- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, I imagine it depends on the store you went to. I personally don't go to EB games, but here is what they do at the store I pre-ordered mine at (GameCrazy). It costs $5 to pre-order any game, and then when it comes out, you pay the rest of the money. So I put in $16 into my Halo 2 pre-order (from some sold games) and then I'll have to pay rest of the $50 on Nov. 9th (which will be $32). However, I changed my pre-order to the Collector's Edition, and they told me it cost $5 more. So now it will just cost me $5 more on Nov. 9th. As for who gets it first, they have to get a pre-order to everyone who pre-orders it. So, for example, they have 8,000 pre-orders, then they have to get 8,000 games in on that day and keep one for each person. They will then call us lucky people and wrap it in a piece of paper and put our names on it so they can't sell it. Then I'll just go down, give my name, the rest of the money, and recieve it. That's how it is at most game stores, and all the money calculations is without tax by the way. I imagine you haven't read all this because it's way too long, but I hope I helped.