Twilightsparkle

Can say from experience that is not guaranteed.

Really?  I have never gotten a preorder opened and I have bought many niche games where I know my copy is the only copy the store got.  Preorder copies go in the preorder drawer, not the shelf.  After you don’t pick it up, then it would be opened & put on the shelf.  

Thanks. I was hoping to find a use for rewards points as I don't want to risk them expiring. Finding games sealed in-store or even in-stock around me have been next to impossible these days.

Preorder a game?  If you pick it up within 2 days of release it will be sealed.  

At time of pickup, I would expect so.

Can confirm you can use it at pickup, but not before.  

Regular edition Celeste is up on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BT267WS5/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BT28VNF6/

And so many new listings on eBay for the LRG version going  up in the last day, lol.  

A temp staff-up is a good idea, but they would've needed to do it around the holidays for it to be impactful now. There's a decent amount of lead time associated with hiring, training, and onboarding. If they started trying to find people now they might have more bandwidth in March.

 

If only there was some way to know they'd get an influx of orders from the Blowout Sale or trying to fulfill Dead Space orders at launch. Too bad there's absolutely no historical data, warehouse velocity tracking, or pre-order count. (/s) Oh well:

 

Well when I worked at an aerospace manufacturer, when it was time for physical inventory, everyone had to get down to the shop and count things.  Didn’t matter if you worked in an office or cubicle.  Smart thing for LRG to do after blowout sales would be to have all hands ( office & Doug and Josh) down in the warehouse shipping things out,