Australian retailers are clearly expecting big things from Destiny next week (probably rightly so). EB Games has just released the list of stores it’ll be opening on Monday night in preparation for the launch and I can’t remember ever seeing a list as large as this.
There are six major launches across the country, one of which EB is calling the ‘Official Australian Launch for Destiny’ at EB Liverpool in Sydney. That event kicks off at 9pm on the Monday and will feature a DJ and a live caricature artist who will be drawing folks faces onto Destiny themed characters.
Apparently there will also be cake. A big cake in the shape of a super-sized Sparrow. I know I should probably make a Portal related joke here, but I don’t have the energy.
The remaining five major launches like take place at…
EB Carindale, QLD
EB Helensvale, QLD
EB Tea Tree Plaza, SA
EB Knox City, VIC
EB Joondalup, WA (Breakfast)
Man Western Australia always gets the crappy end of the stick with midnight launches. What gives?
Regardless, here is a list of all the stores having midnight launches. Be aware, it’s massive.
EB Airport West
EB Albert Street
EB Alice Springs
EB Altona
EB Arana Hills
EB Armidale
EB Arndale
EB Australia Fair
EB Ayr
EB Bairnsdale
EB Ballarat Central
EB Ballina Central
EB Bankstown
EB Bathurst
EB Beenleigh
EB Bega
EB Belconnen
EB Bendigo Marketplace
EB Berri
EB Blacktown
EB Bondi
EB Booval
EB Box Hill
EB Bribie Island
EB Brimbank
EB Brisbane City
EB Broadmeadows
EB Broadway
EB Broken Hill
EB Brookside
EB Browns Plains
EB Browns Plains Village Square
EB Bundaberg
EB Bundaberg Hinkler
EB Burleigh Heads
EB Burnie
EB Burwood
EB Cairns
EB Cairns Central
EB Caloundra
EB Campbelltown
EB Canberra Centre
EB Belconnen
EB Canelands
EB Cannon Hill
EB Capalaba
EB Capalaba Central
EB Carindale
EB Caroline Springs
EB Castle Plaza
EB Castle Towers
EB Castletown
EB Casuarina
EB Central Highlands Marketplace
EB Cessnock
EB Chadstone
EB Chapel St
EB Charlestown Sq
EB Chatswood
EB Chatswood Chase
EB Chermside Nth end
EB Chirnside Park
EB City Cross
EB Coffs Harbour
EB Coffs Palms Centre (Combined opening @ EB Coffs Harbour)
EB Colac
EB Colonnades
EB Corio
EB Craigieburn
EB Cranbourne
EB Dandenong
EB Deception Bay
EB Devonport
EB DFO Canberra(Combined opening @ EB Tamworth)
EB Doncaster Ground Floor
EB Eastgardens
EB Eastlands
EB Elizabeth
EB Endeavour Hills
EB Epping
EB Erina Fair
EB Fairfield
EB Firle
EB Forest Lakes
EB Fountain Gate
EB Frankston Town
EB Galeries
EB Garden City
EB Gawler
EB Geelong
EB Gladstone
EB Glendale
EB Glenelg
EB Golden Grove
EB Goulburn
EB Gracemere
EB Grafton
EB Greenhills
EB Greensborough
EB Griffith
EB Gungahlin(Combined @ EB Belconnen)
EB Gympie
EB Hallet Cove
EB Harbourtown Adelaide
EB Helensvale
EB Hervey Bay
EB Highpoint
EB Hobart
EB Hollywood Plaza
EB Hornsby
EB Hurstville
EB Indooroopilly
EB Ingle Farm
EB Innisfail
EB Ipswich
EB Jesmond
EB Karingal
EB Karratha
EB Kawana
EB Keysborough
EB Kingaroy
EB Kingston
EB Knox City
EB Kotara
EB Lake Haven
EB Lake Macquarie
EB Launceston
EB Lilydale
EB Lismore
EB Lismore Woodlark St
EB Liverpool
EB Logan
EB Logan Central
EB MacArthur Square
EB MacQuarie Centre
EB Majura Park(Combined opening @ EB Belconnen)
EB Marion
EB Meadow Mews
EB Melbourne Central
EB Melton
EB Merrylands
EB Midvalley
EB Mildura
EB Millner Homemaker
EB Mittagong
EB Moranbah
EB Morayfield
EB Mornington
EB Mt Barker
EB Mt Druitt
EB Mt Gravatt
EB Mt Ommaney
EB Mt Pleasant
EB Mudgee
EB Munno Para
EB Murray Bridge
EB Muswellbrook
EB Nambour
EB Narellan
EB Nepean
EB Noosaville
EB North Gate
EB North Lakes
EB Northlands
EB Nowra
EB Orange
EB Pacific Fair
EB Pakenham
EB Palmerston
EB Parabanks
EB Parkes
EB Parramatta
EB Peninsula Fair
EB Penrith ground lvl
EB Plenty Valley
EB Plumpton
EB Point Cook
EB Port Augusta
EB Port Lincoln
EB Port Macquarie
EB Port Pirie
EB Raymond Terrace
EB Redbank Plaza
EB Rhodes
EB Richmond
EB Richmond Markets
EB Ringwood
EB Riverside
EB Robina
EB Rockhampton (Combined opening @ EB
Gracemere)
EB Rockhampton Fair
EB Rosebud
EB Roselands
EB Rouse Hill
EB Runaway Bay
EB Rundle Mall
EB Salamander Bay
EB Sale
EB Seaford
EB Sefton
EB Settlement City
EB Shellharbour
EB Singleton
EB Smithfield Cairns
EB Southgate
EB Southlands
EB Springfield
EB Springwood
EB Stafford City
EB Stanhope
EB Stockland Hervey Bay
EB Stocklands Townsville
EB Strathpine
EB Sunbury Square
EB Sunnybank
EB Sunshine Marketplace
EB Sunshine Plaza
EB Swanston Street
EB Tamworth
EB Tamworth 2 (Combined opening @ EB Tamworth)
EB Tea Tree Plaza
EB The Glen
EB The Pines
EB Toombul
EB Toowoomba
EB Top Ryde
EB Traralgon
EB Tuggerah
EB Tuggeranong
EB Tweed City
EB Underwood
EB Victor Harbour
EB Victoria Point
EB Wagga
EB Warragul
EB Warriewood
EB Warringah Mall
EB Warrnambool
EB Watergardens
EB Waurn Ponds
EB Waverley Gardens
EB Wendouree Ballarat
EB Werribee Plaza
EB West Lakes
EB Wetherill Park
EB Whyalla
EB Willows Townsville
EB Winston Hills
EB Woden Plaza(Combined opening @ EB Tuggeranong)
EB Wollongong
EB Wonthaggi
EB World Square
EB Woy Woy
EB Wynnum Plaza
EB Yeppoon
Anyone here heading to the midnight launch? I’m thinking about it. I’m not usually a fan of them, but it’s been a while since I’ve been so excited for a big AAA launch like this. I might just head out to one.
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73 responses to “There Are A Lot Of EBs Opening For The Destiny Midnight Launch”
I was at EB Games Bateau Bay last night paying off my PS4/Destiny bundle and they said they were also holding a midnight launch.
meh, digitally pre-order from US XB1 store for cheaper, with pre order bonuses, then region switch to AU and download/preload for our launch 🙂
something something australian jobs something
something something launch by voice without needing to find the disc whenever you want 🙂
there is something doomed about mankind when they cant hit an on switch but they can recite a lame catchphrase to an electronic device :p
Given I can turn my Xbox On and get it to play music from the shitter, you’re probably right :p
Out of curiosity how much is it on the US Xbone store?
I haven’t checked the price of Destiny yet I think there is a few different options, but 90% of them are $59US which costs me $72 NZD.
And it’s 68 at JB Hi Fi
$90 at JB here and if u wanted it midnight $115 at EB is cheapest
I ordered mine from JB with the preorder ‘Vangard’ (PS4) dlc for only $69. Not going to midnight launch (if they have one). Not too bad I ‘spose.
New Zealand definately aint that cheap.
It’s 59 at target
are you getting it?
Nah, too busy at the moment for another RPG, still slogging Diablo, and Forza Horizon 2 is much higher in my want list, comes out later this month.
Fair enough, might be good to rally up some Kotaku troops for the end-game raids I only know 1 or 2 people getting it on xbone.
Most of my mates were getting it, but a lot have decided to wait for The Division after the beta.
I pretty much buy everything haha, will get the division aswell.
Hey do I get a notification regarding that xbox preview program or does it just happen? I did notice a usage meter in network yesterday, sure that wasnt there before.
You’ll get a message with a code you have to redeem, the code will let you download the app, the app will let you activate your console in the preview program.
I think full release have had the usage meter for a week or two. That was the last preview. Next preview starts today.
ah k sweet mustn’t have been accepted then cos it was about 2-3 weeks ago wasn’t it?
@blackdahlianz Can take a few weeks unfortunately.
I’m getting it on XB1 whats your GT?
Black Dahlia NZ cool man add me
I’m going to add you as well, because I need more Xbone players.
I pre-loaded the online edition from the xbox store.
The download was only 19gb… That strikes me as a little low, anyone know what the deal is there?
Maybe they bothered to compress?
You’ll probably go to play and get a 15gb day one patch knowing this gen :p
Same download size on the PS4, finished the download a few hours back it is odd it’s only 6GB bigger than the beta. Day one patch is rather small too. Also a side note while pre-downloading the game is possible, so far I’m unable to download the Guardian edition content, is it downloadable on Xbox?
Yeah, the dlc was a separate download…
I’ve got a theory that if i switch my console to New Zealand i can start playing at +12UTC instead of NSW, which is +10UTC
So two hours earlier ^_^
Might work not too sure I’m just going to nap away the remaining time haha.
Northland, not Northlands!
IF you’re from the area you’d know its Northlands. Or even Norflans or Norfies
I’ve lived within 5 minutes of Northland all my life! I know it’s known as those things, but I can’t stand it when companies that operate businesses there call it Northlands.
Rofl have been going to Northland since the original Timezone was there. oh those lockins were the best. Live 5 minutes away as well, too bad their EB is always beaten by JB staff
I was a daily frequenter of the “Top Rooms” arcade/drug den on Edwardes St in Reservoir. Timezone at Northies was always upstairs near Hoyts, right? I can’t remember clearly.
Greensborough boy here. North-Eastern suburbs represent!
(PS. I am guilty of calling it Northlands all the time too, even though I know it’s incorrect).
Nope Timezone was downstairs where schnitz/tab was/is and was only accessible from outside. showing my age.
Oh man, I really can’t remember that far back, even though I was definitely around during that era… maybe I’m showing my age as well, in a different way.
NORFYZ
That grinds my gears too
Its all g, Karratha (15hr drive/2 flight from Perth) is having a midnight release. So its not WA its just Perth being a little bitch
People still buy games from EB Games?
Yes.
They may be $50 more expensive than anywhere else for games, but they have that silly policy of returning games within a week or something. Effectively it’s renting the game with a high security deposit. Not that I partake in it or shop there, but that’s the only reason I know of why people do.
I thought you could only do that if you got your EB card to a certain level?
Nah, that’s across the board. Inevitably they sell it as a “feature” of the receipts now being tied online to your account in an attempt to sign you up, but if you have your valid paper receipt but no EB World card you’re still all good for returns.
I do when they price match the JB two doors down, and as someone else said they’ve got an awesome return policy if the game ends up being shit.
Yah! Both stores have a midnight release!
A shame I lost all interest during the beta >:
Mine’s not, I already asked last weekend. They are gonna be open 12 hours though. I’ll be getting there a little early to wait for the doors to open at 9am. So I can rush home and play for a couple of hours before I have to go to work.
Edit: Was gonna ask if you buy it digitally if you can pre-load it, but I did a quick search and apparently you can, also apparently there’s a companion app for Android and iOS.
http://time.com/3256172/destiny-launch-guide/
Yeah, I’d need to drive an hour and a half to get to a midnight launch, and I did think of doing that with a bunch of mates =P
But instead I’ll be there at 9 for a few hours of gaming before work
I pre ordered with jbhifi and they sent me an email yesterday saying it was posted…. pretty sure mines coming early!
Same!
I feel that Monday might have to be a sick day!
I’ll be off tomorrow to trade in my copy of GTA V from the last big midnight launch. Might as well send Killzone back into the wild as well
I reckon a lot of people will be trading in GTA V now a current-gen version’s been confirmed, but I don’t want to part with my steelcase Collector’s Edition.
oh, I’m keeping the steelcase 😀 I’ll just hand over the normal plastic case. And yeah, I’ll be getting the PS4 version when available again. I’ve been itching to play it again but I wanna keep off it for now until the new versions are out
haven’t even bothered pre ordering… ill just wander around to one of the many EB games here a few days after launch. there’s bound to be copies there.
Actually, I am glad they didn’t make any Portal cake jokes. Kind of sick of those and references to arrows to the knee.
I jumped on the second lot of Limited Editions so have to wait for mine to be posted 🙁
I’m working one of them 🙂 I’m keen, midnight launches are always a bit of fun, everyone that goes out to them are passionate about games so it’s good to chat to everyone about it!
Not me, I’m anti-social and just want to get the game and leave before I say something offensive to somebody
Haha don’t I know it! It’s part of being a JewBoy isn’t it? 😉
It’s probably because I’m a grumpy bastard. You getting this on PS4 or XBONE?
Married life will do that? 😉 xbone bud. Haven’t got a ps4 yet 🙁
Buying games at stores? Plebs
I’ll be down to the local JB for mine at 9am, have got the day off to spend downloading a patch and then not being able to login because the servers can’t cope! 🙂
I’ve never been to a midnight launch. Sounds to me like waiting in an endless line talking shit we don’t know with other people, then going home. I work full-time, I don’t have the time to go to bed at 3am …
I would usually go to eb Midland gate, but I recently moved to Melbourne, so it’s EB Sunbury square now. I still don’t think I will go to the midnight launch. What is Destiny? Lol I should do some research.
Bought the Digital Guardian edition for X1 for $89 off the US store and had it download off the Aus store so it unlocks at midnight. So for those waiting in the cold, rain, nerd smelling EB’s…good luck. I’ll be kicking back with Destiny.
But in reality I’ll probably be in Diablo 3 and not want to finish lol.
I’ll be attending the midnight launch at Lake haven.
when they say “10pm destiny launch on monday night” does that mean we can buy the game at that time. Or do we wait until midnight 12 am to buy the game?
I’ve never been to a midnight launch. Dunno if I really want to be physically standing in a room full of neck beards. I’m not that keen on Destiny, sounds like a pole dancers name. I might wait till later in the year to check it out, I’m currently backtracking through my pile of shame and playing The Witcher 2.
Looks like the broken hill one isn’t actually opening for it…