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GameStop beta key pre-order information in Sweden!

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EverDawn
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden91 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-27 20:02:26
April 25 2010 13:48 GMT
#1
UPDATE:
GAME in Sweden also have a similar offer right now. So far, no stores seams the have any keys in stock, but the onlien store should have, I'll try to get a hold of them and come back with more info! (Thanks to OneBk for the find)

UPDATE again:
Talked to custmer service. They don't have any keys yet. Delivery date isn't final, but they asume tomorow for the online store, and thursday for the local stores. They also said that they will try to send e-mails to everyone that pre-order in the online store as soon as they get them to the head office.

UPDATE "third":
On April 27 2010 23:36 Whrom wrote:
@webhallen.se

"Förbokningserbjudande. Till de kunder som förbokar StarCraft 2 ingår access till Betatestet av spelet, kod samt instruktioner mailas ut inom 24 timmar efter du förbokat ditt exemplar. Om du redan har förbokat spelet kommer din kod således att mailas ut enligt ovanstående tidsram. Mycket nöje!"

I know this post locks sloppy right now, just want to get this in the OP ASAP, thanks Whrom! I'll clean it up later!


---------

Hi all!

This is my very first thread on TL, so hopefully this is a good contripution to the site. If you are curious about who I am, I posted this in the 10 commandments thread: + Show Spoiler +
Hi TL and friends!

The ten commandments are read, and hopefully remembered And as such I'm making my first ever post in this thread as declared.

A Little about me then. 27 year old guy from Sweden with the normal work/school/girlfriend/family/friends/workout kind of live. I have always loved games, especially RTS, RPG and Fighting games.

I played SC:BW around my 18-21 years a lot over LAN with my roommates at collage, I think it was right about the time the last couple of balance patches came out, and we learned that making a ton of workers rocked by watching replays of Hasudrone, and the strongest player among us kept reading Zerg guides by Yellow (player names could be of, long time ago you know, who was FerenzTheFox?). Probably none of us was very good, but we had a lot of fun!

Ever since SC2 was announced I've been exited, ans so has some of my buddys that remember the good old days. The last couple of weeks my interest really sored and I finally maned up and got the courage to sign up to this wonderful site.

I knew TL from my past SC days but never really got into the site or the community like I have now. I've been lurking, reading a lot of the SC2 discussion threads, watching beta streams and VODs and now after the TLI (Yeah! Go TheLittelOne for being plain entertaining and awesome! Go White-Ra for winning and being so good with me beloved Toss!) I even started catching up and the Day[9] Dailys. And so far, I'm having a great time!

So thanks for having me, hopefully I'll live up to this community, and I have some post, questions and discussions toughed up to start of my TL career while I work and my abysmal SC:BW skills in wait for SC2 beta or release.

Thanks!

P.S. I don't want to use this as a excuse, but I'm dyslectic so sometimes my spelling will sadly be terrible, and whenever I can I will try to use a spelling program as support. D.S.


I did some research today about the GameStop "pre-order and get a beta key" offer that has been posted about the last days. This is what I found out:
  • Beta keys will be available for pre-order customers in Sweden!
  • They don't have any keys right now, but the internal word to employs is that they will most likely be shipped to the local stores next week
  • The offer is legit for both normal and collector editions pre-orders (even tough GameStop in Sweden is careful about CE pre-orders, they never now how many they actually get)
  • You can only pre-order "on site" at a local store
  • They take a small fee (20SEK for me), you can pre-order without a credit card, and the fee works like a deposit, you get it included in the full game price when it's relesed, so their is no extra cost at all
  • The beta keys will be handed out at the stores when they arrive (hard copy keys)
  • They will try to call all customers that pre-order when the keys arrive, if they have the time (which they won't if they get a lot of pre-orders)
  • They do not know if the offer is limited or not


How I found this out:
I was really wondering about this GameStop thing that their was so much discussion about, so I decided to do some research. The GameStop homepage in Sweden dose only have information about that SCII is available for pre-order, but no information about any beta keys. So I actually called my local store, explained what I knew about the North American offer, and asked if they had any information. After talking with the store manager I found out the information above.
I also called one more store in a different region to see if they could confirm, and I got the same exact answers, so I feel pretty sure that this is legit.
Of course I ran straight to my local store and pre-order, and got the same information in the store that I got over the phone.

I also must praise my local store in Örebro for great service! Not only did the research the subject for me and confirmed that the offer of beta keys will be active, they also promised to call me on Tuesday with more information. They where absolutely certain that they will have beta keys, the information is communicated internally, they just don't have a delivery date, even tough they expect next week.

I'm really thank full and impressed with the customer service, and I also now, that if this turns out to be a botch, it's not the guys at my local stores fault I've worked as a reseller myself, sometime information, and promises, change real quick in big organisations.

I'll update this thread when I get more information, hopefully I'll have a key next week!

To find your local GameStop store in Sweden go here:
http://gamestop.se/storelocator.asp

I also urge all Europeans to call the stores in your country! They couldn't say with any certainty, but this seams to be a centralised offer that will go out in most places real soon.

Thanks!

Update to clarify my information about Collectors Edition:
I actually weren't allowed to pre-order the CE in my local store in Örebro. They said this was because they didn't want to promise something that they couldn't keep and that they never really know how many CE they get for each store. So I just pre-ordered the normal game and the CE will most likely be handed out on a "first served" basis. I didn't ask if this meant that pre-order customers had first pick on these CE or not.

On the other hand, when I talked to Eskilstuna on the phone during me research, they said it was possible the pre-order the CE. So maybe it's different polices in different stores. So make sure to ask if you pre-order.
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April 27 Update:
Added info about no credit card requierment, and that the booking fee counts towards the full retail price. Also info about simillar offer from GAME
And now also http://webhallen.se
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. - Blake
Zyrre
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden291 Posts
April 25 2010 13:52 GMT
#2
Thanks for checking up on this! I live near Skövde so I will definately go there and pre-order once they have some in stock.
"Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way."
Catch]22
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden2683 Posts
April 25 2010 13:52 GMT
#3
Awesome find, was thinking about calling tomorrow myself to find out when we would get keys, and now they are here.

By the way, does anyone else think that all these preorder keys mean that blizz feels the game is getting close to release?
Gigaudas
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Sweden1213 Posts
April 25 2010 13:56 GMT
#4
Thank you for this.
I
Brainsurgeon
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden359 Posts
April 25 2010 13:57 GMT
#5
Wow, that's awesome.
Say no to drugs. Say yes to hugs!
Mutaahh
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands859 Posts
April 25 2010 14:01 GMT
#6
I already emailed a Dutch site (gcshop.nl) but they didn't had anything going on, they told me though that they would let me know if they did.

maybe bol.com (dutch too) has something going on, but i didnt email them yet. they are like one of the biggest and well known dutch online shop for years now. They even sell the starcraft books :D
I want to fly
Delvin
Profile Joined August 2007
Finland141 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-26 09:56:41
April 25 2010 14:01 GMT
#7
Since there was that other topic where a danish online store was supposedly getting keys mid next week, I'd be surprised if this was Sweden only

I'll definitely be visiting the local Gamestop tomorrow.

Edit: Same Gamestop deal confirmed for Finland as well
jtgizmo
Profile Joined April 2010
Congo161 Posts
April 25 2010 14:18 GMT
#8
It seems they are preparing for europe to finally step in into beta, lets hope they will get beta keys for UK and other european countries as well. Keep us informed if u hear any other countries joining in with preorder
EverDawn
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden91 Posts
April 25 2010 14:21 GMT
#9
On April 25 2010 23:01 Delvin wrote:
Since there was that other topic where a danish online store was supposedly getting keys mid next week, I'd be surprised if this was Sweden only

I'll definitely be visiting the local Gamestop tomorrow.


I actully missed that thread, but you are propably right. The Swedish GameStop homepage has info for Norway, Danmark and Finland too so

On April 25 2010 22:52 Catch]22 wrote:
By the way, does anyone else think that all these preorder keys mean that blizz feels the game is getting close to release?


Maybe I'm making this up, but wasn't december posted from a somewhat credible source somewhere on these boards? All stores in sweden that have a pre-order banner in thier window seam to have 2010 down at least.
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. - Blake
xlep
Profile Joined December 2009
Germany274 Posts
April 25 2010 14:39 GMT
#10
On April 25 2010 23:21 EverDawn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 25 2010 23:01 Delvin wrote:
Since there was that other topic where a danish online store was supposedly getting keys mid next week, I'd be surprised if this was Sweden only

I'll definitely be visiting the local Gamestop tomorrow.


I actully missed that thread, but you are propably right. The Swedish GameStop homepage has info for Norway, Danmark and Finland too so

Show nested quote +
On April 25 2010 22:52 Catch]22 wrote:
By the way, does anyone else think that all these preorder keys mean that blizz feels the game is getting close to release?


Maybe I'm making this up, but wasn't december posted from a somewhat credible source somewhere on these boards? All stores in sweden that have a pre-order banner in thier window seam to have 2010 down at least.


In germany pretty much every store or online store has a june release in their data, don't think thats really reliable though.
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GoodCat1
Profile Joined May 2009
Israel266 Posts
April 25 2010 14:43 GMT
#11
whats so special about sweden -_- from the rest of europe!
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bedovande
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden16 Posts
April 25 2010 14:44 GMT
#12
Nice!
Hej, vad heter jag
Zexion
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Sweden971 Posts
April 25 2010 14:53 GMT
#13
On April 25 2010 23:43 GoodCat1 wrote:
whats so special about sweden -_- from the rest of europe!


We're awesome.
sCarMute
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden5 Posts
April 25 2010 15:08 GMT
#14
This is great news!
Thor is here!
Inhumoff
Profile Joined April 2010
Norway28 Posts
April 25 2010 15:10 GMT
#15
scary ..... cant wait
unreal
LastVillaiN
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden3 Posts
April 25 2010 15:11 GMT
#16
Totally awesome. And they even have a store in Sollentuna!
Klockan3
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Sweden2866 Posts
April 25 2010 15:40 GMT
#17
On April 25 2010 23:43 GoodCat1 wrote:
whats so special about sweden -_- from the rest of europe!

We are one of the most active countries in the world in terms of online gaming per capita. Probably have to do with the welfare system -_-
khellian
Profile Joined February 2010
Korea (South)922 Posts
April 25 2010 15:46 GMT
#18
Cool, thanks alot for the info! Gonna preorder CE right now the, since I am a sucker for Blizzard CE boxes and really want a betakey! ^^
EverDawn
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden91 Posts
April 25 2010 15:58 GMT
#19
On April 26 2010 00:46 khellian wrote:
Cool, thanks alot for the info! Gonna preorder CE right now the, since I am a sucker for Blizzard CE boxes and really want a betakey! ^^


Maybe I should post an update about the CE.

At my local store (Örebro) they didn't alowe me to actually pre-order a CE. The reason for this is that they never actually know how many they get per store, and they don't want to make promises they can't keep. So if you prebook the game, and want a CE they hand them out on a "first served" basis. If I understand them correctly.

On the other hand, when I talked to the store in Eskilstuna on the phone, they said I could pre-order a CE edition, so maybe it's different polices in different stores
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. - Blake
sacrife
Profile Joined April 2010
Norway26 Posts
April 26 2010 09:53 GMT
#20
Just got off the phone from GameStop Norway (Oslo) and they said they will recieve beta keys for pre-order customers this week. No more contests I wont win!
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