![]() ![]() The order said it was preparing for shipment and would ship on January 29, which was the date the website told me when I pre-ordered. So I called and got a nice lady from the Indian subcontinent with limited English to run the card again, which was an ordeal, and after waiting nervously for a couple days hoping that they wouldn't just cancel the order they did charge me. Then Gamestop's website wouldn't let me put in a new credit card number because it's a terrible website. First my credit card got declined, not because I didn't have enough credit but because it somehow flagged as potentially fraudulent in the system, probably because it was my first order from Gamestop in many years and it was for a lot of money. I can just use that the next time Gamestop has a sale on Xbox controllers or something else I'd use. I told myself this was okay because I always like to have a second controller, Miles Morales Ultimate Edition and Demon's Souls were two games I planned to buy anyway (though I probably would have gotten them digitally) and the $20 gift certificate is.whatever. ![]() Finally on January 7th I saw a link to a Gamestop bundle that included a PS5 with disc drive, an extra controller, Demon's Souls, Miles Morales Ultimate, and a $20 Gamestop gift card, and even though it was almost $800 I took a shot and I managed to snag one. I wasn't going to use a scalper and I wasn't going to buy anything that I wouldn't use as part of a bundle (Antonline, for example, sells a bundle with a PS4 copy of Last of Us Part II, which I've already bought digitally and beaten, and I never tried for those.) I've spent the last couple months monitoring Wario64's feed off and on and getting in the PS Direct queues and all that "fun" stuff and had the same experiences as everyone else in terms of getting consoles into a cart only to not be able to checkout etc. After I didn't get a PS5 I set two rules for myself about trying to get one. I understand some people like to wait and that's fine, but I enjoy experiencing a new console during launch window and going alone with the hype. I'd set aside money for it from my tax refund earlier in the year and game consoles are one of the few things that I'm willing to spend a little irresponsibly on because I use them quite a bit at least weekly if not daily. I really wanted a PS5 and was super disappointed when I missed the pre-order window because I am on the East Coast and was asleep. ![]()
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