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Last week, a Kotaku reader sent in his picture of a copy of Crackdown that he purchased at his local Comp USA nearly a week before the game is supposed to hit the streets. This sort of thing seems to happen a lot at retailers where video games are not the main focus, probably because they have so much other product to deal with, that things like launch dates get lost in the mix. So obviously I raised an eyebrow upon receiving this email from Kotakuite, Baukie.
I strolled into my fav game store and I was dumbfounded to see Crackdown in the cabinet and I asked the gent behind the counter if I could have 2 copies and he obliged. The store name rhymes with DB lames.
Very strange considering that anyone who works at DB Lames should know the importance of keeping street dates if they want to keep their jobs. I thought that was the sort of thing that was drilled into employee's heads from day one. Has anyone else experienced broken street dates at an actual dedicated game retailer? And if you are someone who works at one of these establishments, how does such an obvious gaffe get overlooked when the risks of fining and firing are so high?
