UPDATE Activision just contacted us and in no uncertain terms said that nobody has been given permission to sell the game early. Not GameStop, not the indie video game store on the corner, not anybody.
Activision has not given any retailer permission to sell Modern Warfare 2 prior to the Nov. 10 street date. The company fully supports the Nov.10 street date.
And there you have it. (I always thought this whole thing sounded fishy. Why would Activision spend millions upon millions of dollars publishing the game, marketing the Nov. 10 date, only to break it because a couple of mom-and-pop video game stores decided to sell it early? It didn’t make sense. As it that doesn’t happen all the time, street dates being broken by rogue stores.)
So if you do find a copy of the game before tomorrow consider yourself lucky.
I’ve kept the original text down here, just because. You’ll notice that I cleverly struck it out, indicating that it’s no longer valid.
You most certainly already know this by now, but Modern Warfare 2 is probably already available at your local GameStop. The release date (tomorrow, actually) was broken last week by various so-called mom-and-pop video game stores, so Activision went ahead and started letting select GameStops sell the game.
GameStop, with Activision’s eventual approval, made the decision to break the street date, as its known, because other stores, particularly in the northeast, had already broken the date. Can’t have li’l ol’ mom-and-pop have all the fun, now can we?
What does this mean for you? You can try to call your local GameStop, and see if it’s selling the game early. If so, hooray. If not, you’ll have to wait one more agonizing day to play the game.
I’m still undecided if I’m going to get it, seeing as though World of Warcraft takes up a supermajority of my gaming time. Not that any of you care, which I fully recognize.
i spent 6.5 hours playing borderlands yesterday… its got me worse then WOW ever did… thankfully it wont last forever.. i hope… haha
Lol i also can’t stay away from borderlands. Online play is not going very smooth though.
I haven’t played online yet, but love the game.
@bernyk…amen brother, amen…just finished playthrough 1…just in time for some CoDMW2
by the way I have a 360 arcade im selling for $175 plus shipping hahahaha……
The gamestop i preordered it at said they are not breaking street date and got very upset I even asked.
I thought you can get banned though, from Xbox live, if you play a game early, before it’s released?
http://bit.ly/1bsjDO
While it was originally thought that gamestop was given permission to break Modern Warfare 2’s street date, this is in fact NOT the case. Their decision to do so was at their own corporate leu vel, and was not sanctioned by Activision.
http://kotaku.com/5399991/gamestop-responds-mw2-broken-street-date-a-corporate-decision?skyline=true&s=i
Also, James – if you were one of the lucky few in the “select markets” that broke street date on MW2, you can play it early without fear of being banned from Xbox Live. As with any game purchased early, as long its a legitimate copy of the game, the potential of being banned is a non issue.
Leu vel? Let’s try that again. ^Level. There we go.
Gotcha. No, I haven’t played it early, shoot, I don’t even have it, just what I’ve heard on the forums.
I wish the Gamestops here released it early. I’m dying to play. Their amazing marketing and launch campaign is unlike any campaign ever seen from a video game
http://whowhatwherewheny.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/modern-warfare-2-launch-is-here/