Batman: Arkham Knight

[KnightOfTruth]

Between this news and the Halo5 LCE NOT including a disk, the Destiny CE making us re-buy the full game, and that "Metroid Federation FARCE", its been a bad week of collecting news for me!

[CollectorFanatic]

What a crock of bullshit. I knew I should have went with the collectors edition with the statue.

[treegate]

These were completed and from what I heard sitting in the retailers warehouses as they were prepping them for shipping to customers starting tomorrow or Friday. Cancelling at the last minute is very suspicious it can't be a quality control issue with the Batmobile toy itself since those were made a while ago, and any issues with them would have been noticed then and thus I could see cancellations at that time, but not six days before launch. WB should give a full detailed explanation to fans.

[CollectorFanatic]

Exactly dude. At THE very least they could at least upgrade everyone who had the batmobile edition preordered to the collectors edition. The whole thing sounds fishy. It couldn't possibly been a quality thing seeing as the game was delayed for 6 months, so they had plenty of time. Hopefully they have a decent explanation and not some PR bullshit. Ohhh and the free dlc as an apology is garbage

[treegate]

Originally Posted by CollectorFanatic

Exactly dude. At THE very least they could at least upgrade everyone who had the batmobile edition preordered to the collectors edition. The whole thing sounds fishy. It couldn't possibly been a quality thing seeing as the game was delayed for 6 months, so they had plenty of time. Hopefully they have a decent explanation and not some PR bullshit. Ohhh and the free dlc as an apology is garbage

Yeah most people keep saying "Oh it was an issue with the toy" but what they don't seem to realize is the units were done, boxed, shipped to retailers and basically ready to get shipped to customers. WB had more than likely gone over the quality of the toys and they must have signed off on them if they went to the boxing stage of distribution. If there was an issue, it would have been found several months ago, and if the issue was severe, the edition would have been cancelled then, but waiting until all were boxed up, and ready to go out to customers is what is raising red flags. Some may want to pass the blame on the retailers which isnt right, the blame goes to Warner Games/Warner Brothers for this "oh its a quality control issue" nonsense.

The free DLC as an apology is a joke and what WB doesn't seem to understand is alot of people are pissed because they now can't go and get the $99.99 limited edition because those too are sold out. There simply needs to be an explanation given by Warner as to WHY they waited until six days before release. Not a watered down excuse but the truth as to why they didn't catch these quality control/technical issues months ago and then reported it canceled....simply put, why wait until a day or two before they were shipping to customer and six days before launch? That isn't too much to ask....

For what's it worth though Best Buy has made no effort to contact me about my pre-order, it still shows as "processing".....

[KnightOfTruth]

Originally Posted by treegate

Yeah most people keep saying "Oh it was an issue with the toy" but what they don't seem to realize is the units were done, boxed, shipped to retailers and basically ready to get shipped to customers. WB had more than likely gone over the quality of the toys and they must have signed off on them if they went to the boxing stage of distribution. If there was an issue, it would have been found several months ago, and if the issue was severe, the edition would have been cancelled then, but waiting until all were boxed up, and ready to go out to customers is what is raising red flags. Some may want to pass the blame on the retailers which isnt right, the blame goes to Warner Games/Warner Brothers for this "oh its a quality control issue" nonsense.

The free DLC as an apology is a joke and what WB doesn't seem to understand is alot of people are pissed because they now can't go and get the $99.99 limited edition because those too are sold out. There simply needs to be an explanation given by Warner as to WHY they waited until six days before release. Not a watered down excuse but the truth as to why they didn't catch these quality control/technical issues months ago and then reported it canceled....simply put, why wait until a day or two before they were shipping to customer and six days before launch? That isn't too much to ask....

For what's it worth though Best Buy has made no effort to contact me about my pre-order, it still shows as "processing".....

Do you have confirmation that these were in-fact shipped to the retailers and are boxed in warehouses? Please source it if so. I've got contacts who may be able to procure me one if they are in-fact stateside somewhere in a warehouse or shipping facility.

I haven't heard anything else to that effect though. If these were already produced, my thoughts are either some paint was found to be unsafe at a later date, or there was some sort of unsafe/hazardous material or contaminant discovered late in the game at either the manufacturing, the assembling, or the packaging plant for these. But I've got no sources (yet) on that, just a guess.

[treegate]

Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

Do you have confirmation that these were in-fact shipped to the retailers and are boxed in warehouses? Please source it if so. I've got contacts who may be able to procure me one if they are in-fact stateside somewhere in a warehouse or shipping facility.

I haven't heard anything else to that effect though. If these were already produced, my thoughts are either some paint was found to be unsafe at a later date, or there was some sort of unsafe/hazardous material or contaminant discovered late in the game at either the manufacturing, the assembling, or the packaging plant for these. But I've got no sources (yet) on that, just a guess.

With six days before launch, if they weren't sitting in warehouses, someone would have noticed and it would have spread throughout the gaming sites as to why the Batmobile edition wasn't in the warehouse but other versions were. I had heard through some contacts with a major retailer that they had them in their possession but were then told not to ship them to customers as the shipping process to customers so they would have them on launch day of next week would have been starting today or Friday so they would arrive on time for Tuesday's launch. Did every retailer have them sitting in their warehouses? That I can't say but some clearly did.

I just really would like to know the real reasons behind it all and why the last 11th hour decision to cancel from WB rather than read something where they are pointing the blame at TriForce or whomever. Ultimately WB cancelled it and did so just before launch and that is what has most people scratching their heads asking "Why six days before launch?"

For what it's worth my order online is still showing "in processing". Would be funny if it actually shipped.

[singer07]

gamestop didnt give me shit for my 2 cancelled CE's, sent me an email with an apology...

[singer07]

i dont know why people keep saying the le is out of stock, its been on walmart.com

[treegate]

Originally Posted by singer07

i dont know why people keep saying the le is out of stock, its been on walmart.com

I think its because people mainly go based on Amazon and Gamestop for their gaming needs, forgetting that sometimes you can find them elsewhere. Case in point was the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Editions. Sure Amazon and Gamestop sold out in less than a day but Best Buy had them up for three days before selling out, and Bethesda's online store had them up as late as early this morning before selling out. Walmart, Target, and Fry's aren't expected to carry it. Only option now for people is Best Buy in-store only to pre-order but that requires FULL payment in front. NewEgg is expected to have pre-orders soon though.