Scab Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Some Steam games are available for pre-load the day(s) before, then you get the last percent or so on release day as you say. Not sure if this will apply to FM2011; I don't think you'd be able to start pre-loading as early as today either way. Perhaps someone who's pre-purchased on Steam can confirm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed_Leeds_ United_ Fan Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 lol id well clear of zavvi. I remember last year lots of people having problems with them and not getting there coppies for days! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7. Shevchenko Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 That was more to do with the postal strike I think, fella. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverSober Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I've just pre-ordered my copy with Zavvi using the 10% off discount for £22.45 which I think is very reasonable. It's cheaper than most (if not all) of the other alternatives posted on here and I'm dealing with a recognisded company so I'm pretty happy. I've never dealt with Zavvi before, nor have I pre-ordered the game before so we shall see what happens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovers-chris109 Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Pre-ordered from ShopTo earlier today. They normally send games out a couple of days early Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvo86 Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Has it been confirmed that if we do receive our copy early, we'll be able to register/play straight away? Even if before 5th November?I've pre-ordered mine online, if it gets posted and arrives, say, 4th November, will I be able to play on the 4th? Or will I have to wait until 00:00 on 5th? Thanks. Any ideas people? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_aLex Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 i've always noted a pattern in the price of FM... at release it ranges from £25-35... then after a month or so you can pick it up for a little as £15 at many retailers and online... then it shoots back up to £25-35 at xmas... then back down to around £15 after! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bicycle Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Any ideas people? As far as I know, as long as you have the disc inside the machine, you're free to play it whenever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_aLex Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Any ideas people? you'll be able to play it as soon as you get it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarvo86 Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Hopefully it comes early then! Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bladez Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 £17.99 :O Why so cheap???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
froog Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 because they want to undercut everyone else Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scholes=legend Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 because they want to undercut everyone else I paid £27.99 from the same place a few week back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_chelsea Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I paid £27.99 from the same place a few week back. If £17.99 is new price, surely they should refund you the £10. Im sure with pre orders you pay the lowest price it reaches? :confused: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexFergusonsApprentice Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 If you pre-order it off amazon is it going to arrive on release day? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_chelsea Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 If you pre-order it off amazon is it going to arrive on release day? Shopto.net youll get it release day or even day or 2 early. But of course its not £17.99 its £24 i think. to answer your question, yes more than likely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
encore69 Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 £17.99 :OWhy so cheap???? don't forget £4.99 postage and estimated delivery of 9th november Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brambleten Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 If you pre-order it off amazon is it going to arrive on release day? you can pay an extra £1.99 instead of having free postage and get it on release day. apparently. I ordered it from Amazon and stuck on the release day postage, waiting a few days after release for Zavvi to deliver it last year was very annoying. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntelaar19 Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Those wiley Amazon-ians and their £4.99 delivery charges haha ! Glad I held off to see who would reduce their price though ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FM_Spurs Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 its not sold by Amazon, its sold by Express Games and not Amazon themselves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntelaar19 Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Those wiley Express Game-ians and their £4.99 delivery charge ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabajingai Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 £17.99 :OWhy so cheap???? Because that's the price for the PSP version. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlm_77 Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Each year, it always interests me to see what extremes people got to get the game early and where they've bought it from early - something I'm sure SI are interested in too!!! I might be a little early with this thread this year but I'm sure there were some saying they were playing the game about a week early last time round? I am very hopeful that a local retailer near me will hand copies over on Tuesday or Wednesday, Thursday at the very latest. Some lucky people will no doubt have pre-prders delivered well early too! Anyway, this is just for fun but can be useful to those who maybe can't get to a store on Friday and someone living near them finds somewhere selling the game early. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liniert Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 will be getting it from GAME on Thursday, every time ive ordered a game from them ive had it a day early Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makollig Jezvahted Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Some shops in Belgium allready seem to have it (rumours). Belgian shops are renowned for 'forgetting' about release dates. A lot of shops kept 29/10 as release date (iso 05/11) in their ads; it seems they weren't kidding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally13 Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 No rush guys patch wont be available to friday anyway if your planning on patching that is mind you nothing wrong with getting it installed and ready i suppose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbh Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Shopto.net Enough said! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbh Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Those wiley Express Game-ians and their £4.99 delivery charge ! Like that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty_u Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 I've just pre-ordered my copy with Zavvi using the 10% off discount for £22.45 which I think is very reasonable. It's cheaper than most (if not all) of the other alternatives posted on here and I'm dealing with a recognisded company so I'm pretty happy. I've never dealt with Zavvi before, nor have I pre-ordered the game before so we shall see what happens. Same. To be honest, I care more about how cheap I can get it than it turning up at the crack of dawn 2 days before release or whatever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnickster Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Always go with ShopTo for FM, guaranteed on or before the release day Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sperlz Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Personally I dont care about getting the game early this year as i'm not going to play until the patch is released anyway. there are too many niggling bugs in the demo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift89 Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Well with fm11 approaching thought we should have a thread where we can find the best price for a pre order of the game. Last year the cheapest place was zavvi at £17.99 and although not everyone got there game on release at that price who care's really.So let's have a look around and see who will be cheapest this year Really? Where has this been announced? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazza Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 For those ordering from Play.com. I got FM2008 and FM2009 form them and both arrived after release day. Last year for FM2010 I got it pre-ordered from Game and got it in the post 2 days before release. Therefore Ive ordered again from Game. Roll on Wednesday when hopefully it would have arrived like last year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7. Shevchenko Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Same with me when it comes to Play.com - it always arrives late. I guess it's due to it being shipped form Jersey or wherever it comes from. ShopTo.net for me. Always arrived early. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightLad5 Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 I hate pre-ordering FM. I know not everyone has the time but I love getting up early on release day, walking into town on what is usually a nice wintery morning and buying the game there and then. Just the excitment when you're walking home with this thing you have been waiting to get for months in the palm of your hands... its a beautiful feeling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azzurri82 Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Shopto.net for me. Decent price of £24.95 and every single pre order i've made from them has come at least a day before the release date. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve1977beyond Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Will the Boxed version of the game allow you to setup Steam with it? Meaning that it will automatically download any such updates and also privy you to Steam only updates such as the dark skin? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aretak Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Will the Boxed version of the game allow you to setup Steam with it? Meaning that it will automatically download any such updates and also privy you to Steam only updates such as the dark skin? Last year's version (and 09 I think) allowed you to put your CD key in on Steam and download it from there. Hopefully it'll be the same this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Last year's version (and 09 I think) allowed you to put your CD key in on Steam and download it from there. Hopefully it'll be the same this year. Yes it will work. FM09 and FM10 worked to the same way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintchip Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 I like to make sure the game is right from day one, so spend weeks in advance getting the graphics packages right and testing with the demo etc. I have received the game early in the post before, and not had the heart to get full blown into a career, becauseI'd rather wait for the opening day patch, to correct any little niggles. Just a heads up to people who are keen to get it early. Of course you might not all be like me and want to launch into an unpatched career. Thats's what makes us all different :-) That's why I'll be going with Steam for the first time. Because of other comittments, I won't have the ability to get to a shop until early the following week. Rather download on Friday and then play through the nights. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintchip Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 PS, stumbled across a download today for the full game on a website. Who should I contact to send a link? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 PS, stumbled across a download today for the full game on a website. Who should I contact to send a link? piracy (@) sigames.com is the place to notify. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
7. Shevchenko Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Ok, so now we're approaching that coveted time of the year when people receive their 'dispatched' emails from their pre-order companies. Who's going to be first? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfc Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 i have order mine at play.com but there have not post it yet so i do not think it will be here on time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oi_oi_ginger_roy Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Pre-ordered from GAME - got this from them over the weekend "We are delighted to inform you that we have been able to reduce the selling price of Football Manager 2011 to 26.99 GBP" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamessmith Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 I've ordered mine from play.com, any time I've pre ordered games, they've always arrived early. They don't send emails out until the tuesday, saying they've been posted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompey1978 Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 i have order mine at play.com but there have not post it yet so i do not think it will be here on time I generally find items take 3 postal days (i.e. not including Sundays) to reach me from Play.com. So as long as it's posted by the end of tomorrow, I'll be confident of it arriving on Friday. Although for the first time in years I'm not that anxious about it, as I'm busy Friday evening, and all day Saturday... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oggie26 Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Got my copy from dbgamez, 22.50. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twellman24 Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Some people in Spain are saying the game is in stores already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich10 Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Some Steam games are available for pre-load the day(s) before, then you get the last percent or so on release day as you say. Not sure if this will apply to FM2011; I don't think you'd be able to start pre-loading as early as today either way. Perhaps someone who's pre-purchased on Steam can confirm. This did not happen when i pre-ordered via steam this morning; although this might change closer to Friday. It has happened previously with Civ V, so who knows... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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