"Play.com Modern Warfare 2 pre order / Postal Strike!!"

have a look on justin tv lol

what am i looking for?

So I've ordered with ShopTo and they say they are automatically upgrading to UKMail? Does that mean I don't need to use the next day delivery thing with them for an extra £1.99?

JonChilds wrote:
So I've ordered with ShopTo and they say they are automatically upgrading to UKMail? Does that mean I don't need to use the next day delivery thing with them for an extra £1.99

I have done the same my friend. The deal is this: I the strike DOES go ahead then you will get a free upgrade to ukmail. For this service just select the free mail and it will auto upgrade. I selected ukmail as if the stike doesnt happen i still want to ensure it gets here in time. If The strike goes ahead i will not have to pay for the ukmail but if it doesnt i will.

I'll keep with the £1.99 one then, it's only what I woulda payed a play anyways.
This would also be the only time play would have delivered late for me; I got CoD: WaW three days early.

Had an email yesterday from gameplay saying my order mw2 has been dispatched. But using parcel force which is part of the royal mail group. Friday is the big strike day so may get my copy before or after lol

why does everyone buy online surely theres a tesco near you rather than hoping it comes in the post on launch

i find it more of a risk taking the tesco option as they may sell out

I think you're gonna be really lucky siforce, you're giving them a three working days, so you'll get it friday or get it saturday; which I know is reall rare but it's happened to me before.

You could do a midnight release at GAME too; the closest GAME that does that for me gets me stranded overnight.

JonChilds wrote:
I think you're gonna be really lucky siforce, you're giving them a three working days, so you'll get it friday or get it saturday; which I know is reall rare but it's happened to me before.

Wont get it Friday as the Strike is on so the (probably wont be delivering). Very nice if you get it sat though.

Hmmm. I was going to cancel my pre-order to to childish churlishness, but decided againt it in the end. Now wondering whether to cancel with Play.com and try Shopto?

Has no one been reading the shopto forums? They are simply sending the bulk of the orders to UKmail but UKmail are being told to hold them till sat or monday, so you would be lucky to get it on the monday and also Ukmail can come deliver up till 6pm so you would have to take the whole day off to sign for it. Also rumours that asda may be selling it for £28 but only for 48hrs, i think for this game i'm going to go with my gut and go tesco or asda on monday midnight or early tues morning.

where are these rumors about asda cheapness coming from?

just read the HOTukdeals forums and theres two different people stating sainsburys will be selling it for 48 hours 1 copy per customer at £26

Edited by urban at 15:36:44 04-11-2009

Shopto won't let me sign up for some reason. keep on getting an error message saying no special characters allowed? I'll stick with Play.

jonharrispro wrote:

chiefian wrote:
As I get older I just don't really care for getting a game on the release date. I'll happily wait the 5 days Play claim and just enjoy it when I get it.

Signs of getting older me thinks.

how old is old? im 26 and i have never been this excited about getting a game (i have never even pre ordrered a game before this 1) Im pretty much writing off all evenings after work for a good couple of weeks after launch. Probably illustrates the insignificance of my being.

Am 25. I think it's partly to do with the ODST hype that was floating around the office. They made me pre-order it and I booked the day off work with 3 other work mates to play the single player co-op on legendary.

4 hours later we were finished and I personally felt gutted I'd wasted a holiday day for the shit-that-was the single player. It had it's moments but it was the worse one to date.

I will book off some time from the missus to play this I have no doubt. But I'm in no rush to get it. :( It's also down to lack of funds. Lots of games I want come out at the same time, but there's been a lul for a couple of months.

@ chiefian

i know what you mean by "booking time off from the missus". I too have to carefully structure my gaming around her tv needs. Havent played ODST (or even Halo 3 yet) but will think twice sbout shelving out for it

All recorded or signed for items are delivered regardless of strike action. It's only normal mail that is affected.

I'll just do what I did with CoD4...pick it up in a year or so, not really fussed. Didn't think CoD4 was all that it was hyped to be tbh and the online wasn't as great as many suggest, too many people far too obsessed with 'prestige' and tending to like their modified controllers a little too much, continuous jumping and firing LOL. Idiots.

Just received an email from play to say that they are sending modern warfare 2 out with a courier to ensure release day delivery.

Just for anyone considering cancelling their order with play like I was.

WooHoo! Mine's packing apparently. Probably will be for the next four days though.

I cancelled my play pre order before they finally agreed to drop Royal Mail, prior to this I always received games from Play the day before launch. Instead I have pre-ordered from my local gamestation store who are open at 11pm to distribute the game at midnight, so will be playing it Monday night.

Jmek wrote:
Shopto won't let me sign up for some reason. keep on getting an error message saying no special characters allowed? I'll stick with Play.

Do you live in a flat? If so, that's your problem.

Brianstorm wrote:
so will be playing it Monday night.

I think you'll find that to be Tuesday morning...

seasidebaz wrote:

Brianstorm wrote:
so will be playing it Monday night.

I think you'll find that to be Tuesday morning...

OWNED.

seasidebaz wrote:

Brianstorm wrote:
so will be playing it Monday night.

I think you'll find that to be Tuesday morning...

ZING

http://www.justin.tv/flipnotic1
if anyone wants to watch mw2 while waiting :)
not me btw.

right, after all this i have a dilema. I cancelled my MW2 with Play.com due to worries ove delivery time. I switched to shopto because they are cheaper and offering guaranteed delivery with a free upgrade to UKMail. Now i find out they wont deliver to my work address as it is my first transaction and im not baout to take the day off work (well to be true i cant take the day off as my boss is away). Now play are offering guaranteed delivery so i have switched back. Feel like im going round in bloody circles.

Like this thread.

jonharrispro wrote:
right, after all this i have a dilema. I cancelled my MW2 with Play.com due to worries ove delivery time. I switched to shopto because they are cheaper and offering guaranteed delivery with a free upgrade to UKMail. Now i find out they wont deliver to my work address as it is my first transaction and im not baout to take the day off work (well to be true i cant take the day off as my boss is away). Now play are offering guaranteed delivery so i have switched back. Feel like im going round in bloody circles.

Not to mention thet strike is on its way to be cancelled so both may as well switch all their preorders back to 1st class postage.

I bloody hope not as the backlog of mail will set everything back a few days.

Peew971 wrote:

jonharrispro wrote:
right, after all this i have a dilema. I cancelled my MW2 with Play.com due to worries ove delivery time. I switched to shopto because they are cheaper and offering guaranteed delivery with a free upgrade to UKMail. Now i find out they wont deliver to my work address as it is my first transaction and im not baout to take the day off work (well to be true i cant take the day off as my boss is away). Now play are offering guaranteed delivery so i have switched back. Feel like im going round in bloody circles.

Not to mention thet strike is on its way to be cancelled so both may as well switch all their preorders back to 1st class postage.

I had a £32 pre order with tesco that I cancelled becuase they told me they were going to use royal mail. I then got a £43 pre order with shopto.
What a waste of a tenner, I could have spent that on beer.