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We’ve just gotten word that Battlefield 3 has broken street date. According to a store rep from JB Hifi Chatswood, Target started selling the game early, which has resulted in JB Hifi also deciding to sell the game a day ahead of its release date tomorrow.
We expect all other specialist retailers to follow suit and will update with more news as we get it.
UPDATE: Both EB and GAME have not begun selling the game at this point, but a store rep in JB Hifi Kotara informed us that they’ve just received word that, since one of their competitors have begun selling the game, all JB Hifi stores can now follow suit.
UPDATE 2: EB Games has now confirmed via their twitter account that they are now selling Battlefield 3.
UPDATE 3: GAME has also now confirmed that they are selling Battlefield 3.
HA! Amazing.
Breaking street date is just sop nowadays it seems.
It’s probably about time to start reporting when something doesn’t break street date.
Ironically I was going to do a joke post along those lines if BF3 kept street date.
Haha, it will certainly be news now if some future title does keep street date!
Yeah, I also plan on making jokes weeks ahead!
lol street date…. Started playing yesterday, problem?
Yeah I’m pretty sure my brother has had this since Monday! Although he said he couldn’t take it online yet!
That’ll put a dampener on those midnight launches.
I think my housemates copy arrived today – I had to sign for something and I know he was waiting on it.
They should start advertising the date the game gets shipped to their store instead of the release date. Would make things a lot simpler for us.
If I cared about BF3 I guess I’d be excited.
This seems like one of the most pointless comments ever. A dig at the game disguised as actual input
If you didn’t care about BF3, why open a post about BF3 and then comment on it?
Troll much?!?!?
Funny for 2 reasons… The amount of Midnight releases, and the Xbox servers being down.
good old chatswood. should have stopped there on the way back from uni. then again, probably not going to buy bf3.
watch MW3 do the same thing. Though i anticipate possibly more than just 12 hours ahead of time.
Just got an email from Origin that said the game will unlock on the 26th now instead of the 27th. Just tried it then, apparently it has simply moved to midnight tonight instead of 1000 tomorrow.
Do the proxy trick, I’m playing already!!! It’s amazeballs!!
I’m pretty surprised by this street date break. Generally for massive titles like this, Street Dates are adhered to. That being said, they should have launched Tuesday night, in line with the rest of the world. MW3 is doing that, and unless someone has the balls (stupidity?) to sell it on Monday, street date won’t be broken.
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Was that necessary? Really?
Wow! Bad day at the office? Or are you just jealouse that I have been playing BF3 already and its AMAZEBALLS!!!
Also, nice username. I like that purpose of your link is it tell everyone that AMAZEBALLS doesn’t make sense, then you have a name like that? Is it your attempt at irony?
Oh, by the way….AMAZEBALLS!!!!!!
goddamit, why does this always happen when I’m at work or otherwise away from home…
Arkham City broke while I was still on the Gold Coast from the EB Expo, and this has broken while I’m at work 🙁
does a game have a street date when everyone who bought it online can play it already?
more like they should stop releasing games late in Australia?
Well there goes all those big midnight launches…
Seriously – why does everything break streetdate these days?
Not that it’s really a bad thing.. unless, you know, you’re having a party
Aww damn it, I was just got back from the damn shops…
I just got back*
Just rang my local EB games (in WA) and they reckon even though the streetdate has been broken in the eastern states they still cant sell it here
I just got a message from my Local EB Games (Midland, WA). It’s on sale here too, replacing the message sent earlier today before this one saying it was on sale tomorrow.
Soooo, no Midnight launch?
Same here..EB Games swanson st are pouring with ppl getting d copy. I just got mine there..guess its a good thing?
I just checked both JB and target are no longer selling battlefield 3.
Anyone know if EB have followed suit?
hopefully someone finally gets punished for it, i work a games retailer and am sick of this shit, even though i been playing it since monday when i go the stock
you do realise you playing the game is a street date break….
Playing early isn’t a street date break. SELLING early is.
If he snuck a copy out of his store then he has effectively stolen the copy and it is not a street date break.
If a retailer gets their copy 3 days early and staff put it in a console in the store and play it it isn’t a street date break either as far as publishers are concerned.
all staff in all store take the games home early, doesnt matter if they say they dont its about selling the game early. staff are the promoters of the game and should get the privlige (forgive spelling) of playing a title early
I’m pretty sure the publishers didn’t award you that privilege. I might as well say I’ll talk it up to people and generate sales (which is probably true btw) so retailers should give me a copy early.
Also, if you paid for it, and took it home, and you were allowed to do so, that’s pretty clearly a street break.
Seriously?
You’re not hired PR, so you’re not “the promoters of the game”. You’re the RETAILERS of the game and the only right you have is to sell the game on to the consumer.
Also, I’m not exactly sure how this impacts you if you’ve been playing since Monday? I mean except for bragging rights.
They better not use those single-use codes.
Having said that I have a friend who works in a JB and his XBLA status reads like a new release schedule.
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARN…..o
C’mon Harvey Norman, break street date 😀
Harvey Norman has broken street date as well. Picked up my copy just before
I got my PC copy today in the mail from EB (all the way out here in Longreach, no less) – and I can’t play because of Origin’s Release Date Authenticator.
It annoys me that people are playing the 360 and PS3 versions, and EA’s do-nothing storefront is keeping me from playing a game I have the physical copy of.
not in VIC broadmeadows
Am I missing anything if I don’t go to the midnight launch at Knox? I’ve never been to one before.
Currently waiting on EB to call me back and confirm re whether they’re following suit.
Most midnight launches are nothing special other than meeting other like minded folk who really, *really* want the game (and the occasional off-gamer smell).
Outside of that, unless you go to a major launch space (ie. Swanston St store), all you’re really getting the privilege of is getting the game as soon as possible.
I did not see this happening.
I broke the street date, got my copies last week, started to play on monday.
Not in Joondalup, however they are calling up to see if they can sell it early.
Joondalup WA? Please keep us posted 🙂
Every EB manager who spent the day preparing their shops for a midnight launch is losing their shit right now. I feel bad for them.
Some guys don’t have their stock yet. This does suck a bit for them.
Wow, what a mess.
Yeah walked past the main CBD store to see posters with “CONFIRMED MIDNIGHT LAUNCH” for both CoD and BF3.
I bet both of those posters will be coming down with the way street date’s been going lately.
I hope they still do the midnight launch stuff, I want my free pizza!
I can just imagine some Target stock person seeing the huge list of midnight release events scheduled…
Then looking over at their pile of games ready to sell the next morning…
Then a sinister smile appears on their face as they start loading up the shelves.
I just called my local EB games, and they havent recieved permission from the higher ups yet to sell it
Eh, I unlocked the PC version last night 😛
Btw, the game is awesome.
EA have just broken street date, got an email advising that BF3 was available on the 26th not the 27th now. Fun Fun Fun
But when you try to load through Origin it says game not available until 2300hrs 26/10/11 which might as well be the 27th
Hi, contacted eb kotara newcastle and Jb Hifi Kotara newcastle they have started to sell it.Getting my copy when schools out.
No other JB’s are releasing it yet 🙁
just called jb hi fi melrose park sa. They said until they have word from there suppliers they are not selling regardless if other stores are selling 🙁
http://twitter.com/#!/EBGamesAus/status/129038446525284354
Yep that’s their reply. I’m still going in store today to see if they’re selling it or not.
Game joondalup still haven’t heard anything. Come on it’s my day off, hurry up Perth!
EB at Knox says EA apparently got Chatswood to pull it from their shelves. They’re waiting for EA to give the go ahead – so far, not given.
EA wont give the go ahead, not with so many midnight launches planned.
I should have nipped to Chatswood while I had the chance instead of being lazy and fu*king around with the morons in Artarmon.
Little biride told me Dungeon Crawl on Elizabeth street here in Melbourne CBD are going to be selling early too. They even went to customs themselves because their couriers are lazy
JB in Melbourne City isn’t selling it…
Well its going to be released early on Origin so I’ve heard. I wouldn’t be surprised if it goes on sale early.
What a total fu*k up!
Dungeon Crawl Import their games. So they aren’t breaking any street date. I believe they have sourced BF3 from the states…
apparently origin emails going out saying pre-orders now available 26th.
honestly, no idea why they didnt have a world wide release
Mark, I am enjoying your comments on the EB Games Facebook page, their attempts to downplay the article are amusing.
I work near Chatswood JB, I just called them, they confirmed they were selling it today. 🙂
I said this 4 hours ago. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/10/battlefield-3-midnight-launches-theres-a-lot-of-them/comment-page-2/#comments
You guys are missing out.
Damn, I was off on my prediction by what, 20 minutes?
Can we all say “Clusterf**k”..
Gotta love it. A game this big needs worldwide release…
Called JB Hifi Ballarat, they have not got this news from their Head office yet….
JB hifi and eb in chadstone are both selling it now.
Wonder how it feel to be loosing ~$80 a pop for not selling the game early? Hahahaha @ EB
You mean $109.95?
Depending on the platform your not wrong.
JB has been told by EA to take the stock off their shleves, other retailers wont be breaking
Wrong.
Pffft I’ve been playing Battlefield 3 since Monday…. not the video game, I just been driving around in my car shooting my nerf gun at random people and yelling “BF3 Bitch!”, I got a perfect KDR too.
Don’t play on my team. Battlefield is all about the Objective!
nerf guns are op you scrub, use a real gun FINGER GUNS & “bang bang”
I’ve been standing around waiting for a jeep to spawn.
+1
I’m guessing one of the reasons EB and Game aren’t following suit at the moment is that both companies have midnight launches for the game. Well, At least in Townsville they do.
Confirmed that Origin has released the game early.
just called JB miranda, they got word 5 minutes ago to start selling it =]
Just called jb hi fi head office they put me through to chatswood and they advised me “They are definatly selling the game”
Just got my JB Text saying it’s ready to pick up! Limited Edition here I come…
Which JB?
Artarmon “super massive” store claim they don’t have stock at 2pm
jbhifi pitt st mall just sent out their text messages saying pre-orders have arrived after i called them earlier asking if they were breaking street date.
STREET DATE BROKEN IN MULTIPLE AREAS CONFIRMED
Pitt Street Mall ftw.
“Nope, not selling. Stand by for the tweet if anything changes – but at this stage we’re not selling. :)” From Twitter from @EBGamesAus
seesh
who buys from eb these days anyway lol
I regret buying from EB :[
I’ve been thinking that.
And price matching doesn’t help. They only match if the other store is in stock, so in that case why not go to the other store.
Well since all of JB HiFi are now selling, EB and GAME could lose preorders while the desperate players rush to purchase the game from JB as early as possible. It would be smart for EB and GAME to start selling immediately, excluding the special midnight release locations.
IT’S ON SALE! EB have confirmed via twitter!
BATTLEFIELD IS ON SALE! I REPEAT, #BF3 IS ON SALE. RT AND SPREAD THE WORD!
Ebgamesau via Twitter
JB are definitely selling it. Just picked up two copies from the Malaga (WA) store.
EB has broken
http://twitter.com/#!/EBGamesAus
EB on sale now
^ check twitter again mate 🙂
on sale ! yay 🙂 🙂 🙂
JB now selling too
http://www.facebook.com/EBGamesAus/posts/271477942890563
And it’s broken.
Origin hasn’t unlocked for me 🙁 I’ve got 4 emails advising me of the change of release date but still no unlock!
*Awaits text from GAME Knox store*
What does this mean for Target Mark? Are they gona get fined and stuff?
also, mate just called Game in Werribee and they said they won’t sell it early and are continuing with the midnight launch!!
I like GAME. I thought they would sell early too…
How much is the STD edition Xbox 360 selling for at JB?
JB aren’t selling the Std edition, only the ltd with DLC
Quick Question please.
I have the game already installed on my machine (pre-ordered) but when loading it, it starts with a date check. Would the Media have the same thing? If it does then you still won’t be able to play it until you have the right date.
Comment and Feedback???
I bloody hope so, I’ve been checking my digital copy since the news broke, if they can play it I want to as well!
Umm yeah, it does. I picked up Rage when the street date got broken, installed it from DVDs, and still had to wait until the official release date for Steam to unlock it.
This reply was meant for Raidensoul, my bad.
Must be one of those case-by-case things, then. Still sucks for those of us waiting to play our new shiny while others are having fun on consoles already.
I’ve got the physical PC version, and I can confim this. You can’t play until the ‘official’ release.
It’s bad enough that EA is forcing people to use Origin instead of Steam, and now this; Steam doesn’t enforce release dates for retail copies.
See here:
http://www.gamepur.com/news/5939-no-bans-using-vpn-unlock-battlefield-3-early.html
To Mark Serrels and readers.
Would you call this a true “Broken Street Date”? I don’t think it does as you can own it but you can’t play it due to the date lock (this being if the lock is true)
This only effects the PC version
PS3 and X360 players won’t have the same issues, because Sony/Microsoft won’t allow that level of control from EA.
It’s just us PC players unfortunately.
Who operates the EA and PSN Servers for players to connect to for Multi-player maps? If it isn’t Microsoft or Playstation then it would be single player only for the consoles and no multi-player.
I would say this would be more believable then Microsoft and Sony spending millions of servers for each game.
So if you have an XBox or Playstation 3. Can play multi-player maps?
360 and PS3 multiplayer is done on a P2P basis; there are no centralised servers, one player hosts and the others join.
Therefore they are able to play multiplayer; there were some problems with the 360 version earlier in the day, but they’ve been fixed.
Not for all games, Battlefield has dedicated servers for all platforms. One of their many good decisions over the years!
Just bought a over the counter copy at JB Joondalup
Just got my phone call from JB Dandenong to pick up my preorder 😀
Does anyone know if BigW are gonna start their sale of Standard Ed for PS3 early?
Just bought a over the counter copy at JB Joondalup. They also have signage saying on sale.
If the Origin email was like the last one and quoted in American Central Time, digital orders should unlock in 27 minutes when it reaches the 26/10 in America.
heres hoping
EB Games Gawler, good luck if you preordered from there and want it.. If you have luck let me know -__-
I have to wait until tomorrow because I pre-ordered through game.. this blows…
Hurry up Australia Post.. I WANT MY BF3!!
I called my local EB and got them to break it early. lolol.
So whats the cheapest 360 price going, so i can go after work tonight??
$78 at Harvey Norman on console, LE.
Pssh, I’ve been playing since the game was released at 11pm on Monday in singapore. VPN FTW.
I haven’t waited for an Australian release date for as long as I can remember, anyone who does is a sucker.
I just picked it up at JB South Warf.
$79 Limited Edition.
Isn’t this the second game that JB have broken the street date on in like one of two weeks? First Batman now BF, I know they afford the fines, but still.
Those buying PC won’t be able to play until 10am tommorow regardless
origin won’t unlock
Release date has changed to midnight tonight if you check again 😉
harvey norman just called me saying i can pick mine up now. He also said EA has informed everyone to sell today.
No multiplayer on PC but just backup the bf3.exe and download the crack for campaign
IT IS VERY SIMPLE TO PLAY THIS ON PC, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CRACK THE GAME AND YOU CAN PLAY MULTIPLAYER JUST GOOGLE FOR THE ANSWERE!
If you’re talking about the VPN/proxy fix, EA has said it can lead to networking issues and advises against it. I’d take it with a grain of salt, but proxying is hardly an easy fix for your average gamer that just wants to play.
You only need to enable the proxy to decrypt the exe, and then you can disable it again immediately. You don’t need to leave it running to play the game.
just picked up from jb!!
lol they “advise” against it, and this isnt a true VPN or Proxy its just entering an IP address into internet explorer under lan settings/proxy running the date check and taking the info out again, anyone can google and do that or they shouldnt own a PC.
Got my copy @ George St just now. Apparently Target broke it 1st then JB…
Any word from Game Hurstville?
Just picked up my copy from JB Hifi Cockburn, WA… installing as we speak 😀
Whats this google thing people keep talking about?
Does it have gunz?
Yes, but you have to play for 47 hours to unlock them.
47 is a conservative estimate.
What about ammo?
Good point. Pretty sure that’s DLC.
Still doesn’t unlock on Origin until midnight tonight.
My 9800gtx+ just meets minimum requirements :S
Just got my copy from EB Games Sunshine Plaza. lol @ the people going to midnight release
To bad that I’m waiting for my copy. 😛
THIS RELEASE IS GOING GANGBUSTERS! Facebook, texts, internet.. woooo!
This is rather amusing, after reading this on Kotaku i called the GAME at Armadale (WA) and ask if they had broken street date. They said they had heard nothing about it so i filled them in on the story on Kotaku. They said they would check on it for me, 1 hour later they called me to let me know it was now available. I think i’m going to have a new strain of flu virus tomorrow – H1BF3 🙂
I feel light headed already….
:O i have that exact same flu, thats also why I left work an hour early today
I must be contagious cuase i’m gonna have ot leave work an hour early too….
*cough*
I’ve heard of that elsewhere being referred to as the Caspian Flu.
No use is breaking the street date for PC… the game still won’t unlock till midnight…
People on PC are already playing online, but when I try the game says that nothing can be played until the 27th. How are people getting around this?
http://www.gamepur.com/news/5939-no-bans-using-vpn-unlock-battlefield-3-early.html
How did I know bf3 was going to break street date aha, so predictable
Just grabbed from JB eastland. They are also running a deal where you can get rage for 39 bucks (which I snapped up too).
Also gametraders are selling it
Ummmm, it didnt break street date. I recieved an email from EA (Origin) this morning stating
“Thank you for ordering on Origin. The release date for the preorder product has changed. The product listed below will now be available on 26 October 2011.”
Changed BECAUSE places broke street date
yep, i got the same thing. email from origin saying the release date had changed to today, downloaded the game, installed and then got the message saying the release date check had failed and to come back when the game had been released. Absolute balls. can’t trust origin as far as i can throw it, which isn’t very far considering it doesn’t occupy a physical medium.
I pre-ordered from ozgameshop as I’m at work ’til next Tuesday
eb games chapel st, vic just told me their midnight release is cancelled due to street date being broken
Every time a street date has been broken recently I get a text message from my friend who works for EB Games complaining about how JB are evil and make his job worse… I just lol
Ironic considering it is EB who breaks them the majority of the time…
Unlock the game and play now.
http://www.gamepur.com/news/5939-no-bans-using-vpn-unlock-battlefield-3-early.html
friend me on PC version coz I dont have any friends 24 male if u are female add me for sure!
Ordered online from EB. Gotta wait til delivery. Should be Thursday. Friday at the absolute latest. I hope. Bugger.
='( i died a little inside when i found out my store was selling copies and I am unable to get to the store today.
anyone get the pre order bonus of hat and dog tags from JB??? I didn’t get anything…
Depends on how long ago you preordered it, I believe preorder limits on hats and dog tags were reached about a month and a half ago.
To be fair, America had it today so why can’t we?
Anyone else having issues getting online? I’m getting an error code when trying to install the redeem voucher
So nobody with the issue installing the redeem code? it accepts it but fails on installation?
I got a call from JB around 2:40pm regarding early release of the game… got my preordered copy, cap, dog tag etc… the lady asked me if I wanted them and I said are you kidding me, that’s the whole reason to preorder…btw the cap is of shit quality lol…damn can’t wait to finish work and play all day long… 😀
I am a videogame retailer, and this totally screwed my day up. My payroll hours and my midnight launch plans. I for one am tired of the big retailers breaking street dates. They should be held accountable for breaking contractual agreements with distributors and face costs that were lost by other smaller retailers like EB and GAME. Now today I am going to have my pre-order customers come in to get their game that is not so new now and are going to be pissed off that they could have been playing it last night, but we simply had no time to call them all at last minute. They may not shop with us again now. Thanks Target!
i think it ruins the feeling of getting the game on the release date are all of the stores who release it early getting fined?