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@timp29 because we live in a globally connected world now and you can't (for the moment) police information in other countries, this is how I'm in the UK and I know about Prince William's affair that the UK press is blocked from discussing.

@timp29 wait till you learn about super injunctions!

I love how many people make wild assumptions about topics they have zero personal experience of and then decide to just side with the corporation anyway, saying "well if she only worked four days that's a lot of money" or saying Hale got paid more or less blah blah blah...

YOU DON'T KNOW THESE DETAILS!

It's ridiculous to take sides when there are so many unknowns and for that reason I choose to believe the person making the accusation, because even if 9 out of 10 people are lying it's still better than not believing the one person telling the truth.

Great article, but some vile opinions appearing in the comment section again I see.

Wow some people in this comment section really like licking that corporate boot, huh.

@Murta I just did a search on eBay and there are 65 UK buy-it-now listings ranging from £95-£400. I am apoplectic with rage.

So about this tracking info thing, what happens if they don't provide tracking?

Anyone know how easy it is to get your money back if you order from a scalper and the product never arrives?

@RupeeClock everyone needs to spam them with complaints and tweets so they know this is not acceptable, allowing situations like this to arise where scummy people sell your merch for 5 times the price is just totally unacceptable.
I already knew the store was trash, but this comes directly from Nintendo's decision making and they bear full responsibility. I can see this being an issue for the upcoming Pyra&Mythra amiibo too and I am just so not ready to do all this again 🤦🏼‍♂️

Edit: and they've just this minute sent an email hawking the expansion pass. They've got another thing coming if they think I'll be spending any money on them today.

So because I was up until stupid o'clock last night in desperation trying to refresh the page, I missed the window of opportunity again.

Curse you Nintendo, I deeply resent you for this whole sorry affair.

If anyone has a spare please sell it to me for a reasonable price? 😫

@Mach_Rider that's really interesting, thanks

@Mach_Rider hmmm why not try another product to see if that's just the default for anything out of stock? Some of the older amiibo ought to be good candidates, the Boo and Daisy ones from the Mario series have been OOS since the shop opened.

@Mach_Rider thanks for clarifying.
@IamReAllyFeelinF5 no worries!

@IamReAllyFeelinF5 you mean you're not getting the 404 error page? Does the stock show as sold out?

@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

@Flatlinerking I can't get back on the store 😫🤬

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.

I'm so angry, it makes me want to stop supporting Nintendo in future if this is how they treat their fans.

@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

@Jack_Goetz when did you place your 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.

@BenAV yeah this month is bonkers for releases if you're a fan of JRPGs and JRPG adjacent genres 😅

@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

Ought to mention Triton can't learn arts/skills himself, you need a party member using the class for that

@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 😅

@Mr_Gamecube I read that the chip shortage was impacting NFC availability so that's probably why

@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!

It isn't even up for pre-order yet in the UK

@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

Oh yeah, that hit the spot!

@ChipBoundary wow what complete and utter twaddle you've written in this comment thread, pressing ignore on you will be exceptionally satisfying.

@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?

@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?

@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!

@Sonos yet another comment belittling the trans community, what exactly is your problem?

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

@Gryffin saying y axis is meaningless unless you provide a graph to show what you mean, just say vertical or horizontal plane

@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