i know amazon was showing long estimated delivery dates but when they actually shipped, it was much quicker. does anyone know if the walmart delivery time is accurate or is the 12th pretty firm
Got a bundle preordered at GameStop but they may cancel it because they assumed that the name on the credit card was the same as the person who registered the account ( it isn't)
Finally showed up in my order history so I tried to change payment to wife's credit card, and it wouldn't let me. Tried to change billing name to mine instead of my wife's, and it wouldn't let me. Still says it's in progress, so all good hopefully, but I've seen orders canceled for less
I doubt GameStop gives a shit how they are getting paid at this point. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are remaining afloat just to make some extra money from the next gen console sales before they start shuttering for good.
order still showing confirmed but the thumbnail picture now says “ sorry, photo not available” so i am convinced they’re starting to systematically cancel orders
Kohls canceled a ton of orders more than 24 hours after they sent out a shitload of confirmation emails back when that happened.
They really fucked up. They gave out $180 Kohls cash for every PS5 confirmation per email even if your order got canceled. I got $360 since I ordered one under my email and one under my sister's. I doubt the people at Kohls were happy how that went down.
i know walmart is too big to fail so it won’t matter if they do this but if they cancel 24+ hour orders this close to christmas it will be incredibly fucked up. parents who finally got one will be hung out to dry with nothing to show for it
I’ll have a Walton head on a fucking pike to show for it. Burn me once, shame on you...burn me twice...time for genocide
i don’t wanna say a negative word about the waltons just in case they’re reading this board and cancelling the orders of dissenters
Yo....Alice, Rob, and/or Jim. If you're reading this, fuck around and find out what will happen if you cancel my order.
What day did you order yours? I ordered mine dec 15th and still havent gotten anything other than confirmation of purchase. I am still pegged to receive mine by 1/8.
It’s free. Here not cleaning this up though. Spoiler Cyberpunk 2077 Was Supposed to Be the Biggest Video Game of the Year. What Happened? Nearly a decade of hype led to a troubled release riddled with glitches, a livid fan base, refunds for potentially millions of players and a possible class-action lawsuit. Cyberpunk 2077, an immersive role-playing game from CD Projekt Red, was released in December after nearly a decade of hype. Here, fans gather at the Tokyo Game Show in 2019.Credit...Franck Robichon/EPA, via Shutterstock By Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning Dec. 19, 2020 The hype around Cyberpunk 2077 had been building for nearly a decade. When CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio behind the video game, announced the title in 2012, it was billed as a gripping, free-flowing saga that would immerse players in a lifelike sci-fi universe. Since then, fans have been treated to impressive teaser trailers, buy-in from celebrities including Keanu Reeves, Grimes and ASAP Rocky, and headlines heralding it as the most anticipated title of the year, if not the century. The game is set in a dystopian future where digital nomads navigate a high-stakes world of corporate espionage (with Mr. Reeves as their guide) and augment their bodies with high-tech weaponry. Players, especially those using next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft, were promised a revolutionary experience, with extensive character customization options and an expansive world to explore. Eight million people pre-ordered copies, sight unseen, ahead of its December release. In July 2018, as anticipation for the game neared a crescendo across Twitter, one user tweeted at the official Cyberpunk 2077 account: “Will there be memes in the game?” The account responded: “Whole game is going to be a meme.” The tweet was somewhat prescient — but not in the way developers had hoped. Since the release of Cyberpunk 2077 on Dec. 10, thousands of gamers have created viral videos featuring a multitude of glitches and bugs — many hilarious — that mar the game. They include tiny trees covering the floors of buildings, tanks falling from the sky and characters standing up, inexplicably pantless, while riding motorcycles. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story These videos depict a game that is virtually unplayable: rife with errors, populated by characters running on barely functional artificial intelligence, and largely incompatible with the older gaming consoles meant to support it. Fans are livid. Dig deeper into the moment. Subscribe for $1 a week. So many gamers demanded refunds from distributors this week that they overwhelmed Sony’s customer service representatives and even briefly took down one of its corporate sites. In response, Sony and Microsoft said they would offer full refunds to anyone who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 through their online stores; Sony even pulled the title. Cyberpunk’s rollout is one of the most visible disasters in the history of video games — a high-profile flameout in the midst of the holiday shopping season by a studio widely considered an industry darling. It shows the pitfalls gaming studios can face when building so-called Triple-A games, titles backed by years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars. But it is also a tale that insiders said they saw coming for months, based on CD Projekt Red’s history of game development and warning signs that Cyberpunk 2077 might not live up to its sky-high expectations. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story The View From Warsaw CD Projekt Red was founded in Warsaw in the 1990s by two high school friends, Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński, during a time of transformation and growth in the gaming industry. (CD-ROM discs were a novel innovation back then.) The two began importing games from the United States, and essentially repackaging and republishing them in Poland. “By the time school was out we had both become truants, skipping classes to play games,” Mr. Iwiński said in an oral history of the studio. Early employees who spoke to The New York Times described the company’s leaders as deft marketers, storytellers and artistic visionaries. They said that their enthusiasm for their games often ran ahead of their engineering and technical prowess. The employees spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Image Marcin Iwiński, a founder of CD Projekt Red, in December.Credit...Wojtek Radwanski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The company’s ambitions were astronomical early on, as were some of its failures. In the early aughts, CD Projekt Red made a play to develop The Witcher, a popular series of books by the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, into an immersive video game franchise. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story But the first Witcher game, released in 2007, was buggy and stuffed with more features than it could support. Former employees who worked on the game said it would take three to five minutes to load basic screens. Employees said that often, much of the game development took place in-house, bucking the common industry practice of contracting out such tasks to other, more experienced studios. As a result, the developers created worse versions of features that had been perfected by other companies. Image A cosplayer dressed as Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher 3 at Cyprus Comic Con in 2019.Credit...Adel Al Salman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story Still, the Witcher series gained the studio an early following and fan base. The studio received the most acclaim for The Witcher 3, which won awards for its detailed universe and rich storytelling. Like earlier titles, it was buggy from the outset, frustrating players. But most fans accepted what they saw as a kind of test-and-release culture around CD Projekt Red games: a willingness to put out projects that were not yet problem-free. ON TECH WITH SHIRA OVIDE: Your guide to how technology is transforming our lives — in the time of coronavirus and beyond. Smoke and Mirrors on the Marketing Front Then came Cyberpunk 2077. 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Dec. 17, 2020 Emerald Fennell’s Dark, Jaded, Funny, Furious Fables of Female Revenge Dec. 17, 2020 It was to be set in Night City, a darkly dystopian megacity where humans and machines were fused together and repackaged as mercenaries, carrying out sabotage missions against evil corporations. The game would combine elements from some of sci-fi’s greatest hits: Strange Days meets Blade Runner meshed with The Matrix. To hammer that point home, CD Projekt Red cast a familiar famous face in the game: Keanu Reeves. At a development conference in 2019, the actor burst onto the stage in a cloud of smoke after a video revealed his character. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story “Let me tell you, the feeling of being there, of walking the streets of the future, is really going to be breathtaking,” Mr. Reeves said at the event. (A spokeswoman for Mr. Reeves did not respond to a request for comment.) Image Keanu Reeves in Cyberpunk 2077, as displayed at a Microsoft event in 2019.Credit...Etienne Laurent/EPA, via Shutterstock Inside CD Projekt Red, it was a very different story. Developers were increasingly concerned with some of the grand promises being made by management on the promotional marketing tour. Far into the game’s development, former employees said, the hyper-customizable and endlessly explorable world being sold to players was nowhere close to manifesting. By 2019, chatter began to circulate in Polish game development circles that CD Projekt Red was way behind schedule with Cyberpunk 2077, even with a release date set for the following April. Some saw the departure of top executives — including key board members — as major warning signs. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story On Glassdoor, a site where people can rate their previous employers, current and former CD Projekt Red workers said there was chaos behind the scenes: Office rumors spreading on Discord servers, misleading deadlines set by managers, infighting among the company’s top brass, and incompetence and poor planning leading to unnecessary “crunch,” a term for overworking employees to produce games under a tight deadline. Longtime engineering staff left the company as a result of overwork. “The owners treat the company as a machine to earn money, and do not see employees as people but more like data in the table,” one former employee wrote on the site. Delay, Delay, Delay This January, CD Projekt Red tweetedthat the game’s release had been delayed until Sept. 17, because there was “still work to be done.” Then, in March, the coronavirus pandemic caused CD Projekt Red to send its work force home. Though the company said remote work would not hurt Cyberpunk’s chances of a September release, executives eventually announced further delays. The game was pushed to Nov. 19 in order to “fix a lot of bugs.” It was the same story in October, when the game’s release date was pushed to Dec. 10, at the height of the holiday shopping season. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story Inside CD Projekt Red, as executives and communications staff geared up for a wide release, the problems were evident. While developers had created a functioning game for PC users, Cyberpunk was glitchy and crashed frequently on next-generation consoles like the PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox devices. Even worse, the game barely ran on older consoles like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Typically, game developers send early copies of new titles to reviewers with ample lead time. But CD Projekt Red kept Cyberpunk 2077 under wraps for as long as it could. The company only shared advance copies of the PC version with gaming publications and news organizations, previewing the best possible version of Cyberpunk to reviewers who would post their ratings online just days before the game’s release. Image Cyberpunk fans at Gamescom 2019 in Cologne, Germany.Credit...Sascha Steinbach/EPA, via Shutterstock For months, reviewers, including those at The New York Times, tried to obtain review copies for the new game consoles released by Sony and Microsoft this year. Stephanie Bayer, a spokeswoman for CD Projekt Red, said in a previous email correspondence that the company would “hold off sending our console codes until close to launch” so that they could “send them securely.” That never happened. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story Early reviews mentioned some issues with bugs, but the impressions were largely positive. Excitement continued to build until the game was released on Thursday, Dec. 10. Eager fans were thrilled to finally be playing the game for the first time. Ashley Shoate, a D.J. in Northville, Mich., said she was amazed at the detail on her PlayStation 5, and loved the ability to customize her character, literally, to the teeth. Then came the bugs. Ms. Shoate said it was impossible for her character to complete basic tasks like running, dodging and picking up weapons. Steering a car was so challenging that she felt like she was “drunk driving.” On one mission, Ms. Shoate had to sneak up and kill an enemy with a katana sword. “I’m bringing a knife to a gunfight, so I’ve got to be on my P's and Q's. I can’t even do that,” she said. “It’s almost unplayable.” For the time being, she’s shelved the game. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story “I really thought it was going to be to that level of top-three game ever on a new console,” she said. “It’s very disappointing.” Billy Marte, an account executive at a software company in Austin, Texas, said he bought into the high expectations and the commercials with Mr. Reeves. Playing on his PC, he loved the story line and missions, but was often frustrated by glitches that made his character stand up while riding a motorcycle, or forced him to backtrack to an earlier saved game. Some of his friends, he said, had decided to return Cyberpunk. “There was so much there, but they just didn’t pay attention to the details,” he said. “It’s evident that this game was rushed.” ‘You Get What You Pay For’ Almost as soon as the game arrived, players began posting screenshots of the most glaring glitches on social media. Entire subreddits are now devoted to the frequent, nonsensical bugs users observed as they traversed deeper into Night City. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story One frequent glitch includes characters going into “T-Pose” — standing with their arms raised to either side — and suddenly losing their pants. Users on Reddit described the phenomenon as “straight Donald Duckin’ it.” Other bloopers include characters being flung through buildings seemingly out of nowhere and cars exploding for no reason. The non-player characters, or N.P.C.s, act so unnaturally that they can ruin the gaming experience. One Reddit user posted a video of him throwing a grenade into the middle of a freeway at rush hour, only to see every N.P.C. open their car doors, leave their vehicles and crouch for cover simultaneously, as if choreographed by a professional dance troupe. (Someone else quickly edited the video to mimic the opening scene from “La La Land,” in which drivers abandon their vehicles to dance in the middle of the freeway.) ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game have this many gaffes, this often, this early into a release,” said Chris Person, a video producer who runs Highlight Reel, a YouTube show dedicated to video game bloopers and glitches. “Broken games can be super charming when they’re funny, like you’re seeing the strings on a puppet in a bad movie.” Two of Mr. Person’s most recent shows have been dedicated almost entirely to Cyberpunk glitches. Most players, though, are pretty unhappy. On Thursday, Sony said it would refund players who wanted to return the game and pulled Cyberpunk from the company’s digital storefront. A PlayStation spokesman said the company had nothing further to add beyond its decision. Microsoft also said on Friday that it would issue refunds, but did not remove the game from its online store. CD Projekt Red said Friday that it would refund disappointed players “out of our own pocket if necessary.” The company’s stock has dropped 41 percent since early December. Ms. Bayer, the company spokeswoman, declined to comment on a detailed list of questions provided by The Times. Inside the studio, there has been infighting and finger-pointing. In a contentious meeting with board members on Thursday, CD Projekt Red staffers pressed executives on the game’s unrealistic deadlines and false promises. Management was tight-lipped about its tense discussions with Sony, Bloomberg reported on Friday, though people at Sony are upset at CD Projekt Red’s initial handling of the situation, people close to the company said. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story The immediate future looks dark for Cyberpunk’s makers — perhaps even darker than the future they built in Night City. Refund requests are pouring in by the thousands. Lawyers and investors in Warsaw are circling the situation, contemplating a class-action lawsuitagainst the company for what one attorney described as potential criminal “misrepresentation in order to receive financial benefits.” Many gamers are swearing off playing Cyberpunk entirely until the company fixes all of the problems. The coming weeks will determine whether CD Projekt Red can make good on a promise it made back in 2017, when players wondered whether the title would ever come out. “Worry not,” the company tweeted, assuring fans that Cyberpunk 2077 would be “huge” and “story-driven.” “No hidden catch, you get what you pay for.”
Got my shipping notice for Dec 23rd delivery on a digital that was supposed to be delivered on Jan 8. Pretty fucking pumped. It was a Wal Mart order.
FYI goPuff & White Claw running this crazy life-sized claw game and you can win PS5's. Starts tomorrow in Boston, then Philly & Miami. Not sure how many people will try to play so may be interesting way to snag one in those cities https://whiteclawwintergames.com/
Ordered mine from Walmart on 12/17 along with an extra controller. The extra controller showed up Friday...app still showing "Preparing order" and "Arrives by Tue, Jan 12" for the console.
my 12/15 that was formerly scheduled for 1/8 is now arriving today (and immediately shipping to Lawnole23 ) Hoping the 12/17s get an update this week as well
Snagged the 12 months of PS Plus from CDKeys yesterday for $33. There's not much need for PS Now, is there? The little research I did made me think that Plus will be enough.