REPORT: THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE PULLED FROM MORE AUSTRALIAN STORES

QuadroTony

May not be part of a normal stock recall.
More Australian video game retail chains are reportedly pulling The Elder Scrolls Online from stores, following last week’s reports that EB Games was removing stock of the MMORPG from sale.

A JB Hi-Fi source told Games.On.Net today that TESO copies were pulled from shelves late last week and “are to be kept out back ‘until further notice.’”

A source at another Australian retail franchise, Harvey Norman, told the publication that that “all game cards and copies were pulled out of Harvey Norman, and the ONLY reason that would happen is because it has become a free product”. The source added they had seen the clearout’s paperwork confirmation and that “if it was being brought out in a different format, it’d have a price drop, not a recall."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/14/report-the-elder-scrolls-online-pulled-from-more-australian-stores

Ahdora

Yes, because IGN is a super authoritative and reliable news site.

I love all these "sources" who are just retail workers with no idea of what's going on, just following orders passed down to them and sprinkling conjecture around like pepper.

AaronMB

Ahdora wrote: »

Yes, because IGN is a super authoritative and reliable news site.

I love all these "sources" who are just retail workers with no idea of what's going on, just following orders passed down to them and sprinkling conjecture around like pepper.

Yes. This exactly.



Just. Stop.

Curragraigue

To help put this in perspective. I live in Australia so I can tell you from first hand experience that both of those chains have still been selling ESO with the pre-order explorer's pack included from April to now. In other words they ordered so many pre-release copies that they haven't even sold all of them yet.

It really is a case of too much stock not enough purchases in Australia.

Elsonso

REPORT: ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE STILL AVAILABLE FROM PUBLISHER.

A source close to a web browser has reported that Elder Scrolls Online games and time cards are available for purchase from the Bethesda Softworks store. The source has also confirmed that retail outlet Best Buy has Elder Scrolls Online game cards in the stores.

BeardLumber

inb4 Mass hysteria

Pendrillion

*yawn*

Exstazik

mehh...ZOS just prepearing.If 1.6 will up number of subscribers p2p will stay as payment method.If not -we see p2p-hybrid system.That's all.

Zhoyzu

boisits wrote: »

inb4 Mass hysteria

i enjoy running through crowds spamming that ability. much chaos

QuadroTony

we will figure out in few weeks i guess

Wifeaggro13

QuadroTony wrote: »

May not be part of a normal stock recall.
More Australian video game retail chains are reportedly pulling The Elder Scrolls Online from stores, following last week’s reports that EB Games was removing stock of the MMORPG from sale.

A JB Hi-Fi source told Games.On.Net today that TESO copies were pulled from shelves late last week and “are to be kept out back ‘until further notice.’”

A source at another Australian retail franchise, Harvey Norman, told the publication that that “all game cards and copies were pulled out of Harvey Norman, and the ONLY reason that would happen is because it has become a free product”. The source added they had seen the clearout’s paperwork confirmation and that “if it was being brought out in a different format, it’d have a price drop, not a recall."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/14/report-the-elder-scrolls-online-pulled-from-more-australian-stores

Ahhhhhhhhh run its the apocalypse!

Valencer

Weren't we supposed to be getting a big announcement this week according to an anonymous friend of some guy?

I'm still waiting.

spryler

I think that was just it.

QuadroTony

3 days left

Jennifur_Vultee

VisceralMonkey

Thanks OP. I've read that the reason it's being pulled in Australian stores first is because of their strong consumer protection laws which mandate stuff like this when a product is about to have a major change in how it's sold. This makes sense for it to start occurring there first.

nerevarine1138

VisceralMonkey wrote: »

Thanks OP. I've read that the reason it's being pulled in Australian stores first is because of their strong consumer protection laws which mandate stuff like this when a product is about to have a major change in how it's sold. This makes sense for it to start occurring there first.

Please. Just... just stop now.

I know it's not animal cruelty, since the horse is already dead. But this is just sad to watch.

Psychobunni

When WalMart pulls from its shelves, then I will scream "the sky is falling, the sky is falling!" with y'all

QuadroTony

VisceralMonkey wrote: »

Thanks OP. I've read that the reason it's being pulled in Australian stores first is because of their strong consumer protection laws which mandate stuff like this when a product is about to have a major change in how it's sold. This makes sense for it to start occurring there first.

agreed

DaniAngione

Please, just stop, the poor horse must be some disform gray-ish mass already.

Ahdora

DaniAngione wrote: »

Please, just stop, the poor horse must be some disform gray-ish mass already.

Pretty sure it's just a pile of glue filled with splinters and hoof fragments at this point.

Alphashado

What a bunch of speculative, conspiratorial bullsht. Seriously.

Samadhi

I like how the story IGN posts is basically just the same thing over and over, but adding a bit more each time.

First they posted about the six month subscription.

Then they posted about EB Games pulling stock, and referring to it as part of a regular stock recall. When that article was posted, it was sure to tack in the unrelated point about the six month subscription.

Now they are posting about other Australian chains pulling the game for uncertain reasons, and plugging in the previous two articles in order to expand the content of the story.

At this rate, she may have a full article worth of content slapped together for the site in another week or so.

QuadroTony

ye, its very suspicious!

Woolenthreads

AHAHAHAHAHAHAA. Yes a dinky little country with 20 million people and a computer gaming base which might be close to 1 million if they are extremely lucky has stores pulling games from the shelves. This has meaning because after all we have such a meaningful market here in Australia. WTF would I buy the game off the shelf when I can get it from ZoS or Steam and the games on the shelves are 99% console?

Nocturnalis

QuadroTony wrote: »

A source at another Australian retail franchise, Harvey Norman, told the publication that that “all game cards and copies were pulled out of Harvey Norman, and the ONLY reason that would happen is because it has become a free product”. The source added they had seen the clearout’s paperwork confirmation and that “if it was being brought out in a different format, it’d have a price drop, not a recall."

Thanks for the insight, random assistant manager from Harvey Norman!

UrQuan

Woolenthreads wrote: »

AHAHAHAHAHAHAA. Yes a dinky little country with 20 million people and a computer gaming base which might be close to 1 million if they are extremely lucky has stores pulling games from the shelves. This has meaning because after all we have such a meaningful market here in Australia. WTF would I buy the game off the shelf when I can get it from ZoS or Steam and the games on the shelves are 99% console?

Combine that with the fact that for the majority of the population of Australia peak gaming hours would be at a vastly different time from peak gaming hours for most of the population that plays on the NA megaserver, as well as being vastly different from peak gaming hours for most of the population that plays on the EU megaserver, and then combine that with the latency that I'm sure Australians get from those servers, and it seems to me like ESO would sell pretty poorly in Australia.

QuadroTony

i wont to believe in f2p...

Tsute

QuadroTony wrote: »

i wont to believe in f2p...

jaibierwb17_ESO

Why is it just Australian Stores? Maybe we are getting our own megaserver? (I can wish)

Darlgon