013 9:34 PM

Is my Gamestop the only one doing a midnight release? Dang, maybe my area is just full of pokemon lovers. Sucky part is, I have work early in the morning until 4:00 PM PST, so it's almost like I have to wait a whole 1 more day for it! Life is funny like that sometimes.


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