Gearbox Wants To Honor Old DNF Pre-Orders
Gearbox is looking into honoring all those gamers who pre-ordered Duke Nukem Forever over the last decade.
Riding the wave of Duke Nukem's reinvigorated stardom, Gearbox software bossman Randy Pitchford is now claiming to be working with retailers to honor the Duke Nukem Forever pre-orders taken over the last decade. He said during Thursday's London press event that he didn't want to let those gamers down.
"There are a lot of people who pre-ordered the game," Pitchford told the press. "We’ve been starting to talk with retailers because we didn’t take them directly, and 3D Realms didn’t take them, it was all retailers going 'I'm going to take this guy’s money.' We’ve started to engage them, saying 'Hey, you’ve got customers who you made a promise to, and any bad feeling they have will reflect on us, so can we work together to do something for those people?'"
He openly admitted that something needed to be done, but had no idea what that something would be.
For gamers like Slash000--who pre-ordered the game back in 2001--that could mean some kind of compensation for previously shelling out $10. But that would also mean gamers need proof of the purchase by digging out the original receipt. For many that's not going to happen, throwing receipts away believing that Duke Nukem Forever had gone vaporware. But for the very "patient, patient" Duke Nukem fans, that could be as simple as digging through wallets.
Duke Nukem Forever is slated to hit the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011.
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chaosgs The receipt is made of a thermal paper, the ink disappears between 6-12 months. I just bought a TV 4 months ago and i already cant read what it says. Plus who keeps a receipt that long any way. Most men replace their wallets every 5 years, and that involves them cleaning it out.Reply -
alidan ChaosGSThe receipt is made of a thermal paper, the ink disappears between 6-12 months. I just bought a TV 4 months ago and i already cant read what it says. Plus who keeps a receipt that long any way. Most men replace their wallets every 5 years, and that involves them cleaning it out.Reply
i have a fireproof safe i keep all that in, my wallet holds my immediate needs, receipts for i bought within a month in case it needs to be taken back, but than it goes into receipt hell after than (the safe) probably never to be seen again.
recently i have been scanning all of them just in case.
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Kryan alidani have a fireproof safe i keep all that in, my wallet holds my immediate needs, receipts for i bought within a month in case it needs to be taken back, but than it goes into receipt hell after than (the safe) probably never to be seen again.recently i have been scanning all of them just in case.Reply
paranoid much??? lol... -
Dirtman73 ChaosGSThe receipt is made of a thermal paper, the ink disappears between 6-12 months.Reply
I hate that. It's such a huge scam, yet people don't seem to care. Copier FTW.
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fonboy3d If stored properly it can last much longer. However personally for $10 I probably would have forgotten it.Reply -
theoutbound Even though many pre-orders will not end up being honored, it's cool Gearbox is trying to do the right thing here. It would be really easy for them to just ignore it and blame 3D Realms/retailers.Reply -
They're not trying to do the right thing, they're going one step beyond that. They have no real obligation to these people, other than wanting them to be happy, and that's pretty special.Reply
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someguynamedmatt Kryanparanoid much??? lol...Well, if he was one of those who pre-oredered DNF, he'll probably be getting it. :DReply