Quoted from CrazyLevi:It's an interesting question, but the whole point of a CE is that not everybody can get one. It's like concert tickets, people get furious at Ticketmaster, the band, etc. when they can't get a ticket but that's life. For a hot show at MSG 20,000 people get tickets and another 100,000 or so don't, depending on the act and demand. There's only so many to go around and the people who miss out don't get a "consolation prize."
The smart thing to do is probably play up the fact that GNR CE sold out in seconds, and just hope future CE titles are in equal demand. If you think they are, make 600 or 700 next time.
Exactly.
I played world of warcraft for many years. (A video game that had 12 Million active players)
They held a convention every year but could only sell about 80,000 tickets. I made the ticket que and went to the convention 4 years. But i had to have 4-5 friends at their computers refreshing the pages rapidly and clicking fast in order to do that.
Every year after tickets were sold out, in literally less than 2 seconds. There would be massive threads on the forums of everybody crying and whining that didnt get a ticket and how shitty of a company Blizzard was because of it.
Its the nature of the beast on limited Editions and Limited anything when demand is much higher.
I think its lesson learned for not only JJP and distributors but also consumers that missed out.
JJP Will do nothing but move on. People keep saying just make more CEs. No remember how much backlash stern got for the munsters debacle. It devalues the CE if you do that.
Also people keep saying give discounts to the people that were on lists. Just cause your on a list doesnt mean these people were PAID in FULL an 100% Following through getting the game. Lots of tire kickers get on lists then drop off or settle for an SE/LE once pay your bill time comes. So how would they distinguish from those people and the legit ones? They couldnt. So thats not feasable either.
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