Shooter MMO CrimeCraft Now Best Buy Exclusive

I wonder how much Best Buy paid for this, and if the developer thinks that whatever Best Buy paid for the exclusive rights is a better gamble than what they would have made with this sitting on more shelves? Especially after Blizzactivision takes issue with the title of the game...

I'm not a big fan of the beta. Can't explain since I had to sign a NDA.

I laughed when I read that.

Way to shoot yourself in the foot right from the start on an MMO of all things. Like MMO's don't have enough problems staying afloat? You need to hamstring it with a Best Buy exclusive? Last time I checked Gamestop owned the majority of new game sales and used game sales, so why on earth would you sign an exclusivity deal with Best Buy?

Last time I went to Best Buy I was going to pay cash for a gift for someone and they wouldn't allow me to buy a product unless I gave them my phone number. The manager stood right there and said "We can't put a sale through without a phone number." I could have made one up I suppose but it pissed me off enough that I just left.

I smell failure all over this already. Maybe they'll prove me wrong.

Sounds like the recipe for a shit game.

Awesome!!!!! I've always wanted to buy an MMO that only had people playing who shop at Best Buy!!! Finally publishers are getting their heads out of their asses and realizing how important it is to segregate and limit their MMO player bases as much as possible.

Now all I have to do is wait for an MMO that is only sold at Dairy Queen, then I can finally talk about the pros and cons of Rocky Road and Cookie Dough ice cream in Barrens chat with other like-minded people.

Fastest way to bury a game:

Sell it in as few locations as possible

Real-world fashion labels? Now there's a feature that appeals to me as a gamer.

I haven't even heard of this game until now. This Best Buy exclusivity makes me want to forget I even heard about it now. :)

AC/DC came out with their latest album exclusively at Walmart. Their previous album, Stiff Upper Lip, sold about 100K copies its first week. Their new album Black Ice, the Walmart exclusive, sold 770K copies its first week. Being exclusively in Walmart, especially with the promotion Walmart did for it (for a while there Walmart was more or less an AC/DC T-shirt store), works well. The new Eagles album was a Walmart exclusive and sold 3.3M copies in one year.

Guns N' Roses came out with Chinese Democracy exclusively in Best Buy. The album sold around 200K units its first week and was beaten on the charts by the new album from The Killers. It dropped off pretty quickly after that. Best Buy did almost no promotion for it. I went and got it on day one and you would have never known that one of the more highly anticipated albums of the last ten years was on sale there that day.

So, I hope this developer got paid up front because this is not going to end well.

Maybe they should add "World of" to the title. That would help sell a few more copies.

Every time I see a checkerboard floor texture it remind me of Kingpin .