Walmart Cancels Thousands of Star Wars: The Old Republic Preorders (UPDATED)

Everything seems to indicate that yesterday Walmart canceled every single preorder of both the Collector’s and Standard edition of Star Wars: The Old Republic across the US, without any advance notice or warning to the customers.

Update: In the last few minutes users started receiving notice from Walmart that seems to indicate a system issue, stating that their order "may" still be shipped.

[fluffydelusions]

Sucks but if worse comes to worse you can just get the digital version from origin and still be playing day 1.

[Abriael]

yeah,the problem is mostly for those that got the CE, as they risk to lose it. Some say it's still available on Newegg, but it wouldn't be the first time they list CEs as available and they aren't.

[Grave]

Yep my CE from Walmart was cancelled. I just checked it I am thankful i had it preordered elsewhere because 2 of my 3 preorders have been cancelled for the same reason. Proper planning.

[FanboyPunisher]

If you were stupid enough to buy the CE; you deserve it.

Suckers for marketing, brainless consumers.

[Grave]

CE's are already posted online for sale for $200-$400. Imagine the demand a month after launch. The extra ones I buy, probably 2 or 3, I intend to make a nice little profit on. I'm betting I get $500 a pop so that's around $1,000 or more of profit to be made. Who's brainless?

[dreamtheater87]

People can spend their hard earned money however they please. Just because you wouldn't pay for something doesn't mean someone else wouldn't, and it certainly doesn't mean they're stupid for doing so.

Some people spend crazy amounts of money on designer clothing. I wouldn't but that doesn't mean it's not worth it to those people.

How can you say it's all to do with marketing as well? As if the consumer hasn't found out what's in the CE before purchasing. "Ooo a soundtrack, and fan art, I'd like those, yup. I'll buy it". That's not marketing, it's personal preference.

[susanto1228]

How does that song go?

money, money, money, money.......MONEY!!!

money, money, money, money.......MONEY!!!

wish I had little music symbols.....

ha EA is so pathetic....

[Abriael]

too bad that EA seems to be completely uninvolved in this mishap, that seems to be 100% on walmart's side.

Good job pointing fingers at the evil, evil EA when they have nothing to do with this :D

[MiloGarret]

Why would EA cancel preorders for one of their games?

[Abriael]

No other retailer is affected, anyway

[sllshrm]

Yeah cancelling pre-orders for their games = money

I see what you did there....(stupidity)

[pandehz]

Howd u get so many bubbles with comments like urs?

[SeraphimBlade]

Well, you can't blame them. How were they supposed to bee know people would be interested in Star Wars?

...okay, you can totally. why not order more copies, if you buy more and sell more, you get more money. I would expect Walmart to know how retail works.

[Mutley416]

as long as you can play day 1...the rest is gravy...long awaite...dec 20th!!!

[AzaziL]

The issue is that EA has already stated they're limiting the release to 500,000 copies, retail or digital for day one to avoid server issues. EA probably told Walmart that they don't have enough copies for them on day one, hence the cancellations.

Don't be shocked if other retailers begin doing the same as EA will try to prioritize the amount of copies available on Origin before worrying about the retail stores....

[Grave]

I got an email from Walmart:

"In checking your My Account order history for the order(s) below, you may have noticed that one or more items show a status of cancelled but you did not receive a cancellation email for this item(s). Please disregard the status as it is an error. (If you received a cancellation email for an item, then that item has in fact been cancelled."

"The incorrect cancelled status on your My Account was caused by a system issue that has since been resolved and your item(s) are currently processing and will ship as expected. You will receive a ship confirmation with a tracking number for these items in the next few days and the status on your My Account page will be updated to shipped."

I never got a "canceled" email so I guess I am still good thankfully.