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Old November 15th, 2008, 04:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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'Left 4 Dead' going gold may cause problem

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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Old November 15th, 2008, 09:35 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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