Pissed

I was VERY upset to wake up this morning and see that the preorders for this game's collectors edition was already cleaned out and being scalped already for double the listing.

FUCKING nintendo scalpers man, i seen so many on ebay and it made me so mad i went through and reported every listing for the pre order on ebay i could find, THATS UTTER BULLSHIT. I cannot believe that some people ordered more than one just to sell them at these stupid prices.

Luckily i was able to get the regular special edition while i could... but damn

TL;DR
Fucking nintendo scalpers, rot in hell. Anyone else steamed about this?

>Anyone else steamed about this?

No because I don't want a bunch of useless shit cluttering my apartment. Are you autistic?

I guess, if people without a sense of style like you look at it, but i do like all of the LoZ merch i have amassed since my youth. I mostly love how the boxes look on my shelves but thats opinion.

>if people without a sense of style like you look at

*tips fedora

Scalpers are pieces of shit. Regardless of what they are scalping. Nintendo should do what every other company does to these fucks and make the special editions limitless. Nobody is going to scalp something that isn't "special" anymore.

"Nintendo can't provide enough Master Edition's to meet America's demand. Sounds like they need to make more games in the USA. Sad!"

Trump just posted a tweet about these

Nintendo of America needs to be made great again.

>go to gamestop
>we don't have any master editions available right now because the system didn't update right, but you can order a special edition and we can upgrade for you once it gets fixed
>get back home
>amazon, best buy, and gamestop are all sold out online
>call another gamestop, completely sold out, outright tells me that i'm fucked

>blaming scalpers for nintendo's poor business decisions

Really, they're just reserving a copy at the proper market price that manbabies are willing to pay

Scalpers are also why we lost the good version of Club Nintendo.

Except when Ebay listings say "3 available"
that shit, right there

Why didn't you wait up after the direct? are you stupid or something? preorders were up at 3:30am EST.

The only thing of note in that is the soundtrack, and that will be torrented day zero so who cares.

The map might be neat depending on the material used and if it highlights any secrets

Yeah right dude Reggie said "limited and get them while you can" as much as he could. Nintendo does this shit on purpose.

Watched the direct at 11 and was half hyped come BotW reveal, didnt even have mention of the masters edition so i went to bed happy that we get the game at least come March.

because i assumed that they would allocate master editions to retail stores just like they allocated consoles to retail stores, and i thought i'd have better luck at a retail store than fighting off thousands of scalpers online

I'll give you a special price, OP :^)

ITT: Autistic man babbies

Thought you bought a console to play videogames, not to use it as a fashion accessory.

"Gooooo, Nintendo! Wahoo!!"

It was always an utter garbage company.

Like the worst ever really.

>1990 to 2008
>Christian Mothers/Temperance group friendly
>LOL LET'S GO DRINK SOME *MILK*
>NO CROSSES PLS

>2008 to present
>SJW/Reddit "no triggers pls" friendly
>now with shitty memes and still some elements of the former NoA

>giving all these shekels to Nintendo

Reminder that this fucking game will still be 60 dollars 10 years after its release.

If you purchase thus, you are supporting Nintendo's business model of making 2 decent games every 6 years. Which are even then still sort of rehashy and antiquated.

no, I'm not a faggot that collects statues like dsp.

I rather spend $80 on more dlc though instead of buying useless shit like a map and a zelda purse???

Already got the Edition without the statue, ill be looking for it after release as just the statue and box, Ill be happy playing what i got and enjoy the switch carry case.
March cant happen fast enough.

>he doesn't have amazon prime

>people who preorder collector's editions are allowed to post here
The beginning of the end for this misbegotten board.

Just organize an Amazon campaign to one star review all scalped titles without ordering limits per household. Why Nintentoddlers didn't do this back when they made about five amiibos of each character, I have no idea

This also sucks ass for a $130 special edition
>cheap plastic statue, poorly painted when mass produced
>?phone case?
>coin
>Promo soundtrack that has about 1/3rd the actual game's soundtrack
>Cloth map of gameworld

Already on it
Ebay only allows selling preorders if they reach the buyer within 30 days of the sale. Already reported all ebay listings for selling their preorders, i am not this petty but scalpers man

>not the Wii U version

Also that is a pretty shit looking collector's edition for $130.

I just want the map desu, the rest is kind of crap
I'd maybe take the coin as well, but I'd probably just end up losing it.
That maps hella sweet though

Got 4 ordered. Not evening keeping one for myself. There's profit to be had.

Gonna be good times.

>Not evening
good morning to you too sir, but fuck you

I ordered one form gamestop's website at 4am

I hope Nintendo releases more than enough Switches to handle the initial demand and literally every scalper out there gets fucked and has to sell the systems at a loss

Eh, this CE is rather lackluster. Soundtrack can be found online anyway, the map is the standard go-to part of an open world game CE today, carrying case is useless to me since I prefer to play at home. I guess Master sword is ok if it's done well, but overally it's not worth it imo.

I make a killing off Nintendo being idiots and making their shit so limited first-run.

This will be no exception. I expect your ire, but it only makes this sweeter in the end.

It'll be the Wii U all over again.

I bought an extra two after reading this post.

>1/3 of game soundtrack

And there's no overworld music. So there's like 1 song on the CD?

Can i borrow your time machine to go back and make a preorder on one too? because all online retailers have been sold out for a while now

Live in a different country my man

Yeah, that shit sucks. But I've been burned too many times before, so as soon as it was announced F5'd the shit out of the amazon page until it popped up.

there are some listing it for $300 and others who are listing it for $150. I'd say some people are being generous

checked EB games for canada and EU, as well as different amazon domains, but nada

pics

The great amiibo upset should have already tipped you off that Nintendo shit WILL be sold out within a matter of minutes if not seconds after preorders go up. Though part of blame does fall on Nintendo for having literal years of experience having stock shortages of their product and doing absolutely nothing about it.

Though if it makes you feel any better a bunch of ledditors are also mad as hell and planning to scalp scalpers by taking advantage of the fact that ebay and paypal are biased towards buyers and will try to use that to weasel out some free masters editions.

>that's the whole map

WHOA BIGGEST GAME EVER


and that sword is going to look cheap as fuck. like a happy meal toy.

also

>buying an OST you haven't heard yet
oh shiggy diggy do

I got two, one to keep, and one to sell for double, essentially meaning I got one for free.
Thank you Nintendo for subsidizing me

And people don't blame Nintendo for doing their usual "Let's sell like 1% of what we should of these special editions because we're afraid to lose profit."

>wanting the collectors edition
>not just getting the special edition which has all of the same shit in a sexier less cumbersome box except for the inevitably low quality plastic master sword model

O-Okay user

>couldn't get the sword
>I-it's low quality!!

Honestly it looks pretty cheap senpai

Reggie showed it off on the Treehouse stream earlier today, and even the one they had on display to try and sell the Master Edition to people was bent out of shape. They kept trying to hide how bent it was from the cameras, but it was pretty obvious

Did pre order the that bundle, just wanted the large box box to go next to an unopened copy of HD Twili and the WW ganondorf figure.

>They kept trying to hide how bent it was from the cameras, but it was pretty obvious

ah fuck it i just bought the special edition from best buy as a safeguard

if i can get the master edition then i'll just cancel it, but i'm wary since amazon just had their special edition explode oos in like 5 minutes. I'll eat the extra 20 bucks and not get a shitty pencil sword.

still fuck you nintendo

also, does best buy do release date delivery or are they going to fuck it up?

It's fine to be mad at Nintendo for restricting purchase to no-lives who were up at 4am like me but don't pretend you don't want it.

go check out the youtube video of the stream mang

>Had to preorder one from fucking GameStop when I could have gotten it for $40 less on Amazon with Prime
Fuck the world, I was 10 minutes too late.

Just got the Special Edition myself. It was the only type available when I looked around, and I was pretty bummed about not getting the sword.

However, I suddenly remembered that I still have the Twilight Princess Sword and Shield from ages ago. So now I'm good, since I really only want one replica. Furthermore, if took more than half a day to remember I had the TP replicas despite me thinking they were THE SHIT all those years ago, then I will most likely have felt the same about this one in time.

As a veteran /toy/ soldier, all I really want from BotW in plastic are figmas of BtW Link and Zelda (in her adventuring gear) from Max Factory. After that I'm good.

Just sent the link to my mother since she enjoys scalping.

Tell your mother that she's a horrible slut that ruins childrens dreams

You do what you gotta do in this fucked up world.

>European release has the shit plastic sword
>But no sweet case
CIABATTAAAAA

Just you wait! Someone will cancel their order and it'll go back in stock on amazon any second now! Aaaany second now..

Is this Switch only or Wii U as well?

Got 3 pre orders in. The best thing about this is that I'm getting the switch practically free! Also shame on you for not expecting this. When will you people learn that Nintendo is not your friend they just want there shit sold off store shelves they don't care who is the one buying it.

No one _has_ to fucking scalp Nintendo products.
Its just someone being a greedy cunt.

I'm not mad at Nintendo, I'm mad at the scalper assholes that make sure there is never enough Nintendo shit in stock so everything is always expensive as fuck

If there's enough demand for scalpers to make a profit then Nintendo could have just produced more and made even more money

I kept refreshing the page last night and it wasn't available to order; then all of a sudden, BAM, sold out.

>blaming the scalpers
Nintendo is the one that keeps the stupid fucking artificial scarcity shit going.

>hasn't learned his lesson of not sleeping until preorders for special editions go up

You know that the only reason we can even do this is because of people and there "need" to have it. Maybe you should be upset with them?

Why the fuck do you even care? Are you tards actually getting the Switch at launch?

Neither do you, apparently. It tells you the full retail price at time of purchase and then bills you the 20% discount price later.

I bought 3 from Amazon and 3 from GameStop.
I can't wait to scalp you retards.
Suck my dick.

There is literally nothing I can do to stop upper-middle class assholes from raising the prices of things they don't understand. There will always be assholes with more money than they know what to do with.

I just want to play videogames, but I can't afford it because everyone thinks they're a fucking genius after watching Storage Wars/Pawn Stars and tries to get top fucking dollar for any used shit they can find.

speculative markets are the best

>Plastic toddler shit
>style

You are fucking clueless man

Didn't she go bankrupt because of that?

>Cleaned out
I walked into FUCKING GAMESTOP an hour ago and preordered the master edition.
Get outside for once OP.

I could see this shit coming a mile away. But fucking nindybabies swore that there kings at Nintendo would have enough for every one. kek fucking idiots.

Pretty much, I'm sure Aus still has many copies. In fact it has a 1 purchase per customer at EB.

lol I bought 8

>nintendo something sells well

>it because scalpers bought them all

For the costumers I'm right?

I ordered the master edition today from Best Buy. Feels good even though Its pricy.

>Want the extra shit but don't want to get the Switch version

What should I do?

Why do people like you constantly shit on early adopters? If every person was a greedy jew faggot like yourself that wanted to wait for a massive library of games and price cuts, we'd never get anything.

...

I'm surprised that the Switch itself sold out on amazon. But why though, the first big exclusive doesn't come out until the summer.

>But why though, the first big exclusive doesn't come out until the summer.
Zelda is effectively an exclusive.

Because you're wasting money to watch something collect dust for half a year. How can you not be the least bit cautious after the Wii U?

>Buy special edition,
>keep special edition shit
>sell switch copy of game
It's not gonna fully cover the expenses, but it'll likely be close.

It doesn't take a master economist to figure out they could make more $$$ if they just made more of these fucking editions. If there is ever a game that's going to sell out of this shit it's Zelda. Arbitrage is unhealthy and shows that there is a serious issue between either supply and demand or price and supply.

>stayed up for switch/zelda preorders
>got the special edition anyway

What now, user?

Yeah man that plastic sword would look real fucking cool next to that paper map hung up on your wall. You could put them right next to your katana collection.

Dude, it's a collectors edition. It's a map you'll never look at, a music cd you'll never need, a shitty paper weight you'll never pay any mind to, and a case which does look kind of cool.

But you're going to pay out the ass for this shit, for no fucking reason. Just buy the regular game.

idk you'll live op it's not that important.

I've managed to collect 5 from different sites. I'm waiting for them to get real desperate then I'll set it at at least 2.5X it's original price.

I did the same thing with the amiibos. I sold 1 for 150$. Did it in person too. Dude looked like he was going to cry.

>implying
Doesn't change the fact that it's the only noteworthy game for the first several months

Best Buy has Special editions in stock. Not Master's but you still get everything but the Master Sword figure

I'm fully aware of how shitty support for this thing could end up being. The way I see it, they can't afford to have a repeat of the Wii U, so I'm gonna hope that things change. I plan on getting the console at launch because I'm interested enough in BOTW and Bomberman to not want to wait and I'd be buying one eventually anyway. Again, if everyone decided to hold off on a purchase like this for that reason, the console would just die and stop getting support altogether. See Wii U.