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Monster Rancher Metropolis: The Cafe: Archived Topics From Prior Years: Year 2010 Topics (Year of the Shock Rock): 6 Hours
By Anonymous on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 01:02 am:

It is 4 AM here and I called ahead to my local Walmart.
They said that they will have it there.
WOOT WOOT!


By Penguin God on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 07:08 am:

Deffinitally let us know if you find a copy.

As of right now Amazon, gamestop, and Walmart.com have it listed as not available online.

Gamestop also lists it as not available in any stores.

Indeed it could be the situation where this is the ship day and stores will not have it until tomorrow, but yesterday gamestop had it listed as ships in 24 hours and now has it listed as unavailable online. It smells fishy to me, and saddly smells like an unexpected delay which I really REALLY hope is not the case.

Then again I'm going freaking nuts with Starcraft II, so if it get's delayed it won't be the end of the world.


By Penguin God on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 08:20 am:

Allright just checked Gamestop again and they have it as shipping within 24 hours again, so now my hopes are back up!


By Shen the Keeper on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 01:02 pm:

Maybe you caught it on the transition from pre-orders to normal orders.

I'll have to check when I get out of work to see if I get any pre-order pick up phone calls.


By Penguin God on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 01:41 pm:

It seems that UFO has officially announced its release on their twitter and facebook page. Today is the shipping date, theoretically it should be in stores tomorrow.


By 321228322 on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 01:45 pm:

My moms taking me out soon, so I'll start a walkthrough.


By 321228322 on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 01:45 pm:

When I get back.


By Penguin God on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 02:20 pm:

Call the store first, this is the shipping date and many/most/all stores won't have it available until tomorrow. It's better safe then sorry.


By fiffa46 on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 03:14 pm:

I just got a call from gamestop saying it will be available Thursday..... but they only call the day before not 2 days before so I hope that was just a mix up on the part of the automated system.


By 321228322 on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 06:24 pm:

I didnt go today cause of my ****headed brothers losing my moms debit card.


By Swezlon Uno on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 09:06 pm:

Well I went today, but no dice. The guy said that he thought it might've been pushed back (but he didnt check the system or anything, so he may not know what he was talking about).


By Penguin God on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 07:59 am:

Probably for the best 321228322 since most gamestops will not have it until today, or thursday, or even later possibly.


By Shen the Keeper on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 11:02 am:

I also got the gamestop call last night saying it would be in noonish Thursday. I thought the two day notice was odd too.

Whats one more day..


By fiffa46 on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 01:11 pm:

Well I stopped at my gamestop where my two copies were pre-ordered and guess what. USP shows the box not arriving until.....FRIDAY!

Yeah, it's not going to kill me but it is annoying.


By VenomousX on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 02:38 pm:

Didn't get them in at my store either =( Hopefully tomorrow.


By Serph on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 11:41 pm:

I've snooped around and found out the exact reason
why we don't have Monster Rancher DS at our
retailers.

Seems like UFO has a different way of releasing titles,
the release date was the 3rd, but instead that is the
date they ship out the product to stores, not the date
stores have it. Hence why
we keep getting odd dates.


By 321228322 on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 01:15 am:

Well if this is true then I guess I'll wait till saturday to go to Walmart.
Yugioh Sneak Peek so I will be vleaving the house.
Why is summer so boring.
PUDDING!


By Penguin God on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 06:24 am:

That is actually how it works with a majority of releases, except for big name titles. To be safe it's always best to assume that a game will come out the day after its "release".

Someone has shown proof of getting a copy on the Gamefaqs forums, and he lives in Ohio, so we may be seeing this today or tomorrow.


By Dragon Trainer on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 10:04 am:

yeah...I got the same call on Tuesday saying it would be in store Thursday...but alas...I just spoke with the store where I pre-ordered my 2 copies..and he told me he checked the system...it has shipped...but they shipped it with the new release of Madden Football...and it wont be in store untill Friday... Errrr.....!!!!
guess I will have to wait untill tomorrow to play...!!
I might have to drag out my Japanese copy of the 1st DS game to give me a MR fix untill tomorrow..!!


By Thorr on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 11:57 am:

My local gamestop says it is en route also. Tomorrow it appears.

The encouraging thing was that they told me a few others were also looking for it yesterday and today.


By Kitty Meow Meow on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 12:41 pm:

Got it here! (Pennsylvania)
It wasn't in the "system", as gamestop.com said there were no copies locally available, but the sales guy looked in the drawers behind the cashier's counter and found it. I guess it just arrived.

:)


By fiffa46 on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 02:15 pm:

I called my local gamestop here in AZ and they didn't have it in yet today either. But they did say yesterday that ups showed it arriving Friday so I wasn't really expecting it today.

I have to say, what a mess up on release.


By Seija on Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 02:24 pm:

We got it in Philly today (at least at Gamestop), and it seems to being pretty well. There was only two copies left when I showed up, and you best believe one left with me!

One of the employees was a fan of the series, which was pretty awesome.


By Shen the Keeper on Friday, August 6, 2010 - 08:34 am:

Now that you mention it, its kinda odd cause both places I went, the employees were aware of the game series (just not that another game was coming out).

One had trouble finding it, thinking it was a console game and not a DS game.

It seems to have some noteriety, but maybe too many buy resold copies. :P


By Dragon Trainer on Friday, August 6, 2010 - 11:38 am:

Woot...!!! just picked up my 2 copies...!!!

they had 2 other copies at the Bloomfield, CT
store if anyone lives in Connecticut and wants a copy...

I have to wait untill I get home to try it though...(I promised my son I would wait..!!)


By Thorr on Friday, August 6, 2010 - 11:55 am:

Mine arrived as well.