@IamReAllyFeelinF5 can't refresh the 404 error page for some reason so I'm occasionally loading the page and searching the relevant areas, definitely not spamming f5 tho haha
@GrailUK the store is run directly by NOE since their partnership with the Hut Group came to an end, all these issues are a continuation of the fact that they do not have experience in large scale logistics for consumer merchandise but they're doing it anyway presumably because they didn't want to pay the hut group to do it anymore.
So as midnight has turned the store is back up again but the Xenoblade CE is nowhere to be found, wonder what's gone on? Perhaps there will be a statement about it released on Twitter at some point
I'm making a formal complaint on their website, I suggest everyone else do the same and then tweet them about it. If America could bully them into doing another release them so can we.
@Jack_Goetz oh good I was worried you'd managed to get onto the site this evening and place an order, I doubt there's anyone able to place orders at this point so I'm keeping hope that the store will come back to life and I'll be able to place an order
It is genuinely baffling to me that Nintendo have created a situation where their entire European operation has been brought down by fans of a series which compared to their other franchises isn't even that popular, just... how is it so bad? Why?!
@SteamEngenius NFCs for amiibo are likely to be very low priority, when you've got the banking and auto industries jostling for supply I doubt little old Nintendo needing a few thousand or so is going to want to pay the high price of getting priority access. Chips for electronics are a different story though, from what I've read the supply demand there is easing off somewhat.
@RadioHedgeFund my theory is that when the malice grabbed the Master Sword (plus Link's hand) the green swirling magic hand holding Ganondorf back (which had earlier rescued link from the falling platform) had to possess Link's arm to prevent him being overcome by malice. That's what makes most sense in my mind considering the green colour of the magic and the fact that Nintendo tends to colour code their heroes and villains.
I could of course be interpreting the jumbled up trailers in the wrong order though
Edit to add: I watched some trailer analysis videos back when the previous trailers released and the reason I think falling happens first is because the green magic hand grabs falling Link by the left hand and it's his right hand which is possessed, which is the one being attacked by the malice. Doesn't make sense to me for the falling to happen after those events.
@WallyWest *in your opinion*the visuals are fine, stop acting like yours is the be all and end all. I won't be buying these games, trust me. Gamefreak won't fool me twice.
@WallyWest you know gamefreak won't see you going hard for them in this comment section, right? Baffles me why anyone would attack people so harshly just for criticizing a game they like.
@sisodinr agreed, that stuttering windmill is abysmal! How this got into a trailer I'll never know, it looked like it was running on clockwork until they got closer and it started turning smoothly. Gamefreak seriously need to get help.
These guides aren't actually that helpful since the grave location is often away from where the creature spawns and the way you've highlighted them in your images makes finding them quite hard with zero other identifying information, I know you're trying to avoid spoilers but this is going a bit far
@Ralizah the track attached to this article is very reminiscent of some of the ones you hear around New LA in XCX, sort of a mix of the Blade Barracks and the dreaded yeah yeah yeah one whose name I forget 😅
@RupeeClock because they know their shop infrastructure cannot take the increase in demand, which would all be solved IF THEY JUST MADE ENOUGH OF THE BLOODY THINGS!
@Vivianeat I didn't get a single Tricolour match all day yesterday and I tried really hard to get one, I have a feeling it was down to being on Team Gear so there just weren't enough players in other teams to get matched with.
@StarPoint ahaha I thought it was just my fat fingers!
These are great, hopefully they've made more than 6 of them so we can all get them easily. The My Nintendo Store UK has been down for maintenance for nearly a week now and I'm hoping that'll mean new products arriving imminently 😁
@Dev9417 I played on and off all day yesterday and like you didn't get into a single Tricolour match, I'm guessing it's the popularity of Gear making those matches less likely but to not get into a single one is ridiculous.
I'm shocked we won, pretty much all weekend the only matches I seemed to manage to win were the ones against my own side (which were frustratingly frequent) and every time I was against an opposing team it seemed like we were just completely outmatched! Glad I didn't drag the side down too much though haha
@Merry_Blind why might my situation not allow a wired connection? Is it not a simple case of getting an Ethernet adapter for my switch and hooking it up to my router?
@thedicemaster even if the low tick rate wasn't the cause, those matches were laggy af for some reason. At one point I basically felt invincible because none of the enemy's ink was hurting me at all, but perhaps it was more general internet woes what done it 🤷🏼♂️
That might explain why some of my matches were hideously delayed, I was seemingly getting hit with enough ink to splat me but the kill wouldn't actually happen until a few moments later when the firing had stopped. Something was definitely amiss there!
This is one of those games (looking at you Mineko's night market!) I thought would sit announced for Switch but seemingly never arrive, I'm so glad it's almost here!
I am extremely disappointed that they couldn't be bothered to come up with any new ranked modes, they just cut+pasted from the previous game and said that'll do
@mariomaster96 it's what moody does, they come along and ***** all over Xenoblade then report anyone who dares challenge them. I've been blocked now so I can't see their comments, but the mods ALWAYS delete the comment of the person calling them out... so much so in fact I'm inclined to think there's something untoward going on. Why exactly would someone get away with inciting those kinds of reactions completely Scot free? Why do moderators constantly do Moody's bidding by deleting the dissenting comments simply because they report them? Why do we have no right to challenge their moderation decisions? I'm less bothered by it since I got blocked but I still see the fallout of moody's behaviour in the replies.
@AlanaHagues I'm so so happy to hear this news, thanks for your diligence in bringing it to us. Bet you're over the moon like the rest of us aren't you
@AlanaHagues I've just tagged Ollie so now it's your turn, I'm desperate to know how Xenoblade did in the UK charts this week... any chance you know why they're delayed?
I will never understand the desire of people who come into an article of a game they don't like only to sh** all over it and then report people who call them out. Thanks for doing such a bang up job, mods. Great work. 😒
I've stopped playing, I had a couple of really unfair losses as a result of some bulls*** overtime where my team has been winning the whole round but two lots of overtime back to back meant we were eliminated. You have to balance decisions fairly in games like these and I don't think it's fair to have multiple overtime occurrences in one game swing the match so heavily. This plus all the awful (not so micro) microtransactions in the costume department totally turned me off and I've deleted the game from my Switch
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is AWOL In Europe After Online Store Confusion
@Mach_Rider thanks for clarifying.
@IamReAllyFeelinF5 no worries!
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is AWOL In Europe After Online Store Confusion
@IamReAllyFeelinF5 you mean you're not getting the 404 error page? Does the stock show as sold out?
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is AWOL In Europe After Online Store Confusion
@IamReAllyFeelinF5 can't refresh the 404 error page for some reason so I'm occasionally loading the page and searching the relevant areas, definitely not spamming f5 tho haha
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
@GrailUK the store is run directly by NOE since their partnership with the Hut Group came to an end, all these issues are a continuation of the fact that they do not have experience in large scale logistics for consumer merchandise but they're doing it anyway presumably because they didn't want to pay the hut group to do it anymore.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
So as midnight has turned the store is back up again but the Xenoblade CE is nowhere to be found, wonder what's gone on? Perhaps there will be a statement about it released on Twitter at some point
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
@Flatlinerking I can't get back on the store 😫🤬
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
I'm making a formal complaint on their website, I suggest everyone else do the same and then tweet them about it. If America could bully them into doing another release them so can we.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
I'm so angry, it makes me want to stop supporting Nintendo in future if this is how they treat their fans.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
@Jack_Goetz oh good I was worried you'd managed to get onto the site this evening and place an order, I doubt there's anyone able to place orders at this point so I'm keeping hope that the store will come back to life and I'll be able to place an order
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
@Jack_Goetz when did you place your order?
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
It is genuinely baffling to me that Nintendo have created a situation where their entire European operation has been brought down by fans of a series which compared to their other franchises isn't even that popular, just... how is it so bad? Why?!
Re: Rumour: This Could Be Our First Look At Sephiroth's Super Smash Bros. amiibo
@SteamEngenius NFCs for amiibo are likely to be very low priority, when you've got the banking and auto industries jostling for supply I doubt little old Nintendo needing a few thousand or so is going to want to pay the high price of getting priority access. Chips for electronics are a different story though, from what I've read the supply demand there is easing off somewhat.
Re: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Link Statue Spotted At Nintendo Live 2022
@RadioHedgeFund my theory is that when the malice grabbed the Master Sword (plus Link's hand) the green swirling magic hand holding Ganondorf back (which had earlier rescued link from the falling platform) had to possess Link's arm to prevent him being overcome by malice. That's what makes most sense in my mind considering the green colour of the magic and the fact that Nintendo tends to colour code their heroes and villains.
I could of course be interpreting the jumbled up trailers in the wrong order though
Edit to add: I watched some trailer analysis videos back when the previous trailers released and the reason I think falling happens first is because the green magic hand grabs falling Link by the left hand and it's his right hand which is possessed, which is the one being attacked by the malice. Doesn't make sense to me for the falling to happen after those events.
Re: Lengthy Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer Unloads Heaps Of New Information
@WallyWest *in your opinion*the visuals are fine, stop acting like yours is the be all and end all. I won't be buying these games, trust me. Gamefreak won't fool me twice.
Re: No Man's Sky To Release Waypoint Update, Adds Relaxed Mode, Switch Bonuses And More
@BenAV yeah this month is bonkers for releases if you're a fan of JRPGs and JRPG adjacent genres 😅
Re: Lengthy Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer Unloads Heaps Of New Information
@WallyWest you know gamefreak won't see you going hard for them in this comment section, right? Baffles me why anyone would attack people so harshly just for criticizing a game they like.
Re: Lengthy Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer Unloads Heaps Of New Information
@sisodinr agreed, that stuttering windmill is abysmal! How this got into a trailer I'll never know, it looked like it was running on clockwork until they got closer and it started turning smoothly. Gamefreak seriously need to get help.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Fornis Region Unique Monsters
These guides aren't actually that helpful since the grave location is often away from where the creature spawns and the way you've highlighted them in your images makes finding them quite hard with zero other identifying information, I know you're trying to avoid spoilers but this is going a bit far
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Soulhacker Guide
Ought to mention Triton can't learn arts/skills himself, you need a party member using the class for that
Re: Random: Persona Composer Would 'Love' To Write Music For The Legend Of Zelda
@Ralizah the track attached to this article is very reminiscent of some of the ones you hear around New LA in XCX, sort of a mix of the Blade Barracks and the dreaded yeah yeah yeah one whose name I forget 😅
Re: Rumour: This Might Be Our First Look At Sephiroth's Super Smash Bros. amiibo
@Mr_Gamecube I read that the chip shortage was impacting NFC availability so that's probably why
Re: We've Got To Wait A Bit Longer For Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Editions (EU + UK)
@RupeeClock because they know their shop infrastructure cannot take the increase in demand, which would all be solved IF THEY JUST MADE ENOUGH OF THE BLOODY THINGS!
Re: Don't Worry, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Editions Are On The Way
It isn't even up for pre-order yet in the UK
Re: Video: Get A Closer Look At Splatoon 3's Upcoming amiibo
@Vivianeat I didn't get a single Tricolour match all day yesterday and I tried really hard to get one, I have a feeling it was down to being on Team Gear so there just weren't enough players in other teams to get matched with.
Re: Video: Get A Closer Look At Splatoon 3's Upcoming amiibo
@StarPoint ahaha I thought it was just my fat fingers!
These are great, hopefully they've made more than 6 of them so we can all get them easily. The My Nintendo Store UK has been down for maintenance for nearly a week now and I'm hoping that'll mean new products arriving imminently 😁
Re: Team Gear Wins Splatoon 3's Deserted Island Splatfest
@Dev9417 I played on and off all day yesterday and like you didn't get into a single Tricolour match, I'm guessing it's the popularity of Gear making those matches less likely but to not get into a single one is ridiculous.
I'm shocked we won, pretty much all weekend the only matches I seemed to manage to win were the ones against my own side (which were frustratingly frequent) and every time I was against an opposing team it seemed like we were just completely outmatched! Glad I didn't drag the side down too much though haha
Re: Nintendo Switch Is No Longer The Best-Selling Console Of 2022 In The UK
Oh yeah, that hit the spot!
Re: Nintendo Switch Is No Longer The Best-Selling Console Of 2022 In The UK
@ChipBoundary wow what complete and utter twaddle you've written in this comment thread, pressing ignore on you will be exceptionally satisfying.
Re: Splatoon 3 Demo Server Tick Rate Is Apparently 30% Slower Than Original's
@Merry_Blind why might my situation not allow a wired connection? Is it not a simple case of getting an Ethernet adapter for my switch and hooking it up to my router?
Re: Splatoon 3 Demo Server Tick Rate Is Apparently 30% Slower Than Original's
@Merry_Blind wi-fi, but it only happened for some matches and not all of them so I didn't think that would be the issue?
Re: Splatoon 3 Demo Server Tick Rate Is Apparently 30% Slower Than Original's
@thedicemaster even if the low tick rate wasn't the cause, those matches were laggy af for some reason. At one point I basically felt invincible because none of the enemy's ink was hurting me at all, but perhaps it was more general internet woes what done it 🤷🏼♂️
Re: Splatoon 3 Demo Server Tick Rate Is Apparently 30% Slower Than Original's
That might explain why some of my matches were hideously delayed, I was seemingly getting hit with enough ink to splat me but the kill wouldn't actually happen until a few moments later when the firing had stopped. Something was definitely amiss there!
Re: Rumour: Nintendo Dataminers Think They've Uncovered A Splatoon World Map
@Sonos yet another comment belittling the trans community, what exactly is your problem?
Re: Chill Landscaping Puzzler Dorfromantik Is Coming To Switch
This is one of those games (looking at you Mineko's night market!) I thought would sit announced for Switch but seemingly never arrive, I'm so glad it's almost here!
Re: Nintendo Announces Splatoon 3 "Large-Scale Paid DLC", Details Two Years Of Post-Launch Support
I am extremely disappointed that they couldn't be bothered to come up with any new ranked modes, they just cut+pasted from the previous game and said that'll do
Re: Poll: What Do You Want To See From This Week's Splatoon 3 Nintendo Direct?
@Gryffin saying y axis is meaningless unless you provide a graph to show what you mean, just say vertical or horizontal plane
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Executive Director Teases Series' Future
@mariomaster96 it's what moody does, they come along and ***** all over Xenoblade then report anyone who dares challenge them. I've been blocked now so I can't see their comments, but the mods ALWAYS delete the comment of the person calling them out... so much so in fact I'm inclined to think there's something untoward going on.
Why exactly would someone get away with inciting those kinds of reactions completely Scot free? Why do moderators constantly do Moody's bidding by deleting the dissenting comments simply because they report them? Why do we have no right to challenge their moderation decisions? I'm less bothered by it since I got blocked but I still see the fallout of moody's behaviour in the replies.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Executive Director Teases Series' Future
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Re: UK Charts: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Soars To Number One
@AlanaHagues I'm so so happy to hear this news, thanks for your diligence in bringing it to us. Bet you're over the moon like the rest of us aren't you
Re: Random: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Has Plenty Of Very Memeable Dialogue
@AlanaHagues 💔
Re: Random: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Has Plenty Of Very Memeable Dialogue
@GrailUK apparently the stats are delayed this week for some reason, @AlanaHagues any update at all?
Re: Japanese Charts: Live A Live Sales Come To Life As This Week's Best-Selling Game
@AlanaHagues thanks Alana, much appreciated 🙂
Re: UK Charts: Live A Live Proves A Hit With Its Western Debut
@Olliemar28 oh how frustrating! Thanks for letting me know 😊
Re: Japanese Charts: Live A Live Sales Come To Life As This Week's Best-Selling Game
@AlanaHagues I've just tagged Ollie so now it's your turn, I'm desperate to know how Xenoblade did in the UK charts this week... any chance you know why they're delayed?
Re: UK Charts: Live A Live Proves A Hit With Its Western Debut
@Olliemar28 any news on the UK charts this week? I'm desperate to know how well Xenoblade did! 😅
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Xenoblade Chronicles 3
I will never understand the desire of people who come into an article of a game they don't like only to sh** all over it and then report people who call them out. Thanks for doing such a bang up job, mods. Great work. 😒
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Xenoblade Chronicles 3
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Re: Review: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - An Epic, Emotionally-Charged Masterpiece
@johnedwin because the reviewer wanted to?
Re: Review: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - An Epic, Emotionally-Charged Masterpiece
Ooo this review has got me hyped, my body is ready!
Re: Fall Guys Event 'Clan Of Yeetus' Starts This Week
I've stopped playing, I had a couple of really unfair losses as a result of some bulls*** overtime where my team has been winning the whole round but two lots of overtime back to back meant we were eliminated. You have to balance decisions fairly in games like these and I don't think it's fair to have multiple overtime occurrences in one game swing the match so heavily.
This plus all the awful (not so micro) microtransactions in the costume department totally turned me off and I've deleted the game from my Switch