'Left 4 Dead' going gold may cause problem

AzH · November 15th, 2008, 04:44 PM

Valve has announced that 'Left 4 Dead' has gone gold, and the giant game disc printing presses have been activated. Valve didn't mention when L4D went gold, if they made this announcement as soon as they knew some gamers may have a problem getting the game. L4D is set to release on the 18th of this month, with the Valve gold announcement going out late November 13. This gives only 2 business days to stock stores. Now unless someone (retailer or Valve) is willing to foot the bill to have all these copies of the game FedExed or UPSed to retailers the most likely outcome will be FedEx/UPS of the pre-order copies and regular stock coming later in the week, probably Thursday.

For those that are totally confused: A game receives gold status and then mass production can begin based on their pre-sales/pre-orders. A game company does not want to lose money by over producing copies of a game; so if they have x number units "sold" through pre-sale and pre-order they can safely produce x(2) copies of the title knowing that they will most likely sell. So once a game goes gold; copies are pressed and shipped... so if the announcement happens this close to the release date, then most likely only the pre-order/pre-sale copies will be in stores on launch day.

If you don't have a pre-order or pre-sale slip, sorry but you may not be able to get the game. Have fun with the demo.

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Oh dear. Sucks to be one of the people not able to get a copy. :/

*huggles Steam pre-order*

**Joe Martin TM** · November 15th, 2008, 09:35 PM

Does this count for the xbox too>?

**S.T.A.L.K.E.R.** · November 15th, 2008, 09:39 PM

Steam FTW

**Milkproof** · November 15th, 2008, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Steam FTW

Qft.

**Barlowe** · November 15th, 2008, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Steam FTW

Quoted for the truth

Sierra Oscar · November 16th, 2008, 01:48 AM

EA will get it on shelves in time I would bet, if it involves making money they will!

**Focus** · November 16th, 2008, 05:41 AM

Nice, no nabs till later this week! more practice for me.

**xvampyricx** · November 17th, 2008, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Steam FTW

Qft =]

**Landstriker** · November 17th, 2008, 04:22 PM

Only reason i got it via steam was cause of the discount and a few hours earlier release.

**sam__jones** · November 17th, 2008, 05:06 PM

God Bless Steam Pre-loading

**mattman155** · November 29th, 2008, 06:26 PM

Boo

*walks away and readies the hanging rope*

November 16th, 2008, 01:48 AM	#6 (permalink)
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November 16th, 2008, 05:41 AM	#7 (permalink)
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