Congrats, Slash! I wish I'd have held on to my receipt as well, but shit happens. I'm horrible with receipts. I actually paid for Starcraft: Ghost in full, back in the day. I held on to that receipt forever, man, but I ended up losing it about the same time they announced it was never coming out. I went to GameStop (which I think was still Babbages, or EB Games or something, at the time), to try and get my money back, since I knew they kept hard copies of everyone's pre-orders in a box under the counter. Unfortunately, they had just upgraded to using a new computer system, and they tossed out the old pre-order box.
Now that *IS* very damn awesome of them, they certainly didn't have to do that but the fact they did you got to give them some applause, very cool of them to do. Very glad you got some good stuff from them man.
Congrats, Slash! I wish I'd have held on to my receipt as well, but shit happens. I'm horrible with receipts. I actually paid for Starcraft: Ghost in full, back in the day. I held on to that receipt forever, man, but I ended up losing it about the same time they announced it was never coming out. I went to GameStop (which I think was still Babbages, or EB Games or something, at the time), to try and get my money back, since I knew they kept hard copies of everyone's pre-orders in a box under the counter. Unfortunately, they had just upgraded to using a new computer system, and they tossed out the old pre-order box.
Fucking weak.
Have you learned your lesson not to pay for things before you have them? Stupidest thing in the world. Even pre-orders on Amazon don't charge you until it ships.
I don´t remember where I first saw the photo, may have even been here, but it surely was a long time ago. Then later saw you in the forums and thought hey I know that name from somewhere...
So how does it feel being part of internet history?
Congrats, Slash! I wish I'd have held on to my receipt as well, but shit happens. I'm horrible with receipts. I actually paid for Starcraft: Ghost in full, back in the day. I held on to that receipt forever, man, but I ended up losing it about the same time they announced it was never coming out. I went to GameStop (which I think was still Babbages, or EB Games or something, at the time), to try and get my money back, since I knew they kept hard copies of everyone's pre-orders in a box under the counter. Unfortunately, they had just upgraded to using a new computer system, and they tossed out the old pre-order box.
Fucking weak.
Have you learned your lesson not to pay for things before you have them?
Yep.
I never put more than the minimum 5 dollars down on any pre-order anymore. In fact, I rarely pre-order at all, anymore. And I never put down anything until there's a confirmed release date. Even then, when games like Mass Effect 3 get pushed back a few months, I'm silently afraid it'll turn out to be another Starcraft: Ghost incident -- even though I know it won't.
Also, when you get Steam issues like that, try restarting your computer.
Yeah, I was really surprised that they got John St. John to do that!
Also, yeah the Steam thing - I had just freshly booted my PC before installing the game.. I guess I could have rebooted it again during the installation issues... but oh well. :P
Also, when you get Steam issues like that, try restarting your computer.
Yeah, I was really surprised that they got John St. John to do that!
Also, yeah the Steam thing - I had just freshly booted my PC before installing the game.. I guess I could have rebooted it again during the installation issues... but oh well. :P
Sometimes Steam and windows get confused with each other for some reason and windows puts up a big "something is trying to access this file, so wait your turn" on the data files, but Steam gets caught up by that. A reboot can help.
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IceBurnerIt's cold and there are penguins.Registered Userregular
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Fun video, and I love the closing touch!
Edit: And yes, the plug actually reminded me to check Steam for your games, but I see they're not out yet.
How can you lose money unless the store goes out of business?
I preordered early, as was my want back in the day and then the game was cancelled. As I lost the receipt and it was a year (or whatever it was) later, the staff there didn't know me anymore. So I couldn't prove I put anything down and thus I lost my preorder money to the nebulous system. Yeah it did suck and I can assure you I never bought anything from there again.
Get that preorder in for the next Duke Nukem game right away. Just in case.
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Congrats, slash! I can now say I'm somewhat acquaintances with a gaming celebrity :P! In all seriousness, that was awesome of Gearbox and 2k, and the ScrewAttack video is awesome.
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Fucking weak.
Congratulations, man.
Enjoy your stuff, Slash.
I never asked for this!
Actually believed this for a second.
Have you learned your lesson not to pay for things before you have them? Stupidest thing in the world. Even pre-orders on Amazon don't charge you until it ships.
I don´t remember where I first saw the photo, may have even been here, but it surely was a long time ago. Then later saw you in the forums and thought hey I know that name from somewhere...
So how does it feel being part of internet history?
Yep.
I never put more than the minimum 5 dollars down on any pre-order anymore. In fact, I rarely pre-order at all, anymore. And I never put down anything until there's a confirmed release date. Even then, when games like Mass Effect 3 get pushed back a few months, I'm silently afraid it'll turn out to be another Starcraft: Ghost incident -- even though I know it won't.
Congrats Slash on the swag! 2k games and gearbox are awesome for doing that for you!
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What's this free nonsense? It cost me $1 for DNF
http://screwattack.com/videos/Waiting-A-Decade-for-Duke
That's me! Finally getting the game
Thanks to the ScrewAttack crew!
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'was free for me. But I'm on Amazon Student.
Also, when you get Steam issues like that, try restarting your computer.
EDIT: Also congrats on the bigass plug for your game studio. Shame the game wasn't already out on Steam when that happened though.
Yeah, I was really surprised that they got John St. John to do that!
Also, yeah the Steam thing - I had just freshly booted my PC before installing the game.. I guess I could have rebooted it again during the installation issues... but oh well. :P
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The Balls of Steel Edition, there were only 136,000 copies of this edition produced world wide.
Gearbox gave me the 10th one produced, the earliest production copy of the game verified:
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Sometimes Steam and windows get confused with each other for some reason and windows puts up a big "something is trying to access this file, so wait your turn" on the data files, but Steam gets caught up by that. A reboot can help.
Edit: And yes, the plug actually reminded me to check Steam for your games, but I see they're not out yet.
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I preordered early, as was my want back in the day and then the game was cancelled. As I lost the receipt and it was a year (or whatever it was) later, the staff there didn't know me anymore. So I couldn't prove I put anything down and thus I lost my preorder money to the nebulous system. Yeah it did suck and I can assure you I never bought anything from there again.
First preorder, seems fitting.
Cool video, but Craig is still a bit of a butthole.
Very cool.
I actually thought it a shame that no one did anything like this with you and then it turns out someone did!
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