mh3u preorder stories!

i preordered mine yesterday,what was your preorder like? mine went as follows:


i strolled in to the gamestop,patiently waiting behind lesser individuals,as i waited to place my 5 dollars down.i asked the cashier if it was available,and to my suprise he said yes!so i slammed my money down on the table,careful not to break the fragile glass...and then he spoke:"we dont know what bonusues there are but we will be sure to notify you".i then thanked the man,walked outside then drove away,a tear of joy in my eyes.


what was your time like? post here!

Digital distribution prevents me from having anything interesting to say.

For the WiiU version, my fiance had pre-ordered that and got me a WiiU for the holidays. Then the day AFTER the announcement date in January i went to get a 3ds and pre-order the 3ds version..bought the 3ds then they asked me if i wanted to reserve any games, i said "yes, i wanna pre-order and pay off Monster Hunter Ultimate for the 3ds". The worker (Manager in fact!) looked at me and said that it wasn't coming out for the 3ds. I told him it was JUST announced, and he still denied it saying "we were never told anything so it's definetley not coming out -____- . So as i was leaving thinking how fricking dumb he was, i figured I'd wait till my 30 day mark to return the 3ds..not really but they hate doing refunds. idk if any of you know how Gamestop is.. but my brother worked there and said if you try and tell them there is a game coming out and if its not in there system they will try their hardest to convince u it's not and they will even sometimes try to look it up to see if ur telling the truth or not. in this case he didnt. so after i googled it and saw that no gamestop was accepting pre-orders yet then about 2 1/2 weeks later i went back after seeing a post on here they were finally accepting pre-orders, i drove up there during my lunch break..marched in there, and asked if they were accepting pre-orders.. he was like "Oh yeah man! It was just announced! :D"

....... -____-

I clicked a few links, put in some information, then started waiting for the 19th...

I went to a local gamestop and told the young, mohawked teen that I wanted to place an order for the 3DS version. He told me that, last he checked, the 3DS wasn't getting MH3U and he heard it was going to be released for the vita/PS3 /versad/ . I gave him a soft smile, thanked him for his time, went home, and promptly placed an order online to Capcom.

I assumed that if you worked in a video game store you had at least a general idea of what was happening across all platforms and if you didn't know some specifics that was what the Internets was for. Score one for general ignorance.

I walked into Gamestop about two weeks ago to trade in some games I don't play anymore. I didn't think I was going to get much, maybe about $20 - $30 for the 5 games I had. I was just gonna put down about $10 on 3 copies of MH3U (1 Wii-U and 2 3DS for my wife and me). Gamestop associate scanned in said games, and told me the total was ~$87!! I almost crapped a brick, and put all of it towards the 3 copies of MH3U, and just paid off the rest last night. However, they're not taking pre-orders for the game guide

Saisei wrote:

I walked into Gamestop about two weeks ago to trade in some games I don't play anymore. I didn't think I was going to get much, maybe about $20 - $30 for the 5 games I had. I was just gonna put down about $10 on 3 copies of MH3U (1 Wii-U and 2 3DS for my wife and me). Gamestop associate scanned in said games, and told me the total was ~$87!! I almost crapped a brick, and put all of it towards the 3 copies of MH3U, and just paid off the rest last night. However, they're not taking pre-orders for the game guide

Traded in games at game stop? I'm sorry for your loss...

Ares wrote:

Traded in games at game stop? I'm sorry for your loss...

Oh it's completely fine. Most of them were duplicates of games my wife and I had and stopped playing together. So games like FF Theatrhythm and Mario Kart 7 were no longer being used. We figured keeping 1 copy would be good enough.

Went in this morning to gamestop. As soon as I got in, one of the worker there notice me right away. I approach him. We had that moment of eye to eye. Then he said, "Oh its you." I give him a nod. It seem he remember me. Long story short, I previously Pre-order from the same store. I went back to get a refund about a month ago and guess what its the same guy who refunded me the money. So I request a pre-order of 3U. I put down 20 bucks and he printed me the receipt and was out the door.

I went to GAME to looks for a game (which I couldn't find) and saw that I could preorder MH3U.
When I went to preorder them, the preorder code they used in the computer worked fine for the 3DS but for some reason the staff couldn't find the WiiU code so they had to call for help to find it.

So, I somehow managed to send my girlfriend to trade in two games for me (I do stuff for her all the time!) and Gamestop was having a 50% bonus trade in that day. She gave me crap, but long story short, traded in two games (Mario, 3ds and Starhawk for PS3) and got about $35.

Yesterday, I purchased a brand new, never opened, Wii U for $220 off of Craigslist. Now I'm currently in the market for a HD, ideally something that is 120GB and under $40, but I'm having a hard time with that atm =D

My girlfriend purchased and pre-ordered both my WiiU and MH3U for me. She told me the dumb people working at Gamestop said it wasn't coming out for the 3DS so she didn't spoil me with that, and they also said there was no controller pro for the WiiU..god i wish i could meet those tards..